Nominated for Best Documentary Short
Latasha Harlins was 15 years old when a corner store clerk shot her in the back of the head, one of the inciting incidents for the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Now, 30 years later, her friends and family remember her not as a statistic, but as a bright, motivated young woman in this short from Netflix.
This is a tragic story, one that absolutely never needed to happen. It's also unfortunately prescient, since we've not moved as a country past the systemic abuses of power that allow young people like Latasha Harlins to be destroyed and their murderers go free.
I am not going to critique the subject, but I will say that I didn't get the stylistic choice of grainy, sort of generic 90s backgrounds. I would have appreciated more interview footage, since those were the most powerful parts, and having the screen look like an idling .wav on Windows Media Player. But otherwise, A+ we've-learned-nothing. Currently streaming on Netflix.
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