Traveling While Black

  • Traveling While Black
Genre : Historical
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2018
Format : Short
Running time : 20 (in minutes)

Co-directed by Academy Award®-winner Roger Ross Williams and Ayesha Nadarajah in collaboration with Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël, Traveling While Black confronts the way we understand and talk about race in America. Across a series of dialogues with restaurant patrons in Washington, DC, this 3D, 360-degree VR piece immerses the viewer in the long history of restricted movement for Black Americans and the creation of safe spaces in our communities.



DIRECTOR : Roger Ross Wiliams
PRODUCER : Jihan Robinson, Lina Srivastava, Ayesha Nadarajah
CINEMATOGRAPHER : Felix & Paul Studios
EDITOR : Felix & Paul Studios
COMPOSER : Jason Moran
US DISTRIBUTOR : Oculus GO
KEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER : Bonnie Nelson Schwartz, Stéphane Rituit, Ryan Horrigan
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER : Kathleen Lingo, The New York Times
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER : Elena Rachitsky, Oculus
CAST : Sandra Butler-Truesdale, Virginia Ali, Courtland Cox, Frank Smith, Amanda King, Samaria Rice

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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