Enongo (aka Sammus) navigates music, academia and identity in this documentary that examines her life as a rapper, scholar, teacher and nerd.

What does it mean to be a Black woman rapper, a Cornell PhD candidate, and a proud nerd all at once? Director Kevin Schreck follows Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka Sammus) as she tours North America, records a new album, and navigates a full-time career alongside academic life. Through her unique afrofuturism-inspired music, Enongo/Sammus tackles mental health, identity, race and feminism while cultivating a strong following of activists, hip hop heads, punks, and proud geeks alike.

The film blends vérité footage with hand-drawn animation created entirely by an all-Black women team - the first in the history of feature filmmaking - bringing to life the interior world behind the public persona: her Ithaca upbringing, years teaching in Houston, return to Cornell, and the music that threads it all together. Intimate, empowering, and wholly original, Enongo is a story of survival, artistic creation, and a woman who artist who consistently thinks outside boxes and dances across lines.

Media

Bonus Materials

• Full-length audio commentary track by director Kevin Schreck, composer EmmoLei Sankofa, and animators
• Q&A at the Hip Hop Film Festival with subject Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, director Kevin Schreck, and animators Shammah McVay & Anaiyah Tatiana
• Animation-themed Q&A at the Philadelphia Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and animator Anaiyah Tatiana
• Music-themed Q&A at the Denton Black Film Festival with director Kevin Schreck and composer EmmoLei Sankofa
• Storyboard to Final Animation comparisons

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo as self
•       Lanre Akinsiku as self
•       Zöe Brecher as self
•       Adrienne Hailey as self
•       N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba as self
•       Alejandro Tello as self

Director: Kevin Schreck

Producer: Kevin Schreck

Additional Details

Label: IndiePix Films

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Run Time: 92 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/11/26

UPC: 845637064984