Black Planet
Logline: Black Planet explores lost cultural traditions and connections to nature that may dramatically reduce climate change’s impact on Black Americans. Already burdened by inequitable access to clean environments, medical care and healthy food, Black Americans are most at risk as our environment shifts. It’s a high stakes race back to nature.
Black Lady Djs
Black Lady DJs is an experimental documentary exploring the inner lives and outer personas of Los Angeles’ leading underground female disc jockeys.
Fortress
Logline: A well-respected civil rights professor comes face to face with a gang of rapists who act above the law, she must rethink her reliance on the criminal justice system and take matters into her own hands.
The Fortress is a feature-length horror film written by Elizabeth Gray Bayne. It was a semi-finalist in the Clive Barker Presents Reel Fear Horror Contest with Project Greenlight and the Women in Film/Black List Feature Writing Lab in 2017.
Home Boy
Logline: Asim and his friends are a group of Black teens living in South Central Los Angeles who just want to spend a day at the beach and Annette is the writer struggling to tell their story. Annette’s editor, anxious for a best seller, pushes her to change their story to make it more “Black.” She wants more guns, more ghetto, and more gangs. With each draft of Annette’s manuscript, we see the fictional characters in her story get further from reaching their ideal day at the beach and deeper into the nightmare of the systemic injustice Annette’s editor thinks readers want to see.
Tubman
Logline: The adventures of Harriet Tubman as she travels along the Eastern Shore armed only with her martial arts skills, a tiny axe and a pistol. Season One explores the year before the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which will make it illegal to aid and abet a runaway, when an illiterate enslaved woman named Minty finds the courage to escape an abusive marriage and a failing plantation to join the Underground Railroad.