Louis Massiah

Mónica Henríquez

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States/United Kingdom/Canada/France/Senegal

Year: 2025

Length: 105’

Language: English and French. VOSE and VOSEus.

Directed by: Louis Massiah and Mónica Henríquez

Cinematographers: Michael Chin and Henry Adebonojo

Editor: Mónica Henríquez

Music: Jerome Jennings

Sound: J. T. Takagi

With: Malaika Adero,  Shirikiana Aina, Walter Cade, Cheryl Chisholm, Francée Covington, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Manthia Diawara, John Colé Eaton, Nikky Finney, Haile Gerima, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Linda Janet Holmes, Alice Lovelace, Acklyn Lynch, Makeba Lavan, Louis Massiah, Toni Morrison, Frances Negrón Muntaner, Conor Tomás Reed, Judy Ridenhour, Susan Ross, Sonia Sanchez, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Holly Smith, Karma Bene Smith, Clyde Taylor, Eleanor Traylor, Leah Wise, Laura Whitehorn

Producer: Louis Massiah

Synopsis

TCB. The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students.