3 DIALOGUES ABOUT THE FUTURE
Program 2: Midnight Sessions
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 14 min
Directed by: Alina Manolache
What is it like to navigate our world as an artificially intelligent robot? What is there to learn about homo sapiens in order to become as 'human' as possible? Three pairs of robots take us through their learning process. They track, analyse and draw information by watching people in different life situations. But their algorithmic vision comes in contrast with a meditative, rather poetic dialogue in which they deconstruct and reassemble the definition of humanity as we know it.
ASI ES LA VIDA
Program Special Shorts: Latin Film Series
Genre:
Running Time: 13 min
Directed by: George Ortega
Danny has the worst day of his life at school. His uncles come over to console him with stories of their worst day.
BAD HOMBREWOOD
Program Special Shorts: New Western Cinema Series
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 24 min
Directed by: Guillermo Casarin
Guillermo Casarín, an aspiring young filmmaker, came to the United States from Mexico to pursue his dreams of becoming a film director. Now, he is on the verge of graduating from one of the best film schools in the world, but after experiencing racism in the country and film industry, he finds himself questioning his place in Hollywood. Through compelling interviews--such as Academy Award-winning directors Phil Lord, Lee Unkrich, and Guillermo Del Toro, and Melissa Fumero from the Golden Globe-winning show "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"--and archival footage, Bad Hombrewood reveals the dark side of Hollywood’s history and the challenges Latinx filmmakers face while trying to succeed in the entertainment industry.
BENTO BANANA 1-4
Webseries Program 2
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Running Time: 27 min
Directed by: Ari Grabb
An animated web series about a talking artificially intelligent banana and his eggplant sidekick existing within a procedurally generated anime that appears to be mysteriously glitching. With the progression of the series, the themes move from the absurdity and conventions of anime into existential questions about the nature of reality, The role of AI in art and Capitalism, and how much of ourselves exist within our animation.
BIRTHING JUSTICE
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 1 hr 26 min
Directed by: Monique N. Matthews
America’s medical inequities has turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women and their babies. BIRTHING JUSTICE flips that narrative, centering the expertise and lived experiences of Black women and their advocates as they fix a broken system and transform the future, one birth at a time.
CONFESSIONS
Program Special Shorts: Latin Film Series
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Running Time: 22 min
Directed by: Evette Vargas
CONFESSIONS is a grounded, present-day, one-hour, supernatural thriller franchise, exploring the multi-layered facets of sin and atonement. After committing a sin in heaven, Manuel de Castillo, an angel and former Spanish conquistador, is banished and must roam the earth until fulfilling his penance, which is to compel sinners to carry out a penance of their own, to right their wrongs and cleanse their souls. Fallen angel Manuel has been earth bound for 500-years and today, he initially contacts sinners by using the one thing they all possess- a phone.
DARLA IN SPACE
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Running Time: 1hr 34 min
Directed by: Susie Moon, Eric Laplante
Darla Peterson lives with her mother and runs her business, Kitty Kasket, out of the garage. She works hard and keeps her nose clean, so how did she end up with a $349,000.22 tax debt? Leona Peterson's nose is less clean. She suggests they hunt carburetors in the neighborhood and sell off the valuable platinum found within. With this plan, they'd have the debt paid off in two weeks. Darla is frustrated with her mother's insane notions, but she tries to make the best of her work day cleaning the warehouse overseen by Arnot Pickens. Arnot Pickens is an absentee boss at best. His work seems to be guarding a shipping container and not answering the telephone which perpetually rings. Poking around the place, Darla topples upon the discovery of a lifetime, locked tight inside the shipping container: a sentient kombucha scoby, and it can talk! Or at least, Darla can hear this scoby, whose name is Mother, loud and clear. This is not the topper in the list of Mother's unusual qualities, however. Darla discovers Mother's ability to grant mind-blowing orgasms. If Darla will help Mother fulfill her dream of going to space, Mother will help Darla with her debt. As quick as that, Darla puts her plan in motion: All she needs is to find 350 people to orgasm, or "Menage", with Mother at $1,000 a pop and the debt is paid. Totally straightfoward.
