BCRI x Sidewalk Cinema: Summer Film Series – I’m Still Here: A Life on Dynamite Hill
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BCRI x Sidewalk Cinema: Summer Film Series – I’m Still Here: A Life on Dynamite Hill
This month’s Summer Film Series screening is presented in partnership with the City of Birmingham’s Department of Community Development.
We’re proud to present I’m Still Here: A Life on Dynamite Hill, a film that honors the legacy of the Dynamite Hill community while inviting us to imagine its future.
Following the film, we’ll host a discussion with featured film subjects Jefferson Drew, Barbara Shores, and Judge Houston Brown, reflecting on the history of Dynamite Hill and what’s possible moving forward.
In 2023, the Birmingham Housing Authority and the City of Birmingham were awarded a $50 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grant focused on the Smithfield-College Hills-Graymont community. Birmingham is the first city in Alabama to receive this grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
As development prepares to move forward, this screening offers a moment to pause, honor the past, and envision the future together.
Attendees can also learn more about the upcoming Smithfield Public Art Walk, a project led by the City’s Community Development Department.
Film Screening: 6:00 PM
Discussion: 6:35 PM
Location: Sidewalk Cinema
This event is free and open to the public. Come ready to learn, listen, and be part of the conversation!
About the Film:
Members of the Leadership Birmingham Class of 2022 received the rare gift of a living history lesson about a turning point in American history from those who lived it – Jefferson Drew, Barbara Shores, and Judge Houston Brown.
What happened on Birmingham, Alabama’s Center Street is a scar on American history, but the voices of Dynamite Hill speak with strength and grace about how they faced unimaginable hatred, with one repeated refrain: “I’m still here.”
Jefferson Drew encouraged the group to not just take the story to heart, but to take action.
That meeting inspired us to create a multi-disciplinary media vessel for the story that opened our Leadership Birmingham experience, taking action to educate others about our history in hope that we can create societies that abide no hatred.
If this story opens one set of eyes, emboldens one young voice, or changes one heart, we will have been successful.