The Candy Tin
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 14 min | Narrative
Director: Shane Butler
A grimy, dented candy tin sits in a thrift store. How did it get there? What stories could it tell? Who used it, loved it—and left it? An Irish immigrant picks up a gleaming “Ruth’s Home Run” candy tin in a general store in 1920s America. From the rocking 50s to the dour 2000s to The Future, the candy tin travels through modern America. The Future is The Past.
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Cold Brew
Friday, 26 August 2022
In-Person Event: SHOWROOM
2022 | United States | 7 min | Narrative
Director: David Kennedy
Producer: Cindy Wathen-Kennedy
A young woman is imprisoned by her inner thoughts in a caffeine-fueled assessment of her co-dependent relationship.
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Dancing the Twist in Bamako
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
In-Person Event: SHOWROOM
2021 | France, Canada, Senegal | 129 min | Narrative
Director: Robert Guédiguian
French with Subtitles
Mali, 1962. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
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Delmarva and the Ground for Change
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
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2021 | United States | 89 min | Documentary
Director: Karrah Kwasnik
Three family-owned farms on the Delmarva Peninsula and their success using practices that protect and promote healthy soil; practices that also safeguard working lands against the extremes posed by climate change.
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Disconnected
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 15 min | Narrative
Director: Jeanette Godoy
Producer: Meredith Thomas, Jeanette Gody, Jordan Brady, Tom Jenkins
Janine forces her teenage daughter and her two besties to have an actual conversation by confiscating their cellphones for one hour. Meanwhile, she texts her husband she wants a divorce.
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Dragon Poets
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
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2022 | United States | 8 min | Narrative
Director: Gordon David LePage
Two underemployed dragons have a revelation when they audition for a podcast.
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The Drive to Sing
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 76 min | Documentary
Director: Bryce B. Denney
Producer: Kathryn W. Denney, Justin Lahue
When choir singing became dangerous, even deadly, in the era of COVID-19, some musicians turned to “car choirs” in parking lots to keep their music alive. See how it began, spread and gained international attention. Feel how it touched singers and audiences during this time of fear and isolation.
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Eternal Spring
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | China, Canada | 86 min | Documentary
Director: Jason Loftus
Producer: Kevin Kookogey, Jason Loftus, Yvan Pinard
In March 2002, a state TV station in China was hijacked by members of outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal was to counter the government narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee.
He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea. Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong’s art, ETERNAL SPRING retraces the event on its 20th anniversary, and brings to life an unprecedented story of defiance, harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution, and an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.
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Eureka
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | United States | 14 min | Narrative
Director: Miida Chu
Producer: Xianqi Crystal Du
A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California.
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 60 min | Documentary
Director: Joy Davenport
Producer: Monica Land
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, a documentary producer by her grand-niece Monica Land, is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.
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