PROJECT

Blueprint For My People

For my people lending their strength to the years, to the gone years and the now years and the maybe years…

—Margaret Walker, For My People

 

Powerful archival footage is rendered in montages of historic cyanotype photographs underscored with a spare but emotionally evocative soundtrack by Tony Jefferson and searing poetry by Margaret Walker read by Poet Gold.

 

Produced, Directed, Researched and Edited by: Carol Bash

Poem Written by: Margaret Walker

Spoken Word Narration: Bettina “Poet Gold” Wilkerson and Richard “Braf Matic” Brathwaite

Music Composed and Performed by: Tony Jefferson

Motion Graphic Design: Iana Amauba

Executive Producer: Third World Newsreel

 

Link to trailer on Vimeo