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Synopsis
Eleven minutes. That's how long Alira played tonight.
A 2017 WNBA champion plagued by injury, Alira has been shaving minutes for a prop-betting ring that's about to collapse around her. An FBI agent’s at her locker. Her bank accounts are frozen by the time she reaches the tunnel for her post-game Blue Gatorade. Her partner in the scheme is too gone to move the money.
Over a single night, Alira has to rob her partner, outrun the Feds, and leave the rookie she loves behind.
Bio
Josalynn Smith is a queer black American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. They were honored with the Sundance Uprise Grant in 2021, awarded a residency at SFFILM as Sloan Science in Cinema Filmmaker Fellow for their feature screenplay “Something in the Water,” and most recently, Josalynn was part of the 2022 Athena Film Festival Writers Lab for their pilot script “L’Amazone.” A graduate of Columbia University’s Film MFA program, their thesis short, “Something in the Water,” received the Sloan Foundation’s Production Grant. Additionally, Josalynn is the recipient of the Jesse Thompkins III Screenwriting Award from Columbia and spent time as an artist-in-residence at the Catwalk Institute. Their shorts, and a feature documentary on which they served as a narrator and videographer, have screened at St. Louis International Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto Film Festival, Bentonville Film Festival and others. Josalynn is currently in development on their first feature, “Ride or Die,” and represented by Matt Leipzig at Modern Literary Arts.
