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Cherry Lemonade
A summer-warm meditation on resilience and the worlds children build.
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Logline
On a hot summer day in a lower-income neighborhood, a black girl learns to take the lead on her own terms.
Selected by Tribeca and supported through Women in Media's Camaraderie Program, CHERRY LEMONADE is a luminous portrait of youth, resilience, and the everyday rituals of Black family and community life. With performances by Eris Baker (This Is Us) and Skylan Brooks (Empire, The Get Down), the film captures a single afternoon that holds an entire emotional architecture.
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Recognition
Festivals & Awards
Awards
- Winner — 15 Short Film Festival
Official Selections
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Urbanworld Film Festival
- Pan African Film Festival
- Edmonton International Film Festival
- Black Harvest Film Festival
- HollyShorts Film Festival
- Roxbury International Film Festival
- Bushwick Film Festival
- Indy Shorts International Film Festival
- Oceanside International Film Festival
- CineLounge Film Festival
- Rhode Island International Film Festival
- Chroma International Film Festival
Audience Profile
Built for these rooms.
Identifying the audiences for whom this film will land hardest — the rooms, classrooms, communities, and partners we actively program toward.
- Youth audiences
- Educational institutions
- Family audiences
- Black communities
- Community organizations
Educational Value
- ◆Elementary and middle-grade media literacy programs
- ◆University courses on Black childhood and memory
- ◆Library and museum family-programming partnerships
- ◆Community-screening and dialogue series
Rights Availability
"A small film with the weight of a novel."
"Aisha Ford is a generational voice."
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