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Black Lives Matter Care Series: Alaiyo

The first installment in a series documenting different examples of community care. In this video, we listen to a group of women as they detail their journey of accepting and loving their bodies.

  • Noni Limar
    Director
  • Noni Limar
    Writer
  • Lucretia Stinnette
    Producer
  • Jasai Madden
    Key Cast
  • Stori Ndiritu
    Key Cast
  • Maya Marie
    Key Cast
  • Prudence Richmond
    Key Cast
  • Rasheka Henry
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 10, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    45,518 USD
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Noni Limar

A true multi-hyphenate, Noni Limar has a decade long resume of work in film/TV, theater, commercials and music. In 2017, she completed a two-year series development deal with Warner Bros. where she developed her TV pilot, Phony Bastards. It is now in development with Teri Weinberg’s Yellow Brick Road. Her short art film, Heartburn was recently featured at Museum of Contemporary Art and SPARC in Los Angeles. As a musician, she was a part of the Grammy Award-winning Sa-Ra Creative Partners, opening for artists such as Kanye West and Erykah Badu. Within the world of theater, she has directed, starred in and produced plays and productions at Los Angeles Theater Center, Apollo Theater in NY, Highways Performance Space and the New York Hip Hop Theater Festival. As a writer, she has been invited to share work at The Lincoln Center in New York and the Market Theater in South Africa. The SABC Documentary, I AM WOMAN was made about her international work as a director and producer. She hosts ALL HEART PODCAST, a platform centering healing our culture through joy and pleasure. She lives with her husband and four children in Southern California.

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Director Statement

The last 10 years have seen great progress both systemically and culturally from the sustained efforts of our movement. We have shut down jails, defunded police departments, achieved great strides in representation and inclusivity, and made countless cultural changes with abolition as our north star.

Throughout a decade of organizing, my inquiry has been—even when we win, how have we treated each other in the process? Can we have freedom if it costs us our dignity? Can we achieve progress without love? Can we radically change the system while losing our respect for one another along the way?

Change making is difficult. Abolition is hard. How can we envision a future with us free and do the work to get there with tenderness, harmony and grace? How do we handle conflict in ways that will ensure our longevity? How do we share resources in ways that
are fundamentally equitable?

How do we take good care of each other? How do we change our world without tearing each other apart?