00:00What started as a transactional process slowly became a transformative process for me.
00:09I was charged by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center to put this film
00:16together, but what I began to learn about was myself and knowing that my mother had complications
00:24with me, and then also finding out that my wife was a twin and her twin didn't survive.
00:32And to really dig into the myriad of ways that me as a black man, how important it is
00:38to protect black women.
00:41So as an artist, this is the way that I wanted to protect black and brown women and their
00:45babies.
00:47And if I am going to call myself a cinematic poet, this is my version of a love letter
00:53to black women around the world.
00:56So why not do this?
01:00And my last point, I mean, I could be doing films about, you know, guns and, you know,
01:05shoot them up, bang, bang, and disrespecting, no.
01:08This is the way we are all going to change the trajectory of generations to come by saving
01:14as many babies and as many black mothers as possible.
01:23During these images and Sleeping Out
01:42And often, I will never be able to change the territory.
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