Running Star
Short Films • 14m
Afraid that her success and freedom may have all been an illusion, a young woman, endlessly repeating the same enslaved history of her ancestors, finally breaks away.
A cautionary tale of self and societal oppression and the cyclical/intergenerational trauma of our past and present. It’s “Goldilocks and The Three Bears” meets “Get Out” by way of “Twelve Years A Slave.”
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