23 things Grace Ojukwu from Austin, TX actually loves
- The moment an interview subject forgets the camera is there
- Barton Springs on a 100-degree day
- Hoop Dreams, which made me want to do this
- My mother's jollof rice, which settles every argument
- Werner Herzog's voice, not his films, his voice
- Franklin Barbecue brisket, yes it's worth the wait
- The stories people tell when you just stay quiet and let them
- South Congress on a weeknight, not a weekend
- Fela Kuti, especially Zombie
- My DP Tomoko, who sees light the way I hear sound
- Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
- Breakfast tacos from Veracruz All Natural, the migas
- The moment in the edit when the story reveals itself
- Lake Travis at sunset
- The belief that everyone has a story worth telling
- Agnes Varda's The Gleaners and I
- My dad, who drove a taxi in Lagos and told the best stories in the car
- Suya from the Nigerian spot on North Lamar
- Erykah Badu, live, in her city
- The Texas sky, which is a real thing, not just a saying
- A subject who calls you six months later to say the film changed something
- Zilker Park in the off-season, no festivals, just the park
- The feeling of flying home to Lagos and smelling the air before the doors open