GIRL AT A BAR
Webseries Program 1
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 55 min
Directed by: Angela Cohen
Girl at a Bar is a short form series about a young woman's journey to bars alone for a year to reclaim her identity after half a decade debilitated with Lyme disease. Gabby spent years disabled with Lyme and now significantly recovered, she is ready to get her life back, so she plans a party to celebrate her improved health. But everyone flakes. So she goes to the bar up the street and there she realizes no-one treats her like she’s sick and for once, her health is not the focus. Gabby decides to keep going to bars alone, to explore her city and herself as a more able-bodied woman- still grappling with her past and managing her illness, but redefining her future. Made possible by Bay Area Lyme Foundation, the project is inspired by the writer and creator Tracy Mulholland's blog and true story of being disabled with Lyme.
HAND ME DOWNS is episodic ensemble series that explores the consequences and nuances of American masculinity on a group of friends. This programming is handed down generation to generation, father to son, brother to brother, friend to friend. we follow the group of friends through everyday life with their hand me downs guiding each step they take.
A lonely hitman from New York City travels to small towns around the country trying to find meaning in his inconsequential life as he fulfills his contracts and eliminates his targets. Based on the best selling "Hit Man" book series by Grand Master of mystery Lawrence Block. Starring Richard Kind, Karen Allen, William Sadler, and Peter Riegert.
JILL, UNCREDITED
Program 4: Dystopia Now
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Running Time: 18 min
Directed by: Anthony Ing
Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances – captured fleetingly in everything from Mr. Bean to The Elephant Man – the film is a lyrical journey through popular culture, and a haunting study of a life lived out of focus. Based on interviews with Jill Goldston. Produced by Loop and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023.
LIVESTREAM
Program Special: Asian Film Series
Genre: Thriller, Action
Running Time: 30 min
Directed by: Tanxuan Shi, Ziyuan Wang
Isabella, an out- of- date girl group idol who is experiencing a double crisis of career and age, decides to make a comeback with live-streaming; she plans to become a Chinese head influencer by selling an emerging medical bio-sector fund in North America. But her live stream spiraled out of control with the intrusion of a hacker who threatens to release a deadly biochemical virus...
MIA & THE SKELETONS' NIGHT FROM HELL
Program 2: Midnight Sessions
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy
Running Time: 4 min 35 sec
Directed by: Ryan Maples
A spec teaser short horror comedy about a punk band dealing with a rival group whose music just so happens to turn anyone who hears it into demons. Now the punk group must band together to survive a literal night from Hell. This is a short teaser film, setting up the larger story.
Having lost her own mother to suicide at a young age, Jess, a young single mother suffering with postpartum depression, now finds herself in a similar position. She lives in a small town with her older brother, working an aimless 9-5 job in a cafe, without dreams and without hope of any of this changing.
OH GREAT, RILEY'S DEPRESSED AGAIN
Program Special Shorts: New Western Cinema Series
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 11 min
Directed by: Charia Rose
Riley’s self-medication of choice right now is weed and lots of it. As she sits in her car trying to find the energy to attend an annual brunch hosted by her damn near perfect sister Jasmine, she is visited by Lee, the visual (and more put together) representation of her consciousness. Lee attempts to guide Riley through the brunch, coaching her on how to hide her “crazy” but it all comes to a head when the friend group realizes Riley is, in fact, depressed again. An intervention follows, and Riley is painfully confronted with the reality that no matter how good she thinks she is at hiding her depression, it’s impacting all those that love her. She’s left wondering how is she supposed to handle her pain and the impact it has on the ones she loves the most.
