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Synopsis
In conversation with their mother, emerging filmmaker Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo compares both their lives at 29, in 1996 and 2025 respectively. An exploration of Black motherhood, queerness, and identity, “Twenty-Nine” shares a warm and witty intergenerational heart-to-heart in the face of an ever-changing socio-political landscape.
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Damini Awoyiga is a poet and former Youth Poet Laureate for the Halifax Regional Municipality (2023–2024). She is a freelance journalist with CBC Mainstreet and a member of the HRM Youth Advisory Committee. In 2025, she delivered her first TEDx Talk and is pursuing journalism at King’s College.
