The Production Team.
Abbas Muntaqim
Abbas Muntaqim is a Muslim, New Afrikan culture worker, educator, and organizer. He co-chairs and co-founded People’s Programs, an Oakland based New Afrikan/Pan Afrikan organization. He also co-hosts Hella Black Podcast. Abbas co-founded the Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center at UC Berkeley and taught African American studies there for over four years. He also is a host and producer for Press TV. Abbas follows an Islamic tradition that calls for the liberation of all of humanity.
Delency Parham
Delency is from North Oakland and he likes to write. In 2015 Delency graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism. Since 2016 he’s co-founded Hella Black Podcast, People’s Programs, and Play Runners Association. Delency is set on using every skill, talent, and resource he acquires to share with loved ones and community. He believes the New Afrikan identity is at the core of a new world for Black people in Amerikkka.
Theo Schear
Theo is a documentary filmmaker from Oakland, California. His first docu-series Hard To Swallow hosted by Tunde Wey was supported by The Ford Foundation, IFP and The Pop Culture Collaborative. He was a 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and for three years was a member of Detroit Public Television’s National Documentary Unit. He shoots for the Golden State Warriors and has produced campaigns for Nike and Bandcamp. Other work includes Open Letter, a found-footage doc about Frank Ocean; and TY4FWM, a documentary chronicling the release of rapper ALLBLACK’s first album.
Amir Aziz
Amir is a photographer and videographer from Oakland, California. Using photography as his primary medium, Amir has documented the life and times of Oakland's Black community and the rapid changes in the city for over 10 years. He's also covered social justice movements in the U.S. and abroad with works featured in The NY Times, SF Chronicle, and The Daily Mail with an emphasis on the 2020 George Floyd protests and Hong Kong's umbrella movement. Amir hopes to continue to highlight community stories and bridge the gap between African diaspora communities in the world through multimedia storytelling.
Pat Mesiti Miller
The Scoring Team
Formed by Wax Roof, the scoring team for the film is made up of multi-instrumentalists from across the Bay Area who all produce and compose. With each member trained in Jazz, Classical and Gospel, as well as modern production and beat making, the unit is able to create largess with their productions simply by tapping their own strengths. Their collective work includes catalogue with stars such as Smino, Sango, DJ Fresh, Xavier Omar, Murs, Saba, Elujay, Rexx Life Rajj, Daoud, Caleborate, and Dave B. As well as working with Vice, Fader, Snap Judgement (#1 podcast, 2015), Lyrical Lemonade, Hip Hop DX, XXL, KQED, and NPR Tiny Desk and MTC.
Wax Roof guitar, bass, piano, horns, composition, production, scoring
Andrew “Bearford” Benford
piano, drums, composition, production
Waymond McKissick
vocals, piano, drums, composition, production
Carl Nash
piano, arrangement, composition, production
Anthony Mills-Branch
bass, saxophone, guitar, piano