#seemydreamscometrue

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super excited to be screening SEE MY DREAMS COME TRUE at Multiverse is Illuminated 2020 -- a black & brown queer film + music festival. pull up tonight @ 6pm EST / 3PM PDT. link in bio & @themultivrsisilluminated. Thank y’all & @kimmoooothhhyyyyy for putting me on. This is the 3rd screening #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue this year, and I’m so grateful the big moves this tiny film has been able to make. 5 countries, over 6 national cities, all from the mind of my 21 year old self, grieving, of foster care, wild premature and still here, bi & queer. S\O to my Ancestors. S/O to @urucker & her boys for blessing this film, s/o to young queen Mahogany & her parents Khalif & El, shoutout to my hot @i_am_iwalker, shoutout to @blackstarfest & everyone who believes in this film. May our dreams carry us. Shoutout to #LeoSeason & my Grandma Ruby, the first Leo i ever knew & the one that this film is for. Love you.✨💜 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjgvudn-lB/?igshid=1wleebaamtv1i

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here i was talking about how the artist functions as a person who must Exhume (see Viola Davis' Oscar acceptance for #Fences); how I build a musical playlist for every major film project; and how in films we ought to be asking questions. #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue #ExtendedDreaming #masterclass #behindthescenes #filmedu #creativeprocess

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reorganizing my CV. reminding myself who the fuck i am. of course, the degree itself is not me; but all the work, the many experiences, the lessons, the stories out of which these degrees come are. from Philly, to around the globe to square in NYC, life has never been easy for me. On days like these, I'm thankful for my breezy ways, my flex, that im able to rise. On days like these, im reminded of how good it feels to put energy *somewhere*, to do *something*, to honor pasts and plan for futures... i am both ready and not; but ready or not, here I am, and here I come. . . . #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue #andtherewillbemore #blackartist #blackwriter #internationallyv #travel #artistwoes #KingV #visuallyricist #215nation #younggiftedandblack

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When your mind is international, your body is international, and now your work is international, too. #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue has been accepted into #glitchfilmfestival in SCOTLAND, and the only Queer film fest in TURKEY, #kuirfest!!! 😍 If you ain't seen the film yet, I hope you consider watching soon (Google my name + the film and experience something) #filmedu

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My short #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue is LIVE!!! S/O to #thenewengagement for the dope write up, and for featuring this film in their Issue No. 5 -- LINK IN BIO. Making film is hard, but It's super kewl to have completed this thing in May, work on a project in September, film another thing & paint some walls in October, help around a Film set, then shoot my own shit during a weekend in November, and then turn around to release this jawn. Super grateful for the work. You gotta keep working, keep creating shit. #NYC: Hit me up for #screening & #workshop details - let's do this for the youngers! The film is out, but the experience ain't over. . . . for you, especially you Black child, are a meeting point, a dream realized, of your ancestors. . . . #filmedu #KingV #blackqueermagic #blackfilmmakers #WriteOnBeFree #SeeMyDreams

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The film is dropping VERY SOON. book me, a film screening and a workshop, at your colleges/universities, community spaces, film/art spaces and more, NYC. #blackfilmmaker #filmedu #poet #blackartist #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue

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From the first day on set to yesterday, after the worldwide premiere of #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue at @blackstarfest: love them. They're my smaller, angelic, crew. Introducing Mahogony, Sage & Cypress (shortest to tallest in that group photo lol) to the cinema world. Idk if y'all know this but Cypress came through at the last minute to play the Young Artist when the cast actor didn't show up. They are so Black & so beautiful. Both their families have been great to this project, and to me. Love all around. To be Young, Gifted & Black. I'm proud. #blackstar16 #bsff16 #seemydreams #youngblackactors #blackfilm #filmedu

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Thank you @blackstarfest for selecting my film, bringing me into the fold (this time as an Artist), and for being a home. Thank you for seeing and respecting my work. Y'all are my first festival, and that was very intentional. Know that. Y'all are a true gift. Thank you @karmaori & the Blackstar team - always. This film doesn't need much more festival travel at all. Love y'all. & for those of you wondering, #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue will be publically released this Fall. More on that soon. #blackstar16 #bsff16 #SeeMyDreams #byindiemeansnecessary #filmedu (at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery)