REDONDO | In a small Korean-owned beauty supply store in South Los Angeles, a misunderstanding between a Black customer and the Korean shop owner explodes into a violent confrontation that is captured on a cell phone recording by a bystander. REDONDO deconstructs what led up to this moment.

CAST

CRYSTAL LEE “SANG MI”

Hailing from Seoul, South Korea, Crystal Lee started her acting career in Los Angeles, California, her second home. Classically trained, Crystal has played roles from narrative to avant-garde, working in dozens of roles in films and TVs. Her film credits include Mr. Purple, Break Even and Koreatown.

JALYSA HARRIS “CAMBRIA”

Born and raised in Watts California, Jalysa Harris prides herself for having been apart of dozens of feature films, short films, and national commercials. Her goal is to always pick projects that impact or hold an important message. She is currently writing her own series with the hopes of staying true to same purpose.

STEVEN SONG “EUGENE”

Steven Song is an actor, writer, and producer based out of Los Angeles. He is known for his work on Nickelodeon's Game Shakers and CryptTV's Miss Annity.

DASHAWN BARNES “BRITTANY”

Dashawn “Dash” Barnes is a Los Angeles based actress and graduate of UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television. Her theatre credits include The Ovation and NAACP Theatre Award winning production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Long Beach International City Theatre’s Cardboard Piano to name a few. Her film and TV credits include Sparks, This Is Us and Shameless.

FILMMAKERS

LU STINNETTE | WRITER & DIRECTOR

She was most recently a fellow in the 2022 class of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Stinnette is the recipient of the San Francisco Film Society + Rainin Foundation Grant, the Princess Grace Graduate Film Scholarship, the Lynn Weston Fellowship in Film, the Women in Film Foundation/Verna Fields Memorial Fellowship and the Four Sisters Scholarship in Directing. Her work has been screened at the New Orleans Film Festival, L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival, Munich Festival of Film Schools, among many others. Born and raised in Chicago, Lucretia Stinnette has worked and studied in countries such as Ghana, South Africa and South Korea. She earned her BA in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and MFA in Film from UCLA.

KADY KAMAKATE | PRODUCER

Hailing from Côte d’Ivoire, Kady Kamakate moved to the U.S. with her family as a child and turned her childhood love for film into a career. Kady has honed her craft by spearheading industry-leading digital and broadcast campaigns for major brands such as Netflix, Google, Clorox, Redbull, Taco Bell, Sony, Universal Pictures, and on the 200-million view spectacle YouTube Rewind. Outside of branded projects, Kady continues to build a strong body of work with her narrative projects. Most notably, Leimert Park, an original digital series she produced and co-created, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Other works include festival favorite They Charge For The Sun, and Project Involve films Drowning, This Little Light.

NAILAH ROBINSON | EDITOR

Nailah Robinson is an east coast bred filmmaker with a passion for intersectional storytelling. As an editor, Robinson has worked on shorts, music videos, and documentaries. She has an MA in Filmmaking from The London Film School where she specialized as a writer-director and editor. Currently, Robinson is wrapping post on 3 shorts. Her fervor for stories has led her all over the world because she believes experience and interpersonal interaction are the foundation for all great stories. When not in her freelance filmmaking hole, you’ll find her binging movies, shows, books, and plays with her dog Sir Kingsley Shacklebolt.

YONI SHRIRA | CINEMATOGRAPHER

Yoni Shrira is a Los Angeles based Cinematographer. He received his BA in Film Studies from Hunter College and stayed in NYC where he started working on documentaries and commercials. A few years later he moved to LA and earned an MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute. He has worked with Nike, Tecate, Jared Leto, DaBaby and many others. Currently, you can find him shooting anything from features to music videos. He enjoys shooting photography in his free time.

There is a long history of not only cultural and economic exchange between Blacks and Koreans in the United States, but violence and conflict as well. Black and Korean Americans have a very specific history, especially within the socio-political history of Los Angeles, where Redondo takes place.

The 1992 Los Angeles uprising, in many ways, were sparked after the murder of 15-year old Latasha Harlins by a Korean shop owner. The shop owner went on to serve no prison time. This history serves as the backdrop to Redondo.

Redondo takes place present day, where viral videos of Black Americans in violent confrontations with law enforcement and fellow citizens go viral on a regular basis. Often times with racially polarizing consequences.

But race in Redondo is just the dressing on the window. Both sides in this particular story act from some sort of racial bias. But this Rashomon-esque story goes deeper. Both Eugene and Brittany's points of view feel realistic and believable. Their truths are nuanced. Each side, and how "the” truth is perceived, is colored by their individual realities, lived experiences, racial and cultural trauma, stereotypes gleaned from media and popular culture, etc. Their perception of reality isn’t necessarily “the” truth it’s “their” truth.

The differences between the two perspectives are nuanced. It’s based on how people see themselves, and how they think others see them.

AFI DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN

Lucretia was selected out of hundreds of applicants as one of 8 filmmakers to participate in the 2022 class of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women.

The AFI Directing Workshop for Women (DWW) — AFI’s filmmaker training program launched in 1974 — continues its longstanding commitment to increasing the number of women and gender nonbinary directors working in film and television. The prestigious program has announced eight new participants for the 2020-2021 cycle. Participants receive several months of tuition-free film education, culminating in the production of a short film.