ARRAY Acquires Documentary ‘For Our Children’, Scored by Tangelene Bolton

For Our Children, a documentary scored by Tangelene Bolton (she/her), has been acquired by Array Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s Peabody-winning collective ARRAY. Directed and produced by Débora Souza Silva, the documentary chronicles the powerful convergence of two mothers, Reverend Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, whose lives were forever altered by police brutality against young Black men. The film also follows Black mothers who have lost their children to state-sanctioned violence, as well as civil rights leaders and activists Benjamin Crump and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza.  

“Array is proud to work with filmmaker Débora Souza Silva to tell the important stories of Reverend Johnson and Angela Williams and their ability to find hope and light in a world too often defined by division and despair,” said Array’s President Tilane Jones in a statement. “Through intimate storytelling and raw authenticity, ‘For Our Children’ illuminates the unbreakable bonds of love and resilience that bind us all.”

For Our Children first premiered at the 2022 San Francisco Int’l Film Festival, and since then the Toronto Black Film Festival, Freep Film Festival, Athena Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the Twin Cities Film Fest, and many more. It will be streaming on Netflix beginning May 10, just in time for Mother’s Day.

Join ARRAY Releasing for a FREE special screening of For Our Children, in celebration of its upcoming Netflix debut. A pre-screening reception will accompany this moving documentary on ARRAY's Creative Campus in Historic Filipinotown. For more information click here.

You can watch a trailer for the film below.