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Still, it was honoring Kalu’s vision that became the priority for both Silver and the film’s director, Ali LeRoi, who was on the committee that awarded the LAUNCH prize and quickly identified it as a story he wanted to tell. Throughout the film—which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year before being released last week on streaming services—Tunde’s run-ins with the police become increasingly violent before reaching a conclusion that is harrowing but ultimately redemptive. “As you’re watching the movie, the deaths become, strangely, more intimate,” Silver says. “It’s easy to feel numb watching a death at the beginning that feels very distant from you, but by the final death, you fully see the humanity in it, that this is happening to a human being and not just another post on your social media feed. We really tried to make sure that things weren’t gratuitous in this film. Everything is part of the storytelling.” Silver’s surprise at Kalu’s incisive social ...