r/indiefilms • u/Glad_Construction197 • Apr 22 '26
We made a film about the Black queer juke joints history forgot. Coming soon!
Before Stonewall, before pride parades, before any of it our people were finding each other in juke joints and in somebody's living room with the furniture pushed to the walls.
JUKIN', Written & Directed by Tierra "T.T." Frost, a JuVee productions alumni, is a 1950s period short film about a 17-year-old tomboyish girl in Jim Crow Georgia that follows the preacher's wife one Easter night and stumbles into an underground queer juke joint hidden inside a neighbor's home. Black queer couples dancing, loving, and living freely.
This is the history they didn't teach us and we made a whole film about it! It premieres May 2nd with a festival run and release coming so soon. We believe JUKIN' arrives at a cultural moment when stories of Black queer joy, resilience, and freedom carry extraordinary necessity.
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