OVERWATCH: GENESIS
Webseries Program 2
Genre:
Running Time: 18 min
Directed by: Brian Horn, Doug Gregory
With Anubis unleashed, the Omnic Crisis takes hold. Humanity faces demise as only a select few, codename: Overwatch, have what it takes to fight back.
A young priest returns to Sicily to make amends with his dead mother. Grief-stricken, he contemplates the traumatic event that forced him to leave - the mysterious disappearance of his father at sea.
POWER SIGNAL
Program 2: Midnight Sessions
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Running Time: 20 min
Directed by: Oscar Boyson
While trying to navigate a city that won’t provide him a bathroom, a delivery worker discovers an unearthly presence infecting women all over New York.
Program 2: Midnight Sessions
Genre:
Running Time: 1 hr 16 min
Directed by:
Welcome to a thrilling blend of cult films, horror and NSFW dark comedy that explores the eerie world of midnight anxiety.
TABERNACLE A wandering tramp falls in with a crowd of religious zealots, led by a bumbling preacher who sermonizes, "Hellfire is a real place!" In the back pew, the tramp imagines grandiose visions of snickering devils and orgiastic torture. The unnamed hero is then baptized in the ocean and does janitorial work for the church, but idiotically causes a fire. There are devils hiding in the carpet! The preacher catches him in the act, resulting in a scuffle which leads to the demise of both.
POWER SIGNAL While trying to navigate a city that won’t provide him a bathroom, a delivery worker discovers an unearthly presence infecting women all over New York.
THE BUYERS A new homeowner grows suspicious of a neighborly couple eager to help her unpack.
MIA AND THE SKELETONS' NIGHT FROM HELL A spec teaser short horror comedy about a punk band dealing with a rival group whose music just so happens to turn anyone who hears it into demons. Now the punk group must band together to survive a literal night from Hell. This is a short teaser film, setting up the larger story.
WHAT A TRIP! Two downtrodden strangers go on a vision quest to cure their depression but end up trying to figure out why they have matching visions of a manic, talking wolf-bear named Kevin.
3 DIALOGUES ABOUT THE FUTURE What is it like to navigate our world as an artificially intelligent robot? What is there to learn about homo sapiens in order to become as 'human' as possible? Three pairs of robots take us through their learning process. They track, analyse and draw information by watching people in different life situations. But their algorithmic vision comes in contrast with a meditative, rather poetic dialogue in which they deconstruct and reassemble the definition of humanity as we know it.
Program 4: Dystopia Now
Genre:
Running Time: 1 hr 13 min
Directed by:
In the films of this program, boundaries blur between humanity and nature, identities merge with artificial realities, and isolated souls find solace amidst haunting shadows of injustice.
STILLNESS IN LABOR In the film Stillness of Labor, Chris Larson replicates 12 full-scale rooms using objects extracted from an abandoned garment factory in Tennessee to mirror the environment of the laborers. When labor was outsourced in 1998, the rural community was left without work in a town centered around industry. Larson recreates the architecture of the factory as a study of the anthropogenic imprint humans leave behind in spaces of heavy repetition.
WILD SUMMON A natural history fantasy film, following the dramatic life cycle of the wild salmon in human form. Narrated by Marianne Faithfull. A Bfi short film by Karni and Saul.
VISAO DO PARAISO
SAFE AT HOME A stop motion short film about two roommates being "safe at home" during the COVID-19 pandemic.
JILL, UNCREDITED Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances – captured fleetingly in everything from Mr. Bean to The Elephant Man – the film is a lyrical journey through popular culture, and a haunting study of a life lived out of focus.
THE FOURTH Eager to celebrate the 4th of July, a group of young black and Latino friends experience a police encounter that shatters the meaning of the holiday.
Program Special Shorts: Latin Film Series
Genre:
Running Time: 1 hr 35 min
Directed by:
In this series, Latin/Latinx American filmmakers create work in many genres with stories encompassing the past, present, or the future. The filmmakers unite in powerful artistry of portraying unique experiences.
