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“Derry Girls” director Mike Lennox infuses a necessary liveliness into a dark story that links to present concerns in more ways than simply thematic.

He infuses música Mexicana’s distinctive guitar strum on “Ex-Special” with Peso Pluma, the pulsating sounds of deep house on “En La Bentley” and a bouncy jersey club beat on “58” with his unshakable understanding of reggaeton.

In many of the YouTube videos, Donte infuses archival footage — some that he’s found online and others that his friends have given him — of Black families dancing at cookouts or participating in praise and worship at church — his way of preserving Black culture, he says.

Cort noted that Sargent’s “courageous heart infuses every frame of our film.”

Over 10 tracks, Arocena infuses pop sounds into her neo-soul style.