The idea was to use a different lens to look at one of the city's biggest issues: gun violence.
Over the past year, the City of Philadelphia took some non-traditional approaches to tackling the gun violence epidemic, including giving grants to grassroots organizations. Its newest approach may be the most creative yet: creating a film.
"A gun violence epidemic that is taking a lot of their friends, their cousins, their family members," said Jeanette Bavwidinsi, director of the Mayor's Office of Youth Engagement.The message of the film is two-fold: to feature organizations that are working to end gun violence and to re-tell the story of Black men and boys in Philadelphia."These groups that were doing amazing work. That before we started this project, we did not know about," said Westbrook.
The film's writer/director is Temple alum Kaloni Davis. He was passionate about the film's mission to also change the way society sees Black men and boys.
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