Film Festival - BIPOC/POC Narrative
☆ THE LUNA COLLECTIVE DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL ☆
Vignettes of a Freewoman
By Lauryn Henry
Originally released on Independence Day, Dir. Lauryn “RYL0” Henry set out to make this one woman show, its featured music, and the viewers reflect upon the question of what it means to truly be "free" in today's America.
Through her visuals paired with three original songs, she experiments and explores various instances of contradictory freedom– freedom as a luxury, as a weapon, and as an illusion.
A Black Girl's Coming of Age
By Jasmine Jackson
Black girls who looked and lived like me.
That is all I desired growing up when watching shows like Lizzie McGuire, Hannah Montana and just about all of the early 2000s coming-of-age films growing up.
Besides Sister, Sister which stopped airing until later in the night, there was only depictions of tokenized black girls, black women roles that still portrayed black caricatures and it never fully with me.
Did Black girls not grow up young too?
Was there supposed to be only one of us amongst a group of white friends?
I mean damn:
My brothers weren’t in these movies.
My brothers never played wot guns and my father was always present.
All of these elements of my individual experience within the Black community were never depicted through movies or shows, which inspired me to make a Brown Girl version of Danez Smith’s Poem, “Dinosaurs in the Hood”
After The Tone
By Jesus Hernandez
I wanted to make a film that not only tells a story but conveys an emotion. We've all felt afraid in one way or another due to the COVID19 situation - for me it's the uncertainty of a situation I have no control over. All of these emotions and uncertainty can take a toll on a person's mental health, and we all handle it differently. "Jamie" deals with the situation by running way - looking for answers, but now knowing where to find them or if he'll ever find them. What he does know is that he has people all around him, reaching out to him, letting him know he's not alone. This film is unscripted - each voicemail is a genuine response to Jamie's situation.
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