In the mid-’90s, Sebastian A. Jones was a young, mixed-race record producer in Los Angeles dreaming of something bigger. After spending the last decade mapping out the fantasy world of Asunda, a realm that filters the lore of a J. R. R. Tolkien novel through the prism of the African diaspora, he was ready to pitch his vision to Hollywood. Unfortunately, this was the ‘90s, and Hollywood wasn’t interested.
