The National Trust For Historical Preservation is committed to protecting historic sites across the United States.

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African Shadows On-The-Teche is a multimedia, experimental short film recounting the history of a Louisiana plantation and its impact on the surrounding community, attempting to recontextualize it and provide a more honest look into the practices of slavery and abuse that were committed on the plantation grounds.

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Responsibilities:

• edit a 20-minute multimedia piece written and performed by New Iberia artists, commissioned by The National Trust For Historical Preservation

• composited and animated live-action archival and illustrated material

• developed several possible color grades and worked with the director to find a look that best supported the content 

WRITTEN & DIRECTED by Ifa Bayeza

PRODUCED by  The National Trust for Historic Preservation

ANIMATIONS by Sierra Sanchez, Jazzmen Lee Johnson, & Gabriel Nelson

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Read: 'Out of the Shadows: Reinterpreting a National Trust Historic Site"

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