Luz, a Filipina interpreter, takes a call from Dr. Femi Balogun to discuss the end-of-life options for Remedios, an elderly Filipina woman in the hospital ICU during the early months of the COVID pandemic.

Director - Zeinabu irene Davis

Zeinabu irene Davis is an independent filmmaker and Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Her work is passionately concerned with the depiction of women of African descent and ranges across genres, including narrative, experimental, and documentary. Davis’s dramatic feature film Compensation (1999) is currently being remastered for the Criterion Collection and was recently programmed for TMC’s Black Independent Film showcase. New Yorker magazine lists it as “One of the greatest American independent films ever made.”