CONFESSIONS is a grounded, present-day, one-hour, supernatural thriller franchise, exploring the multi-layered facets of sin and atonement. After committing a sin in heaven, Manuel de Castillo, an angel and former Spanish conquistador, is banished and must roam the earth until fulfilling his penance, which is to compel sinners to carry out a penance of their own, to right their wrongs and cleanse their souls. Fallen angel Manuel has been earth bound for 500-years and today, he initially contacts sinners by using the one thing they all possess -- a phone.
RAZÓN DE SER: LUIS C. GARZA is a documentary that chronicles the story of this rare Chicano photographer who uniquely documented activist movements on both coasts, and internationally, during the 1960s and 1970s. Perhaps best known recently for his work in co-curating the blockbuster LA RAZA exhibition at The Autry as part of The Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Garza's work spans from the Chicano civil rights movement in Southern California to New York where he captured scenes of his South Bronx neighborhood, demonstrations on women's rights, and rallies by the Young Lords Party who sought to empower Puerto Ricans and other colonized people. It also includes his 1971 travels to Eastern Europe for the World Peace Conference where, as a young Chicano student, he met renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. Currently, 80-year-old Garza is seeking an institution to properly archive his nearly 8,000 film negatives of his life's work.
VIDA Los Angeles – 2053, After a bloody civil war, women of color are captured and sterilized as a form of population control. Vida and a group of resistance fighters are getting ready to escape, but suddenly one of their own is captured, and they’re forced to decide between saving themselves or saving her.
ASI ES LA VIDA Danny has the worst day of his life at school. His uncles come over to console him with stories of their worst day.
THE GIANT KILLER A Mexican American reporter uncovers a plot to resegregate just a few years after the Civil Rights Movement. His worldview is challenged as he is thrust into a conspiracy too large for him to handle alone. Adapted from the 1978 novel by Richard Vasquez.
Program Special Shorts: New Western Cinema Series
Genre:
Running Time: 1 hr 47 min
Directed by:
In this series, new and seasoned filmmakers create powerful new works that span across comedy, drama, and documentary.
THE FIRST COWBOY Based on historical events, this epic story recounts the collision of two powerful and equal cultures, the Mexicans and Americans, told through the eyes and lives of two families, the genteel Southern Palmers and the educated and progressive vaquero ranchers, the Velascos. It narrates the initial mistrust, the slow and reluctant interaction, the affections which formed between them, the agreements made, and the eventual betrayal, followed by dehumanizing domination. All playing out against the backdrop of tumultuous times, culminating in the Texas Revolution and its aftermath.
OH GREAT, RILEY'S DEPRESSED AGAIN Riley’s self-medication of choice right now is weed and lots of it. As she sits in her car trying to find the energy to attend an annual brunch hosted by her damn near perfect sister Jasmine, she is visited by Lee, the visual (and more put together) representation of her consciousness. Lee attempts to guide Riley through the brunch, coaching her on how to hide her “crazy” but it all comes to a head when the friend group realizes Riley is, in fact, depressed again. An intervention follows, and Riley is painfully confronted with the reality that no matter how good she thinks she is at hiding her depression, it’s impacting all those that love her. She’s left wondering how is she supposed to handle her pain and the impact it has on the ones she loves the most.
THE LOCKET Amy, a troubled young woman answers an ad to live with a kindly woman, Grace, and her very old - and very odd - mother, Ms. Nan. Amy begins to experience strange occurrences in the house and Grace and Ms. Nan are not quite what they seem.
BAD HOMBREWOOD Guillermo Casarín, an aspiring young filmmaker, came to the United States from Mexico to pursue his dreams of becoming a film director. Now, he is on the verge of graduating from one of the best film schools in the world, but after experiencing racism in the country and film industry, he finds himself questioning his place in Hollywood. Through compelling interviews--such as Academy Award-winning directors Phil Lord, Lee Unkrich, and Guillermo Del Toro, and Melissa Fumero from the Golden Globe-winning show Brooklyn Nine-Nine--and archival footage, Bad Hombrewood reveals the dark side of Hollywood’s history and the challenges Latinx filmmakers face while trying to succeed in the entertainment industry.
