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SUMMARY:Section C
DESCRIPTION:Dancing identities\nWriter: Julia Martinez Heimann\, Josefina Itoiz\nDirected by:  Julia Martinez Heimann\nProducer: Natalia Laclau\, Mariana Miño \nNarrative\, 13 min. \nThis short films series reflects on the construction of identity in terms of cultural diversity\, and explores different social expressions based on dance and migrant experiences. With each dancer\, it is investigated how dance is part of the historical-cultural heritage of people and their affective memory. In the experiences of the interpreters of this short film\, these heritages are resignified and mixed\, opening up new identity possibilities. Thus\, with their words and movements they shape the multicultural identity of society. \n \nEsperanza\nWriter: Shruti Parekh\nDirected by: Shruti Parekh\nProducer: Laura Scarano\,Shruti Parekh \nNarrative\, 18 min. \nWhen an immigrant taxi driver in upstate New York takes an undocumented couple to the Canadian border\, they find themselves at odds in the shared pursuit of a better life. \n \nSpeak Up Brotha!\nWriter: James J. Johnson\, Obbie West\, Roderick Lawrence\nProducers: Salma Qarnain\, Roderick Lawrence\, Ron Gillyard\, Will Campbell\, Cameron Carr\, Ike Mbanefo\, Obbie West\, Dario Harris \nNarrative\, 15 min. \nGrad student Ahmad Jones drives for a rideshare company. He receives a request from a mysterious woman — a poet. They connect over music\, but she seems to ignore him. When the opportunity arises to see her again\, Ahmad must learn how to communicate in ways beyond his understanding to win her heart.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-c-2/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Section B
DESCRIPTION:Brownsville Bred\nWriter: Elaine Del Valle\nDirected by: Elaine Del Valle\nProducer: Leslie Cohen\,Adrienne Lovette\,Debbie Esko-Gold\,Elaine Del Valle \nNarrative\, 20:00 min. \nSet in 1980’s Brownsville\, Brooklyn\, NY– At the height of the crack and crime epidemics–A spunky Latina must find her own path as she comes of age to face the grim realities of the deteriorating neighborhood she calls home and the musician father she once idolized. \n \nNEGRITA\nWriter: Magdalena Albizu\nDirected by: Magdalena Albizu\nProducer: Ingrid Matias\, Eddie Savoy Bailey \nDocumentary\, 50 min. \nNEGRITA is a feature documentary about diverse Afro Latinas who explore and confront culture and racism while defining their own identity in the United States. NEGRITA explores the ideology of Blackness\, and how both American and Latino cultures perpetuate the belief that Blackness is to be destroyed. Through personal accounts\, family pictures\, old videos\, and interactions with family and friends\, NEGRITA will follow the director’s own struggle with identity.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-b-2/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Reel Sisters of the Diaspora":MAILTO:reelsisters@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY:Section A
DESCRIPTION:A Loving Tribute to Esther Duran\nFriends and family honor the life of award-winning documentary filmmaker Esther Duran\, the director of A Chocolate Conquest. The web series took viewers into the world of cocoa farming as seen through the eyes of fifteen rural communities in 30 videos about Cacao in Venezula. A Chocolate Conquest won Reel Sisters 2018 Best Web Series Award.  \nReel Sisters will share clips of Esther’s short films and other works as a filmmaker\, researcher\, curator\, activist\, philanthropist and champion of artists and filmmakers.  
