NFFTY 2022 LA Pop-Up Guide

October 14 − 16 Los Angeles, CA nffty.org

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Schedule Fine Arts Theatre, 8556 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90211

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Opening Night Showcase 7.30 - 9.30 PM

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Rebels With a Cause 2 - 4 PM

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S A T U R DAY 15 T H

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Storytelling as Activism 4.30 - 5.30 PM

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2022 Pitch Competition 6.30 - 8 PM

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A Musical Interlude 8.30 - 9.30 PM Up All Night 9.30 - 11.30 PM

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Creating a Pop-Up has been a goal for many years.

We have long wanted to bring the NFFTY experience to those who may not have had the opportunity to attend our annual festival in Seattle. As a hub for film, LA has become home to many of our alumni and upcoming talent alike. It is the dedication to the art of filmmaking from our young filmmakers that drives NFFTY to continue to work towards more equity in our industry.

Uplifting the next generation of creatives is an ongoing adventure we are honored to work towards, so it is with immense gratitude that we begin the first (of hopefully many) Pop-Ups with you. Enjoy the screenings and panels while networking with fellow artists this weekend!

Remember to look around the room at the outstanding talent that is yourself and your peers.

With gratitude, Krupa Kanaiya, Leomary Rodriguez, Ryan Saunders The NFFTY Leadership Trio

A Splash of Color 11 A M - 1 PM

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From small starts to big screens, we made it! Following the footsteps of many NFFTY alumni across the country and around the world, we have finally made the pilgrimage to LA. We are inspired by each of you and are proud to present our first-ever Pop-Up event!

As the incoming leadership team at NFFTY, we look forward to meeting many in our community for the first time and reconnecting with familiar faces in a new context. We are elated to share this experience with you!

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Thursday October 13th 6.30 - 9.30 PM NFFTY LA Pop-Up Filmmaker Mixer at Second Home Hollywood

Ways of Seeing 1.30 - 3 PM LA Alumni Roundtable 3.30 - 4.30

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From Vandal to Players 5 - 6 PM

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Come As You Are 7 - 9 PM

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WELCOME TO THE ONLY CAMPUS CREATED INSIDE OF A WORKING MOVIE STUDIO

Sponsors 2022

Platinum sponsors

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Silver sponsors

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How Do I Attend the Pop-Up? You can attend all the screenings and events scheduled for NFFTY’s Pop-Up live in Los Angeles!

“AFI Ranked Top American Film School” - The Hollywood Reporter

The in-person event runs Friday, October 14 - Sunday, October 16, 2022 at Fine Arts Theatre, 8556 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

To make the Pop-Up as accessible as possible, NFFTY has ‘Pay What You Can’ pricing for individual tickets! * Individual Tickets are good only on that specific screening of the Pop-Up! * An All-Access Pass is available for those looking to further support the event and gives you access the entire weekend, in Los Angeles.

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Vaccination We recommend a full vaccination, including at least one booster shot for all attendees of our Pop-Up. You are considered “fully vaccinated” two weeks after completing the second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine (e.g., Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks after receiving a single dose of a one-dose vaccine (e.g., Johnson & Johnson/Janssen).

Your best work starts here.

Earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cinematography, Directing, Editing, Producing, Production Design and Screenwriting.

For more information, visit AFI.edu

Mask Policy Masks are encouraged. Attendees will be expected to follow local mask guidelines at the time of the event.

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NFFTY Merch Support NFFTY with our official NFFTY merchandise!

Tote Bag $20 Rep your love for cinema with a sfx themed NFFTY tote bag.

Stickers, Buttons & Magnets $2 Add a little touch of NFFTY to your life with our buttons, stickers & magnets!

T Shirts $30 Whether you’re looking for a classic T or a pop of color, this year’s t-shirts are a must have addition to your closet! Made perfectly for your comfiest NFFTY fit.

Combo Deal! $45 for shirt + tote + all stickers, buttons & magnets

Grab your new NFFTY threads — in-person or online at our Bonfire store bonfire.com/store/nffty.

We’ll have limited edition designs available at each, collect ‘em all!

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Workshops, Panels & Keynotes Saturday October 15th MODERATED DISCUSSION

MODERATED DISCUSSION

Storytelling as Activism with Kristian Mercado

LA Alumni Roundtable

Fine Arts Theatre, 4:30pm to 5:30pm Presented by Seed & Spark Join Kristian Mercado, director of Nuevo Rico & Pa’lante, for a conversation about using storytelling as a tool for activism. His work highlights latinx representation, encompasses diverse casting, and addresses such societal issues as displacement and being unhoused. Kristian will discuss how, through the mediums of animation & music, he gathers collaborators and inspiration to tell impactful stories as a filmmaker.

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Sunday October 16th

Fine Arts Theatre, 3:30pm to 4:30pm Join a select group of LA-based NFFTY alumni during a roundtable discussion where they discuss their experiences starting out in the industry, finding collaborators in LA, and their experiences with NFFTY! This will be a conversational moment with fellow alumni, both those on stage and with audience members.

