Shorts Before Features : Shorts Before Features : 1 - How Far is Home
Shorts Before Features
These select Short Films have been curated to go with specific Feature Films.
They Say I’m Your Teacher
SongCraft Presents: Dom Flemons
On the Edge
How Far is Home
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1 - How Far is Home
In the midst of Trump's immigration ban, a teenage refugee Ahmed and his sister Ruba find a home at a Cleveland school for immigrants. Will they be able to reach their dreams?Watch -
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2 - SongCraft Presents: Dom Flemons
In this half hour show, Grammy-nominated songwriter Dom Flemons and host Ben Arthur explore the complicated legacy of blackface artist Emmet Miller, and write a song inspired by his life and work.Watch -
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3 - ON THE EDGE
People in Alabama are living with curable cancers, heart disease and other conditions. However, they can't afford to get treatment, because Alabama didn't expand Medicaid.Watch -
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4 - They Say I'm Your Teacher
Bernice Robinson, a Black beautician from South Carolina, was the first teacher in the Citizenship Education Schools that taught literacy in order to pass voter registration requirements in the South during the mid-1950s and 1960s.Watch
Synopsis: VOTE HERE for the following short films:
They Say I’m Your Teacher
SongCraft Presents: Dom Flemons
On the Edge
How Far is Home
Directed by
Todd Hughlett
Matthew Hendershot
Ky Dickens
Catherine Murphy
Apo Bazidi
Matthew Hendershot
Ky Dickens
Catherine Murphy
Apo Bazidi