PADRE A young priest returns to Sicily to make amends with his dead mother. Grief-stricken, he contemplates the traumatic event that forced him to leave - the mysterious disappearance of his father at sea.
Program Special: Asian Film Series
Genre:
Running Time: 1 hr 30 min
Directed by:
LIVESTREAM Isabella, an out- of- date girl group idol who is experiencing a double crisis of career and age, decides to make a comeback with live-streaming; she plans to become a Chinese head influencer by selling an emerging medical bio-sector fund in North America. But her live stream spiraled out of control with the intrusion of a hacker who threatens to release a deadly biochemical virus...
VARIEGATE In recent years, the mental health of teenagers has received widespread attention. This work is a visually animated short film about hypnotherapy in psychological treatment. It tells the story of a young person with a mental illness and the changes in their inner world during psychological therapy. The imagery of a bird is used to express their inner self, and a post-apocalyptic style is employed to depict the transformation of their mental world. The aim is to guide teenagers to face psychological issues, seek help bravely, self-rescue in a timely manner, and rediscover the colors within their hearts.
RAZÓN DE SER: LUIS C. GARZA
Program Special Shorts: Latin Film Series
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 15 min
Directed by: Alessandro Gentile
RAZÓN DE SER: LUIS C. GARZA is a documentary that chronicles the story of this rare Chicano photographer who uniquely documented activist movements on both coasts, and internationally, during the 1960s and 1970s. Perhaps best known recently for his work in co-curating the blockbuster LA RAZA exhibition at The Autry as part of The Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Garza's work spans from the Chicano civil rights movement in Southern California to New York where he captured scenes of his South Bronx neighborhood, demonstrations on women's rights, and rallies by the Young Lords Party who sought to empower Puerto Ricans and other colonized people. It also includes his 1971 travels to Eastern Europe for the World Peace Conference where, as a young Chicano student, he met renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. Currently, 80-year-old Garza is seeking an institution to properly archive his nearly 8,000 film negatives of his life's work.
REVELATION
Program Special Shorts: New Western Cinema Series
Genre:
Running Time: 15 min
Directed by: Jamielyn Lippman
Jacob (30's) a devout Mormon must face his truth that he can longer hide his homosexuality. Still reeling from the shock of his family casting his brother out. Jacob owns his truth and prepares to return home to come out to his family no matter the cost.
A stop motion short film about two roommates being "safe at home" during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SHUDDERBUGS
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Running Time: 1hr 46 min
Directed by: Johanna Putnam
Sam returns to her childhood home in the wake of her mother’s mysterious death, spiraling down a rabbit hole of grief, suspicion and isolation.
STILLNESS OF LABOR
Program 4: Dystopia Now
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 9 min
Directed by: Chris Larson
In the film STILLNESS OF LABOR, Chris Larson replicates 12 full-scale rooms using objects extracted from an abandoned garment factory in Tennessee to mirror the environment of the laborers. When labor was outsourced in 1998, the rural community was left without work in a town centered around industry. Larson recreates the architecture of the factory as a study of the anthropogenic imprint humans leave behind in spaces of heavy repetition.
TABERNACLE
Program 2: Midnight Sessions
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Running Time: 13 min
Directed by: Dante Capone
A wandering tramp falls in with a crowd of religious zealots, led by a bumbling preacher who sermonizes, ""Hellfire is a real place!"" In the back pew, the tramp imagines grandiose visions of snickering devils and orgiastic torture. The unnamed hero is then baptized in the ocean and does janitorial work for the church, but idiotically causes a fire. There are devils hiding in the carpet! The preacher catches him in the act, resulting in a scuffle which leads to the demise of both.
