More Than a Roof
In-Person Event: SHOWROOM
2021 | United States | 31 min | Documentary
Director: Colin Havey
Over 350 people and families in Cheshire County have experienced homelessness in the past year. More Than A Roof looks at the challenges of homelessness through the eyes of several local people and a family, as well as commentary from experts in the field. Through interviews with several people who have unique insight into the issues, including Jennifer Alexander, the former homeless coordinator for the Keene School District, the film depicts the many causes of homelessness and its impact on children who experience homelessness on a daily basis.
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Virtual Showing
2021 | United States | 15 min | Narrative
Director: Kuan Cao
Producer: Greena Ell Park, Kennedy Porter, Yun Jeong
SOO-YOUNG goes to check her restaurant after getting a phone call from her employee. She finds her restaurant has been stormed by looters. She calls 911, but no help will be sent. In the dining room, there is a young black man with a mask stealing money. It turns out that he is the employee, JAMAL, who called Soo-Young earlier.
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Alchemy
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2021 | United States | 23 min | Documentary
Director: Bridget Fitzgerald
Alchemy tells the story of glassblower and social entrepreneur, Rebeccah Byer, as she navigates her grief at the loss of her brother from ALS, to create a glass studio for youth. The Olio is a place of healing and growth for Rebeccah and her apprentices. In Alchemy, we witness this transformative power through one of Rebeccah’s apprentices, Lucy McGinnis, who struggles growing up trans in North Carolina.
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All We Knew and Ever Loved: Earthside
Virtual Showing
2021 | France | 9 min | Narrative
Director: Maxime Tiberghien, Sylvain Favre
Producer: Frank Sacramone, Jamie Van Dyck, Ben Shanbrom, Maxime Tiberghien, Sylvain Favre
In a dystopian world, two brothers embark on a surreal journey hoping to confront an ominous force that threatens their kind and the planet they inhabit. As experiences alter their individual understandings of the world and themselves, a far more terrifying foe comes into focus.
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And So I Stayed
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2021 | United States| 91 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel A. Nelson, Natalie Pattillo
Producer: Daniel A. Nelson, Natalie Pattillo
AND SO I STAYED is an award-winning documentary by Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories. Formerly incarcerated survivor-advocate Kim Dadou Brown, who met her wife while incarcerated, is a driving force in the passage of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), a new law meant to prevent survivors from receiving harsh prison sentences for their acts of survival. Nikki Addimando, a mother of two young children, suffered the consequences when a judge didn’t follow the law’s guidelines. Tanisha Davis, a single mother who was ripped away from her son in 2013, is hopeful the new law is her way out of a harsh prison sentence.
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ANNAH LA JAVANAISE
Virtual Showing
2020 | South Asia, India | 6 min
Director: Fatimah Tobing Rony
In 1893, French artist Paul Gaugin painted the controversial portrait of Annah la Javanaise. To some, it represents a foundational example of post-impressionist art, and to others, it offers an undeniable portrait of Western colonialism. In this short, animated film, scholar and artist Fatimah Tobing Rony (dir. ON CANNIBALISM) reimagines the life of this 13-year-old Javanese girl who was sold by her family to the famous French painter.
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The Art of Making It
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 93 min | Documentary
Director: Kelcey Edwards
The Art of Making It explores the art-world ecosystem through the prism of young artists at pivotal moments in their careers, revealing the secret sauce that thrusts some into the stratosphere and leaves others struggling to survive. Why does it matter who we anoint to tell the stories of our time? Including the voices of luminaries and disruptors, the film leaves one to question whether the new world order will make art more accessible for all.
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Bad Child
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2022 | United States | 13 min | Documentary
Director: Nicole Emiliana Mendez
Bad Child is a short documentary about childhood sexual abuse. The film focuses on the outcomes of one survivor while expert interviews place emphasis on the importance of parental support. Multiple layers of images, sounds, and animation overstimulate the viewer, effectively conveying the complexity of living with trauma.
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Being Bebe: The Bebe Zahara Benet Documentary
Virtual Showing
2021 | United States | 93 min | Documentary
Director: Emily Branham
Producer: Marc Smolowitz, Jonathan Goodman Levitt
English Subtitles Available
Marshall Ngwa (a.k.a. renowned drag performer BeBe Zahara Benet) came to the United States from homophobic Cameroon with dreams of a better life and became the first winner of the now-iconic reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2009. Being BeBe follows Marshall’s remarkable immigrant journey from the earliest days of his amateur drag performance career in Minneapolis, circa 2006, to his emergence as one of the leading artists in the movement to celebrate and advance Queer Black Excellence during the 2020s. With 15 years of intimate access to Marshall’s story, the film presents his unique love affair with performance alongside his unstoppable sense of persistence and purpose, offering an unprecedented portrait of an artist who chooses to live a creative life against all odds.
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The Body Is a House of Familiar Rooms
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2021 | United States | 10 min | Documentary
Director: Eloise Sherrid, Lauryn Welch
Sam Geiger suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a painful illness of the connective tissues. The intrusion of this chronic illness into every aspect of his and his partner’s life is explored with whimsical beauty in this gorgeously animated hybrid documentary about love, pain and the private worlds one can conjure with paint and imagination.
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