![]() Currently, LaTajh is in residence at the SFFILM FilmHouse for her feature length film, QUEERLING, a dark comedy challenging identity politics amongst the ever gentrifying Bay Area. After assisting award winning director, Savanah Leaf, LaTajh was hired as an Associate Producer on the film Earth Mama (A24, Park Pictures & Academy Films), which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She has also been commissioned to direct a series of short films for the SF Arts Foundation, Prisoner Support Committee and Black Girls Code. In early 2019, after directing a short film reflecting on her experience as a black woman growing up in America, she was chosen for a National Queer Arts grant followed by being selected for the Las Vegas Writing Downtown Residency to commence work on her screenplay, PIPELINE a satirical drama about the school to prison pipeline. After successfully raising $25K for production, CYCLES was selected to screen at over fifteen film festivals and was awarded Best Screenplay at the Liberated Lens Film Festival. ![]() One of LaTajh’s previous projects, CYCLES, follows a youth advocate worker and a young gang member as they search for their purpose amid danger in Oakland, where the murder rate remains the second highest in the country. She is dedicated to reclaiming and telling the overlooked stories of Black and Queer dynamics and engaging ways these communities learn to cope with everyday injustices. LATAJH WEAVER is a third-generation Oakland screenwriter and film director. Aurora primarily makes work about the experiences of Black, brown, and Queer people and is committed to collaborative and ethical storytelling. She associate produced the upcoming A24 documentary UNDERRATED, co-produced Apple TV+’s GIRLS STATE, sequel to the Sundance and Emmy award- winning BOYS STATE and assisted on the critically acclaimed Showtime docuseries COUPLES THERAPY. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in filmmaking. Her work has screened at numerous festivals including Sundance, True/False, Hot Docs, AFI Docs, DOC NYC, and selected for Vimeo Staff Picks.Īurora is a graduate of the MFA program in Documentary Film at Stanford University, a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow, and a 2022 SFFilm House Resident. And her short documentary Joychild, about a young gender-expansive child, was acquired by The New Yorker, broadcast on POV, and shortlisted for an IDA Award. Her film Club Quarantine, about a virtual queer dance party, premiered on the New York Times Op-Docs. Director: Aurora BrachmanĪURORA BRACHMAN is an award-winning documentary director and producer drawn to intimate stories of relationships within families and communities. A film that troubles the archive and doesn’t allow for simple endings.Ī child reveals a secret to their mother: “I’m not a girl.” This breathtakingly honest portrait of growing up gender expansive beautifully captures the hesitancy, fear, and relief at revealing one’s innermost thoughts, as well as the unconditional love of a mother. I wanted to create a meditation that forces us to hold history and its afterlives in the same vessel. The film points to American capitalism and its original sins: the commodification of black bodies, and the theft of indigenous lands. The Game God(S) is a non-linear look into the American Dream from the Black Market’s perspective. I grew up with the chance takers, dandelion seeds of The Great Displacement out of Jim Crow Louisiana, my people pushing on a stone trying to get free again. ![]() People like my mother, who was put in jail for welfare fraud, we lived in lead-painted houses, she had four children by C- section, and working 2-3 jobs wasn’t enough. People like my grandmother, dubbed Queen mother of Ghost Town in “Drug Lords of Oakland” by Titus Lee Barnes. I grew up in a family of hard-working women, career criminals, and people determined to make a way out of the no way. They share their experiences as the Goddess of the Crossroads pushes us between the then and the now, connecting The Game God, The Game and Capitalism to the Blackness. The Game God(S) shows 4 characters: Martina, Frank, Brianna and Craig.
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