Section C

Reunion

Directors/Writers: Timothy S Naylor, Zainab Jah
Producers: Djaka Souaré, Timothy S Naylor, Zainab Jah

Narrative, 15 min.

Isata, a West African immigrant living in the Bronx, while watching a morning talk show recognizes the guest, bestselling author, Mamadou Kargbo. He triggers in her deep memories of surviving a civil war. She wonders, was he once the child soldier who destroyed her family? Setting out to find him, if she is right – will she seek vengeance or grant forgiveness?

Incomplete

Director/Writer: Zoey Martinson
Producer: Korey Jackson, Anne Troupe

Narrative, 10 min.

Evan is on house arrest in a haunted house. Or so he thinks?  Evan’s sister went out of her way to rent him a house off the DOC database, in a boughie-ass suburban neighborhood so he could serve the remainder of his sentence in the Jail Diversion Program on house arrest. When his breathalyzer Machine starts to act strange, the Polaroid pictures it routinely prints suggest that Evan is not alone. A faceless figure is also occupying this suburban home. Evan must make a decision to either stay and face his fears or end up serving his remaining time in Jail.

Ghosted

Writer: Charles Lane, Eric Ables, Marquette Jones, Ariel Davis
Directed by: Marquette Kayleen Jones
Producer: Marquette Jones, Bailey Smith, Safiya Songhai, Marques Koranteng

Duration: 9:40 min.

It’s always hard to get your crush to notice you… especially when they have a thing for the un-dead.

Distance

Director/Writer: Jung-Hsin Hu

Animation, 4 min.

Category: Animation, Short, Student

 Distance portrays our shared memories – social distancing. It reveals what medical staff undertook during the early Covid-19 time, and how they sacrificed their family time for a better world.

Pandemic Bread

DIRECTOR: Zeinabu Irene Davis
Writers: Marc Arthur Chery and Marivi Soliven
Producers: Nicoletta Vangelisti, Christina Ree and Wayne Yang

Narrative, 20 min.

A short drama about a Filipino interpreter taking an end-of-life call with a doctor and an elderly woman with COVID-19. A story of resilience and hope told through the eyes of the interpreter who bakes bread during the call.

The Love Machine

Director/Writer: Jasmine Lynea
Producer: Jackie Payton

Narrative, 10 min.

Inside of a sleeping ancestor’s memory or dream…  Present-day, Philadelphia. Nasir Smith, a teenage scientist, and influencer, desperately wants to challenge intergenerational trauma, by healing his family’s past to welcome back love and compassion in their home. In his family’s basement, Nasir goes Live! presenting his new invention to the world, called The Love Machine.   The Love Machine’s intentions resemble a time machine, but here, participants specifically go back to the past to reframe moments of their childhood that caused them trauma.