Building Bridges | Short Film

CONTENT WARNING: Strong language, racial remarks.

A young African-American girl bravely breaks through the wall of school segregation in the US in the early 1960s.

Director: Masai Matthews
Written By: Hank Groat, Masai Matthews
Director of Photography: Karland Paez
Film Editors: Trey Young, Karland Paez, Masai Matthews
Trailer Editor: Max Edwards
Story Based on true events by Ruby Bridges

[wanderlovesus]

Hate is so ugly! I'm glad I was educated enough to accept everyone for whom they are ❤ 😢 this scene made me cry a lot for ruby.

[maleahwoodley]

Jenesis was great to work with! I'm glad I got to play her mom ❤❤

[aonnafountain]

Ruby bridges story is amazing and glad it was shared in this short. And what an awesome director!

[maccsocheesy]

Omg the little girl so beautiful what a great short film😍

[rebeccaholderman]

WOW, Jenesis. I am amazed! AMAZING work telling Ruby's story.

[eli-iwhz]

I find it really beautiful that her name is Ruby Bridges. It’s so fitting because she helped build bridges at a young age.

[brettuhl]

Hating a person for the color of their skin absolute madness.

[riqqi]

My 4 year old niece and I have been learning about Ruby all week.🔥
This film is mad beautiful.

[Shredderman]

4:41 i”I love that the teacher was still able to keep class going even when it’s only Ruby and was able to except her in class.

[jaylyn.unknown]

SO SAD WHAT BLACK PEOPLE HAD I DEAL WITH.😔😭😭

[renatamartinsalvessilva]

Já tem o filme ?? Se não deveria ter, daria um ótimo filme pra pessoas vê o sofrimento e superação

[wonjubhoy]

I have been a teacher and I taught white children, black children and yellow children. What a fantastic teacher Barbara Henry was and she was capable of displaying love unlike her colleagues. If you don't love children then don't be a teacher.

[Shredderman]

She was a brave little girl to through this crowd that shouted full of hate towards her who was just full of innocence and she still kept on going to school everyday.

[calebhemmick]

Langauge is at 3:40 in case anyone was looking to skip it.

[ginabencivengo]

Could you turn captioning on? I'd love to share this with my deaf students.

[showtime.esavvv]

Ruby bridges is such a brave and amazing speller just like me in school my teacher says iam one of the champion spellers with spelling though I love spelling happy valentines day to all of y'all iam on my brother's Youtube account have a great day and night

[beautifulmeterva]

IF YOU TRYING NOT TO GET INVOLVED DON'T, BUT REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU ARE BRINGING HARM TO YA OWN ..

[bostonpeach]

2, 4, 6, 8 🥴🥴🥴 did they think they were clever for that 🤔 🤭🤣🤣

[ogjamaiican]

I’m not sure why you would send your kid to a school like that that just doesn’t seem safe or smart at all like, why would you want your kid to be emotionally abused? That makes no sense and physically abused and embarrassed. That’s so stupid to me.

[jaxW]

bro my class watched this and when the long hair dude swears my teacher was like THEY LIED THEY SAID
IT WAS KID FRIENDLY