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TEN & TWO is a short film about a Black mother and son on a driving lesson that quickly turns into a survival lesson on police encounters.

Water poured into a vase holds the shape of the vase. So too the vessel of the body holds the strange matter of the soul. It is easy to forget the vessel and think the soul solid. Death is a remembering - where the dissolving vessel can no longer be ignored, and the shapeless soul expands along axes unknown and unknowable.

In the face of the killings and assaults on black lives, a mother is determined to keep her two sons safe once they've moved to a new neighborhood.

In 1963 at Michigan State University, Head Coach Duffy Daugherty chose 23 black men to play on the college team. From this move came legends Gene Washington, Bubba Smith, George Webster and Clinton Jones. Director Maya Washington, Gene Washington’s daughter, charts the legacy of her father’s career and influence, along with the impact the events of 1963 have shown in the present day.

A missing hard drive with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency and the issue of trust in the modern era.