MIXED Live Director's Commentary and Documentary Film Workshop

Collaborators Caty Borum Chattoo and Leena Jayaswal share a long history of social-issue storytelling in documentaries and other multimedia.

Their latest film, MIXED, explores what it means to be a multi-racial family in America, fifty-three years after the historic, landmark Supreme Court Decision, Loving v. Virginia ended persecution of interracial marriage in America.

Two mothers – one brown, one white – set off on a journey together to explore what it means to be a bi-racial child living in a mixed-race family in so-called “post-racial America,” the perspectives of their own families and others, and America’s deep cultural ambivalence about its rapidly- changing mixed-race reality.

In the wake of worldwide protests after the death of George Floyd and the sweeping #BlackLivesMatter movement, MIXED offers a new lens into race and the lives of the first generation of mixed-race kids and families to be counted in the U.S. Census.

This Live Director’s Commentary and Documentary Film Workshop will be held at the BOP STOP at The Music Settlement on Friday, October 8th at 8:00 am, and include a screening of the film, paused periodically to hear behind-the-scenes stories and filmmaking insights from directors Caty and Leena, as well as an audience Q&A, and lecture about documentary filmmaking.

BOP STOP COVID POLICY: As of 9/7/21 all guests, staff, and performers must show proof of vaccination or produce a negative test result within 48 hours of entering to be admitted into the venue.

MIXED Documentary is a presentation of the Center for Asian American Media with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Thank you to all our amazing partners who have made these events possible:

MIXED Cleveland Premiere & Community Conversations is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

Presenting Sponsors:
Legacy Capital Partners and Medical Mutual.

Community Partners:
Kohrman Jackson Krantz, JACK Entertainment, Terry & Mary Fergus, Sequoia Financial Group, The C.R.E.W. Foundation, and CODE M Magazine.

Event Partners:
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, Women in Film and Television Ohio (WIFTOH), the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival (GCUFF) and Black Cinema Café, the BOP STOP at The Music Settlement, and UnBAR Cafe. Event filming by West10G Productions LLC.