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A Reckoning in Boston

Hosted by aSTEAM Village Kansas City NSBE Jr. Chapter

On-demand

Available

Dec 19, 7:00 PM CST - Jan 18, 7:00 PM CST

Price

$1.00 USD per person

Available in

United States of America, Canada

About the event

Socio-Economic Justice

About the film

Kafi Dixon dreams of starting a land cooperative for women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement in the city of Boston. By day she drives a city bus; at night she studies the humanities in a tuition-free course. Her classmate Carl Chandler, a community elder, is the class’s intellectual leader. White suburban filmmaker James Rutenbeck documents the students’ engagement with the humanities. He looks for transformations but is awakened to the violence, racism and gentrification that threaten Kafi and Carl's very place in the city. Troubled by his failure to bring the film together, he enlists the pair as collaborators with a share in the film revenues.Five years on, despite many obstacles, Kafi and Carl arrive at surprising new places in their lives—and James does too.

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

1h 24m

Released

2020

Director

James Rutenbeck

Producer

Carl Chandler, Kafi Dixon, James Rutenbeck

Executive Producer

Llewellyn Smith, Anne Marie Stein

Writer

James Rutenbeck

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