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Darker

VIFF Short Forum

In a dystopian Los Angeles, a coalition of Black insurgents, trans hackers, and their POC allies prepare for an uprising.

 

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Director
Cast

Walter Vargas, Edxi Betts

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

2024

Language

English

Film Contact
18+
19 min
Action Black Cinema Experimental & Avant Garde Human Rights & Social Justice LGBTQIA2S+ Shorts

Credits & Director

Executive Producer

Ronald Weathers

Producer

Daysi Garcia, Shabina Toorawa

Screenwriter

Matazi Weathers

Cinematography

Matazi Weathers, Jet

Editor

Matazi Weathers

Original Music

Bapari

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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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