Documentary Films Block 1
Discovering Bessie Coleman
Born in the Struggle
The film examines their reflections and ruminations on their childhood, the influences of their parents, and how the activism of their parents affected their lives. The shifting cultural times have presented unique but enduring challenges to this new generation. How they have taken up these novel challenges of injustice are explored, with hip hop music being a defining feature that named and proclaimed the black experience for a new generation facing oppression and exploitation.
More than anything, Born in the Struggle is a personal exploration of the Children of the Movement, whose childhoods were defined by their parents’ commitment to the Movement as a first priority, and how this dedication shaped their lives and their subsequent commitments to the same revolutionary spirit that they inherited.
The Jones Twins: Bebop Souls in a Muzak™ World
The Hollow: Strings of Heritage
life in modern Australia and the quiet, tradition-bound expectations of her Chinese immigrant family.
On stage, she shines with confidence; at work, she is calm and precise; yet at home, conversations are brief, emotions are
restrained, and achievements are spoken of more than feelings.
In English, she connects easily with friends; in Mandarin, she faces the silent weight of expectation. Through music—a universal language that bridges cultures, heals distance, and allows her to reclaim her voice.
Rag Dolls
You Just Watch & See
RENEGADES: Celestine Tate Harrington: Building a Legacy
Born with with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a condition that made her limbs unusable, Celestine Tate Harrington (1955-1998) was a street performer in downtown Philadelphia and on the Atlantic City boardwalk in the 1980s and 1990s who impressed audiences with her skill at playing the electric keyboard with her tongue. In 1975, when the Philadelphia Department of Public Welfare attempted to take away her infant daughter, claiming that Harrington was physically incapable of caring for a child, she successfully defended her right to parent. In the courtroom, Tate Harrington demonstrated her skills – dressing and undressing her daughter, and changing her diaper, using only her lips, teeth, and tongue – and retained custody.
In Celestine Tate HarringtonL Building a Legacy, RENEGADES explores how Tate Harrington’s fight to be a mother and earn an independent living was a revolutionary act, in the face of laws that cite disability as grounds for termination of parental rights to this day.
Warriors
Chess: The Quiet War (The Battle Begins Before the First Move)
We examine the game from a cognitive strategic alignment perspective of modern times. Juxtaposition to real issues, thinking ahead is the best diplomatic maneuver. On a trip to deliver boards across the globe, we stopped by Colombia South America.
