Trailer To Netflix’s ‘A Love Song For Latasha’
Netflix has released the trailer for a touching and timely documentary short called A Love Song For Latasha. The short releases next month on September 21st.
A Love Song For Latasha showcases what the life of Latasha Harlins could have been had she not been murdered by a convenience store owner in 1991 at the age of 15. Latasha's death was a catalyst for the 1992 riots in Los Angeles and feels even more important now as we reflect on the entire Black Lives Matter movement in our country.
Nearly three decades later, director Sophia Nahli Allison’s A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA removes Latasha from the context of her death and rebuilds an archive of a promising life lost. Oral history and memories from Latasha’s best friend and cousin converge in a dreamlike portrait that shows the impact one brief but brilliant life can have.
Sophia Nahli Allison is an award-winning experimental documentary filmmaker and photographer from South Central LA. She reimagines the archives using magical realism and excavates hidden truths by conjuring ancestral memories. She has held artist residencies and fellowships at The MacDowell Colony, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France as a 3Arts Residency Fellow, POV Spark’s African Interactive Art Residency, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. She has a master’s degree in visual communication.
