Game Changers Films

This film highlights the stories of everyday people coming together to build power to fight environmental racism, unfair housing policies, and gentrification in East Oakland, CA, the last predominantly-African American community left in the city. It showcases the ten-year journey of East Oakland Building Healthy Communities and offers a valuable blueprint for how to use policy wins and culture to empower the next generation. East Oakland Building Healthy Community Coming February 2021

On a hot summer day on July 17, 2014, I was working on a film set in Brooklyn, NY. We were shooting a crucial scene from my short film Rites. The scene, which involved actors portraying NYPD cops storming into a Black barbershop with guns drawn, revolved around the reaction of our 4-year old actor and his father, the actor Stephen Hill. We knew we really only had one good take to make it work. What happened next made the day one I’ll never forget....Read #myperspective.