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Cinnamon Hill
CINNAMON HILL
Written, Directed, and Produced by: Tara Raquel Cates
Music by: Kevin Ralph Nelson
Cinematography: Mark Caswell
Editing: Nial McFadyen

"Cinnamon Hill is a sobering, elegaic reflection on rape in an era of slavery." Matthew Hays

"Lacing music, photography and narrative as evolving links between collective history and individual memory, the short film CINNAMON HILL explores the relationship between Treppy, a young slave who battles against her supposedly benevolent master. In an attempt to rein her in, he forces her to question her sexuality, binding her forever to him by shame. Will the birth of their child mean a possibility for freedom or a shackle to the past?"