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Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)

Co-Directors

Banker White, Anna Fitch

Executive Producers

Maida Lynn, Sheri Sobrato, John Boccardo, Derek Esplin, Douglas Choi, Martina Bassenger, Rick Rosenthal, Nancy Stephens, Dennis Masel, Gabrielle Nadig, Jessamine Burgum, Kara Durrett, InMaat Foundation, Robina Riccitiello, Katy Barksdale

Producers

Anna Fitch, Banker White, Sara Dosa, Hannah Roodman

Impact Producer

Esther Van Messel

Editor

Banker White

Co-Editor

Banker White

Cinematographers

Banker White, Andy Mitchell

Composer

Tyler Strickland

After losing her friend Yo, Anna spends a decade obsessively building a detailed one-third-scale replica of her house — just large enough to squeeze through the door. Inside lives a puppet version of Yo, and within this carefully reconstructed space, their relationship continues.

When they first met, Yo was 73 and Anna just 24. Over the years, the two formed a deep bond, one that endures beyond Yo’s death through Anna’s reimagining of her stories and spirit. Juxtaposing intimate vérité footage from Yo’s final year with Anna’s creative interpretations of her dramatic life, the film traces a woman who defied expectations around sexuality, motherhood, aging, and even death — while revealing the power of artistic creation to carry grief, memory, and love.

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Banker White

Co-director, Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)

Banker White is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work spans war, disease, and the complex dimensions of aging and death, unified by a compassionate humanism. His projects have been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Creative Capital, the Bertha Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Tribeca Film Institute, Impact Partners, Independent Television Service, Doc Society, and the Catapult Film Fund.

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Anna Fitch

Co-director, Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)

Anna Fitch is an Emmy Award-winning director working across independent documentary, natural history film, and performance art. She is known for her creative approach to elevating unlikely protagonists in both the natural and human worlds. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, SFFILM, the Creative Work Fund, the California Arts Council, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

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