Shorts Series 15

Plan LMNOP

All is fine and dandy on Jo and Rashaad’s first day living together until a condom breaks. It’s time for Plan B.

AWARDS:

Best Acting Duo – DC Black Film Festival

Pretty Boy

After years of abuse, a homeless Black teen must navigate the dangerous world of survival sex on the streets of St. Louis.

Currency

A young woman working a low-wage job navigates the housing crisis, depression and self-medication while attempting to avoid returning to one of the only modes of survival she has ever known.

Not Enough

A darling newly-wed couple receive unexpected news which threatens their relationship.

Mama of Manyatta

Twenty years ago, Phelgone Jacks was fired from her job as a schoolteacher because of her HIV status. Many children were also barred from schools due to HIV stigma, so Phelgone began teaching them under her own roof. Eventually, she built an Early Childhood Development center and founded a community-based organization combating HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence in the slum of Manyatta. Mama of Manyatta closely follows Phelgone in action, serving as a mother figure to Manyatta’s young and old.