1992
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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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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ANNAH LA JAVANAISE
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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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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 Candy Tin
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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The Drive to Sing
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
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
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
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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