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By Alison DUKE

Drama - Completed 2020

Yolonda and her daughter Charlie are ripped apart by illness, an unjust system, and a failure to face the truth.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival Du Nouveaux cinema 2020

Selected

Pan African Black Film Festival Du Cannes 2020

Finalist

Short Film Factory 2020

Winner

Columbus Black Film Festival 2020

Best Short Film

Afro Prairie Winston W. Moxam 2020

Best Canadian Short Film

BronzeLens Film Festival 2020

Selected

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-CANADA
- Duration
- 25 mn
- Director(s)
- Alison DUKE
- Writer(s)
- Alison DUKE , Lindsey ADDAWOO
- Cast
- Olunike ADELIYI, Breonna MORRISON
- Producer(s)
- Fonna SEIDU , Lucas JOSEPH , Alison DUKE (OYA MEDIA GROUP), Ngardy CONTEH GEORGE (Oya Media Group )
- Synopsis
- Charlie still has hope and is adamant in caring for her mother, Yolonda Thomas, as her health takes a turn for the worse. Loyal, she insists on sticking by her mother’s side until the very end. But when her school begins to notice Charlie’s absence, she is placed under a system of surveillance and Charlie will soon come to find that some decisions are outside of her control.