Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

21 – 26 March, 2025

The only feature film to date by writer/director Leslie Harris is an intense exploration of the complexities of life and difficult choices faced by an ambitious Black teenager from the Brooklyn projects. Each screening will have a special introduction, facilitated by film programmer, critic and curator Liz Chege.

Brooklyn teenager Chantel (played with naturalistic verve by Ariyan A Johnson) dreams of becoming a doctor – which she sees as a route out from the life her working-class parents lead in their housing projects home. Intelligent and sharp-tongued, Chantel thinks she has it all worked out, until she falls for Tyrone (Kevin Thigpen) and discovers she is pregnant. Leslie Harris’s only feature film to date is as ambitious as its central character. Like Boyz N The Hood the previous year, Harris realistically considers the tough choices faced by teenage African-Americans of the period, this time with a female focus.

GFT 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

This section: Cinema

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