RIGHT THERE PART 2
A Public Program at the 9/11 Memorial Museum with CTLE credits for educators
Generation Disaster
A panel discussion on December 14, 2022 at 6pm with
Karla Vermeulen, disaster mental health expert
Florence Buchanan, director
and
Jenice Lyla Walford, former PS 234 student & special ed teacher
Moderated by Noah Rauch
A particular slice of the population, which includes roughly the younger half of Millennials and the older half of Gen Z, are distinguished by the fact that while they live in the shadow of 9/11, it is an event for which they may not have a memory or complete understanding.
Disaster mental health expert Karla Vermeulen refers to this group – those who were born between 1989 and 2001 – as Generation Disaster in her latest book of the same name.
She is joined by Florence Buchanan, director of the documentary films Right There and Right There Part 2, which follow a group of 12 students from PS 234, an elementary school located three blocks north of the World Trade Center, as they reflect on their experiences at the milestone junctures of 10 and 20 years after the 9/11 attacks.
One of the students, now a special education teacher, Jenice Lyla Walford, shares her personal reflections as a member of this generation.
Together, in conversation with Noah Rauch, the Museum’s Senior Vice President, they discuss the trauma caused by numerous events that have followed since the attacks and how these events have continued to shape all of us – as kids, as adults, as parents, and as a community.
Photos by 9/11 Memorial & Museum/Jin Lee
RIGHT THERE PART 2 screened on Friday December 2, 2022
Program: The Lens of the Human Heart
Three filmmakers cast their lens on the heart of humanity in everyday life.
wild project at 195 East 3rd Street, New York City
Photos by Danny Boyd
Richmond International Film Festival 2022
At RIFF 2022, left, Florence with founder, Heather Waters and right, with RIGHT THERE (PARTS 1 and 2) cast member Jenice Walford and her daughter.
At RIFF 2022, Florence and Jenice Walford with filmmakers at their documentary shorts screening and Q&A at the Byrd Theater in Richmond, VA. Steve Segal (left) is the director of a short animated film, Misfits, and Tracey Renee is the director of Policing Joy, about Black girls and hair bias in schools.
A Private Screening of RIGHT THERE (PART 1 & 2)
Tribeca Screening Room, New York City
September 22, 2021
A special invitation-only screening for cast, crew, PS 234 teachers, representatives of September 11 Memorial Museum, and friends took place at the Tribeca Screening Room in September 2021. It was the first time both films had been shown on a big screen together.
It was followed by a lively Q&A with the director, the editor and the cast, and an emotional reunion between a former student teacher and the father of the child whose hand she had held running uptown from PS 234 on 9/11. That child, Andrew Marcus, appears in both RIGHT THERE films.
Below: Director Florence Buchanan with editor Peter Mostert, members of the cast, crew and post-production team, and PS 234 teachers.
RIGHT THERE (PART 1)
Richmond International Film Festival 2013
In 2013, RIGHT THERE won Best of Festival Documentary Short.
Florence with RIGHT THERE cast member Octavia Spelman outside the Byrd Theater.
