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A home for visionary cinema.

 Crafting stories from memory, spirit, and possibility.

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Tobacco Road / 2025

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edge of this river / 2024

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Keur Simbara / 2024

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Sweet Tooth / 2024

Three women are outdoors near a vehicle on a cloudy day. One woman with braided hair is resting her head on her arm on the car roof, looking thoughtful. The other two women are standing nearby, observing and appearing pensive.

Envision Us On Fire / 2024

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CALYPSO / 2023

What Grounds Us

Dedicated to liberatory storytelling and collective healing, we craft films that remember the past, root in the present, and imagine otherwise. From folkloric horror to poetic documentary, our projects explore ancestral memory, speculative futures, grief, survival, and the sacred mundane. Our work is driven by the belief that storytelling is ceremony.

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