Dreams Deferred: Sakia Gunn Film Project
Documentary about the homophobic murder of a fifteen-year-old black lesbian in New Jersey in 2003.
Sakia Gunn was a fifteen-year-old black lesbian who was stabbed to death in a gay hate crime in New Jersey in 2003. Dreams Deferred questions the lack of national media coverage after Gunn's murder and explores the racism and homophobia that has caused this silence. Brack's documentary combines courtroom footage of Gunn’s family and friends as they confront her murderer, with interviews that paint a picture of the victim and discuss the problems that Aggressives (homosexual women of colour who dress in masculine attire) face. It is particularly moving to see the activism Gunn's death has inspired within the Black LGBT community in the USA.
Nazmia Jamal
| Directed by: | Charles B Brack |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Running time: | 58min |
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| Country: | Canada |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Running time: | 5min |
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