SCB BLACK on Screen Film Series: Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis

What does it mean to fall into a forbidden love? When your friends don’t understand or approve of your choices? What does it mean to live fully, despite fatal epidemics, whether AIDS of the 1990s or tuberculosis of the previous century?

How do we navigate the intersection of Blackness, deafness, happiness, status, and class identity?

These are the questions the film, Compensation, by Zeinabu irene Davis poses for her characters, one century apart. Part of the Los Angeles Rebellion movement of independent films, 2025 is the first year audiences have been invited to see it as a theatrical release and newly restored in 4K. Deftly woven into this narrative film is archival footage which anchors the viewing experience in history.

Santa Cruz Black has the honor of bringing this film to you.

Wednesday, September 17th at the Resource Center for Nonviolence

Doors open at 6 pm, screening begins at 6:30 pm. This film clocks in at 92 minutes and afterwards we will engage in a hearty community discussion.

Host or Publisher Santa Cruz Black