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Freedom Constellations Film

 Performing Statistics was chosen as 1 of 8 projects from across the country to be featured in the Futures We Dream video installation at the Smithsonian’s newest exhibit Futures!!! 

Huge thanks to The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture and Smithsonian for making this possible

The film was made in collaboration with amazing youth leaders in Richmond (Performing Statistics, The Hive, RISE for Youth Youth First Initiative !!!) who each directed scenes that imagine a future where all youth are free!...we promise after seeing it, you’ll wanna help make that future real. 

So humbled to see their powerful stories, dreams, and demands featured on the national mall. Come thru and step into this abolitionist future! FUTURES is Open till July 9th, 2022!

#NoKidsInPrison #Performingstatistics #prisonsdontwork

 
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Directed by Mark Strandquist in collaboration with Performing Statistics and Kiara B., Marcus D., Seth H., Denise T., Netia L., Janiyah S., Siyanah L., MyaLansky M., and Marvin C.

Post Production Services provided by All Ages Productions

Editor / Color / Sound - Ricky Christian

Poem written and recorded by Kiara B., Marcus D., Seth H., Denise T., Netia L., Janiyah S., Siyanah L., MyaLansky M., Marvin C., alongside Rise For Youth organizers; Clyde, Iyana, Kayla, Khai, Kidaya, and Ta’Dreama. 

Poem recorded and edited by; Nicki Stein and Mark strandquist

Film assistants: Massayan Jallah and William Glaser Wilson

Intro narration: Tracey Wells-Huggins

Additional footage by: Departure Point Films, Massayan Jallah


Special thanks: Virginia Commonwealth University's Photography and Film Department, Studio Two Three, Rise for Youth, Youth First Initiative, CodeVA, Patty Parks and the Richmond Department of Human Services, Mark Mervis, Kate Fowler, Jon Sheridan, Kyler O'Brien, and Courtney Bowles