One evening, two weeks ago, 24-year-old Natan Mwanza was stabbed and killed at a bus stop in Melbourne’s south-west. His family migrated from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Australia in 2008, and his death sparked an outpouring of grief from African diasporic communities.

Historian and filmmaker Santilla Chingaipe set out to understand what happened, but it soon became a story about how crime is reported – and how Black lives and grief are treated in the media.