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We brought DETROIT 48202 home for its world premiere at the Detroit Free Press Film Festival on April 14 – 15, 2018. The film and its star, Wendell Watkins, got a lot of love from two sold out audiences at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Detroit Historical Museum.

We look forward to future community screenings in the Detroit area in the coming months. Stay tuned for details.

DETROIT 48202: CONVERSATIONS ALONG A POSTAL ROUTE is going home!

For tickets and more information:

http://freepfilmfestival.com/detroit-48202/

http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/06/let-this-delightful-mailman-guide-you-through-detroits-racial-divide/396305/

New Yorkers celebrated a Century of Struggle of Grace Lee Boggs at The Malcolm Shabazz Center on November 10, 2015.

Grito Productions is honored to have filmed and be able to share the event.

On April 20th we kicked off our Indiegogo campaign to raise post production funds for Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route. The immediate response was thrilling--we reached 28% of our goal in 24 hours. This tells us that a documentary film looking at a complicated time in a complicated city from the perspective of people on the ground resonates.

To read the full HuffingtonPost interview click here.

At the North American Labor History Conference in Detroit

Pam Sporn, Todd Duncan, ML Liebler, Quill Pettway, Marsha Battle-Philpot, General Baker, David Philpot, Peter Rachleff (photo: C. Gholz)

I got a chance to share a work sample of Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route for the first time to a Detroit audience at the North American Labor History Conference held at Wayne State from Oct. 24-26, 2013. I was lucky to share a panel with WSU Prof. Todd Duncan entitled, Cinematic Images of Labor in Detroit. The essence of the presentations, and the vibrant discussion that followed, was that there are important grassroots Detroit voices, that often don't get heard, but that express histories and struggles that complicate a sometimes simplistic, exploitative narrative about the city's past and present. It made me really think about what images we media makers choose to highlight: empty buildings or people?