Awaken: A Tale of Inner-City Violence, Crime, and Its Impact
Commissioned by the YMCA, “AWAKEN” presents itself as an engaging and exploratory film work that is being promoted as a “youth-led project about gun violence and its effects on the community in South Philly.
THE STORY
Director: Nazir K. Alston
Producer by: Robert “Hershey'“ Alston
Director of Photography: Nazir K. Alston
Production Company: NKA Creations, LLC
Commissioned by the YMCA, “AWAKEN” presents itself as an engaging and exploratory film work that is being promoted as a “youth-led project about gun violence and its effects on the community in South Philly. Participants ages 12-18 years old all have been impacted by gun violence to some degree in their own lives.” The YMCA has been entrenched as a safe haven in South Philly for a great many years and this notion was the jump start for Executive Director Lance Lee and colleague Mr. Warren (Warren Brown) to embark on assembling the Center’s at-risk youth population as contributors of first-person narratives. The documentary of “AWAKEN” will provide concerned citizens and community residents a chance to openly discuss the issue of violence and aggression and to also meet the film participants.
