Luka Producer/Director/Writer: Shiyue Xu 3 min., narrative On a hot summer afternoon, as various people come and go at the central market, a young boy starts noticing his own shadow. Pocha Writer: Carly Oscar Director: Carly Oscar Producers: Carly Oscar, Rachel Brown, Maite Elias-Nava,Remi Renlib 13 min., Narrative As she nears her fifteenth birthday, Vic struggles to solidify her personal […]
Maternity Writer: Maria Warith Wade Director: Maria Warith Wade Producer: Maria Warith Wade, Rebecca Malaret, Kendra Mitchell, Kim Coleman, CSA 15 min., narrative When a second-time mother gets an unexpected complication postpartum, she must fight to save her life in the fractured American health care system. Nails Director/Writer: Eliana Pipes Producers: Revel Rosa and Eliana Pipes 5 min., animation […]
Joy's Garden Director/Writer: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo Producers: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Mungai Kiroga, Hawa Essuman, Firul Maithya 13 min., Narrative Short Edwin is no one's ideal Dad. Can he step up when his estranged daughter Joy needs a home? Blurring the Color Line Writer: Crystal Lee Kwok Director: Crystal Lee Kwok Producer: Daniel Wu, Lisa Ling, W. Kamau Bell 77 min., documentary Digging into […]
Sin Raices Director/Writer: Gabriella Athena Moses Producers: Lissette Feliciano, Charlie Schmidlin, Annalie Gernert, Shruti Rya Ganguly, Polina Buchak Narrative, 15 min. ALMA, 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 […]
Hard Writer: Eboni Price Directed by: Eboni Price Producer: Lauren E. Banks, Kristofer Cross, Dot McDonald, Musau Onwubiko Narrative, 28 min. 12-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 […]
Jelly Writer: Anndi Jinelle Liggett Directed by: Anndi Jinelle Liggett Narrative, 10 min. Jelly 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 […]
Mind Yours Writer: Rachel Hughes, Tiffaney Robinson Directed by: Rachel Hughes, Tiffaney Robinson, Brittany Simone Daniels Producer: Rachel Hughes, Tiffaney Robinson, Brittany Simone Daniels Narrative, 5:14 min. A 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 […]
To the End Writer/Producers: Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick Director: Rachel Lears Producer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon Documentary, 95 minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv2jtKboDi0&t=5s Filmed 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 […]
A Loving Tribute to Esther Duran Friends 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 […]
Brownsville Bred Writer: Elaine Del Valle Directed by: Elaine Del Valle Producer: Leslie Cohen,Adrienne Lovette,Debbie Esko-Gold,Elaine Del Valle Narrative, 20:00 min. Set 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 […]