A story of two African American women working to provide and improve mobility in their community, as they tell the history of the Safe Bus - formerly the biggest black-owned transportation system in the world.
Five-lane motorways, parking spaces as far as the eye can see, and not a single cycle path: the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, represents the typical American car city. Its unique history further highlights a divide that is seemingly impossible to bridge - between rich and poor, white and black, mobile and dependent on public transport. Sherita drives for a social transportation service. Tina works for the local Transit Authority and made it her mission to keep the memory of a black-owned transportation company alive that was once the biggest of its kind: Safe Bus. Between past and present the two women shed light on a story of segregation, empowerment and the ongoing disparity in mobility.
The film is part of an academic exchange between MA Film students and students from UNCSA (University of North Carolina, School of Arts) 2024.
As part of the cooperation, two jointly developed documentary short films on a socially relevant topic were produced.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
- 27. RiverRun International Film Festival, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2025
- Freibuger Filmforum – Festival of Transcultural Cinema, Freiburg, 2025
- Eichsfelder Filmfestival, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, 2025
