Chantel Mitchell, a 17-year-old from Brooklyn, wants to be more than just another teenage black girl on the I.R.T (a New York city subway line), and dreams of becoming a doctor.
Intelligent but sharp-tongued, she undermines her own efforts to leave her poor neighbourhood and go to college, as she clashes with her school, and is forced to re-evaluate her future after falling for Tyrone.
As ambitious as its protagonist, 1992's Just Another Girl on the I.R.T is the only feature film to date by writer-director Leslie Harris, exploring the difficult life and tough choices faced by a Black teenager from the Brooklyn projects.
Presented by TAPE Collective's touring film programme SNAPSHOT, which explores the snapshots of Black Girlhood found in cinema, challenging our misconceptions of the cinema canon through powerful depictions of Black, female led stories.
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