Collaborators Caty Borum Chattoo and Leena Jayaswal share a long history of social-issue storytelling in documentaries and other multimedia.
Their latest film, MIXED, explores what it means to be a multi-racial family in America, fifty-three years after the historic, landmark Supreme Court Decision, Loving v. Virginia ended persecution of interracial marriage in America.
Two mothers – one brown, one white – set off on a journey together to explore what it means to be a bi-racial child living in a mixed-race family in so-called “post-racial America,” the perspectives of their own families and others, and America’s deep cultural ambivalence about its rapidly- changing mixed-race reality.
In the wake of worldwide protests after the death of George Floyd and the sweeping #BlackLivesMatter movement, MIXED offers a new lens into race and the lives of the first generation of mixed-race kids and families to be counted in the U.S. Census.
In partnership with the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, the Greater Cleveland Film Commission will host the Cleveland Premiere of MIXED. Directors Caty Borum Chattoo and Leena Jayaswal will screen the film in CIA’s state-of-the-art Peter B. Lewis Theater on Thursday, October 7th at 7:00 pm, and answer audience questions after the screening. Post-screening reception TBD.
Masks are required for all filmgoers.