Event Overview:
Join March On! for a virtual screening of TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing — a powerful look at Bambara’s legacy of storytelling, community, and collective action.
Couldn’t join us for our in-person screening? This is your chance to catch up. In addition to the film, we’ll be sharing the full recording of the live Q&A panel from that event, featuring rich conversation and reflection you won’t want to miss.
And if you can’t catch it the day of, no worries — your access link stays active for a full month after the screening date, so you can watch on your own schedule. (Just note: once you hit play, you’ll have 4 hours to finish the film.)
Watch from the comfort of your own home, on your own time, and be part of the continued conversation around Bambara’s work and its relevance today.
What to expect:
- Full screening of TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
- Recorded Q&A panel discussion from our live event
- A chance to engage with Bambara’s legacy of organizing and community building
About the Film:
TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025, 105 minutes) is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students.
About the Directors:
Louis Massiah: He has developed production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 150 documentaries; Muslim Voices of Philadelphia; The Great Migration – A City Transformed and The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets.
Massiah’s documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, A isfor Anarchist, B is for Brown and TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.
Monica Henriquez: She trained at the BBC in the 1980s, and worked as an editor for Channel Four (UK) in several projects on Latin America, notably the Marc Karlin Nicaragua Series (1985-1991); Faction Films Fidel (1998). For the U.S. network PBS, she was editor of WEB Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices (1995), and was researcher/associate producer of The Hugo Chavez Show Frontline (2008). She was Producer/Director of Gynecological Chronicles (1992) and Director/Editor of Murder and Feather Boa (1996), both for Channel Four UK.
For almost 2 decades she has been filming and building a digital archive on Venezuela in the times of Hugo Chavez and beyond. Recently she was the Editor/Director with Louis Massiah as Producer/ Director of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.
More info about the film: https://www.tcbdoc.com/