Produced By Daresha Kyi, Stephanie Wang-Breal, Laura Tatham, Laura Pilloni In the wake of the police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Dispatches from Cleveland chronicles a city grappling with grief, division, and the urgent call for justice. Dispatches from Cleveland Directed & Produced By Catherine Gund
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ABOUT THE FILM

Directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Catherine Gund, this five-part documentary follows ordinary residents of Cleveland, Ohio, one of America’s most racially divided cities, as they unite across racial and geographic lines to demand accountability and reimagine what community healing can look like.

Rated PG-13 | 75 Minutes | USA | Documentary

Dispatches from Cleveland film poster

ABOUT THE FILM

Directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Catherine Gund, this five-part documentary follows ordinary residents of Cleveland, Ohio, one of America’s most racially divided cities, as they unite across racial and geographic lines to demand accountability and reimagine what community healing can look like.

Rated PG-13 | 75 Minutes | USA | Documentary

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CAST

  • Jawanza Colvin

  • Mansfield Frazier

  • Samaria Rice

ADDITIONAL CAST

Rhonda Williams

LaTonya Goldsby

Amelia Hayes

Kirk Noden

Malaya Davis

Jerry Peña

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2017 Justice for All Film Festival Logo with Special Recognition for Feature Film for Dispatches from Cleveland

REVIEWS

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Dispatches From Cleveland hits you with an emotional sledgehammer in the opening credits.

Cleveland MagazineKelly Petryszyn
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Catherine Gund’s web docuseries Dispatches From Cleveland shows that no injustice is an island, a wrong to be suffered solely by the directly injured community. Instead, its five chapters outline how seemingly disparate wrongs such as economic apartheid and trans rights can provide starting points for unifying different communities...her docuseries offers an honesty that its marginalized subjects have been denied in other media.

REVIEWS FROM FRAMELINE 41Peter Wong
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...riveting...a crucial insider's view of two Clevelands.

Cleveland.comAndrea Simakis
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... poignant, sobering, and powerful... a galvanizing tool, a way to empower people and convince them to get involved in their local communities, and work to make a difference.

The Cleveland Film SocietyAnnie Zaleski
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…instead finds its power in a modern example of how individual communities can move forward. And as much as it is important to understand our past so as not to repeat it, knowing how to build our future is just as important. Dispatches from Cleveland shows us how.

Substream MagazineLeigh Monson