These shorts all revolve around great people after their great deeds and what happens to them
Film
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A Chitenge Story written and performed by Makambe K Simamba. Directed by Kathryn Smith. Premiered March 2018, Presented by Handsome Alice Theatre in Calgary, AB. A Canadian college student journeys deep into the sounds, smells, and spirits of Zambia. Surrounded by family, she is steeped in a single secret: that she has returned to her ancestral home with a singular mission: to find the identity of a man who abused her as a child and take justice into her own hands. A Chitenge Story is a young wo
Makambe K Simamba
Makambe K Simamba
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Spotlight Film
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Bigger *Big* Thomas, a young African American man, lives with his mother and siblings in Chicago. Half-heartedly involved with a girlfriend, he sports green hair and a punk jacket, smokes weed, and carries a pistol—but rebuffs his buddy’s *easy-money* scheme to knock off a corner store. Full of self-determination, Big accepts a job as the chauffeur for wealthy businessman Will Dalton’s family. Moving into their mansion, he begins driving Dalton’s vehemently progressive daughter, Mary. But his in
A Chitenge Story written and performed by Makambe K Simamba. Directed by Kathryn Smith. Premiered March 2018, Presented by Handsome Alice Theatre in Calgary, AB. A Canadian college student journeys deep into the sounds, smells, and spirits of Zambia. Surrounded by family, she is steeped in a single secret: that she has returned to her ancestral home with a singular mission: to find the identity of a man who abused her as a child and take justice into her own hands. A Chitenge Story is a young woman's autobiographical account of releasing trauma, embracing heritage, and uncovering her ultimate healing.