RestFest Film Festival 2026

Shorts Block: Spaces / Routes [AD] [CC]/[OC]

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Content Notes: Description of car accident and severe injury and procedure


Synopsis: Emerging from a single interview with Director Moya Bailey’s cousin Dollie Alexander, You Just Watch and See chronicles Dollie’s life from girlhood to achieving her twin dreams of becoming a professional woman and traveling the world.


Artist Bio: Moya Bailey is a Professor at Northwestern University and is the founder of the Digital Apothecary and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021). She is an award winning documentarian after completing the short documentary You Just Watch & See(2025) featuring her late Cousin Dollie, and is completing a docuseries Misogynoir in Medicine. @transformisogynoir @misogynoirinmed


Online Premiere

  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Online Premiere
  • Genre
    Documentary Short Film
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Content Warning
    description of car accident and severe injury and procedure
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Moya Bailey
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