ORI INU IN Search Of Self (2016)

Role: Co- Creator/Executive Producer/Writer

Synopsis; Ori Inu: In Search of Self is a coming of age story about a young immigrant woman who must choose between conforming her identity and spirituality to the cultural norms of America or revisiting her roots in the Afro-Brazilian religion called Candomble.

The film follows Natalia Diaz, a young woman who was taken from Brazil to the United States as a child. She struggles with her mother, a former drug addict who is now a born-again Christian, and the gods of the spirit world who want her to return to her grandmother's religion.

Press

New York Times

Huffington Post

NBC News

Afro Punk

Okay Africa

Screenings & Speaking Engagements

Harvard University

Yale University

British Film Insitute

Mocada Museum

NYU