THE BUYERS
Program 2: Midnight Sessions
Genre: Thriller
Running Time: 8 min
Directed by: Felicia Manning
A new homeowner grows suspicious of a neighborly couple eager to help her unpack.
THE CONSPIRACY
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 1 hr 30 min
Directed by: Maxim Pozdorovkin
This startling animated documentary addresses an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: the idea that Jews have a secret international plot to control the world. Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin ("Our New President") and a host of talented voice actors including Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber, Jason Alexander, and Ben Shenkman connects the dots of hate and fear to walk us through almost 250 years of anti-Semitic ideology, focusing on how times of uncertainty give rise to anxieties in marginalized populations.
THE COUNTDOWN
TV Pilots Program
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Running Time: 29 min
Directed by: Melanie Renfroe
A dark comedy about two best friends staring down the barrel of 40, facing the painful truth that their individual hopes for motherhood have been bested by dead-end careers and unfaithful partners. At the end of their collective ropes, a rage- and alcohol-fueled science experiment becomes their dark solution to the genetic injustice of their biological clocks.
THE FOURTH
Program 4: Dystopia Now
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Running Time: 12 min
Directed by: Johnny Kirk
Eager to celebrate the 4th of July, a group of young black and Latino friends experience a police encounter that shatters the meaning of the holiday.
THE GIANT KILLER
Program Special Shorts: Latin Film Series
Genre:
Running Time: 26 min
Directed by: Frank Velasquez
A Mexican American reporter uncovers a plot to resegregate just a few years after the Civil Rights Movement. His worldview is challenged as he is thrust into a conspiracy too large for him to handle alone. Adapted from the 1978 novel by Richard Vasquez.
THE LAST ASSASSIN
Genre: Action
Running Time: 1 hr 27 min
Directed by: Yinghuai Qian
The story of an assassin who stops killing because of his goodness, but is used by others in a conspiracy that results in irreparable killings, after which he sees through human nature and returns to the Ghost Assassin Alliance.
THE LOCKET
Program Special Shorts: New Western Cinema Series
Genre:
Running Time: 29 min
Directed by: Christopher Yohe
Amy, a troubled young woman answers an ad to live with a kindly woman, Grace, and her very old - and very odd - mother, Ms. Nan. Amy begins to experience strange occurrences in the house and Grace and Ms. Nan are not quite what they seem.
THIS IS YOUR SONG
Genre: Romance, Drama
Running Time: 2 hr 5 min
Directed by: Hassan Said
Set in contemporary San Francisco, Jules, a dedicated bohemian theatre actress struggles and confronts what seems to be an unhappy stifled marriage, a dead end theatre industry, and a city that is outgrowing her. Jules realizes she needs to escape her current life. On a beautiful winter night of their seven year anniversary, James, her husband, an inspired beatnik writer, surprises Jules with a well prepared romantic dinner, yet Jules had forgotten all about it. Later on that cold evening, James hands Jules a letter that is addressed from New York, she realizes it has been opened. Jules reads it anxiously and discovers that she has been accepted into an off-Broadway show and they look forward to having her in the Spring. As the night progresses, their marriage unravels secrets they both kept from each other. James confesses about a one-night stand admitting infidelity. Jules' response is unexpectedly forgiving and gentle. The truth of how they feel for each other spills out intensely through quarrel after quarrel revealing a false reality of their union. Jules and James realize that their marriage has become a place unrecognizable to what they had always imagined as their future together is put to the test. Will their love in the end conquer all?
TV Pilots Program
Genre:
Running Time: 1 hr 38 min
Directed by:
WHO'S ANNIE? After jail-time, 12-step programs and five marriages, Annie begins her acting career in her mid-fifties with the help of a young director she met at a Burger King. In this show within a show, Annie tackles both her gigs as an actor and the role of herself in her own life story.
