The Flacalta Effect
Screenings
Keesha and Toya are Black sisters whose house is being infiltrated by the undead. Keesha and Toya couldn’t be more different. Keesha’s hardened to the world because of everything she’s experienced as a Black woman in America and has no desire to fight to escape. Toya, an open-hearted optimist, believes that if they survive this zombie attack, maybe they can live to see a better world. All they have to do is kill a couple of zombies, not murder each other in the process, and maybe they’ll survive. . . . Maybe.
Directors Spotlight
Rochée Jeffrey
Director
Rochée Jeffrey, a Jamaican writer, director, and performer based in Los Angeles, is the creative force behind a Netflix half-hour series, with executive producers Megan Thee Stallion, Jay-Z, and Imagine, and an animated series backed by Lizzo and Netflix. She co-created and directed the Ambie and NAACP Image Award-winning podcast “Yes We Cannabis” for Audible, starring Sam Richardson. Her TV writing credits include SMILF (Showtime), Woke (Hulu), Bigger (BET+), and co-executive producer of grown-ish (Freeform). A graduate of the 2022 WGA Showrunner Training Program and Howard University alum, she’s represented by IAG and Tantrum Management.
- Runtime 8 minutes
- Country United States
- Language English
- Director Rochée Jeffrey
- Cast Rochée Jeffrey, Tristina Lee, Jamal Waked, Jen Ash, Nikkole Vergara, Ginna LeVine, Stella Ademiluyi
- Cinematographer Phillip Jackson
- Composer Sassy Black
- Editor Angela Latimer
- Executive Producer David Arquette, Patricia Arquette, Bente Engelstoft, Ginna LeVine, Kerry Anne Roschman
- Producer Ebony Elaine Hardin, Takara Joseph
- Production Design Marlena Pavich
- Screenwriter Rochée Jeffrey
- Premiere Philadelphia
