Whose Streets?
Feature length film Completed 2017
Director
Damon Davis
Producer
Flannery Miller
Producer
Jennifer MacArthur
Director
Sabaah Folayan
Doc Society helped with
Production
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When 18 year old Michael Brown is gunned down by Ferguson police, activists and residents are determined to bring his killer to justice. When it is decided that there will be no trial, the fight becomes a way of life.
The activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice bring you WHOSE STREETS? - a documentary about the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and then left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis county. Grief, long-standing tension, and renewed anger bring residents together to hold vigil and protest this latest tragedy. In the days that follow, artists, musicians, teachers and parents turn into freedom fighters, standing on the front lines to demand justice. As the National Guard descends on Ferguson with military grade weaponry, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new wave of resistance. For this generation, the battle is not for civil rights, but for the right to live.
Crew
It's a deeply moving work, and the passion of both the filmmakers and their subjects is palpable.
Andscape
Sept. 26, 2017
Whose Streets? is an impassioned polemic.
Chicago Tribune
Sept. 19, 2017
Folayan and Davis have put together a magnetic look at what it was like to live in that neighborhood, to walk those streets and to experience the eruption that turned everything upside down.
Arizona Republic
Aug. 31, 2017
Bristling with unapologetic righteousness, the ragged documentary Whose Streets? takes no prisoners in its raw depiction of events transpiring in the predominantly African-American community of Ferguson, Mo., about three years ago.
Austin Chronicle
Aug. 24, 2017
"Whose Streets?" doesn't pretend to solve any problems, only illuminate those that are happening everyday. It's a documentary that lives and breathes in the here and now.
Detroit News
Aug. 18, 2017
Told from the perspective of activists, artists, and residents, Whose Streets? is a commemoration of and tribute to the humans of Ferguson.
The New Republic
Aug. 17, 2017
"Whose Streets?" marks the filmmaking debut of Folayan and Davis, and it's charged by its personal touch.
Seattle Times
Aug. 5, 2017
Whether it's the "best" documentary of 2017 is a matter of opinion. But it is assuredly the most vital.
Rolling Stone
Aug. 14, 2017