- When We Are Asked: About Crossing Over is a film that looks at end of life issues from the perspective of African Americans. In the proximity of death, though African Americans are at risk for worse deaths than others, we also reflect both heterogenous and universal truths. Drawn from over 100 hours of interviews,it spans the USA from Hawaii to Washington, Chicago to Alabama.
- WHEN WE ARE ASKED: ABOUT CROSSING OVER is a documentary film looking at end of life issues from the perspective of African Americans. It explores Family, Struggles, Spirituality and the use of icons in this culture. In the proximity of death, one person at a time. Truths emerge showing that though African Americans are at risk for worse deaths than others in the USA, they also represent both heterogeneous and universal truths. The film is drawn from now archival footage of filmmaker Dr. September Williams and is now updated and re-released because of the redundancy of history -- placing the peoples of the USA and the world into yet another mass death scenario related to COVID.
This 2021 documentary WHEN WE ARE ASKED:ABOUT CROSSING OVER is drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, spanning the USA from Hawaii to Washington, Chicago to Alabama. Much of the film footage is drawn from an extraordinary educational project and team came together twenty years ago in 2001 to tackle the final effects of health disparities across race, class and cultures i.e. abominable deaths. There are historical appearances of the late Drs. Marian Gray Secundy and Richard Payne and other luminaries in the field of palliative care. Most importantly, this second edition that over the twenty years since the 9/11 attacks, the rise of HIV/AIDS and now COVID-- that generational amnesia can be cured by screen-works.
As both a filmmaker and physician September Williams interviewed African Americans, as well as others suffering from health disparities and tragic deaths, along with those clinicians who serve them. WHEN WE WERE ASKED:ABOUT CROSSING OVER was drawn from some of those interviews which sadly have remained relevant one personal, cross-cultural, or catastrophic death scenario after another. The stories are told in the voices of those who are dying, family members and the clinicians who serve them.
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