In a dystopian Los Angeles, a coalition of Black insurgents, trans hackers, and their POC allies prepare for an uprising.
Supported by
Community Partner
Walter Vargas, Edxi Betts
USA
2024
English
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Ronald Weathers
Producer
Daysi Garcia, Shabina Toorawa
Screenwriter
Matazi Weathers
Cinematography
Matazi Weathers, Jet
Editor
Matazi Weathers
Original Music
Bapari
Matazi Weathers
Matazi Weathers is a temporal and spatial film farmer, curator, educator, and filmmaker from Los Angeles always in pursuit of new potentialities. They are the Assistant Curator of Film at LACMA; co-curate Strong-Sissy Black Movie Night, a cinema and political education space; and are founder of Black Bloom, a Black farmers’ cooperative in Los Angeles that provides free education and mentorship to Black folks learning to grow their own medicine.
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