Oiff20 - DAY 5 - https://www.oiff.org/events/united-states/california/oakland/oiff20-day-5-sept19-holynames-Lead Change Into the archives : Billy X "The Sun Rises In The East"5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.

Lead Change
“Lead Change” explores the journey of Oakland, California based Polo player Dale Johnson and his horse and teammate Sunny. This short sports documentary explores how a person from a non-traditional Polo background, is working everyday to represent and change notions of where Polo players and equestrians come from, look like, and how they feel. To ask a horse to make a lead change is to subtly direct redirect which leg dominates the horse’s stride and that is what “Lead Change” was created to do, to subtly shift the narrative. Ultimately, it’s a lesson in what we all can do to go about breaking down barriers, honoring traditions, updating narratives and leading change our own lives and the lives of others.

• Michael Crocker

  Director
• Michael Crocker

  Writer
• Michael Crocker

  Producer

Into The Archives of Billy X
In an unassuming house in Sacramento, one of the most comprehensive private collections of Black Panthers material sits on the shelves of original Party member and archivist William “Billy X” Jennings. Featuring images of Tupac Shakur, Maya Angelou, and many other familiar faces, Into The Archives gives you a rare glimpse at a historical exhibition of Bay Area history, most of which has still not been digitized.

• Damien McDuffie

  Director
• Theo Schear

  Producer

The Sun Rise In The East

The Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Led by educator and activist Jitu Weusi, The East embodied Black self-determination, building more than a dozen institutions, including its own African-centered school, food co-op, newsmagazine, publisher, record label, restaurant, clothing shop and bookstore. The organization hosted world-famous jazz musicians and poets at its highly sought-after performance venue, and it served as an epicenter for political contemporaries such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords and the Congress of Afrikan People, as well as comrades across Africa and the Caribbean.

In effect, The East built an independent Black nation in the heart of Central Brooklyn.