Just Free

Year: 2024 | Run time: 22 min

Just Free: Systems-impacted youth surviving san francisco

“Just Free” is a documentary film created by and about systems impacted youth in San Francisco. In the face of the fentanyl epidemic and during the recent murder of trans youth Banko Brown, the filmmakers look to models of support for themselves and people like them, as one of the most vulnerable populations in the city.

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Team

DIRECTOR: Spencer Wilkinson

PRODUCERS: Krista Denio & Spencer Wilkinson

EDITOR: Spencer Wilkinson

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Roszy Tian, Lyra Solomon, Jalen Clark, Cici Galvin & Carlos

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jalen Clark, Cici Galvin, Carlos, Roszy Tian & Spencer Wilkinson

WRITERS: Cici Galvin, Jalen Clark, Lyra Solomon, Roszy Tian & Mayela Hidalgo

COMPOSER and SOUND RECORDER: Lyra Solomon

SOUND EDITOR: Casey Copeland

COLOR BY: Rishi Gandhi

PHOTOGRAPHERS: Rudi Tcruz, Demondre Ward

SCREENING events

  • “Set in just a few city blocks, it’s a story about intractable loss as well as collective refusal, depicting artists’ role in grassroots activism that builds power by bridging communities.”

    — Sam Lefebvre, KQED Arts

  • "A triumphant documentary interweaving stories within the different communities in Oakland...a beautiful, vivid, and artistic mural of the lives and cultures emerges."

    - Beth Lederer, The Guardsman

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