Zac Manuel is an award–winning, New Orleans bred-and-based filmmaker, and the son of a touring jazz musician and a community builder at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. His film work explores intimacy, Black masculinity, class, identity and inheritance.

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ABOUT THIS BODY

This Body explores the fraught relationship between African Americans and the medical industry. As Sydney Hall participates in an experimental coronavirus vaccine trial in hopes of protecting her beloved New Orleans community, she and her loved ones confront the history of medical abuse and experimentation on Black bodies.

Film

This Body

Program Affiliation

HINDSIGHT

Cohort Year

2021

Website

thegreenhousecollective.com

Social Media

@spike_leroy