Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund 2015 AOL Charitable Foundation Award
Linda Goldstein Knowlton is an award-winning director and producer of both documentary and fiction films which include WHALE RIDER, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET, CODE BLACK, and THE SHIPPING NEWS.
RADICAL BROWNIES follows the creation of a troop of 8 to 12-year-old girls of color– the Radical Monarchs – in Oakland, CA. A social justice-oriented alternative to the Girl Scouts, the Monarchs still earn badges – not for sewing or selling cookies but for units on Black Lives Matter, Radical Beauty, being an LGBTQ Ally and Environmental Justice.