“Compensation” Film Screening and Discussion – TWO SHOWINGS

Santa Cruz Black’s BLACK on Screen film offering for September

Tuesday • September 16 • Capitola Library • 2005 Wharf Rd • Capitola
Wednesday, September 17 • Resource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Santa Cruz
Doors open at 6 pm, film at 6:30 pm
Wheelchair accessible • Donation • RSVP requested

What does it mean to fall into a forbidden love? When your friends don’t understand or approve of your choices? What does it mean to live fully, despite fatal epidemics, whether AIDS of the 1990s or tuberculosis of the previous century?

How do we navigate the intersection of Blackness, deafness, happiness, status, and class identity?   

These are the questions the film, Compensation, by Zeinabu irene Davis poses for her characters, one century apart. Part of the Los Angeles Rebellion movement of independent films, 2025 is the first year audiences have been invited to see it as a theatrical release and newly restored in 4K. Deftly woven into this narrative film is archival footage which anchors the viewing experience in history.

Community discussion to follow the screening. Watch trailer HERE (scroll down for trailer)

This is Santa Cruz Black’s BLACK On Screen offering for September.
RSVP for the Capitola showing HERE
RSVP for the RCNV showing HERE