Christian Valera

Barry, Igor, and Butterscotch are three young amateur filmmakers with big dreams of becoming Hollywood directors. To gain recognition, the bumbling trio decide their next endeavor will be a short film about a jewelry store robbery. Meanwhile, two grifters, Larry and Terry, are tired of being small time criminals, so they plot to rob the local marijuana dispensary. When their actors drop out of production last minute, the filmmakers cross paths with Larry and Terry during their robbery, and the two crews join forces to make their dreams come true.

Angel Dweh left Liberia for Pennsylvania as a child. Over the following decade he builds a music career entirely on his own terms — his own label, his own sound, his own rooms — releasing three EPs that move from introduction, to confession, to something stripped bare. The film traces the sound back further than he does. A century earlier, Kru sailors from the Liberian coast worked European ships as free crew and came home with guitars, playing them in a two-finger style that travelled port to port and became the foundation of West African popular music. Across conversations with Dweh and the people who record him, a portrait emerges of an artist who keeps his life private and reveals himself only through lyrics and, having made it somewhere new, turns back toward the country he came from.