A 12-year-old girl strives to rekindle her parent's dwindling romance at her desert town's annual carnival, and learns painful lessons about love in the process. Adapted from Nijla Mu'min's short story, "The Carnival" this bittersweet family drama looks at dream and reality in the mind of a developing girl who waits for her truck-driving father to come home.

After witnessing the mass drowning of her friends and struggling with the decision not to jump in, 15-year old Tiana must decide if she will join the order of black mermaids that protect the waters where her friends rest. This film is partly inspired by the 2010 mass drowning of six black teens in a Shreveport, Louisiana sinkhole. None of them could swim. The film blends coming of age drama and fantasy to explore traumatic memory in a post- BP oil spill New Orleans. Screenings: New Voices in Black Cinema Film Festival at BAMcinématek- 2014 Blackstar Film Festival- 2014 Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) "a/wake in the water" series- upcoming (8/27) ~more screenings coming soon Stay updated with the film. SHARE, LIKE, TWEET! Website: delugethefilm.com/index.html Awards: 2012 Princess Grace Film Scholarship- Cary Grant Film Award Calarts Diversity Grant Starring: Jasmine Brittany Johnson as Tiana Kelvin Harrison as Kareem Oliver Thomas (HBO's "Treme") as Honore Chasity Rogers as Noel Constance Thompson as Merma Michole Briana White ("I Will Follow," "25th Hour," "Stick Fly") as Older Tiana Writer/Director/Co-Producer: Nijla Baseema Mu'min Producer: Jevonne Bowman DP: Soraya Selene Costume Designer: Lux Haac Executive Producers: Kimya Dawson ("Juno"), Sarah Harrison, and H&S Construction Music: "You Don't Know What Love Is," performed by Michole Briana White Shot on location in New Orleans and Franklinton, Louisiana. This film was made possible with support from WONDERFUL Indiegogo supporters, The Princess Grace Foundation, Calarts MFA Writing and Film Directing Programs, Arri CSC, Fedex, and Film New Orleans.