11 minutes to change how you see girlhood, power, and cherry lemonade forever.
On a hot summer day in a lower-income neighborhood, a black girl learns to take the lead on her own terms.
Acting
Eris Baker's micro-expressions do *heavy* lifting.
Direction
Ford makes 11 minutes feel like a whole childhood.
Director
Aisha Ford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aisha Ford made this as her thesis film at NYU — it later screened at Sundance's 2019 short film program, launching her feature development deal.
The 'lemonade hustle' as narrative device directly references the real-world entrepreneurship of Black children in food deserts, where corner stores become training grounds for economic literacy.
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