some buffalo yun finds her themes in the here and now the american filmmakers work is driven by rage and resistance. she grew up in los angeles and her childhood was characterized early on by a sense of differences of exclusion and insurmountable barrier. when i was about eight or nine and i started to see some of the problems that exist in american society and i was really confusing curious you know why were all the black people in one area and why people in a different area and why don't all the black people you know work at the grocery store or not at the bank and you know these kind of questions came into my mind at a really early write. down like. when you write that are there twenty fourteen demonstrators and police faced off in the streets of ferguson missouri. oh my god. michael brown jr was killed. he was eighteen years old and he was gunned down by a police officer cars. i know you. really. like. and i get out there and it's just i mean total chaos the police had you know huge rifles that they were shooting rubber bullets and tear gas and pepper spray and people are running