Follow the Drinking Gourd, 2020, Film Screening

Produced by Liberated Lens, an Oakland-based social justice film collective, Follow the Drinking Gourd is a family-friendly, funny, and moving feature documentary that connects the legacy of slavery, capitalism, and climate change to our fight for food security.

It features many of the movement’s major players, including:

Leah Penniman – author of Farming While Black

Naima Penniman – of the award-winning, spoken word duo, Climbing Poetree, recently featured on TED

stic.man – of hip hop duo, dead prez; founder of RBG Fit Club

Rahanna Bisseret-Martinez – former Top Chef Junior finalist

Carl Anthony – environmentalist author of The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race

Will Scott – President of the African American Farmers of California

Wanda Stewart – founder of Obsidian Farm

Chanowk Yisrael – founder of Yisrael Family Urban Farm

Students of Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project

https://liberatedlens.wordpress.com/followthedg/

Anna Karewicz, documentary filmmaker and photographer, member of Liberated Lens Film Collective. Producer, cinematographer and editor on “Follow the Drinking Gourd”.

Official selection:

Wild & Scenic FF,

Reframe FF,

One Earth FF,

Oklahoma Black FF,

UNAFF 2020,

SF Black FF,

Princeton Environmental FF,

Denton Black FF,

AfroSci FF

Q&A with the Director will be live–streamed on our YouTube channel