Project Detail

The Trodden Grass

Synopsis

As a young black girl falls out of love with her natural hair, a mother - through a poem - works to inspire self love and acceptance in her daughter, against a world that whispers otherwise.

Visit Film Website

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 6 min 4 sec
Format: Digital Super 35mm
Director: Noah Turner, Chander Ramnarine
Producer: Noah Turne, Chander Ramnarine
Editor: Noah Turner, Chander Ramnarine
Screenwriter: Noah Turner, Chander Ramnarine
Director of Photography: Noah Turner, Chander Ramnarine
Production Designer: Debbie Duru
Sound: Louis Walker
Composer: Pete Mills
Principal cast: Melissa James, Frankie Rechere, Moizelle Olaleye, Nasri Thompson

Genre

Experimental Drama Black

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

OrangeRam Studios

Noah Turner
Chander Ramnarine

Noah@orangeram.co.uk Chander@orangeram.co.uk

Page updates

This page was last updated on 19th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

Grace is born of dual heritage: she has a white British mother and a Black Jamaican father. As she reaches her early teens, Grace takes her identity into her own hands and begins to navigate how to exist as a young woman, fully Black, fully white. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2026 - International premiere

Black Drama