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-a-2/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Section E
DESCRIPTION:To the End\nWriter/Producers: Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick\nDirector: Rachel Lears\nProducer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon \nDocumentary\, 95 minutes \nTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv2jtKboDi0&t=5s \nFilmed over four years of hope and crisis\, To the End captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history. The award-winning team behind Knock Down the House follows four exceptional young women— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\, activist Varshini Prakash\, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright\, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas— as they grapple with new challenges of leadership and power and work together to defend their generation’s right to a future.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-e/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Section D
DESCRIPTION:Mind Yours\nWriter: Rachel Hughes\, Tiffaney Robinson\nDirected by: Rachel Hughes\, Tiffaney Robinson\, Brittany Simone Daniels\nProducer: Rachel Hughes\, Tiffaney Robinson\, Brittany Simone Daniels \nNarrative\, 5:14 min. \nA short film initially created for the Collaboration Filmmakers Challenge based on the following quote: “Our lives begin to end the moment we stay silent about the things that matter.” \n \nFunny Face (Invited)\nWriter: Jude Hope Harris\, Krista Fatka\nDirected by: Jude Hope Harris\nProducer: Genevieve Jones\, Nick Vitale \nNarrative\, 15 min. \nWhen country singer\, Randy travels to take care of his sister Sophie as she recovers from facial feminization surgery\, he meets her girlfriend\, Morgan\, for the first time. The three bond over family history\, love\, and an extremely chaotic home nurse. \n  \nRumi\nDirector/Writer: Aisha Amin\nProducers: Annie Ning\, Meetra Javed\, Cameron Morton\, Underhill Films \nNarrative\, 13 min. \nWhen Rumi\, a budding actress\, is scouted by an agent and invited to an open casting call for models\, she comes face to face with a troubling industry. \n  \nFake It Til You Make It\nDirector/Writer: Kimrie Lewis\nProducer: Sonja Perryman \nNarrative\, 8:46 min. \nBased on a true story\, Fake It Til You Make It is a comedy that tells the story of a hustler-at-heart finally deciding to play by her own rules. In order to succeed as a black actress in 2005 Hollywood\, Kira Lawson has to first take on the role of a white man.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-d/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Section C
DESCRIPTION:Jelly\nWriter: Anndi Jinelle Liggett\nDirected by: Anndi Jinelle Liggett \nNarrative\, 10 min. \nJelly is a magical-realist coming-of-age about Jelly Johnson\, a young\, Black girl with a peculiar fascination with death. While trying to solve the mysterious case of a missing neighbor\, she comes to terms with a more personal disappearance in the process. Narrated by André Holland. \n \nChampion\nWriter: Kim J.Y. Han\nDirected by: Kim J.Y. Han\nProducer: D.J. Jiang and Diana Ward \nNarrative\, 13:09 \nIt’s 1997\, and 9-year-old Jimin just moved to California. Jimin refuses to speak to her father who stayed behind in Korea\, but when a major financial crisis devastates their home country\, all hopes that he can join them in America dissipates. Now\, Jimin must gather the courage to take the next steps alone. \n \nSlick Talk\nWriter: Courtney Zhi-Xian Loo\nDirected by: Courtney Zhi-Xian Loo and David Karp\nProducer: Thrice Cooked Media \nNarrative\, 9:03 min. \nFeeling the pressure of an important meeting with a potential music manager\, Kiki struggles with her identity as an outsider in the Chinese-American community\, a culture vulture in the hip-hop world\, and a potential sellout for mainstream success. Slick Talk follows Kiki through a single day in her life\, where we watch her battle an inverse conflict: the thing she tries to hide/avoid is the thing the music industry tries exploit. \n  \nOver the Causeway\nWriter: Pablo Mejia\nDirected by: Pablo Mejia\nProducer: Pablo Mejia \nNarrative\, 15:51 min. \nOver the Causeway is the coming-of-age story of Victoria\, a twenty-year-old jazz musician born and raised in Galveston TX. As she ties up loose ends around town\, she is confronted by doubtful neighbors\, childhood friends\, and dependant family members who question her decision to leave. Saying goodbye to the island that raised her\, Victoria must reckon with complicated feelings about her community\, career\, and the sacrifices she must make to seek new opportunities over the causeway.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-c/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Section B
