Director Walter Thompson-Hernandez approached us with one question:

How can we deliver a short film highlighting the intersections of race, history, and Afro-surrealism to tell authentic stories of Black aspiration and hope, despite circumstance?


When If I Go Will They Miss Me debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, NOMMO Cultural Strategies served as a story and research consultant on the project. Set in Watts, California, the film follows Lil’ Ant, a young boy captivated by Pegasus, the winged figure from Greek mythology. As his fascination grows, he begins to see airplane-like beings in his neighborhood and dreams of flying among them.

NOMMO provided narrative development and cultural research support to help ground the film’s visionary themes in the lived realities of its setting. The film went on to win the 2022 Sundance U.S. Fiction Jury Prize.