Video Interview: @ThisFunktional talks with BYGONES’ filmmaker talks about the need for more female athlete stories

Jesus Figueroa, @Thisfunktional of ThisFunktional.com, talks with filmmaker Angel McCoughtry about drama BYGONES. In Bygones, a rising young basketball star forms a bond with her mentor, only to discover he was involved in the racist killing of her grandfather, a fellow athlete, decades earlier. What began as a promising mentorship suddenly becomes a painful reminder that the same systems supporting her athletic growth are built on unresolved histories of violence and exclusion. The betrayal forces Charissa to question not only her bond with JJ, but whether the spaces she occupies truly see her beyond her talent—as a person whose history still matters.