This is our glorious first Japanese Shorts Program. We called for applications in May, and had 72 responses within a month. We were pleasantly surprised and encouraged to see so many independent filmmakers in Japan! We are screening the 5 most powerful films among them. All the films are in Japanese with English open caption subtitles (audio descriptions and speaker IDs are occasionally [Read more...]
This year’s Teen UPAF streams four powerful videos made by teenagers in New York City during the COVID-19 Lockdown. All in English (with some Spanish) with Japanese caption subtitles. This program is free of charge and is available on both Vimeo and YouTube. Read on to learn about the films and young filmmakers.
Mel Baggs, a legendary autistic blogger and artist passed away at the age of 39 on April 11. 2020. I learned about Mel’s video “In My Language” 2 years ago from my former student now colleague Jordan Lord’s article which they wrote for my Third Cinema class at Hunter College. When I was looking for work for this edition of Uno Port Art Films, I remember how powerful it was and wondered if we could [Read more...]
