What My Name! Say It!!
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Vonnia Harris DavisDirectorKeep On Pushing; Mojo Risin
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Vonnia Harris DavisWriter
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Vonnia Harris DavisProducer
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:30 minutes
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Orlando Urban Film FestivalOrlando, Florida
United States
November 18, 2023
Orlando Urban Film Festival
Official Winner, Official Selection, Nominated -
Cannes World Film Festival13 Avenue Maurice Chevalier Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 06150 France
France
December 27, 2023
Monthly Competition
Winner and Official Selection
Vonn is armed with a certificate in Documentary Arts from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and has over 25 years as a speech language pathologist. (West Virginia University, Valdosta University)— she believes that she has earned the privilege to engage minds on many levels, whether film, photography or perspective taking through a critical nonjudgemental lens.
Enamored with images since childhood, Vonn's personal photo & film collection was an empowering resource. Her goal is to redesign the way humans process the state of other humans using film and photography as comparative studies. Due to her natural passion for oral history, more specifically, diversity in African American Appalachia, Vonn finds opportunities for story telling, empathy training about vanishing cultures that are now endangered. Eye focused and ear tuned delivers this piece is fiery.
A name is a tool that serves as a unique identifier. A talent, career or calling are tools that calibrate cultural imbalances. There has been no other time in American history when culturally responsive people and their fight for freedom, despite fear shocked the traditions of America. It was here that all matters unjust shifted and mass numbers of Black folks shouted, "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud", while snatching the right to self-identify, dropped their slave names. America was shaken at its core and the world watched a REVOLUTION introduce a new swag.