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Directed by Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Araya Mengesha | Comedy | 14 Minutes

Starring in and directing their own razor-sharp script, the Toronto team of Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah and Araya Mengesha play twins trying to navigate their own, and each other’s, complex responses to both the lockdown and the fight for racial justice during the long hot summer of 2020.

Writer(s): Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Araya Mengesha
Producer(s): Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Araya Mengesha, J Stevens
DOP: J Stevens
Editor: J Stevens
Music: Denise De’ion

Cast: Araya Mengesha, Roberts-Abdullah, Endicott-Douglass, Getenesh Berhe, Nickeshia Garrick, Richard Lam, Anand Rajaram, Karen Robinson

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