2021 – 30 min
The hashtag BlackatSMU, was created on Twitter in 2015, and trended in 2020. The plethora of Black SMU students who came to Twitter and exposed the racist, hierarchal, and unnerving experiences that tainted their time at the university got the institution’s attention- for a second. This film focuses on five Black students’ experiences through tweets they made with the BlackatSMU hashtag.
Made in collaboration with SMU students