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I, Destini

  • Directors: Destini Riley, Nicholas Pilarski
  • Type: Shorts
  • Year: 2017
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Length: 14 Minutes

Destini Riley co-directs an animated documentary looking at the separate experiences of her family members in the wake of her brother’s incarceration.

Date:  Saturday, February 11, 3PM and Sunday, February 12, 1:30PM
Location: Glicker Milstein Theater, Diana Center LL200
Q&A session to follow screenings

Filmmaker Bio:

Nicholas Pilarski is a documentary fellow at Duke University, and currently working in Brownsville, Brooklyn on an interactive VR project with the Center for Court Innovation.

Destini Riley is a high school senior in Durham, N.C., and an activist in the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with the film’s co-producers, they are developing a collaborative called Peoples Culture that helps communities shape their narratives through art and filmmaking.

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