Now Instant presents the Los Angeles premiere of Elle Clay and Leilah Weinraub's Seek No Favor with an introduction from Clay.
Seek No Favor
Lowkey, anxiety managing millennial, MONROE MALONE, lives in the bustling borough of Brooklyn. While trying to outrun her anxiety due to last year's job loss, she unexpectedly collides with an underground beauty supply cartel led by BIG BABY .
BIG BABY’s BUNDLE GANG has the hood shook after a string of weave snatchings leave the girls bald headed in the streets!
During a fateful day at the salon, Monroe overhears plans for Big Baby to kidnap hair inventor CAMILLE J WALKER to acquire her patent for a once in a generation invention, Infinite T rack. Monroe springs into action to reach Camille before it’s too late. Navigating online evidence trails, flocks of fashion fiends and self doubt, Monroe finds herself in a showdown with BIG BABY .
The encounter is bound to leave him not untouched by blood.
Elle Clay is an LA-based writer and filmmaker. Her animated short Mornings With My Good Sis, Black Bird (2020) screened at AmDocs, Indie Memphis, and the Norwegian Short Film Festival. She is developing an animated series in collaboration with Arthur Jafa’s SunHaus, André Holland’s Harper Road, and Starburns Industries. Most recently, Elle wrote and co-directed her first narrative short, Seek No Favor—produced through Donald Glover’s Gilga—which earned the Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award at this NewFest37 Film Festival.
Leilah Weinraub is a director and artist whose films and video works have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Hammer Museum, MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Berlinale. Her practice spans feature documentary, short-form experimental cinema, and multi-channel video installation, extending onto screens, stages, and public space.
She is the director of the acclaimed documentary SHAKEDOWN (2018) and the founder of TEXARKANA, her studio for film production and moving-image research. Most recently, she co-directed the narrative short Seek No Favor- written by Elle Clay and produced through Donald Glover’s Gilga- which earned the Emerging Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award at New Fest.
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