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Santa Cruz Black 2025 Film Series

Compensation: Film Screening and Discussion

Santa Cruz Black's 2nd annual BLACK on Screen Film Series continues on 3rd Tuesdays at the Capitola Branch and 3rd Wednesdays at the Resource Center for Nonviolence.

What does it mean to fall into a forbidden love? When your friends don’t understand or approve of your choices? What does it mean to live fully, despite fatal epidemics, whether AIDS of the 1990s or tuberculosis of the previous century?

How do we navigate the intersection of Blackness, deafness, happiness, status, and class identity?   

These are the questions the film, Compensation, by Zeinabu Irene Davis poses for her characters, one century apart.  Part of the Los Angeles Rebellion movement of independent films, 2025 is the first year audiences have been invited to see it as a theatrical release and newly restored in 4K. Deftly woven into this narrative film is archival footage which anchors the viewing experience in history.

Santa Cruz Black has the honor of bringing this film to you. To register for one of our two screenings please click on the hyperlinked venue:

Tuesday September 16th at the Capitola Branch Library or Wednesday September 17th at the Resource Center for Nonviolence.

Doors open at 6 pm, screening begins at 6:30 pm for both dates. This film clocks in at 92 minutes and afterwards we will engage in a hearty community discussion.

Watch the YouTube Trailer Here

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