AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND

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AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND

TUES, 12/10, 1:00pm, 90 min
BAY STREET THEATER

Director Ilana Trachtman in attendance for Q&A with Andrew Botsford

Director: Ilana Trachtman
Producer: Ilana Trachtman
Editors: Sandra Christie, Ann Collins
Cinematographers: Slawomir Grunberg, Dominic Mann

When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history was born. These events forced people to take sides, changed lives, and ignited sparks that affected the Civil Rights Movement for years.

Ilana Trachtman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director and producer. For over 25 years she has created programs for numerous networks including PBS, HBO Family, Showtime, Lifetime, and the Sundance Channel. Her film Praying with Lior garnered six Audience Awards for Best Documentary and was a critic’s pick of the New York Times, New York Magazine, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer.