Sabaah Jordan
TFI Support
TFI Pond5 Program 2019
About
Sabaah Folayan made her directorial debut at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival with the feature length documentary WHOSE STREETS?. Recently nominated for a Peabody Award, the film chronicles the experiences of activists living in Ferguson, Missouri when Michael Brown Jr. was killed. WHOSE STREETS? was distributed theatrically by Magnolia Pictures, and supported by the Sundance Documentary Film Program, Tribeca Film Institute, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation among many others.
Pier Kids
PIER KIDS follows Desean, Casper and Krystal, three homeless queer youth who use the Piers at the end of Christopher Street to build new family as they navigate prostitution, the welfare system, and their biologicial families in order to find stable housing.
Whose Streets?
A first-hand look at how the murder of one teenager became the last straw for a community under siege. Whose Streets? is a story of love, loss, conflict, and ambition; the journey of everyday people turned freedom fighters, whose lives intertwined with a burgeoning national movement for black liberation.