Boston Jewish Film Festival Nov. 6-17

In-person November 6-17
Virtual November 18-20
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WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO SPOTLIGHT!

Women in Film & Video DC member and Emmy Award-winning director Ilana Trachtman is screening her documentary Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round on Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 pm at the West Newton Cinema. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the director and Ayele Shakur, President of the Redstone Foundation, moderated by Ed Gaskin.

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Featuring narration by Jeffrey Wright and Mandy Patinkin, Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round is a timely cinematic excavation of this little-known Civil Rights story.

In June 1960, police arrested African American students from Howard University for sitting on the gilded horses of the whites-only Glen Echo Amusement Park merry-go-round. The arrests made headlines in the nascent “Sit-Down Movement.” When the predominantly Jewish community joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in US history was born. Despite sweltering heat and violent counter-protesters from the American Nazi Party, Black students marched with white suburbanites for ten weeks. Picketing led to partying together, union bosses collaborated with student leaders, young people became radicalized, and future giants of the Civil Rights Movement were born.