LOOK BACK AT IT

A forty-something single mother gets her groove back with a little assistance from her teenage daughter. 

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THE FILM

Runtime: 11:44 min

Genre: Comedy

Country of Origin: United States

Filming Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Format: Digital

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Film Color: Color

Director’s Statement

The most important women in my life are my mother, sister, and my niece. Individually, they are complex and loving and giving and complicated. Together, they love hard and sometimes messily. And they’re a hoot. LOOK BACK AT IT is loosely based on them.

Taking place in my hometown Baltimore, a city better known for The Wire, this film is also inspired by the other women in my family who dream, suffer, and love hard. Only to hardly see themselves portrayed
in their nuanced glory on screen.

I hope LOOK BACK AT IT helps change that. It’s a film that showcases loving intergenerational relationships, motherhood, and women rediscovering their power-emotionally, socially, and sexually.

— Felicia Pride

Film Festivals

Pan African Film Festival

Plan A Film Festival: Black Women on the Rise (Festival and production grant winner)

FilmGood Film Festival

Atlanta Film Festival

Milwaukee Film Festival

Seattle Black Film Festival

Black Women Film Network (short film competition) (Winner of Best Screenplay, Audience Award, and Best in Festival)

Bentonville Film Festival

Newark Black Film Festival

Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival

Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival

BlackStar Film Festival (Winner of the Best Short Narrative Audience Award)

Micheaux Film Festival (Winner of the Outstanding Comedic Directing Award for a Short)

DC Black Film Festival

Afrikana Independent Film Festival

Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival (Winner of the 2023 Diversity in the Arts Award)

Imagine This Women’s Film Festival (Winner of the Best Narrative Short Film)

DC Shorts International Film Festival

PROOF Film Festival (LA)

Charlotte Film Festival

Humanitas Nomination for Short Film Screenplay

Prince George’s Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

Black Bottom Film Festival

Black Harvest Film Festival

Urbanworld Film Festival

TIDE Film Festival

Meet the Filmmakers.

  • Felicia Pride

    WRITER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER

    Felicia Pride is a TV writer / producer and an award-winning filmmaker. She wrote on Ava DuVernay's QUEEN SUGAR and was most recently a producer on GREY’S ANATOMY. She’s currently developing shows with Amazon, Netflix, and FX. In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of REALLY LOVE, produced by MACRO, which debuted on Netflix and became a Top Ten Movie on the platform. And she’s sold features to Universal, Sony, and AGC Studios. She made her directorial debut with tender, a short film which aired on STARZ, and she is currently on the festival circuit with LOOK BACK AT IT, a proof of concept for her directorial feature debut by the same name. She founded and runs HONEY CHILE, a production company catering to Black women 40+ and is the co-host of their NAACP-nominated podcast Chile, Please.

    Felicia was a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a graduate of NBC's Writers on the Verge program as a comedy writer. She started her writing career nearly twenty years ago as an entertainment journalist before going on to write several books, including the essay collection, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs. Prior to transitioning to screenwriting, she worked as a film distribution exec and an impact producer. Felicia holds an M.A. in writing from Emerson College and runs The Create Daily, a resource for underrepresented storytellers that she founded in 2012.

  • Regina Hoyles

    PRODUCER

    Originally from the south suburbs of Chicago IL, Regina Hoyles is an award winning filmmaker, writer, and performer with experience in the Film/TV industry spanning over 17 years. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in Drama and minored in the Business of Entertainment. She is the Founder/Producer of her production company RLH Productions which serves as an umbrella to her own work as well as a resource to other emerging Black artists amplifying their voices across genres.

    Her first short film ADULLAM which she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in premiered as an official selection in the 2020 Bentonville Film Festival and is now airing on REVOLT TV’s anthology series, “Short and Fresh”. The project was awarded Best Black Lens Film at the 2020 Sidewalk Film Festival as well as Best Narrative Film in the 2020 Argo’s Untold Stories. As an actor she can be featured on shows such as THE MARVELOUS MS. MAISEL (Amazon), THE CHI (Showtime), ALL RISE (OWN), And 9-1-1: LONE STAR (FOX). She is currently a writer for a new animated Disney series.

  • Amber Brown

    ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

    Amber Brown is a fiction novelist and screenwriter. Hailing from a small town in New Jersey, she graduated from Rider University where she studied Communications/Journalism and sat on the editorial staff for the On Fire!! Literary Journal, as well as completing multiple semesters abroad in London. Following her degree, she pursued a career in fashion and spent five years in NYC working her way up from intern to executive assistant to then managing her own popular fashion + lifestyle blog. Most recently she was a talent agent at Central Artists. Her true passion lies in telling sexy, fun stories that blend suspense and cultural commentary. Her debut novel with HarperCollins, SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT, will be out in the US and UK in December 2022.

Full Credits

Written & Directed By Felicia Pride

Produced By Regina Hoyles & Felicia Pride

Associate Producer Amber Brown

Starring Angel Laketa Moore, Nysa Morris, Natalie Carter, Hadiyah Robinson, Aaron Watkins, Toi Renee Goodman, Steven Maurice, Randall Newkirk 

Cinematographer Kirby Griffin

Casting By Amanda Leynker Doyle C.S.A.

Editor Tess Karmann, KO Creative Team

Production Designer Tiffani Sydnor

Costume Designer Aubrinae Washington

Composer Summer Payton

Gaffer…Leon Mitchell

Key Grip…Terrence Smith

1st Assistant Camera…Darnell Alexander

Production Sound Mixer…Christopher Broholm

Script Supervisor...Toni Adeyemi

Assistant Director…Taylor Gillen

Hair…Rashida Webb, Rx Salon

Makeup..Jasmen Davis

Location Manager…Annie Gordon

Location Scout…Nia Hampton

Set Dresser….Destiny Stephens, Brynn Adams

Set Photographer...Khamaree D. Owens, Bunmi Abari

Production Assistants…Driadonna Roland, Brynn Adams, Bryant Wiley, Alisha Patterson

Co-Producer….Nofisat Almaroof, Stephanie Kimou, Rockelle Henderson

Colorist….Kya Lou

Additional Post-Production Services Provided by KO Creative Team

Additional Casting Services Provided by Breakdown Services

Music Supervisor….Jennifer Smith

Music Assistant….Karsten Glover

Extras…Erica Paige, Mira Tyler, Kayla Punnett

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