Seek No Favor
Elle Clay, Leilah Weinraub
Fiction : 14' / Lesbian, Comedy, Identity, BIPOC

Lowkey, anxiety managing millennial, Monroe Malone, lives in the bustling borough of Brooklyn. While trying to outrun her anxiety due to last year's job loss, she unexpectedly collides with an underground beauty supply cartel led by Big Baby, whose gang has the hood shook after a string of weave snatchings leave the girls bald headed in the streets!

 

* Screens as part of the "Curtas 4" programme.

 

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa
September 22 | 18h45 | Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3 Buy Tickets
QL - Short Film Competition

/ Details

Year: 2025

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: english

With: Ajani Russell, Renee Harrison, Jonny-James Kajoba, Rah Rah Gabor, Liris Crosse

/ Direction

Elle Clay, Leilah Weinraub

USA


Elle Clay is an LA-based writer and filmmaker. Her animated short "Mornings with My Good Sis, Black Bird" (2020) screened at AmDocs, Indie Memphis, and the Norwegian Short Film Festival. She is currently developing an animated series, and "Seek No Favor" is her first narrative short.

 

Leilah Weinraub is a director and artist whose films and video works have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Hammer Museum, MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Berlinale. Her practice spans feature documentary, short-form experimental cinema, and multi-channel video installation, extending onto screens, stages, and public space.

 


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