EXCLUSIVE: The BlackStar Film Festival returns in August, for its 15th edition, and it will do so with a new look. Maori Karmael Holmes , the festival’s founder, and her team have partnered with the blue-chip New York design firm Pacific to reimagine the event’s visual identity. The festival and its parent organization, BlackStar Projects, can now be found under a new label designed by Pacific. “It felt like time to present a fresh identity,” Holmes told Deadline of the organization’s rebrand a few weeks before today’s launch. “The last time we had a rebrand was in 2019, when I reached out to Hassan Rahim upon the recommendation of Khalil Joseph because he had done the identity for the Underground Museum. But what we couldn’t afford in 2019 was a full identity.” Watch on Deadline Holmes launched BlackStar in 2012 in Philadelphia, her adopted home, as a yearly showcase of moving image work created by Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists.…