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Be Like Water (TM) is a short film and dramatic series that tells the story of two young black sisters, both affected by the Black Lives Matter Movement erupting in Seattle, WA and throughout America in 2020, ignited by the death of George Floyd and other black people who have died due to police brutality and systemic racism in an America on fire.
The two sisters are “Jackie,” a musical artist/activist who is heavily focused on the fight to know justice and is fueled by a belief in “whatever means necessary, “ and “Ruth,” a young lawyer who gave up on her musical talent to focus on her legal career and is trying to change the system from within the existing justice system. Adding “Cameron,” Jackie's young rockstar love interest, and “Josephine,” Jackie and Ruth's grandmother, a renowned Gospel and Soul singer with her own activist history in the 1960s in Brooklyn as part of the Black Panther movement. Inspired by Angela Davis, the cast of Be Like Water (TM) reveals a project where life imitates art imitates life like two mirrors facing each other.
As Grandma Josephine explains to her granddaughter Jackie - “We all in the soup, you, the police, the mayor, all of us, killing each other inside this pot of soup. The real question you should be asking is - Who’s holding the damn lid?”
Lead cast and producers
Jaiden Grayson
Cameron Lavi-Jones
Josephine Howell
Shaprece Richards
Danny Denial
Innocent Muhalia
Jasmine Hansen
Savannah Hicks
Jackie
Cameron
Grandma Josephine
Ruth
Danny
Innocent
Jasmine
Savannah
Produced by Diana Dotter for Seattle Media Ventures LLC and Lara Lavi for Dreaming In Color Entertainment LLC