Same Water
Same Water is a lyrical nonfiction film that weaves memory with archive to examine Black leisure, freedom and exclusion at Silver Springs State Park in Ocala, Florida. Prompted by the filmmaker’s discovery of family home videos from a vacation with their grandparents in the early 1990s, the film situates a trip within a landscape shaped by Jim Crow segregation, inaccessible to her grandparents a generation earlier. Through home movies, archival materials and contemporary interviews, it reflects on the pursuit of rest in spaces structured by racial exclusion, foregrounding Paradise Park, a segregated site preserving Silver Springs as a whites-only destination.
Screenings
Virtual
Directors Spotlight
Martine Granby
Director
Martine Granby is a nonfiction filmmaker, visual journalist, and educator whose work explores family and collective moving-image archives, found-footage ethics, and mental health in BIPOC communities. She is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut and jointly appointed with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 21 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Director
- Martine Granby
- Producer
- Gabby Follett
- Cast
- Cynthia Wilson-Graham, Dolores Roberts, Jay Kin, Ayris Granby, Samuel Granby
- Cinematographer
- Hogan Seidel
- Editor
- Hogan Seidel
- Animator
- Martine Granby
- Composer
- Rena Anakwe
- Sound Design
- Rena Anakwe, Michael A. Betts II
- Premiere
- Philadelphia