NO RELIGION
Color of Autumn
Narrative short film Color of Autumn
depicts a precocious eight-year-old Black girl who lives with her hardworking parents and her adoring, wise grandmother in a quaint house on the Southside of Chicago. Nestled within the safety of her neighborhood and focused on the comforts and stresses of her family's hard-won middle class life, Dottie Grimsby has little awareness of racial tension or the isolation of segregation. But she is about to find out.
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a change. The flame it brings pulls some together, but pushes others apart. No matter where you are,
life can change with one FLICK.
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Submerge
Barakah
(20’s) digests the events of the night that have exposed old wounds--initially set off by a recent contact from his
long-estranged father. But Abram’s night takes an unexpected turn when he welcomes W. (60s)--a mysterious woman
who reveals knowledge of a cryptic engraving etched onto the front of his house. Eager to find answers, Abram probes
into the stranger’s past.
W., a former astronaut, is still hypnotized by her experience of outer space. Disillusioned by life on earth and consumed
by the possibilities of the afterlife, she embarks on a suicidal ritual to reunite with her late daughter. But unable to go
through with it alone, she must convince Abram to help her complete the spiritual mission.
With his late-night guest on the verge of something tragic, Abram scours for a way to gently guide her back. But after a
transformative moment of connection, Abram must decide whether to keep those scars buried or blindly jump on board
the painful journey of forgiveness.
Monochromatic
1977, Wood Green London. The political climate is volatile with the rise of the National Front. The UK is dealing with the aftermath of Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, calling for the repatriation of immigrants and appealing to racial hatred, skinhead subculture is prevalent.
Grace plays hopscotch in her garden. Bored, she opens the back gate seeking adventure. Along the New River path strewn with
stones and broken glass, she falls cutting her hand badly. Grace’s mother Bev thinks she is playing in the back garden until the
doorbell rings. She opens to see a skinhead boy wearing a Nazi t-shirt with Grace, her blood on his hands.
Micro aggressions culminate in a moment at their white Christian Church. When the Vicar asks the congregation to shake the persons hand next to them, little Grace reaches out her hand to the white woman next to her, the woman recoils. At this moment, we see little Grace for the first time, a tiny piece of her heart breaks.