Writer/director Bomani J. Story attending the 6:30pm screening on Saturday, April 15th at the Capri Theater.
“It has been a dream of mine to bring an adaptation of Frankenstein to film through the Black lens with a lead character as smart as my sister.” Director Bomani J. Story has done just that with The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a stunning and fresh take on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic.
Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) is a brilliant 17-year-old, whose future seems bright. But when her brother, Kango (Denzel Whitaker), is brutally murdered, Vicaria turns all of her intelligence towards one goal: “curing” death. Vicaria’s success might be short-lived, as the now-revived Kango emerges as a very different person than she once knew. Bomani J. Story’s feature debut challenges our ideas of life and death following a family that, despite the terrors of systemic pressure, will survive and be reborn together again.
Director Biography
Bomani J. Story wrote stories as a child and studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California's school of Cinematic Arts. He is the director of the short films “Hollow Tags” (2012), “Mill Street” (2014), and “Nerves of Steel” (2015). The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023) is his debut feature.