September 26, 2024
COLOR BOOK
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer David Fortune, actors William Catlett, Jeremiah Daniels, Brandee Evans, producers Kristen Uno, Kiah Clingman, composer Dabney Morris, and rapper Kia Shine. In this tender slice-of-life drama, the recently widowed Lucky (played with immense vulnerability by William Catlett) is adjusting to life as the...
September 26, 2024
DAHOMEY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, producer and writer Mati Diop. Returning to AFI FEST with her second feature and first foray into nonfiction filmmaking, French/Senegalese actor-turned-filmmaker Mati Diop (ATLANTICS, AFI FEST 2019) continues to explore the havoc wrought by colonialism, through a dreamlike, quasi-supernatural lens. Entering the pristine vaults of...
September 26, 2024
THE CONSTRUCTOR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Los Angeles Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: FAMILY FRIENDLY Elizabeth, an impossibly precocious seven-year-old Lego constructor, struggles with "imagination blur" as her three-year-old sister attempts to free her from her rigid thinking. Bios Scott Morris is a director, writer and editor based in Los Angeles. He is represented by CAA and studied...
September 26, 2024
THE CREATORS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 In another dimension, the Creators are working on a project. Gradually, they come closer to a result, but creating a world that mirrors their imagination is no easy task. Bios Madeleine Homan is an animation director from the Netherlands. In 2022 she directed the 2-D animation...
September 26, 2024
LA COCINA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Alonso Ruizpalacios. Mexican auteur Alonso Ruizpalacios (A COP MOVIE) brings new meaning to kitchen-sink realism in his adaptation of British playwright Arnold Wesker's "The Kitchen," which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival. Transferring the action from mid-century London to present-day New York City,...
September 26, 2024
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Tyler Taormina. In the third film from audaciously original filmmaker Tyler Taormina (HAM ON RYE), with fellow Omnes Collective filmmaker Carson Lund (EEPHUS) returning as cinematographer, CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLERS POINT is a captivating, nostalgic reverie of an Italian American family returning to their Long...
September 26, 2024
CLODAGH
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 A lonely priest’s housekeeper encounters a young Irish girl of exceptional promise. Bios Portia A. Buckley is a British/Irish writer and director. Shooting primarily on film, Buckley’s work focuses on character-driven narratives centered around marginalized, strong-willed, female protagonists. Her background as an artist influences her...
September 26, 2024
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (FENG LIU YI DAI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Interweaving footage collected over the last several decades, including new material, outtakes, deleted scenes and segments from previously released films, filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles a changing environment and the impact of technological advancement to construct a rhapsodic portrait of contemporary China. Casting his wife and eternal muse Zhao Tao as his central character, an...
September 26, 2024
CHEECH & CHONG’S LAST MOVIE
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and producer David Bushell and subjects Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. The stoner comedy duo Cheech & Chong enjoyed enormous success in the ‘70s and ‘80s, performing to packed sports arenas, winning a Grammy® for best comedy album and starring in a string of low-budget,...
September 26, 2024
CHRISTMAS, EVERY DAY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 CHRISTMAS, EVERY DAY examines cultural practices under late-stage capitalism, juxtaposing rural life with the virtual world through preteen influencers, Payton and Lyla. Bios One of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces in 2023, Faye Tsakas has had her work showcased at SXSW, Hot Docs, True/False, IFFR, Camden,...
