Winner of the Audience Award in the category: Best Documentary Short at the 2017 BlackStar Film Festival

“Baobab Flowers” is a personal documentary that follows the journey of two high school teachers: Storm Foreman (Nyanza Bandele), in Philadelphia, United States, and Priscila Dias, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The film invites you to make the connections between communities of the African Diaspora, the similarities of black women, the impact of low-quality education in the black community and the struggle to achieve equality in education.

Check the official website. 

Directed by Gabriela Watson-Burkett

Executive Producers: Gabriela Watson-Burkett & Dr. Doris Derby

Producer: Joyce Prado

Check the full list of credits here

Brazil / United States, 2017, 40 min. & 20 min. versions. 

Available for screenings and discussions. 

Festivals & Conferences

• “Afro-Latinx Spotlight” organized by the Silicon Valley African Film Festival, April 2022

• African Diaspora International Film Festival, Women’s History Month Virtual Screening, 2022

• African Diaspora International Film Festival, DC, 2019

• Encontro de Cinema Negro Zozimo Bulbul, Rio, Brazil 2019

• Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, Baltimore, 2019

• 11th Annual West Chester University Latina/o Communities Conference: Construyendo Puentes / Building Bridges, West Chester, PA, 2019

• BlackStar Film Festival - Winner - Audience Award in the category: Best Documentary Short

• Diamond Screen Festival - Temple University 

• SciBr Summit, Panel Diversity in Academia, Boston University, MA

• Screening & Talk, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

• Panelist and Screening Baobab Flowers, SciBr Summit, Panel Diversity in Academia, Boston University, MA