South Florida Filmmaker Cathleen Dean’s Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Wade in The Water: Drowning in Racism is Featured Spotlight at Miami 4 Social Change Youth Festival

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South Florida Filmmaker Cathleen Dean won an Emmy award for her deep-dive exploration into Black Florida’s fight for the right to swim. ‘Wade in the Water Drowning in Racism,’ brings to life the 1960’s Civil Rights protests that desegregated the state’s beaches and swimming pools.

Now the Miami-based youth organization Urgent Inc. has invited the Emmy-award-winning filmmaker to screen her film at their Miami For Social Change Youth Film Festival this summer.

‘Wade in the Water Drowning in Racism,’ will be shown to the community on July 22nd at the Julius Littman Performing Arts Theater in North Miami Beach City Hall.

The festival theme this year is: What a time to be Aligned: Celebrating Voices of Impact.

‘I believe this film certainly embodies the mission of our festival, inspiring our youth filmmakers as it pertains to highlighting works of community impact, social change, social justice, and just the awareness of social issues that must be brought to the forefront through media empowerment,’ said Youth Film Festival Director Joey LaMar Ashley…