Filmography

  • Alien Abduction

    Short film. (2021)

    Director: Nate Edwards

    Writer: Candice D’Meza

    Actors: Candice D’Meza, Anna Maria Morris

    Film Festivals:

    2021

    Borders/No Borders;

    2022

    Boston SciFi Film Festival; New York Neorealism Film Awards; LA Independent Women Awards

  • 30 Ways To Get Free

    An anthology of 3 short films, inspired by AfroFuturism, that explore liberation in the worlds of scifi. (Alien Abduction; Tubman Phone; Fire Water.) Runtime 30:50

    Produced in 2021.

    Director: Nate Edwards

    Written by Candice D’Meza

    Actors: Anthony August, Candice D’Meza, Anna Maria Morris, Jared Tettey, Byron Jacquet

    Screenings:

    2021

    World Premiere, Catastrophic Theatre

    2022

    Contemporary Art Museum of Houston

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  • FATHERLAND

    Fatherland, the multimedia one-woman show by Candice D’Meza, is a deeply vulnerable exploration into the grief that comes from disconnection: disconnection from family, from culture, from homelands.

    2021.

    Written, Concieved and Performed by Candice D’Meza.

    Screenings:

    2021

    World Premiere, Stages Theatre

    Houston Cinema Arts Society; Colgate University

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  • WAIL

    Commissioned by DiverseWorks, WAIL is docu-performance film that explores how African diasporic practices and rituals can engage with the tragic history of African American victims of the convict leasing system between 1897-1912 and the forgotten cemetery of the “Sugar Land 95”.

    2021.

    Conceived and written by Candice D’Meza

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