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Harlem Rising
Feature Documentary

Harlem Rising

A Community Changing the Odds

HARLEM RISING chronicles the remarkable history of Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) and the lives transformed by one of the nation’s most ambitious efforts to break the cycle of poverty.

Drawing from more than 4,000 hours of extraordinary archival footage filmed by Harlem youth from the late 1970s through the early 2000s and woven together with newly filmed interviews and contemporary footage, the film brings three generations of students, parents, educators, and community members back to the places and moments that shaped their lives.

Their stories reveal more than the history of the Harlem Children’s Zone. They reveal what happens when a community invests in its children—and what it means to grow up believing that your circumstances do not have to determine your future.

This is Harlem, told by the people who lived it.

★ Best Documentary nominee — Pan African Film Festival 2020 Watch the entire feature film →
Pan African Film Festival selection
Pan African Film Festival
RSF Martha's Vineyard AAFF selection
RSF Martha's Vineyard AAFF
DC Black Film Festival selection
DC Black Film Festival
DocuWest Film Festival selection
DocuWest Film Festival
Branded Series

Ford: From The Floor

Every factory has a story. And every story begins with the people who walk through its doors.

When Civic-US asked us to create a series around Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley’s gemba tours, we looked to an unlikely source for inspiration: Studs Terkel’s Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do—a timeless portrait of the dignity, pride, frustrations, and dreams found in everyday work.

What began as a one-off project became From the Floor—an ongoing journey inside Ford’s manufacturing plants.

To date, we’ve traveled to more than 20 Ford plants across North America, creating cinematic, intimate portraits of the people who make the vehicles we drive. Welders. Engineers. Line workers. Technicians. Generations of autoworkers whose hands, skill, and dedication keep an iconic American industry moving, revealing the human stories behind the factory floor.

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Newsrooms, networks, and brands.

ABC News
Ford Motor Company
BET
Vice News
Axios
Harlem Children's Zone
Firelight Media
Type Investigations
International Center of Photography
Barnard College
Civic-US
The Wall Street Journal
McKinsey & Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Black Experience on Xfinity
Agatha Home Health
Hachette Book Group
DCTV
Xumo

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