Last August, Film Society East hosted the Black Girl Lives Diasporic Short, bringing together Black women filmmakers to share powerful horror stories. Films screened included: Affordable Housing, dir. Eunice Levis, written by Wi-Moto Nyoka, You Were Dead Yesterday, dir. Destiny Cox, Cabbage, dir. Destinee McCaster, Fell Ends dir. Eunice Levis. 

Wi-Moto, writer and founder of Dusky Projects, explains her choice of title:  “I chose Black Girl Lives because we usually don’t, or there is a lot of suffering and then dying… It’s an act of defiance.”

As we celebrate Latine Heritage Month, Wi-Moto reminds us: “Blackness is a part of Latinidad.”

This event, in partnership with Dusky Projects + Be Reel Black Cinema Club, celebrated voices that are rarely centered on screen. Stay tuned for upcoming screenings and projects.

Filmed by Scott Burkett | Edited by Jian White | Production Supervision by Gabriela Watson-Burkett