A Love Song for Latasha

The short documentary A Love Song for Latasha by Sophia Nahli Allison is indeed that, a cinematic elegy for Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old Black girl whose fatal shooting in a South Central convenience store contributed to the 1992 L.A. riots.

...the decision to embrace poetic abstract over reenactment is an easy one to make. And that's exactly what Sophia Nahli Allison does with her short A Love Song for Latasha.

Despite the inherently heartbreaking subject...the tenor here is more a celebration of life than a eulogy, lamenting what was lost that day but more pointedly honouring Harlins' strength of spirit during her few years on this Earth.

[A] remarkably accomplished first film by American filmmaker Sophia Nahli Allison, is a dreamy, stream-of-consciousness elegy...