. >> my name is ashley o'shay. i'm from chicago, illinois. i'm 27 years old and i'm a cinematographer and documentarien. i in college in 2012 when trayvon martin was killed, that was really like the genesis for the current movement for black lives, but at the time of course we didn't know that. >> i was in the street in 2014. i was one of many people in the street for days in ferguson. if we were not in the street for mike brown people would have said we didn't exist. it wasn't until we went to the street that we took away people's ability to say this isn't an issue. we use our bodies to say "here's what's true." >> first time that i brought ply camera to a protest was in the fall of 2015 when i began the film making process for my documentary. it's basically a deep look into the movement for black lives in chicago, told through the experiences of two young black queer women. >> we are black history in the making. >> there was literally a wall of police that was protecting this property. in that moment, i realized that this film had a lot mor