Social Justice Film Festival 2023
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I'm Free Now You Are Free
15 minutes | United States
Documentary Short
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A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr. and his mother Debbie—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE. 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 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.

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  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Country:
    United States
  • Director:
    Ash Goh Hua