Joseann Tejeda is a Dominican-born filmmaker raised in Boston. Growing up, Joseann was exposed to many different types of cultures and ethnicities along with the fusions that exist in-between. Such marriages and juxtapositions have always interested Joseann, drawing him to works such as Rush Hour (1998), Samurai Champloo (2004) and genres such as Jazz Fusion and Habibi Funk. With colorful aesthetic blends as a backdrop, Joseann’s current work uses Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation as a vessel to explore themes of masculinity and the price of refusing love.