PanAMERICAN

Our first project, PanAMERICAN tells the story of a black boy, Pan, who flees his urban community, ForeverEver Land, to create a space out of time for himself. Fearing the fate that has befallen the older men around him, he decides to strike out on his own, to build a world apart: The Gone.

After considering those he’s left behind, Pan lures other young men to join him in paradise: his Black Boys Lost. By withdrawing from a world that mitigates the fragility and innocence for black boys, Pan creates the world where those doomed to be powerless control their own destiny and their own borders.  But, when a young Wendy emigrates from her own pocket of ForeverEver land, the cross-cultural tension creates a discord between the desire to feel safe and the necessity of being free. Far from a true hero, Pan, cannot reconcile his power and his humanity, and Wendy represents a test to both.

Routed in the storytelling of the cultures we carry with us and the hands with which we build,  PanAMERICAN tells the tale of the oppressed stepping avoiding the encroaching world of familiar danger to create the free world of black enterprise, a danger in and of itself.  Our story reimagines the themes of societal responsibility, sociopolitical structures and complex power structures. subversively, it reimagines fantasy under the heavy burden of overly simplistic gender and racial identities. In turning the story of Peter Pan on it’s head, the contemporary lens speaks on piracy, martial law and generational trauma while maintaining a connection to dreaming big, creating one's fantasy community and never forgetting who you really are.