Inspired by writers Zora Neale Hurston and Octavia Butler, ships a comin merges sci-fi, fantasy, and Black ​history to examine the African-American experience in the past and future.

The film has played at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival, African Women Arts & Film ​Festival, Venice Shorts Festival, Film Collective Short Film Festival, 10th International Video Poetry Festival, ​3 Minute Film Festival, Rendacon Animation Film Festival, and won Best Short at the Kwanzaa Film Festival, ​Afro5 Film Festival, and the Poetry Film Festival.