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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

"#SayHerName has presented us with the same kind of challenges," says @sandylocks. "How do we breathe life into a space that has been absent? How do we elevate our sister without rehearsing the thing that people know her for, as the girl who got killed?" #HerDreamDeferred

“What do you want to do to open the pathway for the next story like this?” asks @sandylocks. “I want people to trust Black women, to trust Black women artists." #HerDreamDeferred @SophiaNAllison

"If A Love Song for Latasha were to win the Academy Award, it would mean so much for Black women & Black girls that this young 15-year-old Black girl from South Central is being recognized by the masses, that her story will never be forgotten.” - @SophiaNAllison #HerDreamDeferred