Saman Enn Og Aftur (Together Once Again)

Aliyah Dominique Jefferies
Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design
Student Creative Production Grant

A waterfront icelandic town with colorful murals, snow-covered buildings, and mountains reflected in a calm body of water under a clear sky.

Photograph of Djúpivogur, Iceland by Aliyah Dominique Jefferies

Saman Enn Og Aftur (Together Once Again) will be a feature length film that follows the lives of two Black people attempting to survive impossible conditions: Hans Jonatan, born enslaved in the Caribbean in the late 18th century, and Adeline, a Black woman from present-day Philadelphia who moves to Reykjavik, Iceland to escape the racial turmoil of the United States and her traumatic memories. For this project, Aliyah Jefferies will write a screenplay and create a proof-of-concept short film shot in Iceland and screened in Philadelphia. She will be working with Director of Photography, Cassidy Arrington and Dr. Gísli Pálsson, a former professor at the University of Iceland and the author of The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan which inspired this project.

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