Islan Nettles was an African American transgender woman who was killed on August 17, 2013.
[1] The killer, James Dixon, was not indicted until March 2015, despite turning himself in three days after the attack and confessing that he had flown into "a blind fury" when he realized that Nettles was a transgender woman.
[3] During his confession, Dixon said that his friends had mocked him for flirting with Nettles, not realizing that she was transgender.
Furthermore, in an incident a few days prior to the beating, his friends had teased him after he flirted with two transgender women while he was doing pull-ups on a scaffolding at 138th Street and Eighth Avenue.
The film was directed by Oluseyi Adebanjo and screened by PBS Channel 13, as well as the Brooklyn Museum.