Raising Voices Post-Screening Q&A with "This One's for You" creative team. Director Mēsha Kussman and choreographer Jillian Schmitz spoke with Laura Elaine Ellis at the Fall 2023 Festival.

SFDFF’s Raising Voices shorts program spotlights moving stories told through movement, poetry, and music from artists who harness dance as cultural expression and activism.

Other films that screened in Raising Voices were:
Capstone
Branché
What’s Bred in the Blood and Bone
Women’s Work
The Reclamation of My Black Ass Imagination: An Awakening

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:08 Metaphors throughout the film
7:04 How the film came to be
10:05 Creative process
15:21 Intention behind film
18:55 Healing and recovery

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