For many years, black men have been depicted as violent, predatory, callous, unintelligent, and several other demoralizing biases that are patterned in the media and left as trauma unhinged. “Man Up (Boys Do/Nt Cry)” is a documentary about willing, black men beginning their journey towards “trauma healing” or mental and emotional recovery. They will be participating in both private sessions, and an open dialogue with other black men and licensed therapists about environment, relationships, childhood and adulthood turbulence, grief, confidence, etc without judgement. By receiving an objective and relatable viewpoint, the goal of this documentary should offer a safe space for black men to embrace true vulnerability while unlearning vicious cycles and breaking generational curses of silent oppression. This documentary would be centrally filmed in my hometown (Muskegon, MI), as over the years, I have personally spoken, and have relationships with black men in my community (from children to men in their 60s) who feel demonized for “not opening up,” while struggling with never being taught how to do so. They express how they were labeled weak or even gay for crying, so after being conditioned to think that there is a negative correlation between “being a man,” and crying and a positive correlation between manhood and “grinning and bearing”— they were subjected to their fears of perpetuating weakness to which is seemingly insurmountable. “ Man Up (Boys Do/Nt Cry)” is important to me because black men are hurting, they are wilting inside—-as if the school to prison pipeline, the race and drug wars, police brutality, and community violence did not already pre pluck our seeds, society created a fallacy that no one would be willing to labor and replant what is left of their harvested tears. “Man Up (Boys Do/Nt Cry),” is the first step to uprooting.