Our documentary film, ‘When the Waters Get Deep,’ produced in partnership with KQED and SOL Development, is an official Selection in the 2021 Pan African Film Festival (PAFF), to be held February 28-March 14, 2021.

ABOUT PAFF: Co-founded in 1992 by actors Danny Glover, the late Ja’Net DuBois and Executive Director Ayuko Babu, PAFF has become America’s largest and most prestigious Black film festival. Traditionally, each year in Los Angeles, PAFF screens over 190 new Black films from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the South Pacific, Europe, Canada and increasingly Asia, made by or about people of African descent.

SYNOPSIS: The Oakland musicians of SOL Development use hip-hop, jazz and soul to tell stories about the effects of policing, mass incarceration and gun violence, and the band members work to create spaces for healing in Black and brown communities. But when they're shaken by unspeakable losses of their own, they must look inward and lean on each other to navigate circumstances that alter their lives forever.