EDGECOMBE
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Through a small window of time and space, Edgecombe, presents the numerous ways Black folks overcome across generations. Through the lives of Shaka Jackson, Ms. Doris Stith and Deacon Joyner, the film highlights the exhaustion of overcoming individual circumstances while navigating shared systemic experiences. Their collective stories create a mosaic that details the soul and spirit of their shared space. By revealing this timeline the film exhumes a long lineage of survival.
Crystal Kayiza was raised in Oklahoma and is now a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” she is a recipient of the Sundance Ignite Fellowship, Jacob Burns Film Center Woman Filmmaker Fellowship, Points North Institute North Star Fellowship and Sisters in Cinema Documentary Fellowship. Her film, Edgecombe, screened at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired for distribution by POV. Her short, See You Next Time, screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released by the New Yorker. Crystal was the winner of the 2020 Tribeca Through Her Lens program grant with her film Rest Stop, which premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). She received a Heartland Emmy Award in 2012 for her film All That Remains, which profiles Boley, Oklahoma, one of the nation's last all-black towns. She is currently working on her first non-fiction feature film, which received the 2021 Creative Capital Award.
CREDITS
Sean Weiner
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