Private Project

Southside Pride

Four young women from the Southside of Chicago want the world to see that their community is much more than the negative stories the media often portrays. They bring together voices of small business owners, museum curators, artists, and educators to show Englewood's cultural and historical richness as well as the positivity and pride of its residents.

  • Pamela Sherrod Anderson (Faculty)
    Director
    The G Force, The Curators of Dixon School
  • Destiny Dixon (Student)
    Director
  • Liliane Calfee (Program Director)
    Producer
  • JoAnnen Zielinski (Program Administrator)
    Producer
  • Alina Slovachevska
    Graduate Student Mentor
  • Antoinette Green
    Student Filmmakers
  • Antonia Luckett
    Student Filmmakers
  • Chiyan Peters
    Student Filmmakers
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    9 hours 55 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 20, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Pamela Sherrod Anderson (Faculty), Destiny Dixon (Student)

Pamela Sherrod Anderson is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, journalist and educator. A past fellow of Kartemquin Film’s and Community Film Workshop’s Diverse Voices in Documentary program, Pamela heads Graceworks Theater and Film Productions and teaches at DePaul University in the College of Computing and Digital Cinema. Her cinematic work includes documentaries, shorts and feature films. Her latest film to hit the film festival circuit is called "The G-Force," a full-length documentary that explores the rising trend of grandparents stepping in to raise their children's children when their birth parents are unable.

Student Director, Destiny Dixon (18 yrs old) is a life-long Southside Chicago resident. A second year participant in our program, she pitched the theme of making a positive film about Englewood to her female peers and it won the vote. She has expressed wanting to be a photographer as her career choice but we're still trying to convince her to pursue filmmaking too!

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Director Statement

"Because I grew up on Chicago’s South Side, I know the neighborhoods more for the people who live there than for the names on the city’s street signs. In being a mentor in the DePaul/CHA Teen Filmmaking program, the young women that I worked with are growing up on this side of town and feeling the same way. It’s about the people they love and who love them. With eyes cast downward, one of the girls asked in an early story meeting: 'Do we have to make a movie about killin’?' While the city’s problems are real, the girls wanted to show another Chicago, their South Side story, about the light in their life and where its found." ~Pamela Sherrod Anderson, Faculty Director

"I want to show the positive side of Chicago. Chicago has been given a negative name and I wanted to change that. I want show the real true colors of my city." ~Destiny Dixon, Student Director