[2] She earned a BA in photojournalism from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in visual communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[4] Often described as the Rodney King riots, Allison sought to restore the memory of Harlins’ life and death and her significance.
[5] At the time, security camera footage of Harlins' death was broadcast widely on television news, but Allison's work does not include it.
[6] Instead, Jude Dry wrote in IndieWire, the 19-minute film is "bursting with sun-kissed sidewalks and faded basketball courts, clean line animation and radiant Black girls posed gracefully, like young queens.
"[7] The day of the shooting is depicted in animation, intercut with VHS tape static, to heighten the sense of memory despite the lack of any home movies of Harlins.
[13] The audio on the 2D film features two Black women discussing what they have been through, on a loop: in Filmmaker Magazine Randy Astle describes the work as “cyclic, ‘starting’ again where it leaves off[...] illustrating the recurring pattern of Black women forging their identities in whatever new context confronts them.”[14] Astle felt these New Frontier works were the most successful part of the festival, held remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.