Country: USA
Year: 2024
Duration: 13
Sud degli Stati Uniti, anni ‘50. La sedicenne Grace e la sua sorella maggiore trascorrono ogni estate nella casa dei nonni. Chiamata a seguire la tradizione religiosa della famiglia, Grace deve farsi battezzare, ma quando scopre di doversi confessare prima del rituale, inizia a mettere in discussione i suoi sentimenti verso la migliore amica Louise.
Biography
film director
Natalie Jasmine Harris
(Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) is a Black queer filmmaker whose work spans narrative, documentary, and experimental forms. Her NYU thesis film, Pure (2021), received The Directors Guild of America’s Student Film Award and was acquired by HBO. Natalie is a current Sundance Ignite Fellow and has participated in artist programs with Film at Lincoln Center, GLAAD, SFFILM, and Outfest. She is now working towards developing a feature-length version of Pure as her debut feature, which has gained support from SFFILM Rainin, Gotham, Women In Film, and Film Independent. Natalie’s work has been written about in publications that include “Teen Vogue," “The Baltimore Sun,” and “Huffington Post,” among others, and centers on reimagining liberation and coming-of-age experiences for marginalized communities.
FILMOGRAFIA
Metamorphosis (cm, 2018), Pure (cm, 2021), The Small Things (cm, 2021), Ben in Bloom (cm, 2024), Grace (cm, 2024).
Declaration
film director
“The seeds of the story behind Grace are rooted within my family. While my great-grandmother fled South Carolina during the Great Migration, she wanted her daughters to stay connected to their Southern roots. Every summer, my grandmother and her sister would visit their grandparents down south. They picked peaches, plucked chickens, ran throughout flower fields, and caught fireflies in the southern air. They also fell in and out of love. While neither my grandmother nor her sister identified as queer, Grace was born from my own reimagination of how I might have fit into their world if we were kids at the same time. I constantly find myself wondering where my Black queer elders fit into the narratives I’ve been told about the past. Grace is my way of re-engaging with history to examine just that.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Natalie Jasmine Harris. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tehillah De Castro. EDITING: Harry Cepka. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Jai MoneE. MUSIC: Taul Katz, Damsel Elysium. SOUND: Ben Devine. CAST: Jordan Rayanna Wells, Alexis Cofield, Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew, C. L. Simpson, JeVon Blackwell. PRODUCTION: Samiyah Wardlaw, Morgan B. Powell, Latavia Young, Julia Kennelly, Natalie Jasmine Harris for Field of Jasmine Films.
CONTACT: Natalie Jasmine Harris nataliejharris98@gmail.com
