Experiencing Interruptions?

SURRENDER

#2020 was a hard year for every single one of us. We all experienced confinement. We all lost in some way or another. We all anguished and hoped for better. This is the nature of life and it is up to us to find peace in our inner wars. To find contentment in the ebbs and flows. To feel emotions and makes way a settledness. My suggestion... SURREND.

  • Elijah Negasi
    Director
  • Jarelle Africa
    Writer
  • Jarelle Africa
    Producer
  • Elijah Negasi
    Producer
  • Jarelle Africa
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    50 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    8mm
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Elijah Negasi

Elijah Negasi is a photographer and filmmaker from the borough of the Bronx in New York City. He interned in Educational Video Center, a youth-documentary media organization, in high school. He collaborated with a group of young people a social issue documentary that had a premiere screening at HBO, “Gender Power: Street Harassment in NYC”. He interned at Teacher’s College, Columbia University being a qualitative researcher: conducting research interviews, transcribing videos, and wrote an academic article on media education which he presented at the UPENN Ethnography Forum Conference. Also at American Documentary, PBS POV, screened over seventy featured-length documentaries broadcast for World Channel. Along with having editorial meetings with executive producers in Brooklyn and Boston. He interned and worked at BronxNet, a local news for and from the Bronx. He created and produced a show; prepared interviews, and conducted recorded interviews. He also wrote a screenplay that was nominated at Grove Film Festival for best non-produced screenplay. Besides all of that, he’s been actively creating with his photography since 2014 and utilizing it with his eye wherever he travels. He resides in New York City.

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