October 22, 2019
MILLER & SON
DescriptionDescription Talent attending: Kate Chamuris (Producer), Asher Jelinsky (Director) A transwoman mechanic lives between running her family’s auto shop during the day and expressing her femininity at night, until an unforeseen event threatens the balance of her compartmentalized life. Part of SHOWCASE 2
October 22, 2019
MACK WRESTLES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription FREE SCREENING Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs broke records and changed history by winning the Texas high school state title two years in a row. With college on the horizon, Beggs must grapple with what comes next. Followed by Q&A with NBC News. Part of MEET THE PRESS SELECTS Bios Erin Sanger is a writer...
October 22, 2019
LOVE ME TENDER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Talent attending: Klaudia Reynicke (Director) Agoraphobic Seconda’s life is about to change irrevocably. When her home life is suddenly upended, she must decide whether life outside of the apartment that she’s shared with her family will be forever unknown to her or if she can overcome her greatest fear and engage with...
October 22, 2019
LOST & FOUND
DescriptionBiosDescription A determined man, armed only with a megaphone, his determination, and an unshakeable smile, sets out to reunite lost children with their families in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which now houses over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Orlando von Einsiedel is the multi-award-winning director of the Oscar®-nominated short...
October 22, 2019
LOUISE
DescriptionDescription Louise is the young daughter of an affluent merchant in Southern California in 1912. Although she is surrounded by every luxury and refinement, she craves the love and affection of her mother, Judith. Louise doesn’t understand her mother’s depression and often finds solace in the arms of her governess, Marie. When Lousie discovers her...
October 22, 2019
A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A Love Song For Latasha is a dreamlike archive in conversation with the past and the present to reimagine a more nuanced narrative of Latasha Harlins by excavating intimate and poetic memories shared by her cousin and best friend. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Sophia Nahli Allison is an experimental documentary filmmaker, photographer...
October 22, 2019
THE LAST TO SEE THEM (GLI ULTIMI A VEDERLI VIVERE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Sara Summa (Director) Loosely based on true events, this impressionistic film doesn’t focus on the aftermath of a family’s brutal murder nor the violent act itself. Instead, THE LAST TO SEE THEM centers on the 24 hours before an entire family is slaughtered. Since each of the subjects is completely unaware o his...
October 22, 2019
LIBERTY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Alex and Milagros deal with great life upheaval as they prepare to dance at their community’s redevelopment groundbreaking ceremony. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Faren Humes is a writer and director from Miami, Florida. Her work engages with temporality and duration to show, materialize and experience connectedness. Her film LIBERTY is the Jury Award...
October 22, 2019
LIBERTÉ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In his latest provocation Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra (THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV) finds a small clearing in the woods somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin where, over the course of one extended night of debauchery, a band of exiled Libertines seeking support from the German Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger) will revel in the freedom...
October 22, 2019
LINGUA FRANCA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Nicole Cosgrove (Executive Producer), Jerry Kerkman (Executive Producer), Isabel Sandoval (Director), Jhett Tolentino (Producer), Carlo Velayo (Producer) Olivia is an undocumented Filipina trans woman and the home health aide for Olga, an elderly Russian American woman in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. While tending to Olga’s increasing dementia, she finds her life intersecting with...
