Credit: DePaul University Teens from Chicago working with DePaul University to make a short film. DePaul professor and youth film project coordinator Liliane Calfee gave a presentation as part of the No Malice project. Naomi Getachew, a 13-year-old from Normal, recently made a short film inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. To bring change you must not be afraid, Getachew told
Illinois Times about her efforts. While considering racism and protests that have happened in the last year, Getachew entered the No Malice film contest to show that we may have our differences, but we belong to one human race. Her film is about racial tensions between a white theater teacher, a group of Black students and a Black educator they confide in. At the crux of Naomi s film is a lesson of empathy.