Presented by Outfest with support from the City of West Hollywood's WeHo Arts program (www.weho.org/arts). In recognition of Black History Month, Dispatches from Cleveland is a feature-length documentary that closely examines the present-day rust-belt city of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the most racially divided cities in America. The film follows ordinary people – long shaken by police misconduct, social discrimination, and poverty – whose love for their home pushes them to work together to bring about real change.

“I didn’t ask to be a leader,” Samiria Rice states, “but they made me a leader when they killed my son.” Samaria is referring to the death of her 12-year-old son, Tamir, at the hands of the Cleveland police department in 2014. The case received national attention, and the country watched as Prosecutor Timothy McGinty refused to hold police accountable and indict the police officer who shot young Tamir. 

Depicting the intersecting movements in Cleveland, the film presents a nuanced examination of a national uprising and highlights that lasting change will only come from prioritizing the lives of those most marginalized.

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