Year: 2021
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Run Time:
19 minutes
An intimate portrayal of Black youth organizing on the west side of Chicago, this documentary follows a group of fifth graders from Village Leadership Academy as they embark on a campaign to rename Stephen A. Douglas Park after freedom fighters Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass. Over the course of the three-year grassroots campaign the students tackle bureaucratic Chicago Park District systems, underestimations of their capacity to make real change, as well as a Covid-19 pandemic and global uprising.
Allen Theatre
Monday, April 04, 2022 at 7:35 PM
CIFF46 Streams On Demand
Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 11:00 AM -
Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 11:59 PM
Streams Access: United States and US Territories
Accessibility (?)
Closed Captions: No
Audio Description: No
English Subtitles: No
Shorts Program
Groundbreaker Shorts
Director
Cai Thomas
Producer
Cai Thomas, Donald Conley
Screenwriting
Cai Thomas
Cinematography
Cai Thomas, Eric D Seals
Editing
Paloma Martinez
NeXt Doc
12cethomas@gmail.com
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