Our first story consist of two strong elements that had deeply affected the lives of our interviewees. There was a unsolved murder of a transgender family member and another person who had been wrongly accused of a crime and currently surviving over 20 years behind bars.
Although the main focus of the documentary is "The G-Code" many more aspects of the story and struggle began to quickly reveal themselves. Our first sound bite ever shot was of a gentleman by the name if "Scooter". He talked about the effects that black silence has on a community as a whole. When he was growing up in the tough sections of Tampa's hoods and ghettos, he gained knowledge that led him into a different direction.
Not knowing how much of a touchy subject we were about to embark on with the lost of his nephew, a transgender named Cory; Scooter quickly showed strong emotions for the unsolved murder that had claimed a close family member's life.
After getting a little more comfortable, the rest of the family began to open up and it didn't feel like a documentary anymore but that we were apart of the family and they shared their grief so that the pain could essentially be felt at a high degree.
One moment that impacted me the most out of the entire trip to Tampa was when we actually visited the grave site of Cory, who lived his life as "Coryell".
It was then when I realized the documentary was started to fall into place because we were on the right path and had selected the best people to effectively tell their story.
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