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 Despite the grueling process of reliving these instances of violence over and over again—“It definitely affected me mentally to film those heavier scenes,” Silver notes—it was equally important for Silver and LeRoi to find moments of uplift too, not least in the scenes involving Tunde coming out to his parents, whose responses feel authentically loving. “When you have a visual representation of Black families accepting the LGBTQ+ community within their family members, it gives permission to people in society to do the same,” says Silver. “When Tunde reveals his identity to his parents, I loved that they instantly accept him. They understand that it’s more important to have Tunde alive and present in his full identity than to deny Tunde’s sexuality and risk not only losing Tunde’s life, but creating pain for the entire family.”

Still, it was honoring Kalu’s vision that became the priority for both Silver and the film’s director, Ali LeRoi, who was on the committee that awarded the LAUNCH prize and quickly identified it as a story he wanted to tell. Throughout the film—which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year before being released last week on streaming services—Tunde’s run-ins with the police become increasingly violent before reaching a conclusion that is harrowing but ultimately redemptive. “As you’re watching the movie, the deaths become, strangely, more intimate,” Silver says. “It’s easy to feel numb watching a death at the beginning that feels very distant from you, but by the final death, you fully see the humanity in it, that this is happening to a human being and not just another post on your social media feed. We really tried to make sure that things weren’t gratuitous in this film. Everything is part of the storytelling.”

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