Watch Trailer here - NYLFF, BFF, and Reel Sisters Film Festival Official Selection
Four Black art students tell stories of friendship, community, & divine intervention as they secretly smoke weed in one of their cramped NYC apartments.
Superfan Stan
Coming soon
While waiting in line for a limited edition t-shirt, Stan is met with bizarre circumstances that test her patience. See what people will do for a goddamn shirt, in this eccentric action short.
Snap
How does the world respond when Black women are killed or go missing? This transcendental film explores the painful notion that although Black women are invaluable to our communities, societal invisibility and harm can intersect to create a dangerous cycle for said demographic.
Dodgeball Daze
This fun, 90s inspired music video shows how boundless days can feel when you're playing dodgeball with friends. Also--a little nostalgia never hurt nobody!
Gold Rush
When Gold Rush realizes that the man she’s dating committed a hate crime, she plans to spend the night with him…and show up more prepared than the woman who came before her.
Into the Badlands
Shot remotely within the first few weeks of the global pandemic, this film pulls from the truth of the time by imagining how a group of 4 friends will fight to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Theater
Horrors of the Hearts
This photographic play is a new multimedia experience that follows a woman’s terrifying journey into romance. It examines the challenges that relationships endure through a lens of body horror, slashers, and the supernatural.
The Taming of the Shrew
This classic was turned on its head by the choice to uplift Kate’s relationship with her sister, use their bond as a support system to deceive Petruchio, and non-metaphorically stab him in the back to seal his fate.
The Portrait
Katrina wrote and starred in this short play where the protagonist, Sabrina, stumbles into a transcendental experience through the reflection of one of her family's portraits. The bounds of her close-knit relationship with her mother are tested, and tragic revelations about the man her father once was begin to unfold.
Agamemnon
Katrina directed, produced, and starred in this piece through the Atlantic Acting School. She completely revolutionized the play by retelling it from Queen Clytemnestra's point of view. By killing Agamemnon on stage, she was able to demonstrate the immense grief that comes with a mother's loss of her children in an attempt to humanize the choices of a woman scorned.
The Importance of Being Earnest
This inventive rendition of the "Trivial Comedy for Serious People" was able to find the strengths in its virtual parameters, while maintaining its period in time through careful prop selection and costuming. It was also important to acknowledge Oscar Wilde's queerness, and hold space for that in the piece.
