"Making Sweet Tea" documentary available for streaming

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"Making Sweet Tea" documentary available for streaming

The award-winning documentary, Making Sweet Tea, co-directed by Nora Gross '08 is now available for streaming everywhere. Find all streaming options at www.makingsweettea.com. Making Sweet Tea chronicles the journey of southern-born, black gay researcher and performer E. Patrick Johnson as he travels home to North Carolina to come to terms with his past, and to Georgia, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. to reconnect with several black gay men he interviewed for his book, Sweet Tea.

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Two new documentary shorts about the secondary impacts of neighborhood gun violence

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Nora Gross, PhD recently produced two short documentary films connected to her ongoing research and current book project about the secondary impacts of urban gun violence. The first film, Our Philadelphia, made in collaboration with several youth, explores the way the deaths of friends impacts Black adolescent boys and young men. It can be viewed on YouTube. The second film, Club With No Name, tells the story of three Black mothers of gun violence victims their efforts to turn their pain into purpose. The film will screen on Facebook Live on December 4th at 7pm followed by a community conversation. More information about both films can be found at http://www.noragross.com/film.

Website: http://www.noragross.com/film.

Our Philadelphia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPmz6DYnzMg&feature=youtu.be

Club With No Name:  https://www.facebook.com/WomenOfValor74

'Our Philadelphia,' a new documentary short about the untold aftermath of gun violence

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This summer, in collaboration with a group of teenagers, Nora Gross '08 produced a documentary short, 'Our Philadelphia.' The film offers a rare peek into the aftermath of neighborhood gun violence and particularly how it impacts the young friends of victims. The young people who directed the film and are featured in it, all Black male teenagers, share openly about the memories of their friends, the way they cope with their grief, and their hopes and fears for the future.

The film's virtual premiere on YouTube on July 11, 2020 was followed by a Q&A over Zoom with two of the film's youth directors. More information as well as links to the 15 minute film and recorded Q&A can be found at: http://www.camrapenn.org/ourphiladelphia

The themes of the film are connected to Gross' doctoral dissertation which she just completed at the University of Pennsylvania (Sociology and Education). She is now starting as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College, and working on a second short film emerging from this project about the experiences of the mothers of gun violence victims.