Julisa Powell

In the heart of a bustling city's art scene, Kaya, a Black Queer artist grappling with the enigmatic whispers of her past. Just before an eminent showcase poised to skyrocket her career, Kaya is engulfed by a storm of haunting dreams and memories of a long-lost lover. These visions, as eloquently enchanting as they are, bleed into the fabric of her daily life, stirring a tempest of confusion and self-reflection. And then the vision becomes a reality, when her past lover accidentally reappears in her life.

This time and dimension spanning epic is a captivating and mind-bending Afrofuturist story that embarks on a breathtaking journey of galactic politics, heritage, and destiny. In 1857, a slave in Little Dixie, Missouri is thrust into an intergalactic crises after helping an alien from a crashed spaceship. An ultra-powerful alien artifact passes through generations of bloody fingers and inheritors here on Earth, including the present, and ultimately leads to an epic battle for control. "Underneath: Children of the Sun" is St. Louis filmmaker David Kirkman's feature film debut.