October 22, 2019
BUG BITE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In this mixed media comedy, a young woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios Emily Ann Hoffman is an award-winning animator, filmmaker and artist. She is a member of the 2019 New York Film Festival Artist Academy. Emily has previously...
October 22, 2019
CACTUS BLOSSOM
DescriptionContactDescription To win his wife’s love back, an old man transforms into the thing she loves the most: a cactus. Part of SHOWCASE 5 Contact Samir Oliveros samiroliveros@gmail.com
October 22, 2019
THE BURNING BUSH (הסנה הבוער)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A poetic story of letting go. Danny mourns the lost love to her ex-girlfriend, symbolized by a small plant. Danny's mother wants her daughter to bury the memories, but when the dust settles something more powerful remains, which will not die. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Noam Greif is a filmmaker and hopeless...
October 22, 2019
BLACK BUS STOP
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia. (from co-director Claudrena N. Harold): “Sacred ground. A transcendent space of communion where young people could be found listening to music, talking politics, dancing, flirting, living in their fullness.This film pays tribute to the Black Bus Stop, an informal yet...
October 22, 2019
BIKRAM: YOGI, GURU, PREDATOR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Eva Orner (Director) With his chiseled physique, simple but demanding program, and charismatic teaching style, Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram Yoga, rode the wave of yoga’s growing popularity in the U.S. to build an empire of yoga studios and teaching programs. Raking in millions of dollars and frequenting TV talk shows,...
October 22, 2019
BLACKBIRD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: David Bernardi (Distributor), Sherryl Clark (Producer) Battling a terminal illness, Lily (Susan Sarandon) has decided to end her life on her own terms. Lily and her husband (Sam Neill) request their loved ones come to their seaside home for a final weekend together. Their daughters (Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska) arrive with...
October 22, 2019
BLESSED LAND
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A middle-aged woman and her son visit her late husband’s grave - situated in a former fishing village she hasn’t been to in decades. In the cemetery on the sandy dunes, they wander around for a long time without finding the headstone. Has her memory eroded, or has the grave been concealed somewhere underneath...
October 22, 2019
BALLOON
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Christina Cha (Producer), Jeremy Merrifield (Director), Michael James Scott (Executive Producer) The only way Sam knows how to survive junior high is to stay under the radar. But that’s impossible after Jason picks a fight with him and it quickly becomes the school’s next viral video. His only friend pressures him to...
October 22, 2019
THE BANKER
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) has always been a fast learner who is fascinated by numbers. Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson) is a shrewd business owner with money to invest. Both are confident about taking a risk and starting a real estate empire. The problem: it’s the 1950s and being black entrepreneurs does...
October 22, 2019
BALLOON (QI QIU)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Shepard Dargye and his wife, Drolkar, live a simple life with their sons and Dargye’s father on the family farm in rural Tibet. With government quotas on family size recently imposed, Drolkar visits the health clinic for condoms (which are later mistaken for balloons by her mischievous boys). Meanwhile, Drolkar’s sister bumps into her...
