2022 Athena Film Festival

Virtual Event: Shorts Program III with Q&A

Expired March 21, 2022 3:59 AM
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8 films in package
Change The Name
Student activists and educators from Village Leadership Academy campaign to change the name of a park from a slaveholder to abolitionists Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood.
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Susana
Despite the danger to herself and her family, former slaughterhouse worker Susana returns to the scene at night to care for animals on their way to the kill floor.
Tarcila: Indigenous Solutions to Climate Change from Peru
Quechua elder Tarcila Rivera Zea fights for Indigenous Rights to sovereignty and food security in the face of climate change.
Black Goat
Pasang gets her first period.
To the Future, with Love
Meet 19-year-old Hunter Pixel Jimenez, a nonbinary trans boy caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his dreams of living “happy and gay” with his long-distance boyfriend.
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It's Very Common
The feel good miscarriage movie you didn’t know you needed.
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Black Birth
Three expectant mothers, including the director, navigate the joys, fears, and complexity of Black motherhood in America.
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Shorts III Q&A
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Change The Name


An intimate portrayal of Black youth organizing on the west side of Chicago, Change the Name follows a group of 5th graders from Village Leadership Academy as they embark on a campaign to rename Stephen A. Douglas Park after freedom fighters Anna and Frederick Douglass. Over the course of the three-year grassroots campaign the students tackle bureaucratic Chicago Park District systems, underestimations of their capacity to make change as well as a pandemic and a global racial uprising. 

  • Runtime
    20 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Note
    Documentary
  • Director
    Cai Thomas
  • Producer
    Donald Conley
  • Executive Producer
    Nina Chaudry
  • Cast
    Bianca Jones, Raniya, Zari, Zahir
  • Cinematographer
    Eric Seals
  • Editor
    Paloma Martinez
  • Composer
    John Key
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