Life Comes At You Fast (Short Film Screening Block)

I'm Sorry

An Award Winning Drama about a young African American man who spends his last free day before heading to prison apologizing to everyone near and dear to him for betraying their trust in him.

Blaming Cairo

College athlete Cairo Jones quickly goes from Big Man on Campus to Public Enemy Number 1 when he is accused of a heinous crime

I Hate this FKN' Job

Directed by Monique Lola Berkley | Young, driven and professional, Naima Ali is the only woman of color in her office. On the surface seemingly no issues but once peeled back the pages of her employer, Winning Magazine, we get to see why Naima feels the way she does. Naima’s co workers might not deal with issues the way she does, however, we question if they are as happy with their jobs as portrayed.

Barley

A young man with a record has a hard time finding a job while trying to avoid his old life.

Broke Is The Reason

After turning his child’s blankets into a rope and scaling a balcony to escape the IRS, Barrington finds himself a homeless father who will do anything to keep what he hasn’t lost already.

Lessons Lived

LESSONS LIVED is a story about a grandmothers search for understanding from the imprisoned killer of her grandson Jamison. Bertha suffers from an inner conflict between her religious beliefs of forgiveness and revenge.

The film is a dramatic portrait of loss of life as a result of gun violence. It portrays a slice of society that has lost it’s morality by senseless acts of violence. Bertha and her sister Uma look towards the past to reclaim the present in hopes of a better future. It is in this journey that the characters look into their own lives and see the wrongs they have committed against others, and themselves that present the opportunity to see that forgiveness is the only option for a peaceful and tranquil life.

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illegal rose

A nurse accidentally kidnaps and ICE detention center runaway on the fourth of July and changes both of their lives.