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Brown Girl Begins

Directed by Sharon Lewis
Canada, 2017 (fiction, 84 minutes, colour, English)
Also known as "Brown Girl in the Ring: The Prequel"

Film Description:
"Brown Girl Begins is an afrofuturist feature film about a young black woman who is trapped in a world forced upon her. Ti-Jeanne, a reluctant priestess, must resurrect Caribbean spirits and survive the possession ritual that killed her mother, or her people will die."
-- thesharonlewis.com (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Sharon Lewis
Based on: Brown Girl in the Ring, a novel by Nalo Hopkinson
Produced by: Sharon Lewis, Floyd Kane, Vince Buda, Jenn Paul, Kulbinder Saran Caldwell, Jennifer Ouano, Sandra Cunningham, Robin Cass, Elijha Hammill, Kiki Hammill
Principal Cast: Mouna Traoré, Nigel Shawn Williams, Shakura S'Aida, Emmanuel Kabongo
Cinematography: Marc Forand
Film Editing: Ben Lawrence, Richard Mandin
Music: Aaron Ferrera
Production Company: Urbansoul
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