Two Distant Strangers

Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe.[2][3] The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.[4][5] Two Distant Strangers won the award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, marking distributor Netflix's first win in the category.[6]

Two Distant Strangers
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Directed by	Travon Free Martin Desmond Roe
Screenplay by	Travon Free
Produced by	Van Lathan Lawrence Bender Jesse Williams Chris Uettwiller Sean Combs Mickey Meyer Terrence J
Starring	Joey Badass Andrew Howard
Cinematography	Jessica Young
Edited by	Alex Odesmith
Music by	James Poyser
Production companies	Dirty Robber NowThis Six Feet Over
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	November 20, 2020
Running time	32 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$443,050 (all short films)[1]

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