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2023
2024

Looking for Tchaiko

NAI Direct Access

  • Tchaiko Omawale, Director
  • Arielle Knight, Producer
Black and white image of a group of people marching and holding protest signs. One sign says, "THIS IS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE."

About the Project

Countries: United States, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico

Looking for Tchaiko is a documentary collage by a child of Pan-Africanist activists in the Caribbean Postcolonial Independence Movement. Interweaving her story with those of her agemates and elders, the filmmaker — now a mother wanting to repair generations of harm and raise a resilient child up to the task of defending and protecting the earth — excavates the roots of her family’s namesakes.