ABOUT THE FILMS

10:35

ANIMATED MEXICO SPANISH 13 MINS

SUNDAY FEB 19 9:00 PM-11:00 PM / MONDAY FEB 20 3:00 PM-4:45 PM

After the death of his mother, Nico is in a crematorium waiting for her ashes. Nico begins working on an experiment with a virtual reality glasses to travel to a parallel universe and see his mother once again. Just like an hourglass, Nico will depend on the last grain of sand to accomplish his purpose.

Alan Sánchez is a Motion Designer and 3D generalist. He is passionate about creating ideas and expressing them visually. Since he was 23 years old, he’s been involved in the world of design and animation. 10:35 is the first short film in which he has participated as a director and it provided a great experience, as well as the passion to continue learning and improving as an artist.

Directed by Alan Sánchez

Producted by Paulina Patiño

A Man Of His Time

SHORT UNITED STATES ENGLISH 28 MINS

THURSDAY FEB 23 5:00 PM-6:45 PM / TUESDAY FEB 21 2:30 PM-4:45 PM

Two descendants of the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Decision meet in a cafe off the New Jersey turnpike. Jim Taney, a descendant of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney who penned the opinion, offers an apology from his family to the family of Walter Scott, a descendant of the formerly enslaved Dred Scott. Through a vulnerable conversation about racism in America, Jim awakens to his own ignorance and discovers why an apology alone just won’t cut it. This film is an adaptation of a short play written by Kate Taney Billingsley.

Estelle Parsons was last seen on Broadway in THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN, receiving her 5th Tony Award nomination. She is most widely known for her Academy Awardwinning performance in BONNIE AND CLYDE. As a director, she created the New York Shakespeare Festival Players for Joseph Papp in the 1980’s and directed Al Pacino in SALOME; THE READING on Broadway. She is a member of the Actors Studio and has received 4 lifetime achievement awards: a Lilly, an Obie, a LaMama award and the Cherry Lane award.

Directed by Estelle Parsons

Producted by Jeffery Keilholtz, Richard Pamela D’Avino Murphy

Abandon

MUSIC VIDEO UNITED STATES ENGLISH 7 MINS

THURSDAY FEB 23 5:00 PM-6:45 PM

Dwight is a 49 year old Uber driver who still lives at home with his mother while holding onto his 80’s metal rock dream. He is unable to handle the aftermath of his incredible one-night stand with a married lady.

As a satirical comedic innovator, Jeff Hilliard’s music videos have garnered millions of views and have won numerous film festivals. His videos have been promoted by SteveO, Russell Brand and Tommy Lee.

Directed by Jeff Hilliard

Producted by Jeff Hilliard

Abuela Dal

SHORT SPAIN SPANISH

FRIDAY FEB 17 5:15 PM-7:15 PM

10 MINS

Four women in a wedding wardrobe use a Ouija board to prove that the family’s grandmother was Salvador Dalí.

Vega Halen holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and works as a teacher of Audiovisual Language and Video Editing at CEV School in Madrid. She also works as a Freelance Photographer and Videographer. She wrote and directed her first short film, LA SANTA, which earned selections at several festivals and won the “Alice Guy Prize” at the Marató De Cinema Fantàstic i de Terror de Sants (Barcelona). Her latest project is the short film ABUELA DALÍ, which was shot in 2021.

Directed by Vega Halen

Producted by Rodrigo Gil

BLACK MOTHERS LOVE & RESIST

DOCUMENTARY UNITED STATES ENGLISH

101 MINS SATURDAY FEB 18 6:45 PM-8:45 PM

Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of communityled support, mutual aid, and healing in Débora Souza Silva’s trenchant documentary spanning Oakland’s Fruitvale to the American South.

Long before George Floyd’s murder and the BLM protests in 2020, Oscar Grant’s 2009 killing by a BART police officer seeded public awareness and cultural consciousness of systemic racism and its discontents. Paying forward lessons learned and advocating against anti-Black violence in memory of her son, Oscar, Wanda Johnson holds space for Angela Williams, whose teen son, Ulysses, survives a brutal police attack in Troy, Alabama, living to tell his story.

Débora Souza Silva is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work examines systemic racism and inequality. Her work were featured on PBS, BBC, Reveal News, KQED, and Fusion. She received the NABJ Les Payne Founder’s Award, a New York Times Institute Fellowship, 2021 Creative Capital Award, a member of the 2020 Chicken & Egg(celerator) Lab and the 2019 Firelight Media Lab.

Directed by Débora Souza Silva

Producted by Débora Souza Silva, David Felix Sutcliffe