Heart-heavy with regret and inspired by bell hooks, 34-year-old Bahati professes her love by virtue of handwritten letter to a childhood friend, AKA “The One That Got Away.”

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My short film “Liberty” won 2nd prize for the Newtown Alive competition in Sarasota, FL. This video portrait, narrated by Odessa Butler, was about the effects that desegregation had on Lido beach and the long way we have to come from sundown towns.

 

ad·o·les·cence

/ˌadlˈes(ə)ns/

noun

  1. the period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult.

  2. a short film I made as a tribute to how fleeting youth is. the view is from the window to highlight this detachment from the inner child. two versions of me are simply fragments of childhood memories, only recognized as a full thought/person when both bodies overlap.

 

“The Jubilant Art of Being Black” is a short film full of vignettes from Los Angeles, CA. In this video I capture my experience in the city, from Leimert Park to my dad’s backyard.