Haint
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When gentrifiers suddenly begin dying mysteriously, a Gullah Geechee handywoman who recently lost her home, must decide whether to use her ancestral knowledge to save them or leave the newcomers to their fate.
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Jahmil Eady
Jahmil Eady is a writer-director from Charleston, SC, and NYC who blends genre with social impact storytelling. Eady earned her BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and holds an MFA in Directing from UCLA where she was the Inaugural Graduate Class Artist, representing over 14,000 Bruins for the class of 2023. She is also the Princess Grace Foundation's inaugural Sir Roger Moore Honoree in Filmmaking. Eady began her career in unscripted film and television and was an associate producer on documentary projects for the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), Viceland and Discovery Networks. Collectively, her award-winning short films have screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide, including several Academy Award® and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals. Her work has also been supported by Tribeca Institute, Chanel, Film Independent, and NFMLA NewNarratives. She is a director in the American Film Institute's 2025 DWW+ program.