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’17 Blocks’ opens a remarkable documentary window into the life of a family in Washington, D.C.
A companion piece to a documentary called Time, the film uses nearly two decades of footage to chronicle the challenges encountered by a 9-year-old boy s family in Washington, D.C.
By Michael O SullivanThe Washington Post
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Emmanuel Durant Jr. is both the main subject of, and at times a videographer for the documentary “17 Blocks.”
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It’s rare that a documentary has the ability to take the kind of long view of events that establishes context and consequence. “Time,” released this past fall on Amazon Prime, is such a film, combining 21 years’ worth of professionally shot and home-video footage to tell the story of a Black family torn apart by crime and imprisonment, and ultimately healed and reunited by patience, love and determination.
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A lot can happen to a family over 20 years, especially in a neighborhood battered by crime, underserved by society and stricken by hopelessness. Set in the perennially troubled Southeast D.C. area behind the U.S. Capitol, Davy Rothbart’s documentary “17 Blocks” covers a two-decade span in which the Sanford-Durant household a single Black mother with three children struggle to beat the odds and overcome the kind of demons (both internal and external) that routinely threaten to tear at the fabric of families across the nation.
Rothbart isn’t the only one filming, however. The project began in 1999 when he was living in Southeast D.C. and became friendly with two engaging kids at his local pickup basketball game: 15-year-old Smurf and his younger brother Emmanuel, then 9. As he got to know the rest of the Sanford-Durants middle sister Denice and mom Cheryl Rothbart took notice of Emmanuel’s interest in filmmaking, and persuaded the family to use his handheld vi
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