Finding Black Joy
Documentaries
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28m
Finding Black Joy is an intimate and affirming documentary that explores the power, complexity, and necessity of joy within Black creative spaces. Centered on the rehearsal and performance process of a university production of School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, the film follows a group of young Black artists as they navigate identity, colorism, belonging, and self-worth, both onstage and off.
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