ABOUT THE FILM - COMING SOON
Still Searching is a documentary following Damon Lamar Reed, a Chicago hip-hop artist and muralist, creating a vivid series of portraits titled “The Still Searching Project” of missing Black women and girls in the Chicagoland area for the past two decades. In the film we’ll hear why he started painting these missing women and girls, his creative artistry and process behind each painting, and how he uses his artistic expression to keep their memories alive, in hopes of finding each missing victim.
CHICAGO’S MISSING BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS
The proportion of missing Black women and girls are steadily growing in the Chicagoland area, while public reports on their cases from law enforcement are filled with vague information or very little details. There are active cases still unsolved with very little progress being made by the Chicago Police Department. The victim’s families are discouraged, angry, hurt, and still in disbelief that their loved ones are not receiving the same level of media coverage as other notable cases. The Chicago Crusaders reports, “Many argue the stories of young Black girls and women who are missing don’t get the same degree of local, national, and global attention as that of Elizabeth Smart or Natalee Holloway.” The racial disparities in local, national, and global media coverage, social media, inactive cases, suspended investigations leads Black communities to question, do missing Black women and girls really matter? This project deserves immediate attention and we are proud of people like Damon Lamar Reed for utilizing his artistry to bring awareness to the stories of missing Black women and girls in the Chicagoland area.