Documentary, USA, 23min, 2015. Dir: 13 high school students at the Educational Video Center (EVC) in NYC. Synopsis: EVC youth producers create an intimate portrait of the psychological impact that deportation, incarceration, and substance abuse have on the separation of their families. They analyze the physical and economic effects of family separation through Luis’s story of immigration and [Read more...]
Drama, Japan, 3min, 2015. Dir: Seiryo High School Image Society (a cinema club). A relatable story of a high school student who meets his “dreaming” past selves while falling asleep in an after-school classroom, and comes to realize how pressured high school life has forced him not to believe in himself. The Prize of Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Technology at the Asian Int’l [Read more...]
Drama, Laos, 3min, 2015. Dir: Phakhaypheth Sithphaxai, et al (high school students). A drama depicting the life of a boy who transformed himself from a bully to a nice guy. The Prize of Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Asian Int’l Children’s Film Festival 2015. [2nd photo] At the award ceremony at the Asian Int’l Children’s Film Festival 2015.
2D Animation, USA, 3.5min, 2010. Dir: Jane Wu (a college student at the time of production). Two girls realize the value of their friendship after a journey of broken hearts, torn pages and reconciliation. Director: Jane Wu Bio: Jane Wu is a Chinese American illustrator, animator, compositor and art director. She was born and raised in New York and attended Pratt Institute for her [Read more...]
Experimental, Japan, 3min, 2015. Dir: Teen boys at the Kurihama Juvenile Training School. An expressive and moving video made by young boys residing in a reformatory in Yokosuka. The Minister of Justice Prize at the Asian Int’l Children’s Film Festival 2015. [2nd photo] At the award ceremony of the Asian Int’l Children’s Film Festival 2015. A delegate to the young producers at he reformatory [Read more...]
Music Video, USA, 3min, 2014. Dir: Jaquan Harris, Denzell Huggins, AJ Sumliman, William Herasme, Angela Rowe, Shaquille Matthew, Jamie Collado (7 high school students in NYC). A super cool music video, made by high school students who study music video production at the Urban Arts Partnership in NYC, submitted to the “If I Had A Trillion Dollars” youth film festival. Young people question how [Read more...]
Evaporating Borders by Iva Radivojevic Cyprus/USA, 73min, 2014, color, Essay documentary, Japan Premiere sneak preview! An essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders offers a series of vignettes, poetically guided by the filmmaker's curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus : A PLO activist [Read more...]
Mock Angel Dir. Tomomichi Nakamura, Japan, 13min, 2014, digital, color, 2D animation drama. (This short film will be shown with "June Bride") A girl wanted a change in her bland and uninteresting daily routine. She keeps a bird as a pet to create some change, and finds herself dreaming of having a child with it. The child of a bird and a woman is called a “mock-angel” and is angelic in [Read more...]
Semiotics of Islam Dir. Fouzia Najar, US, 2014, 7min. digital, experimental. (This short film will be shown with "Where Should the Birds Fly.") Inspired by Martha Rosler’s “Semiotic of the Kitchen” (1975, a feminist experimental film in which a housewife expresses her frustration by demonstrating the use of various kitchen products that surround her), this film combats Islamophobia. Queens [Read more...]
Paraíso Dir. Nadav Kurtz, US, 10min. 2012, color, documentary. (This short film will be shown with "Evaporating Borders") Three immigrant window cleaners risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago’s tallest sky-scrapers. Paraíso reveals the danger of their job and what they see on the way down. Best Documentary Awards at the Tribeca, Chicago, Seattle, Cine Las Americas, [Read more...]