Trigger Warning

DIRECTOR(S):
Ayomide Bayowa
LANGUAGE:
English
SYNOPSIS:

A play-by-play verbatim, not-so-bodily genre short about systemic racism and social actors’ brutality, employing language weaponry for your greater understanding and calling for your mindful, responsible, even more engaging conscientious viewer’s behavioural allyship in collective actions.

 

Student Film – NC State University.

Presented as Part Of North Carolina Shorts 2025: Program 2: Narratives

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Trigger Warning

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