People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,

We wanted to truthfully reflect the rage and the tone of what people felt.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.