474 24th St
Oakland
CA 94612
This screening is co-presented by the Berkeley FILM Foundation and features a post-film discussion.
An audience favorite at the 2015 Mill Valley Film Festival, this joy-filled portrait of septuagenarian Edythe Boone captures the Berkeley-based muralist as she oversees transformative community and student social justice art projects and grapples with the chokehold death of her nephew, Eric Garner whose final words – I Can’t Breathe – ignited a national outcry for racial justice. An intimate portrait of an extraordinary artist-activist, Edythe’s story shows not what it is to be Black or to lose a loved one, but what it is to be human.
Join us post screening for a Q & A with Mo Morris, filmmaker, Edythe Boone and Oscar Grant’s “Uncle Bobby” (Cephus) Johnson.