Director: Shirah Dedman Producers: Dennis Tery, Anka Karewicz, Shirah Dedman
Description:
Follow the Drinking Gourd is a feature documentary about the
Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this
60-minute film connects the legacy of slavery, capitalism and climate
change to our fight for food security. It features: Leah Penniman,
author of "Farming While Black"; Naima Penniman of the
award-winning, spoken word duo, Climbing Poetree, recently featured
on TED; Wanda Stewart, urban farmer in Berkeley, CA; Will Scott,
rural farmer in Fresno, CA; Carl Anthony, environmentalist, founder
of Urban Habitat; and Rahanna Bisseret-Martinez, former Top Chef
Junior finalist.
Biography:
Shirah Dedman is a filmmaker, journalist, attorney, and
activist creating content at the intersection of economics, race, and
the environment. Her short film on the displacement of Black Oakland,
“You a Nomad,” broadcasted on Free Speech TV. Shirah is a
2018-2019 Associate of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC
Berkeley and of the Equal Justice Initiative. She’s a member of
KPFA Radio’s Local Station Board, and the Programming Committee of
its parent organization, Pacifica Foundation. Passionate about
cooperative action, she's a member of Liberated Lens, a
horizontally-run, intersectional, social justice film collective. The
journey to making Follow the Drinking Gourd changed the course
of her life. Shirah's now pursuing her Master of Laws in Agriculture
& Food Law at the University of Arkansas Law School.
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