A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
April 29, 2022
Original Title:
For Our Children
Alternate Titles:
For Our Children
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
California Humanites
Catapult Film Fund
Chicken & Egg Pictures
Creative Capital
Dandara Productions
Firelight Media
Fork Films
Glassbreaker Films
SSIFilm Invest
Sundance Institute
Tribeca Film Institute
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 102
Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing. Oscar Grant’s 2009 fateful encounter with law enforcement on a BART platform seeded public awareness and cultural consciousness of systemic racism and its discontents. Paying forward lessons learned and advocating against anti-Black violence in memory of her son, Oscar, Wanda Johnson holds space for Angela Williams, whose teen son, Ulysses, survives a police encounter in Troy, Alabama, living to tell his story.
Director:
Débora Souza Silva
Director of Photography:
Contessa Gayles
Editor:
Sara Maamouri
Producer:
Adina Luo
David Felix Sutcliffe
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