2022 Pitch Competition

MODERATED DISCUSSION

Fine Arts Theatre, 6:30pm to 8:00pm Co-Presented by Musicbed/Filmsupply

From Vandal to Players with Tony Yacenda + Dan Perrault

Join us for our second annual Pitch Competition!

Filmmakers 24 years old and younger will compete for a chance to win up to $5,000 towards their latest project. This is an opportunity for filmmakers to pitch in front of industry professionals and receive helpful feedback on their work. Up to six finalists will be chosen, and they will be paired with an industry mentor ahead of time to practice their pitches and ensure they’re putting their best foot forward.

Fine Arts Theatre, 5pm to 6pm Join Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault (creators of American Vandal and Players), for a special moderated discussion on their creative process.

Through commitment and perseverance, the duo has moved from YouTube to Television while utilizing comedy towards larger themes. Hear how they build upon past successes, maintain their vision, and find balance with their collaborators.

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Filmmaker Mixer A NFFTY event wouldn’t be complete without a party meant for our filmmakers! Celebrate our arrival to LA during our Alumni mixer, which will start Thursday October 13th at 6:30pm PT. RSVP is encouraged for this event.

Date: Thursday October 13th at 6:30pm PT Location: Second Home Hollywood 1370 N St Andrews Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028

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The Second Annual NFFTY Pitch Competition Co-Presented by Musicbed/Filmsupply

After reviewing a large submission pool of remarkable projects, six finalists have been chosen to compete for cash grants of up to $5,000 for their films!

In 2021, the inaugural NFFTY Pitch Competition helped four productions reach their budget goals and enter into production. This year, six finalists will compete in front of a live judging panel at our LA Pop-Up. In order to be considered, projects needed to: – Be eligible to screen in a NFFTY festival, whether they be narrative, documentary, animated, experimental, a music video, or an episodic short.

– Have already completed progress on pre-production, including full outline or screenplay.

– Be represented by pitching filmmakers who are 24-and-under at the time they start production on their film.

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Judges

The Pitch Competition is back!

Satya Bhabha Writer/Director

Rosita Lama Muvdi Writer/Director

Amy Lapides Roster Manager at Ghetto Film School

Nina Reyes Rosenberg Co-Founder and Director, Mala Forever

Projects were selected on the strength of their CONCEPT (what project they want to make and for whom), BUDGET (what will it take to make the project a reality), and KEY PLAYERS (who is making the project).

For the live pitches in front of our judging panel, the finalists: – Must keep their pitches 5 minutes long, 8 minutes max.

– Can include visuals such as PowerPoint, images, or videos.

In advance of the competition, finalists are paired with mentors to help them practice and hone their pitch, ensuring that they are putting their best foot forward. Come experience these pitches and gain the bragging rights of hearing about these projects in their early stages!

All finalists will receive prizes from our generous sponsors Musicbed/ Filmsupply, LaCie, and Final Draft.

Michael Musante VP of Production and Acquisition at American Zoetrope

Mentors Sharon Greene Ronald Hinton Ceci Leon Natasha Lewin Bella Racklin Eric Stumpf 15

Opening Night Showcase

Come celebrate NFFTY’s first ever Pop-Up with a showcase of standout work from previous festivals, along with some powerful new work from alumni!

Friday October 14th 7.30pm @ Fine Arts Theatre

Rebels With a Cause Saturday October 15th 2pm @ Fine Arts Theatre

Witness the displays of endurance and strength in these powerful dramatic shorts, each taking a unique visual approach to characters bearing the weight of the world on their shoulders.

Presented by

Busan, 1999

south korea

Thomas Percy Kim - 20 An expecting Korean-American woman returns to her mother’s rustic home. They bathe and scrub each other, searching for reconnection and redemption.

Secret Menu

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Sean Wang Three ajummas express their love for LA’s Koreatown through food, poetry and more food.

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Courtney Barnett “Write a List of Things to Look Forward To” ca , usa Christina Xing Courtney Barnett’s music video for “Write a List of Things to Look Forward To”.

Team Meryland

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Gabriel Gaurano - 19, Julia Elihu - 20, Jason Phillips - 22 Born and raised in the Watts projects of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old female boxer Meryland Gonzalez fights in-andout of the ring for the dream to be crowned the 2019 Junior Olympics champion.

No Crying at the Dinner Table canada Carol Nguyen - 22 Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.

The Headhunters Daughter philippines Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Hannah Schierbeek Lynn - an aspiring country singer, and July - her trusty brown horse, endure an arduous descent along the Cordilleran highlands to make it on time to the city for the audition of her dreams.

Her journey leads her on a path where her indigenous identity is confronted by the unseen forces of the landscape’s colonial American past.

