Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. 1992. Written and directed by Leslie Harris

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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. 1992. USA. Directed by Leslie Harris. Courtesy RGR Collection / Alamy Stock Photo

Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. 1992. USA. Written and directed by Leslie Harris. With Ariyān Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido. DCP. 92 min.

“I’m a Brooklyn girl.” A bright, ambitious, stubborn 17-year-old named Chantel (Ariyan Johnson) gets sidetracked when her new boyfriend gets her pregnant in Leslie Harris’s pioneering independent film. Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. is colorful and bright, with a cinéma vérité style that provides a more intimate perspective on Chantel’s life in New York, and purposefully rejecting the violent “street” films of the early 1990s. Instead, we get a film in which the main character is a flawed, good-hearted Black woman whose plan to become a doctor and leave the projects but is potentially derailed by real, adult decisions. Avoiding horrific clichés, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. addresses key social issues of the 1990s like abortion, HIV/AIDS, racism, and sex education via outspoken, vibrant characters. Despite premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1992 and winning the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First Feature at Sundance the following year, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. is the only feature Leslie Harris has been able to finance.

This film accompanies Girls to the Front: Nineties and Now.

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