24th AAWIC FF FILM SCREENINGS

Synopsis: Our vision is to create a world where every child has access to quality education, healthcare, and basic needs. We believe that by investing in children, we are investing in the future of our society.

Synopsis: Through the eyes of Black children, their families, and the helping industry that has developed out of the housing crisis, A Rising Tide follows the strategies of families and service providers struggling with homelessness. Discussions on housing include impacts on social, emotional, educational, and medical conditions families are facing. 

Cheryl Fabio spent her formative years moving from one end of the country to the next while her dad served in the Air Force. The Fabio family then settled in Oakland, CA. Her mom, Sarah Fabio, a writer in the Black Arts Movement, was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Cheryl was sent to Fisk University for college and returned to California to study documentary film at Stanford University. Her first film, Rainbow Black: Poet Sarah Webster Fabio, was 31 minutes and an intimate look at her mother, an educator, writer, and particularly a poet. Fabio has developed unique skills and perspectives in a nonlinear career that includes social service, nonprofits, administration, and film production. In 2017, Fabio produced and directed Evolutionary Blues… West Oakland’s Music Legacy. In 2021 she made, East Oakland Counter Narratives. Her new film, A Rising Tide – chronicles homelessness and housing insecurity among Black children and families in Alameda Co. 50% of Alameda County’s homeless live in Oakland. 70% of those in Oakland are Black (2019). 

24th AAWIC Film Festival