Staying Power

/w The Penny Candy Store

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VIDEO
DOCUMENTARY
DIGITAL SERIES
SOCIAL REALISM
SHORT

"Miss Nandi" Muhammad provides a history of the Penny Candy Store that her and her husband created in their home 20 years ago after the closure of their neighborhood store. A moving portrait of interrogating and taking ownership over what “staying power” means in Philadelphia
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Produced with Philadelphia Packaging Co. in conjuction with the re-release of their city-wide “A Phonebook,” curating conversations with owners and workers of small businesses across Philly about what it means to hold space in the city. (philadelphiapackagingcompany.com/A-PHONEBOOK)