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By Vincent Dowd
image captionRap star Joey Bada$$ plays the central character Carter
Travon Free was co-writing a romcom screenplay last year when George Floyd died. Free decided the romcom would have to wait - as an African American, he wanted to create a serious screenplay addressing the police killings of black people in the US.
But the resulting short film, Two Distant Strangers, which is nominated at this week s Oscars, still borrows a lot from one of the big comedy hits of the 1990s.
Travon Free started his career as a writer on Comedy Central s Daily Show. Last May, he was at work on a screenplay with Martin Desmond Roe, a white British writer and director who has worked in Los Angeles for almost 20 years.