Exclusive: Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, the filmmakers behind the Academy Award-winning 2021 live-action short Two Distant Strangers, have found their next awards play in Will I See You Again?, a live-action short co-written and directed by Michael Perez-Lindsey, which they’ve boarded as executive producers.

Others newly aboard the project as EPs include Mickey Meyer, the duo’s partner in entertainment company Unreasnble, and actress DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It).

Co-written and executive produced by Rhett Lindsey, the short centers on two former college teammates who find themselves summoned to their late friend’s estate hearing after 20 years of estrangement. To claim their inheritance, they must first confront their past relationship while undergoing a polygraph test.

Pic marks one of the first directorial efforts for Perez-Lindsay, who has worked alongside top cinematographers as a digital imaging technician on productions like Roadside’s Hello, My Name Is Doris and...