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"I really wanted this story [told by] the young Black girls that knew her at that time. And it became important to me for us to honor these memories, honor the oral history," says @SophiaNAllison. #HerDreamDeferred

Director @SophiaNAllison telling the story of how the film began: “I pitched the idea to [my production company]— 'Let's tell a fuller story of Latasha Harlins.' And they completely turned the idea down. And at that moment I decided I had to quit.” #HerDreamDeferred

“I needed to tell this story from the Black woman gaze, I needed to tell this story as a Black woman that grew up in South Central,” says @SophiaNAllison. #HerDreamDeferred

Director @SophiaNAllison speaking on the choice to “make sure the audience remembers this was a child. How do we confront adultification? We remind you that this is a young Black girl." #HerDreamDeferred

“We have generations of people who never heard the name Latasha Harlins. So knowing that unless we tell our stories, we will be buried, they will be lost— and this has happened across our history.” - @sandylocks #HerDreamDeferred

“Having real Black girls was number one. I wanted Black girls that looked authentic, that grew up in the neighborhood, that were living their everyday lives within this moment, not me trying to create this picture,” says @SophiaNAllison at #HerDreamDeferred

“When we think about South Central,” says @SophiaNAllison, “we always have masculine individuals helping us paint that backdrop. There aren't that many movies where we allow a Black woman to be the center of these stories of South Central.” #HerDreamDeferred

A Love Song for Latasha “is a lasting repudiation of the ugliness in which the value of her life was dismissed,” says @sandylocks. It’s “part of the archive of restoration, of reparation, & it occupies a different plane than traditional forms of documentary.” #HerDreamDeferred