Eventual Salvation

Eventual Salvation

TFI Suppport

Tribeca All Access® 2007

Logline

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.

Eventual Salvation

Dee Rees

Director, Producer

Diandra Rees is a native of Nashville, Tennessee and is currently a graduate film student at New York University. She has produced, written, and directed three short films, all of which have gone on to festivals. Her most recent short film, "Orange Bow," screened in several film festivals across the country, including the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival where it was very well received.

Eventual Salvation

Nekisa Cooper

Producer

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.