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SUMMARY:Oct. 20 - Section A - Service
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 20\, 2024\, Center for Fiction \nIn celebration of Reel Sisters 27th Anniversary Season\, we’re thrilled to host our Sunday afternoon screenings at the Center For Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave. in Brooklyn (across the street from the Brooklyn Academy of Music). \nSnacks\, baked goods\, tea\, coffee and other treats will be available in the cafe! \n \nSECTION A – Service – 1 pm-3 pm \n \nJellyfish and Lobster\nProducer: Elizabeth Rufai Director/Writer: Yasmin Afifi \nnarrative\, 20 min. \nA magical realist\, dark comedy/drama set within the backdrop of a gritty British care home. \nWhen two old and terminally ill patients discover a magical pool that restores them back to their younger selves beneath the water\, they are forced to reconcile with the inescapable truth of their mortality\, or drown in the illusion of their past. \n \nThe Other Partners\nDirector/Writer: Destinee Stewar \nProducer: Sylvia Ray \ncomedy\, 9 min. \nWhile preparing for their first dinner party together\, Rowyn’s boyfriend\, Raj\, discovers her dildo in a kitchen drawer. Raj\, feeling insecure\, shames Rowyn for her practices…and then he finds more. What ensues is a comedic battle of the sexes as Raj expresses his discomfort and Rowyn stands up for her right to choose self-love\, healing\, and sexual intimacy through masturbation. \n \nRed Onion\nDirector/Writer: Iris Almaraz \nProducer: Erin Ploss-Campoamor \nnarrative\, 10 min. \nAs you peel back the layers of RED ONION\, a day in the life of a phone sex operator becomes an exploration of intimacy\, death\, and human connection. \n \nThree Meals\nDirector/Writer: Pelin Keskin Liu \nProducers: Pelin Keskin Liu\, Max Gardner\, Yuki Maekawa-Ledbetter \nnarrative\, 15 min. \nWhen her brother’s health worsens\, Yasmin returns from living abroad to convince her mother to turn off his life support machine. \n \nBraised (Thit Kho)\nWriters: Huong Vu\, Dylan Lam \nDirected by: Huong Vu \nProducers: Huong Vu\, Dylan Lam\, Ryan King\, Samiyah Wardlaw \nnarrative\, 15 min. \nClutching a heart-rending secret\, Maggie Nguyen\, a Vietnamese-American screenwriter\, makes an unannounced visit home to reconcile with her mom. A bowl of braised pork pushes their bond to a breaking point.
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LOCATION:Center For Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11217\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oct. 20 - Section B - Faith & Fate
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 20\, 2024\, Center for Fiction \nIn celebration of Reel Sisters 27th Anniversary Season\, we’re thrilled to host our Sunday afternoon screenings at the Center For Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave. in Brooklyn (across the street from the Brooklyn Academy of Music). \nSnacks\, baked goods\, tea\, coffee and other treats will be available in the cafe! \n \nSECTION B – Faith & Fate – 3:05 pm-4:25 pm \n \nYa Hanouni\nDirectors/Writers: Lyna Tadount\, Sofian Chouaib \nnarrative\, 2:38 min. \nWhile the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep\, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word? \n \nExit\nDirector/Writer: Oriana Ng \nProducers: Oriana Ng\, Lana Bolycheva \nnarrative\, 5 min. \nA dangerous elevator ride tests a couple’s bond. \n \nThe Flacalta Effect\nDirector/Writer: Rochée Jeffrey \nProducers: Ebony Elaine Hardin\, Takara Joseph \ncomedy\, 8 min. \nAfter a drug with anti-aging properties has apocalyptic consequences\, two Black sisters fight for their lives—and looks—in this satirical take on toxic beauty culture. \n \nAyat (Verses)\nDirector/Writer: Samina Saifee \nProducers: Shubhangi Shekhar\, Krishna Trivedi\, Alyssa Schroeter\, Laith Nakli \nnarrative\, 15 min. \nA grieving Islamic Sunday school teacher begins to question his reality when the stories he teaches follow him home. \n \nUnplugging From Amazon\nProducer/Director: Raquel “Rocky” Nguyen \ndocumentary\, 12 min. \nThe fight for local economics and fair labor by small publishers and independent bookstores with the world’s largest book market: Amazon. \n \nBlack Love Manifesto (Invited)\nDirector/Writer: Liza Jessie Peterson \nexperimental\, 20 min. \nBlack Love Manifesto uses photography\, video\, poetry and music to illuminate and celebrate the beauty and power of Blackness. It is a poetic mosaic of Black history\, Black resilience\, resistance and revolution\, Black excellence\, Black Joy and Black Love. It’s a medicinal balm for a weary and wounded people during these horrifying times. It is a battery for perseverance\, remembering and hope.