2023
Short Documentary(Philadelphia Premiere)

Team Dream

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Team Dream follows friends and competitive swimmers Ann and Madeline on their journey to the National Senior Games, where nothing — not age, race or history — will stand in their way.

Directors Spotlight

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Luchina Fisher

Director

Luchina Fisher is an award-winning director, writer and producer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her feature directorial debut, MAMA GLORIA, was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. Her recent short documentary, TEAM DREAM, won the Audience Choice Award at Chicago International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Pan African and TIDE film festivals and was broadcast on BET. She also has two documentaries, THE DADS and LOCKED OUT, on the festival circuit. Luchina’s work has been supported by Black Public Media, the Field Foundation, Sisters in Cinema, Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective, the Athena Film Festival’s Works in Progress Program, Firelight Media and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University.

Year
2022
Runtime
18 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Director
Luchina Fisher
Cinematographer
ERIC MICLETTE
Composer
JOCELYN C CHAMBERS
Editor
CÉSAR MARTÍNEZ BARBA
Executive Producer
QUEEN LATIFAH, SHAKIM COMPERE, LORETHA JONES, MICHELLE R. CARNEY, SANDRA NAM
Producer
SHAN SHAN TAM, LUCHINA FISHER
Screenwriter
Luchina Fisher
Sound Design
JUSTIN MATLEY, CHELSEA ADAMS, ODDY LITLABO
Premiere
Philadelphia

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