HAND ME DOWNS is an episodic ensemble series that explores the consequences and nuances of American masculinity on a group of friends. This programming is handed down generation to generation, father to son, brother to brother, friend to friend. we follow the group of friends through everyday life with their hand me downs guiding each step they take.
HIT MAN A lonely hitman from New York City travels to small towns around the country trying to find meaning in his inconsequential life as he fulfills his contracts and eliminates his targets. Based on the best-selling "Hit Man" book series by Grand Master of mystery Lawrence Block. Starring Richard Kind, Karen Allen, William Sadler, and Peter Riegert.
THE COUNTDOWN A dark comedy about two best friends staring down the barrel of 40, facing the painful truth that their individual hopes for motherhood have been bested by dead-end careers and unfaithful partners. At the end of their collective ropes, a rage- and alcohol-fueled science experiment becomes their dark solution to the genetic injustice of their biological clocks.
In recent years, the mental health of teenagers has received widespread attention. This work is a visually animated short film about hypnotherapy in psychological treatment. It tells the story of a young person with a mental illness and the changes in their inner world during psychological therapy. The imagery of a bird is used to express their inner self, and a post-apocalyptic style is employed to depict the transformation of their mental world. The aim is to guide teenagers to face psychological issues, seek help bravely, self-rescue in a timely manner, and rediscover the colors within their hearts.
Los Angeles – 2053, After a bloody civil war, women of color are captured and sterilized as a form of population control. Vida and a group of resistance fighters are getting ready to escape, but suddenly one of their own is captured, and they’re forced to decide between saving themselves or saving her.
Webseries Program 1
Genre:
Running Time: 55 min
Directed by:
GIRL AT A BAR: A young woman journeys to bars alone once a week for a year to reclaim her identity after half a decade debilitated with Lyme disease. Gabby, early 30s, a singer in LA, spent the last seven years with Lyme disease, bed-ridden for years and losing the use of her arms and voice. Now significantly recovered, she is ready to get her life back. Gabby gets the okay from her doctor to have a drink for the first time in over half a decade, so she plans a party to celebrate her improved health! But everyone flakes. So Gabby goes to the bar up the street. There she realizes no-one treats her like she’s sick and she’s free to not let her health be the focus of her life. Gabby decides this cannot be a one-time event and commits to go to a bar alone once a week, to explore her city and herself as a more able-bodied woman- still grappling with her past and managing her illness, but looking forward to a new future. Made possible by a grant from the nonprofit Bay Area Lyme Foundation, the project is inspired by the writer and creator Tracy Mulholland's blog and true story of being disabled from Lyme.
BENTO BANANA An animated web series about a talking artificially intelligent banana and his eggplant sidekick existing within a procedurally generated anime that appears to be mysteriously glitching. With the progression of the series, the themes move from the absurdity and conventions of anime into existential questions about the nature of reality, The role of AI in art and Capitalism, and how much of ourselves exist within our animation.
OVERWATCH: GENESIS With Anubis unleashed, the Omnic Crisis takes hold. Humanity faces demise as only a select few, codename: Overwatch, have what it takes to fight back
WHAT A TRIP!
Program 2: Midnight Sessions
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Running Time: 15 min
Directed by: Collin Kornfeind
Two downtrodden strangers go on a vision quest to cure their depression but end up trying to figure out why they have matching visions of a manic, talking wolf-bear named Kevin.
After jail-time, 12-step programs and five marriages, Annie begins her acting career in her mid-fifties with the help of a young director she met at a Burger King. In this show within a show, Annie tackles both her gigs as an actor and the role of herself in her own life story.
WILD SUMMON
Program 4: Dystopia Now
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Running Time: 15 min
Directed by: Karni Arieli, Saul Freed
A natural history fantasy film, following the dramatic life cycle of the wild salmon in human form. Narrated by Marianne Faithfull. A BFI short film by Karni and Saul.
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