Sunday, August 9 at 1:00 pm
The Audition directed by Samara Von Rad (Canada, Music Video, 8 mins) A short aerial circus film that shows the emotional roller coaster that is the process of auditioning.
YAPs directed by Miriam Gordon-Stewart (US, Documentary Feature, 1 hour 21 mins) A traditional career as an opera singer seems less and less viable. And yet, in spite of a system stacked against them, young singers continue to follow their calling.
I am not afraid directed by Ilana Alazzeh (US, Music Video, 5 mins) A music video for the song "I am not afraid."
Mélisande directed by Victoria Hutton (WNY, Music Video, 2 mins) A creative interpretation of a song from Claude Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" sung by title character Mélisande, performed by Victoria Hutton.
Georgina directed by Ana Marazzi (US Puerto Rico, Narrative Short, 21 mins) In 1937 Puerto Rico, under the domain of a U.S. military government, thirteen-year-old Georgina works alongside her mother, Petra, in a tobacco factory.
Mulata directed by Yarilis Ramos López (US Puerto Rico, Student Short, 16 mins) In 1850 Puerto Rico, a mixed-race girl raised as a Spaniard faces rejection as she seeks to connect with her late African mother through an afro Puerto Rican dance called La Bomba.
Recao directed by Dayra Ferrera (US Puerto Rico, Narrative Short, 15 mins) Anna grows up learning how to prepare sofrito alongside her grandfather Exio in their home in Villa Palmeras, Puerto Rico. Years later, Anna faces the double loss of her grandfather and her home after the forced displacement of the community.
Los changos directed by Gala Rodríguez Belén (US Puerto Rico, Student Animation Short, 4 mins) In a not-so-distant future, the grackles govern Puerto Rico after promising to have freed the people from corruption.
En duda, siempre a la izquierda (In Doubt, Go Left) directed by Mariana S. Belaval (US Puerto Rico, Student Short, 17 mins) After his first sexual encounter with his best friend, Maco finds his dead grandmother on the couch in his home. Moral guilt and masculine complexity erupt when, accompanied by his friends on the way to the funeral, one of the car's tires bursts in the middle of nowhere.
JAMEELA directed by Zainab Malik & Mina Isabella JafriMalik (Pakistan, Narrative Feature, 1 hour 32 mins) Jameela follows a transgender woman in Karachi navigating love, loss, and survival in a society that often refuses to accept her.
AWARDS: 8:00 pm
