Film
I'm Free Now, You Are Free
2020 · 15m · Documentary · Family
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Overview
I’m Free Now, You Are Free is a short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9. In 1978, Debbie, then 8 months pregnant, and many other MOVE family members were arrested after an attack by the Philadelphia Police Department; born in a prison cell, Mike Africa Jr. spent just three days with his mother before guards wrenched him away, and they spent the next 40 years struggling for freedom and for each other. In 2018, Mike Africa Jr. successfully organized to have his parents released on parole. “I realized that I had never seen her feet before,” was a remark he made when he reflected on Debbie’s homecoming. This film meditates on Black family preservation as resistance against the brutal legacies of state sanctioned family separation.
Crew
- Ash Goh HuaEditor · Director
- Arielle KnightProducer
- Jude ChehabDirector of Photography
Details
- Release date
- August 24, 2020
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 15m
- Genres
- Documentary, Family
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