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/oct-20-section-b/
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SUMMARY:Oct. 20 - Section C – An Unusual Suspect (Premiere)
DESCRIPTION:Are you ready for a suspenseful thriller penned by award-winning writer/filmmaker Booker T. Mattison?\nReel Sisters is honored to present a world premiere for the TUBI whodunit An Unusual Suspect at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn on Sunday\, Oct. 20\, 2024 at 4:50 pm! Sit at the edge of your seat as an ambitious young attorney unravels a serial killer who targets Black women. Written and directed by Booker T. Mattison\, the film is set to air on TUBI on March 28\, 2025! \nThe screening will be held at the Center For Fiction\, 15 Lafayette Ave. in Brooklyn (across the street from the Brooklyn Academy of Music). Snacks\, baked goods\, tea\, coffee and other treats will be available in the cafe! \nRSVP NOW FOR A FREE screening and be the first to see the flick at our premiere! \nFILM SYNOPSIS \nAn Unusual Suspect\nDirector/Writer: Booker T. Mattison Producers: Roberta Setzu and Christian Ortega \nNarrative\, 90 min. \nTwo years out of law school and eager to prove herself\, ambitious young attorney VIOLA JANUARY takes on a high-stakes pro bono case: defending a man who was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping a woman. Against all odds\, she wins. But as new evidence emerges\, Viola realizes the case is far from closed—and now she’s caught in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer determined to keep the truth buried. With her life on the line\, Viola must unravel a dark conspiracy before it’s too late. \n\n\nAbout The Filmmaker \n \nBooker T. Mattison is an author\, filmmaker and professor who wrote and directed the BET+ original film\, “The Sound of Christmas” starring Ne-Yo\, Serayah\, and Draya Michele. The New York Times called the movie “a charming\, new holiday film.” This holiday classic is an adaptation of Tiffany L. Warren’s novel The Replacement Wife and was submitted for Emmy consideration for Outstanding TV Movie for 2023. \nMattison’s psychological thriller Twisted Marriage Therapist\, a Tubi original film he wrote and directed\, boasted one of the highest completion rates on the streaming service when it was released in September of 2023. \nMattison’s next film\, An Unusual Suspect\, a legal thriller for Tubi\, will be released on March 28\, 2025. \nMattison’s NYU thesis film\, The Gilded Six Bits\, adapted from Zora Neale Hurston’s short story\, marked the first film or television adaptation of the acclaimed author’s work. The film had its broadcast premiere on Showtime and starred Chad L. Coleman\, T’keyah Crystal Keymah\, and Wendell Pierce. The Hollywood Reporter said\, “Mattison’s direction and feel for her characters match up to Hurston’s sterling piece of fiction…full of atmosphere and strongly developed characters.” \nMattison’s debut novel Unsigned Hype was published by Revell Books in 2009 and was nominated for a South Carolina Book Award in the Young Adult Category. His second novel Snitch was published in 2011 and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. \nMattison received his Master of Fine Arts in film and television production from New York University and his Bachelor of Science in mass communication from Norfolk State University. He is a tenured professor at the University of Georgia where he teaches directing and screenwriting. \n\nRSVP HERE\n\n 
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/oct-20-section-c/
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