2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Short Film

In 1860s America, the head house slave, a mixed love-child of the master, makes a secret plan to free all of the slaves from Bonchomont Plantation, but their exodus happens in a wa
- Writer(s): Brandon J. Somerville
Language: English
Country: Not Specified
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In 1860s, Southern U.S.A., the most productive plantation hums along. Master Jackson Boregard Bonchomont, manifest his beliefs of the black race as an object of curiosity via procurement of “exotic” black women. It’s not until his most recent acquisition, Azra, that everything changes. In reality, Azra is a centuries old archangel sent to destroy the Bonchomont Plantation, and expedite the Civil War’s end. They yield a son, Bartholomeux, who’s mixed by ethnicity and being.

