October 22, 2019
MISS BOUNDLESS (弄璋记)
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Siyi Ren (Producer) During the Qing Dynasty, a young girl competes with her male cousin for the right to inherit leadership of a powerful house. Part of SHOWCASE 3 Contact Siyi Ren ren55mil@gmail.com 213-572-9695
October 22, 2019
MONSTRUO DIOS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription God is now a Power Plant. On a misty night cows escape, a child is chosen, and a teenager tries to find freedom. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Director of photography, colorist and image and sound designer, Agustina San Martín wrote and directed THE CRY OF THE OXEN (2015), which premiered at Cartagena,...
October 22, 2019
MORS DAG
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Elena Aksenova (Producer), Jeanine Frost (Director/Writer), Erin G. Wesley (Cinematographer) Ellen succeeds well at keeping her past and shattered self-perception at bay by focusing on her freelance producing job, away from her family. But on Mother’s Day, when Ellen discovers her adopted daughter Lilly has gotten her period, the trauma from her...
October 22, 2019
MARRIAGE MATERIAL, THE MUSICAL!
DescriptionDescription Talent attending: Maor Azran (Producer), Oran Zegman (Director) After her boyfriend rejects her marriage proposal, Leah Schwartzman checks herself into the “Late Blooming Bride” retreat, which prides itself on transforming less-than-perfect women into “Marriage Material.” Part of SHOWCASE 2
October 22, 2019
MATERNAL
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Maura Delpero (Director) Teenage mothers, Lu and Fati, live in a Catholic residence called Hogar in Buenos Aires with their children. Fati is pregnant with her second child after being raped and can’t go back home. One day Lu leaves the shelter to live with her boyfriend, abandoning her young daughter, Nina....
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
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
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...
