Watch Out For the Ghosts
A personal meditation on loss, family, home and reclamation through the artistic process of Adebunmi Gbadebo. Gbadebo creates works out of organic materials from the South Carolina plantation cemeteries where her formerly enslaved ancestors and their descendants are buried.
Screenings
Virtual
Availability BeginsThursday, August 61:30PM EDT
Directors Spotlight
Yvonne Michelle Shirley
Director
Yvonne Michelle Shirley is a filmmaker based in Newark, NJ. Her practice is concerned with filmmaking as a space for gathering, community building, empowerment, and preservation. This focus informs her work as Director of the Community Media Center at Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design at Rutgers University-Newark.
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 28 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Director
- Yvonne Michelle Shirley
- Screenwriters
- Adebunmi Gbadebo, Yvonne Michelle Shirley
- Producers
- Alliyah Allen, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Yvonne Michelle Shirley
- Executive Producers
- Express Newark, Edwin S. Shirley
- Cast
- Adebunmi Gbadebo, Benny Hanes, Jackie Whitmore, Helen Carson-Peterson, Congregation of Jerusalem Baptist Church Fort Motte, South Carolina, The United Family Reunion
- Cinematographers
- Yvonne Michelle Shirley, Vanessa Blake, Sébastien Denis
- Editors
- Stefani Saintonge, Doug Lenox, Yvonne Michelle Shirley
- Sound Design
- Orion Gordon, Rah Productions
- Premiere
- World Festival