After Tribeca, 'Songs of Black Folk' Heads to Indy Shorts

After Tribeca, 'Songs of Black Folk' Heads to Indy Shorts

Songs of Black Folk co-director Haley Watson found herself drawn to the stories of Pacific Northwest natives Rev. Dr. Leslie Braxton and his nephew, Ramón Bryant Braxton for many reasons. But one reason kept rising to the surface. “It was a chance to shine a light on Black culture in the Pacific Northwest that has traditionally been underrepresented or ignored,” Watson tells Seattle magazine from an airport lounge in Dallas.  That impulse led to…