By C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan
Thirteen years, two radical activist all-stars-one conversation. Internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama have spent over a decade conversing intimately about personal histories and influences that shaped them and their overlapping experiences.
MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING offers the gift of these two remarkable women's lives, sharing the pair's recorded exchanges in 1996 and 2008. The film's unique format honors the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese American internment camps, to Civil Rights, anti-war, women's and gay liberation movements, to today's campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. Intercut with compelling period footage, Davis and Kochiyama's cogent observations, keen analyses, and steadfast resolve to create a more equitable, humane world offer inspiring lessons in empowerment and community building for current and future generations.
Reviews
~ "What is so striking about this film is its living history lessons, the breadth of singular and plural movements, the shared humanity and generations present in the room with subjects Yuri Kochiyama and Angela Y. Davis." - San Francisco Bay View
~ "Illustrated with rare footage of extraordinary speeches and events from the late 1800's to the 1960's through today, the film explores the critical role women, youth and crosscultural, crossracial alliances played inĄimportant social movements." - The Adams Report
Awards
~ San Francisco Black Film Festival, Winner, St. Clair Bourne Award for Best Feature Documentary
~ Some Prefer Cake Lesbian Film Festival - Bologna, Italy - Winner, Audience Award for Best Feature Film
~ COMMFEST (Global) Community Film Festival - Toronto, Canada - Winner, MADA Award (Make A Difference Award) for Best Feature Documentary
~ Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival - Norfolk, Virginia - Finalist, Best Feature Documentary
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