PART OF VILLAGE SCREEN FILM WEEK

The first and only feature film by the talented Leslie Harris, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T won the Sundance Special Jury Prize when first released 30 years ago. The film continues to be screened to this day and sighted as an inspiration for many films about and directed by Black women.Trailblazing and immensely enjoyable, this film is so much more than just another coming of age drama. 

Brash, smart, and intensely practical, Chantel is a high-school junior in a hurry to graduate to prove she is more than the labels her race, gender, and class so often assume of her. Harris’ film evokes the myriad complexities of teenage life, spotlighting a society in which young Black women are so rarely the protagonists in their own stories. Here, she not only gives a girl that chance but defies the narrative and has her break the fourth wall.