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Enongo (aka Sammus) navigates music, academia and identity in this documentary that examines her life as a rapper, scholar, teacher and nerd. What does it mean to be a Black woman rapper, a Cornell PhD candidate, and a proud nerd all at once? Director Kevin Schreck follows Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka Sammus) as she tours North America, records a new album, and navigates a full-time career alongside academic life. Through her unique afrofuturism-inspired music, Enongo/Sammus tackles mental health, identity, race and feminism while cultivating a strong following of activists, hip hop heads, punks, and proud geeks alike. The film blends vérité footage with hand-drawn animation created entirely by an all-Black women team - the first in the history of feature filmmaking - bringing to life the interior world behind the public persona: her Ithaca upbringing, years teaching in Houston, return to Cornell, and the music that threads it all together. Intimate, empowering, and wholly original, Enongo is a story of survival, artistic creation, and a woman who artist who consistently thinks outside boxes and dances across lines. Bonus Materials Full-length audio commentary track by director Kevin Schreck, composer EmmoLei Sankofa, and animators Q&A at the Hip Hop Film Festival with subject Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, director Kevin Schreck, and animators Shammah McVay & Anaiyah Tatiana Animation-themed Q&A at the Philadelphia Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and animator Anaiyah Tatiana Music-themed Q&A at the Denton Black Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and composer EmmoLei Sankofa Storyboard to Final Animation comparisons Cast & Crew Actors: Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo as self Lanre Akinsiku as self Zöe Brecher as self Adrienne Hailey as self N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba as self Alejandro Tello as self Director: Kevin Schreck Producer: Kevin Schreck

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An architectural model maker sees his mundane life upended by the arrival of new neighbors whose sinister activities seem to hide dark secrets. In the winter of 1975, under Chile's military regime in Santiago, Raúl Peralta (Néstor Cantillana), a lonely, disabled architectural model maker, leads a quiet life, caring for his ailing mother and pet canary. His routine is shattered by the arrival of new neighbors whose sinister activities seem to hide dark secrets. As Raúl desperately clings to the last vestiges of his sanity, his life becomes increasingly entangled with Guillermo, a mysterious man in dark glasses. Caught between personal loss and political terror, Raúl must confront the scars of repression and survival in this haunting psychological thriller about isolation, moral decay and a mind-fracturing authoritarian rule. Cast & Crew Actors: Néstor Cantillana as Raúl Blanca Lewin as Laura Juan Cano as Chacal Grimanesa Jiménez as Carmen Consuelo Holzapfel as Marina Director: Diego Figueroa Top About this item Similar From the Brand Questions Reviews A Yard Of Jackals A Yard Of Jackals