May 31: Clark hosts official screening of ‘Footprints in the Concrete’

Clark University will host the official screening of “Footprints in the Concrete,” a film by Domingo Guyton. It is a musical depiction of how a family, church, college and community came together to save a lost youth, trapped in a cycle of hopelessness.

This screening is open to the public and sponsored by the Worcester Youth Workers Alliance with support from Clark University’s Youth Work Practice program, UMass Memorial Community Relations, YouthConnect, Greater Worcester Community Foundation, and the HOPE Coalition.  The screening will be at on Tuesday, May 31 at 5:30 p.m. in Jefferson 320. For more information, contact Mark Roberts at 646-599-0020 or email hopemmc@gmail.com.

Throughout the film, Guyton reverts back to his childhood as a struggle. While attempting to survive in the mixed pot of drugs, misogyny and violence that Boston, MA delved out in the late 1980’s and being born to a single mother on welfare, Guyton went through a series of events that spun his life out of control by the age of 15.  He adds that many of these issues were due to not having a father in his home.  The story shows the results of a broken home and the redemptive message of hope is included, which will serve as an inspiration to all attendees.

The film takes the audience from that point to the point where he turns into a successful poet and filmmaker after attending Worcester State University.

Watch the trailer.

Domingo Guyton is writer, producer and director of “YTF,” which won 5 awards in film festivals across the U.S.; the co-producer of “My Slave Sister Myself,” winner of Best Documentary at both NYC’s 2011 Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and Toronto’s 2009 Female Eye Film Festival; and the co-producer of “Lest We Forget: The Black Holocaust,” which won Best Documentary for HBO films at the 2007 Martha Vineyard African American Film Festival.