The Sun Rises in The East is an independent documentary film created by Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa. It is the first feature-length film to examine the history of The East, a Black cultural organization and meeting place formed in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
The Sun Rises in the East (2022)
Directed by Tayo Giwa
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Box Office
$288,202
Themes
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1960s, 1969, Activism, African American Community, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Black Cultural Organization, Brooklyn, Community Building, Culture, History, Independent Documentary, Meeting Place, New York, Sociocultural Movements, Teens, The East, Young Adults
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Subject: The East
Alternate Titles
The Sun Rises in the East
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