Nekisa Cooper
TFI Support
Tribeca All Access® 2009
About
Nekisa Cooper is a producer whose latest documentary feature project, Eventual Salvation, is slated to air on the Sundance Channel, after having received the 2007 Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award and a 2007 Sundance Documentary Grant. Cooper was selected for the inaugural Sundance Producing Lab, and is a 2009 FIND Project Involve Fellow. She is currently developing the feature version of the award-winning short, Pariah.
Eventual Salvation
After having fled Liberia due to civil war, an 80-year-old grandmother returns to rebuild her life and bring healing to her adopted homeland that welcomed her nearly 50 years ago.
La Muneca Fea (The Ugly Doll)
A group of elderly sex workers in Mexico city seek peace and find community behind the walls of casa Xochiquetzal, a refuge established by one of their former colleagues.