t-tomusko

Most older movies and many movies in general like "Song of the South" and "Gone With the Wind" depicted Slavery as an okay instuition. In those films Slaves are depicted as Happy in that institiution, but in this film you see how Slaves really felt. Also you can see their humanity and knowledge where in older films they were depicted as ignorant.

This film is really, really neat for an independent film, and it shows a real slave castle in Gahana. Sankofa is a term that... Well, get the movie and you will learn more about it.

It does a good job of taking you through the film from a slaves point of view. The film uses that interesting "lens" to illustrate just how wrong slavery was. It also gives insight into the family unit among slaves, which may explain the black family today in America. Understanding the history of black families during slavery may be used to help understand the black family today in it's struggles to have cohesiveness.

An interesting look at the struggles a teen faces in high school. The film deals with relationship struggles from one's parents to other class mates, and her spiritual life.

Most of it, if not all was shot in Lorain, Ohio where I'm from. It was showed at Church of the North Coast in Lorain, so I got to see it before it was available to everyone through magazines. For a small budget film, the quality is not bad,and yes the Hell scene is interesting.

It would be neat to see what this would have been like if it were shot on 16mm film vs. Video. Most of the people in the film are locals from the Lorain/Amherst area. Some of the music in the film came from a local band, and the film helped drive that band's mobility.