Status
Completed
Type
Cinereach-Supported Production
Year
2017
Production
Key Cast
Director
Damon Davis | Sabaah Folayan
Producers
Jennifer MacArthur, Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis, Flannery Miller, Chris Renteria
Sabaah Jordan, Director and Producer, is an organizer, advocate, and storyteller born and raised in South Central LA. In 2013 her advocacy work took her to New Yorku2019s Rikers Island where she interviewed dozens of incarcerated people about their experiences with trauma. She traveled to Ferguson in September 2014 to learn the truth behind the dramatic scenes playing out on the news. Hearing the stories of the Ferguson community inspired her to enter the world of film. Later that year she helped organize The Millions March, one of the largest marches for racial justice in New York history.nn
Damon Davis, Director, is a celebrated interdisciplinary artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. The scope of his work includes illustration, painting, printmaking, music, film, and public art. He is the producer and vocalist of experimental hip hop outfit Scripts N Screwz; co-founder of art collective Civil Ape; and founder of independent music and art imprint, Far Fetched. Immediately after the events in Ferguson, Davis began illustrating political cartoons, speaking on discussion panels, curating art exhibitions of fellow artist activists, and making films. Davisu2019 most identifiable work, All Hands on Deck, shaped and upheld the movement as a strong statement on basic human rights. n"}" >
Sabaah Folayan (Director, Producer) is a storyteller and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She was a lead organizer for The Millions March, one of the largest marches for racial justice in New York history. Folayan traveled to Ferguson in 2014 to learn the truth behind the dramatic scenes playing out on the news. Hearing the stories from the community inspired her to embark on her directorial debut Whose Streets?.
Damon Davis (Co-Director, Producer) hails from St. Louis, Missouri, and is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist with work in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. His piece, All Hands on Deck, helped shape public perception of the Ferguson Uprising as part of a broader human rights movement. Davis teamed up with director Sabaah Folayan to make Whose Streets?, their first collaboration and a directorial debut.
Jennifer MacArthur (Producer) is a creative producer and media strategist. She founded the social impact strategy firm Borderline Media in 2008. Projects include HBO's Southern Rites (2015) and Gideon's Army (2013), and POV's Out in the Night (2015) and Traces of the Trade (2008). Mac
Arthur is a 2016 Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow and 2015 Rockwood Just
Films Fellow. Recently, she joined the Industry Advisory Board for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute.
Sabaah Jordan, Director and Producer, is an organizer, advocate, and storyteller born and raised in South Central LA. In 2013 her advocacy work took her to New Yorku2019s Rikers Island where she interviewed dozens of incarcerated people about their experiences with trauma. She traveled to Ferguson in September 2014 to learn the truth behind the dramatic scenes playing out on the news. Hearing the stories of the Ferguson community inspired her to enter the world of film. Later that year she helped organize The Millions March, one of the largest marches for racial justice in New York history.nn
Damon Davis, Director, is a celebrated interdisciplinary artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. The scope of his work includes illustration, painting, printmaking, music, film, and public art. He is the producer and vocalist of experimental hip hop outfit Scripts N Screwz; co-founder of art collective Civil Ape; and founder of independent music and art imprint, Far Fetched. Immediately after the events in Ferguson, Davis began illustrating political cartoons, speaking on discussion panels, curating art exhibitions of fellow artist activists, and making films. Davisu2019 most identifiable work, All Hands on Deck, shaped and upheld the movement as a strong statement on basic human rights. n"}" >
Sabaah Folayan (Director, Producer) is a storyteller and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She was a lead organizer for The Millions March, one of the largest marches for racial justice in New York history. Folayan traveled to Ferguson in 2014 to learn the truth behind the dramatic scenes playing out on the news. Hearing the stories from the community inspired her to embark on her directorial debut Whose Streets?.
Damon Davis (Co-Director, Producer) hails from St. Louis, Missouri, and is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist with work in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. His piece, All Hands on Deck, helped shape public perception of the Ferguson Uprising as part of a broader human rights movement. Davis teamed up with director Sabaah Folayan to make Whose Streets?, their first collaboration and a directorial debut.
Jennifer MacArthur (Producer) is a creative producer and media strategist. She founded the social impact strategy firm Borderline Media in 2008. Projects include HBO's Southern Rites (2015) and Gideon's Army (2013), and POV's Out in the Night (2015) and Traces of the Trade (2008). Mac
Arthur is a 2016 Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow and 2015 Rockwood Just
Films Fellow. Recently, she joined the Industry Advisory Board for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute.
The activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice bring you Whose Streets? - a documentary about the Ferguson uprising. When Michael Brown is killed and left lying in the street for hours it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis. Grief, long-standing tension, and renewed anger bring residents together to hold vigil in protest of this latest tragedy. In the days that follow, artists, musicians, teachers and parents turn into freedom fighters, standing on the front lines to demand justice. As the national guard descends on the small suburb of Ferguson with military grade weaponry, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new wave of resistance. For this generation, the battle is not for civil rights, but for the right to live. The activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice bring you Whose Streets - a documentary about the Ferguson uprising. When Michael Brown is killed and left lying in the street for hours it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis. Grief, long-standing tension, and renewed anger bring residents together to hold vigil in protest of this latest tragedy. In the days that follow, artists, musicians, teachers and parents turn into freedom fighters, standing on the front lines to demand justice. As the national guard descends on the small suburb of Ferguson with military grade weaponry, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new wave of resistance. For this generation, the battle is not for civil rights, but for the right to live.
Whose Streets? is a Cinereach grantee.
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