Things Long Left Unsaid
Akin to a visual journal entry, Things Long Left Unsaid is a short personal documentary about the sudden loss of the filmmaker's father and her coming to terms with all of the things the two never talked about, including the difficulty of existing as a Black family in her predominantly white suburban hometown.
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Even after moving away at the age of 18 and living in NYC for the next ten years, I’m still struggling to reckon with growing up in Spokane - a town of just 200,000 people, 85% being white and 2% being Black. During my time there, I was labeled an oreo - Black on the outside but white on the inside. I didn’t feel I belonged in either group. My family’s inability to discuss these issues openly only added to my struggles. So, I returned to Spokane to focus my camera on the family to try to break through our coping mechanisms and discuss the unmentioned difficulty of growing up Black in our predominantly white suburban town. But when I returned, my dad suddenly passed away and I realized that there were more things we never discussed than our solitary suffering from racial differences. This film is my effort to work through my grief and mull over all of the things I never talked about with my dad, all of the facets about him I’ll never understand or truly know. Things Long Left Unsaid serves as an honest love letter to this boisterous, complicated man.

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