Sixteen Thousand Dollars

Sixteen Thousand Dollars
2020
⏱️ 17 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
Comedy
A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found capital, they will decide how best to spend their reparations, totaling a mere $16,000. Receiving reparations opens up old wounds of slavery, Jim Crow, and systematic oppression.

Crew

Director
Symone Baptiste
Writer
Brodie Reed, Brodie Reed, Ellington Wells
Producer
Symone Baptiste, Michelle Zei

Keywords

slaveryracismoppressionwoman directorenslavementjim crow lawsracial justiceafrican americanshort filmblack stories