Travon Free is setting the record straight. The director of the Oscar-winning short film addressed recent allegations that his work copied another short film about police brutality in an op-ed for .
On April 30, filmmaker Cynthia Kao posted a video to TikTok in which she drew connections between her four-minute short film titled and Free's project.
Kao explained that her film, which was released in December 2016, follows a Black man who relives the same day and «tries to survive a police interaction.» Kao says that a producer from video news outlet NowThis reached out asking for her permission to use pieces of the video in a report after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
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