You Think You Grown? Dismantling Adultification

Join us for a special screening of this powerful and thought-provoking documentary film by Chanel Dupree!

You Think You Grown? Dismantling Adultification tracks and defines the origins of Adultification bias & its connection to the amplified violence and dehumanization black girls and women face today. We hear from educators, scholars, therapists, and activists about their experience with the erasure of black girlhood and dismantling this racial prejudice for the future. 

Doors open at 6pm. Screening begins at 6:30pm.

Talkback and audience discussion to follow screening.

About Chanel:

Chanel Dupree is an award-winning screenwriter and ​director based in NYC. Her film “Next Stop” earned ​her “Best Female Director”. You can find “Next ​Stop” on the The New York Times rated streaming ​service NoBudge. Chanel has written in several ​writers’ rooms, including her web series, including ​her web series, Black Retail, which premiered at the ​Toronto International Women's Film Festival and won ​Best Comedy and Best Web Series. Her feature ​documentary “You Think You Grown? Dismantling ​Adultification” premiered at the legendary Apollo ​Theater and won “Best Feature Documentary”. A ​winner of Spec that Scene, a finalist for Women ​Write Now, a finalist of BLACK BOY/GIRL WRITES MEDIA ​, and a fellow of BRIC’s Screenwriters Lab, Chanel’s ​work can be found on Shadow & Act, HuffPost and ​African Voices.

The Team:

DP: Jane Macedo Yang; Producers: Lee Evans, Tamala Baldwin; Camera Team: Jenny Desrosiers, ​Alexander Mceachern, Paul J. Lucero; Gaffer: RudeInk; 1st AD & Art Assistant: Shane Mendoza; Sound Mixer: Eduardo Calero; Key MUA: Fariha M. Rehan; Key Artist: Devin Monét; Editor: Alyce Muhammad; Archival Producer: Korri Palmer; Colorist:Tré Wilson; Post Mixer: Terressa Tate; Composer: Ethan Lawrence

Host or Publisher Weeksville Heritage Center