DESCRIPTION:Hard\nWriter:  Eboni Price\nDirected by: Eboni Price\nProducer: Lauren E. Banks\, Kristofer Cross\, Dot McDonald\, Musau Onwubiko \nNarrative\, 28 min. \n12-year-old Javonte is currently struggling with the woes of puberty. She’s being bullied\, she doesn’t think she fits in\, her home life’s a mess and on top of that\, she’s still grappling with the loss of her brother. We open on her fighting her bully\, Imani and losing in front of her entire neighborhood. Her sister Renesha watches and takes Javonte home. Javonte’s mother sees her bruises and punishes her for losing and being “weak”. Meanwhile\, we see Renesha is currently working to break the family cycle and get her GED. However\, she can’t help but notice Javonte struggling and decides to toughen Javonte up\, teaching her how to be hard in order to survive. In this process\, Javonte and Renesha develop a close bond\, providing Javonte with a sense of security she’s been missing since her brother’s death. In the midst of this\, Renesha secures a job contingent on her GED\, affording her the opportunity to move her and her kids out of the neighborhood and start a better life. This new life is threatened\, however\, when Renesha’s boyfriend\, Jordan asks her to take the fall for a crime as he’s on his 3rd strike\, stating it will be Renesha’s first and she’ll get off easy. Choosing for her kids to have their father in their life\, Renesha agrees and gets arrested just as Javonte wins a brutal fight against her bully. Javonte is once again left alone\, and we see a broken family cycle continue. \nWonders\nDirector/Writer: Huriyyah Muhammad\nProducer: Okema Moore \nNarrative\, 15 minutes  \nHardworking moms\, Teeni and Cherice don’t ask for much. Like everyone else\, they are on the grind\, just trying to make a better life for themselves and their toddler. Struggling financially\, things get worse when they come home to find an eviction notice plastered on their door. The solution however surprises even them when their cranky\, constipated toddler poops three golden nuggets. While WONDERS is a response to the eviction crisis across the country\, at its heart is a celebration of the wisdom of our elders and the magic of our babies.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-b/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20231021T144900
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SUMMARY:Section A
DESCRIPTION:Sin Raices\nDirector/Writer: Gabriella Athena Moses\nProducers: Lissette Feliciano\, Charlie Schmidlin\, Annalie Gernert\, Shruti Rya Ganguly\, Polina Buchak \nNarrative\, 15 min. \nALMA\, a recently adopted 8-year-old refugee from El Salvador\, spends a day preparing for her first red carpet appearance at an awards show with her new pop star mother\, YAHAIRA. She learns from example and mirrors a series of routines as she absorbs that perhaps to cement her place in this new like she must be “liked” in more ways than one. As she takes in her new environment\, she finds herself haunted by whispers of the life she left behind and awakened to the fragility of her new one after an innocent series of actions and encounters with her newfound fans on social media doesn’t go as planned. \n\nA Homecoming I’ll Remember\nDirector: Jasmine Rene’ McCaskill\nProducesr: Jasmine Rene’ McCaskill\, Ciara Franklin \nDocumentary\, 17 min. \nThere’s no telling what can happen when you meet with your memory. In this experimental documentary\, Zoe Hinds and Pamela McKelvy remember their groundbreaking crownings that span nearly 30 years apart and tell of their journeys through the institutions at which they paved the way. \n \nSundown Road\nDirector/Writer: M. Asli Dukan\nProducers: M. Asli Dukan\, Nikki Harmon\, Trevite Willis \nNarrative\, 20 min. \nThree students get stuck on an isolated road after their car breaks down while driving back to college. With no phone reception\, they argue with each other over what to do before separating to find help. In an unfamiliar area\, they each experience a terrifying discovery that makes them feel like their lives may be in danger. Forced to take refuge in the car\, the students resolve their personal conflicts just in time to face a new frightening reality when help finally reaches them. \n \nProximity Study (Sight Lines)\nDirector: Elizabeth M. Webb \nExperimental\, 5:40 min. \nProximity Study (Sight Lines) is an attempt to measure closeness despite temporal distance. My grandfather (whom I never met) worked as a longshoreman on the Brooklyn waterfront for 37 years. From Governors Island\, I am able to look directly at his place of work; many years ago\, he would have returned my gaze from the other side. I filmed the Red Hook docks on 16mm film from my perspective on Governors Island\, and rowed in the Buttermilk Channel between these two locations. The physical film print trailed behind the boat\, tracing our route\, recording our sight lines\, and reaching to bridge the distance across the channel. Yet\, the longer we rowed\, the more the water erased the image. \n \nReality Is Not Good Enough\nDirector/Writer: Rashayla Marie Brown \nProducer: Jennifer Reeder \nExperimental\, 21 min. \nReality Is Not Good Enough is a moving tribute to Black women who dream of being reality TV stars\, no matter how exploited they might become. This comedy-drama experimental short remixes never-before-seen documentary footage of a failed WeTV pilot featuring the director’s mother\, a biracial adoptee from a Trumpmaniac family. The director’s sisters and nieces humorously flip stereotypes and tragic devices of unscripted TV with surprising dexterity\, citing Josephine Baker to Oprah Winfrey. Set to a masterful jazz score by MacArthur Genius musician Tomeka Reid\, RINGE shows Black women with power behind the camera as much as they are in front of it. \n \nHow Hair You\nProducer/Director/Writer: Kennedy Marie Dunning \nDocumentary\, 8 min. \nBudding feminist comically criticizes the shame of body hair through an educational expedition of razor advertisements and femininity.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-a/
LOCATION:City Tech Theater\, 285 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 Film Screenings
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