>> Hi Chey Grayson and I'm based in Brooklyn New York.
>> I think everyone appreciates a good ghost story
whether it's The Other's, The Sixth Sense, The Orphanage.
A lot could be exposed to that genre.
My film Redbones is a gothic car family drama
about a black family living in the countryside of Ireland
and follows my protagonist Nina
who has graduated from a boarding school in London
that she spent most of her life.
And now that she's graduated she wants to come home
and reconnect with her family and develop a real relationship
that she never really had the chance to.
When she gets there she realized that her family
is actually very much in shambles.
Her mom's been M.I.A. since she was very very young
and her older sisters
and niece are estranged from their father
so she takes on the task to bring them together.
But when she tries she discovers
that her father has been missing for several days
and has found a mysterious ern on his front steps.
>> This discovery leads the family to complete chaos.
>> Through the course of a weekend Nina and her sisters
stay in their late grandmother's house
and all of the secrets from their past and paranormal forces
at work come to light.
Over the course of our weekend.
>> I think that BET Networks
and Paramount Players should make my movie
because it's a film that's never been done before.
There has been some beautiful representation
of black families
over the course of cinematic history.
But in terms of Gothic you know
the gothic genre really Kasi Lemmons
is it was the only one that really exists
and I think it's really important to see.
>> The kind of French culture that we inhabit and navigate.
And I also think that seeing black people in a country
where people don't think black people
are is also really important.
So my movie has the substance of a real family drama.
Real tensions real hardships
but also the really great throw value
of just a properly good horror film and ghost story
which I think has been one more and Damascenes
get out filmmaking
and storytelling is the absolute most important thing to me
and the entire world.
>> I've been writing stories all my life.
And whether it's on construction paper or on a typewriter
or have broken typewriter on my laptop
I've never stopped
and I've been making films since I was in college.
And it's important to me because I'm an empath
and that I feel so much and feel.
>> Everything sometimes at once.
>> And the only way for a release has been to create
and that's been my means of catharsis
is to have something that's weighing on me
and to be able to bring something into the world
that that represents that weight and that pain
but also has beauty which is why I love film
because it has that power to do that.
So the great debate the best film
Black film ever made which for me all changed to the day
is tied to Malcolm X amount made for me
seeing Malcolm X was the first time
that I said wow these textbooks didn't teach me nothing.
>> And for tonight it was the first times.
One of the first times seeing such a beautiful
subtle whisper of a story
about what it means to come of age
and what it means to be queer
and what it means to have your identity shift
and change and and come to form.
>> So both of those both with their visuals their score
the music is incredible and they're acting.
Those are just hands down.
I think. The best.
So I'm Chey Grayson.
>> And to me project create means my dream is coming true.
It means my dreams coming true for the opportunity to bring.
>> A new fresh perspective to the black experience
but also to create a community of people
who are looking for a good scare but also a really good story.
>> Thank you.