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