Directed by Effy Adar

Logline: What of our homes lasts within us? "Shea" stretches the answer across a diaspora.

Synopsis: A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. "Shea" celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 3 Minutes
GENRE: Experimental
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Alberta
KEYWORDS: Race, Lgbt, Poem, Women, Gender, Spiritual, Art, Culturally Diverse Filmmaker, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: "Shea" follows a family displaced by greed searching for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they stumble upon pieces of home, orbiting around one specific finding; a traditional African couch. As the poem continues the family "nests" and adorns themselves in the magical gifts of the land.
The bass, the ululation, the tall grass, and the beautiful, visibly queer and/or intergenerational cast was all meant to show the array of Blackness present in our families. Made or born into. It is the second last piece on NASRA's debut EP "Salve". A project invested in Black Indigenous healing; every song or poem representing a different herb and its medicine. "Shea" speaks to the belief that no matter where Black/African/Indigenous peoples land, we carry our beauty, joy, resilience and magic with us. Just as the shea tree has, all these generations later.