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When Jay’Aina “Jay Jay” Patton discovered coding, she was a 10-year-old girl who had just gotten her first laptop, learning while peering over her dad’s shoulder. “She was able to comprehend and just absorbed it like a little sponge,” recalls Jay Jay’s father, Antoine Patton. Fast forward to today, and not only has the now 16-year-old built a groundbreaking app, but she is also helping teach thousands of young people of color to code.

Winner, NYICFF Grown Up Short Film Award

Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival: Inaugural Brand Storytelling

Official Selection, Providence Children’s Film Festival

Official Selection, Maui Film Festival

Official Selection, Port Townsend Film Festival

Official Selection, 2022 Lunafest Film Festival

Tangled Roots follows Attica Scott, the only black woman in the Kentucky state legislature, as she fights to dismantle a system of discrimination against black people penalized for something seemingly innocuous – their hair.

BET Premiere in June 2020

Showtime Premiere in August 2020

Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival 2020

Official Selection, DOC NYC Film Festival

Official Selection, American Film Institute Film Festival (AFI Fest 2020)

Official Selection, Athena Film Festival at Barnard College

Official Selection, GLIDE Social Justice Film Festival

Official Selection, Milwaukee Film Festival (Women’s History Month)

Official Selection, Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival