Lynnette R. Freeman

Framed by a speech given by the filmmaker’s brother at their uncle’s memorial service, this doc/fiction hybrid comedy blends archival family photos with surreal animated scripted scenes to explore outsized childhood fears, shifting family dynamics and intergenerational care.

A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.

While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in, she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.

It Seems to Hang On is based on the true story of the serial killers Alton Coleman and Debra Brown, a young Black couple who cut a violent path beginning in the summer of 1984 through the American Midwest (Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin). The dialogue spoken in the film is inspired and based on lyrics from the American soul duo (and couple) Ashford and Simpson's 1979 hit song "It Seems to Hang On".