This is installment #15 of Shadow And Act's #ShortFilmShoutout series. With many factors such as exorbitant housing prices and gentrification threatening to displace many Black families in America, filmmaker Stewart Gray III has used his semi-autobiographical short film to hone in on this notion of rebuilding. An official selection of the 2019 Blackstar Film Festival, What This Place Meant opens up with a simplistic image of a brother and sister duo playing outside. Gray's searing short chronicles a family of four tasked with redefining their idea of home after being displaced by a house fire. Gray's directorial eye is present throughout the short, showcasing aspects of the family home before its disintegrated in a fire. Afterward, the family stays at a neighbor's home and Gray's short film takes viewers on an emotional odyssey of what their home meant to them and rebuilding from the ashes they've been dealt. Watch below: READ MORE: #ShortFilmShoutout: 'Drive Slow' Explores The Feeling Of Applying To College Through The Lens Of A Chicago Teen #ShortFilmShoutout: Black Girl Magic Meets Period Piece Mystery In 'Beauty' #ShortFilmShoutout: The Animated Film 'Felix' Is A Sweet Tearjerker #ShortFilmShoutout: 'The Dispute' Is 'B.A.P.S.' Meets 'Atlanta,' With A Focus On Friendship And Laid Edges #ShortFilmShoutout: 'Malcolm' Imagines What Malcolm X Would Say About 21st Century Racism #ShortFilmShoutout: Ifeoma Nkiruka Chukwuogo's 'Bariga Sugar' Follows An 8-Year-Old In Lagos Black Filmmakers, Submit Your Film To #ShortFilmShoutout From Harlem to Hollywood, get the Black entertainment news you need in your inbox daily.