Nova: A New Spelling of My Name

  • September 2021
  • 12mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Nova Scott-James,

    A young artist, born as Nicole, but renamed Nova, sets out on a healing journey on an indigenous Taino sanctuary in upstate New York. Accompanied by the Wild Darlings, a black + queer, healing arts collective, she transmutes the trauma of her past by performing in white-face as the male teacher that sexually abused her as a child.