Director + Cinematographer: Nisa East
Co-director: Sarrah Danziger.
Producer: Weenta Girmay

*Official Selection New Orleans Film Festival 2019
For Leyla McCalla’s album 'Capitalist Blues'

The overbearing, manicured hand on Leyla's face is a representation of the suffocating grasp money has on the artist, their work and it’s perceived “value”.

The 'big business men' play their shameless money games at a table, their inexhaustible greed a kind of mania that descends quickly into violence.

And the ‘Dancing Man’ - who transcends the stereotype of the ‘poor man’, pays homage to the spirit of Haitian Creole resistance, resilience and expression through music and dance.