Nine tells the story of the enduring bonds of friendship that drive Gerald Hankerson and Henry Grisby to fight back against the criminal justice system.
Director/Producer
Rachael DeCruz directed The Panola Project, chronicling how an overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive the pandemic. The short film—an official selection of Sundance, Hot Docs, DOC NYC Shortlist, and BlackStar—was released with The New Yorker and featured on MSNBC. Nine is her directorial feature debut.
Director/Producer
Jeremy Levine is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, co-founder of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, and an assistant professor at Suffolk University. His films explore race in a society steeped in active denial of its own past. For Ahkeem, his last feature, is a love story set against the backdrop of the Ferguson uprising.