Bob Marley's Granddaughter's Airbnb Profiling Incident Inspires Film

Bob Marley’s granddaughter’s traumatic experience during a stay at an Airbnb has turned into an award-winning short film that is headed to the Sundance Film Festival.

Marley’s granddaughter, Donisha Prendergast, is the lead actress in “Black Bodies,” a four-minute film about the impact of deadly police violence against the Black community.

Prendergast, and writer and director for the film, Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, along with Komi Olaf, who was also featured in the film, had been packing up from a filming project in Rialto, California. As they were leaving their Airbnb a neighbor, who had waved at them, called the police accusing the group of burglarizing the home.

It was that incident that inspired Prendergast, Fyffe-Marshall, and Olaf to create “Black Bodies” and Fyffe-Marshall called the accomplishment “bittersweet,” “It’s a great accomplishment cinematically…But this film is so relevant, and I don’t want [films like this to be] relevant all the time. Like, I want it to be a historical film.”