Filmmaker Katina Parker’s CALL:RESPONSE Explores Police Aggression Against People of Color

'Southern writer Clyde Edgerton once wrote that it’s almost impossible “to write about race in America without bombast, outrage, or satire.” How else, he asked, can one “confront a system of structural inequality that has savagely circumscribed lives for generations?” This is true for filmmakers as well. But with her two-part film, CALL:RESPONSE, Katina Parker courageously engaged her audience to face this reality head on, unflinchingly. The Center for Documentary Studies, along with the Duke University Office of the Provost, commissioned the film for “Policing Color: Black, Brown, and Blue”—the Provost Forum on Race, Community, and the Pursuit of Justice held earlier this year in response to the September 2016 killing of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte.' -- Center for Documentary Studies director Wesley Hogan

CALL:RESPONSE; Pt. 1 - CALL from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.


CALL:RESPONSE; Pt. 2 - RESPONSE from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.