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Short Narrative

Space to Breathe

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  • Audio description in-person & online Audio Description
  • Closed captions online Closed Captioning
  • Open captions in-person Open Captions



A film still from Space to Breathe shows a Black woman sitting in the middle of two Black men. They are in a room lined with LED strips in various colors. The woman looks into the camera, wearing a purple and pink afro, thick gold necklace, and burgundy off the shoulder dress. The man to her left wears a knitted cap with a kente cloth top and gold jewelry. The other man has two-toned green hair and green jacket along with gold jewelry.

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Space to Breathe is an Afrofuturist science fiction hybrid documentary, framed with a future where there are no prisons or police. The year is 2070, and Sojourner is a young genderqueer filmmaker who sets out to understand how abolition came to be, through history’s archives on the movements of the early 21st century.








Directors Spotlight



Juicebox P. Burton

Director

Juicebox P. Burton is a black, trans-fem multi-disciplinary artist living in New Orleans. Juicebox is a world-builder who frames narratives of trauma in the context of horror and sci-fi in order to heal the collective spirit of the black community.







  • Year 2025
  • Runtime 21 minutes
  • Country United States
  • Language English
  • Director Juicebox P. Burton
  • Producer Emily Faye Ratner, Jordan Flaherty, Kate Trumbull-Lavalle, Roger Guenveur Smith, Walidah Imarisha
  • Cast Aaron Garrett, Alfred Marshall, Bridgette Simpson, Cameron-Mitchell Ware, Donnell Penny, Ivette Alé-Ferlito, Jade Braud, Jude Braud, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Porsche Kemp, Rachel Herzing, Robert Saleem Holbrook, Ronald Marshall, Robyn Maynard, Roger Guenveur Smith, Samille Ganges, Shantell Turner, Timeless, Tim Williams, Zelda Welch
  • Cinematographer Bron Moyi
  • Editor Tim Tsai
  • Animator Zak Margolis
  • Production Design Breanna Thompson
  • Composer Guillermo E. Brown
  • Sound Design Marcus Dembinski
  • Music Guillermo E. Brown
  • Premiere North America





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