Fall Film Screening: Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama

Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama (directed, produced, and edited by C.A. Griffith & H. L. T. Quan) is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice: Angela Davis, an internationally renowned scholar, writer and activist, and Yuri Kochiyama, a revered grassroots community activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. A talk with Yuri’s granddaughter, Akemi Kochiyama, will follow the screening.

Akemi Kochiyama is a Harlem-based writer, scholar-activist and consultant whose work is focused on community building, solidarity and social justice. The granddaughter of human rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama, Akemi is co-director of the Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project and co-editor of Passing It On: A Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama.

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Filmmakers C.A. Griffith & H. L. T. Quan recently completed another film, Queer, Broke, & Amazing (2024). You can learn more about this newest film, and others, here: https://www.quadproductions.org/films

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This screening is the first installment of Women Who Make Movies, a fall film festival hosted by The Center for the Study of Women and Society. Celebrating the work of female filmmakers from around the world, the series will take place over the course of the fall semester.