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A reimagined narrative of Latasha Harlins through intimate memories shared by her cousin and best friend.
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A Love Song for Latasha Plot Summary and Synopsis
A Love Song for Latasha, reimagines the life of Latasha Harlins, a Black girl shot by a convenience store owner in Los Angeles in 1991, fueling the 1992 uprising. At the time, security camera footage of Harlins’ death was broadcast widely on television news, but Allison’s work does not include it. Instead, Jude Dry wrote in IndieWire, the 19-minute film is “bursting with sun-kissed sidewalks and faded basketball courts, clean line animation and radiant Black girls posed gracefully, like young queens.” The day of the shooting is depicted in animation, intercut with VHS tape static, to heighten the sense of memory despite the lack of any home movies of Harlins.
The film reimagines the narrative of Harlins through intimate memories shared by her cousin Shinese Harlins and best friend Tybie O’Bard. This documentary focuses on how she experienced society and what dreams and hopes she developed rather than focusing on her death.
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