Plum Town

ca , usa

Kelly Yu - 19 A young land developer returns to his childhood home in the Chinese countryside for the first time in a decade to convince his stubborn father to finally sell the failing plum orchard. However, when the two find themselves unable to understand each other, they turn to the dusty old karaoke machine in the house to find a common language.

Presented by

Beneath the Grass

ca , usa William Bermudez - 23, Sam Friedman - 23, Nathan Ginter - 22, Caden Ghen - 22

After going on the run with his mother for her illegal grow operation, Leo yearns for a normal home life and risks their safety by entering a strangers home.

INTI: The Sun Rising

ca , usa

Mariel Sosa - 22 When her older brother falls ill, a young girl seeks the one cure to save him in a seclusive forest, but is nature playing tricks on her?

Chico Virtual

Eureka

A teenage boy must come to terms with the harsh reality of his immigrant status when his older brother alarmingly doesn’t come home.

A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 antiChinese riot in Eureka, California.

Pathei Mathos

Winter of ‘79

Increasingly disturbing flashbacks haunt a grieving girl who struggles to navigate her own pain in a desperate attempt to free herself from the trauma that has taken over her life.

At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a Persian-Jewish mother is forced to question her faith in her country.

ny , usa Olivia De Camps - 22, Gabriel Connelly - 24

usa / bra zil Vitória Vasconcellos - 21, Billy Gould - 20, Evan Siegal - 21

ca , usa Miida Chu - 24

ca , usa Julia Elihu - 24, Leslie Susman - 23, Gabe Knows-Newton - 23, Alex Joyce - 23

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A Musical Interlude Saturday October 15th 8.30pm @ Fine Arts Theatre

Soak up the sunshine and pump up the volume with these colorful music videos that explore a variety of expressive ways to make a film sing!

Up All Night Saturday October 15th 9.30pm @ Fine Arts Theatre

Strap yourselves in for a multi course meal of late night delights with these eclectic, spine-tingling, and gonzo exercises in genre filmmaking.

Presented by

Brumatti “In Shape For Summer” mo , usa

Chappell Roan “California” ca , usa

Kaylinn Clotfelter - 20, Andrew Trice - 21, Isaiah Satterfield - 21, Logan Triplett - 24

Chappell Roan - 21, Ethan Seneker - 23

A newspaper boy encounters an obstacle on his journey to making money for the most epic summer ever.

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A lyric video about dreams and missing home.

Equinox

canada

Jonah Haber - 23, Sahil Mirchandani - 24, Susannah Haight - 24, Patricia Roque - 23 Equinox is inspired by the concept of the two faces: the face you show the world and the face of who you truly are.

I Guess I’m in Love

ny , usa Julia Kupiec - 24, Ace Buckley - 25, Jeremy Truong - 25

A visual collage of intimacy for Clinton Kane’s “I Guess I’m in Love.”

I Like the Look of Today ca , usa

Jany Green “Lost in Love” Directors Cut ca , usa

Mia Gladstone “Food”

The Heroes of Baseball

Brian Niles - 20, Will Noyce - 19, Shane Bagwell - 22, Teddy Nissen - 20

Dan Lesser - 23, Autumn Griffin - 23, Neema Sadeghi - 24, Karl Junguist - 24

Zac Dov Wiesel - 21, Sophia Loren Heriveaux - 20, Shane Bagwell - 21

Jack Campise - 23, Steph Jacqlin 23, Andrew Jacobson - 23, Jack Massura - 22

A child’s lemonade stand becomes the target of an IRS sting operation.

Lost in Love by Jany Green - Directors Cut. Jany puts the green in Jany’s green gardening services.

Food is Mia Gladstone a single from her EP CYCLE/S. The video explores Mia’s relationship with her body, food and the world, as she deals with being sexualized as women from a young age, and eventually what it means to take control of the narrative.

Two childhood friends freely explore their suburban town until a bizarre and unsettling encounter fractures the duo, leaving them alone to cope in dissonant ways.

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Chicks

Hex & Rage

Milk Teeth

Poachers

A bubbly, girly slumber party spirals quickly out of control when a shy teen becomes the center of her friends’ bizarre nighttime rituals.

Two teen witches avenge their stripper friend by hexing the man who assaulted her.

An orphanage spirals into mayhem when a boy discovers a shadowy creature who comes to collect more than just the children’s teeth...

During the summer before they must leave for college, two lifelong best friends come across a unique business opportunity: illegally harvesting and selling succulents from the California coast.

Proto

The Girl in the Woods

The Painted

Wolf in Dude’s Clothing

ga , usa Geena Marie Hernandez - 22, Chayse Banks - 23, Chris Violette - 23, Sky Theis - 21

ca , usa Cal J.T. Moreno - 24

A young couple discovers their smart devices are listening a little too closely.

ca , usa Sasha Lebedeva - 21, Riel Macklem - 23, Clara McGregor - 24

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Laura Kulik - 23, Logan Fulton - 24 A woman meets a terrible fate after she gets into a car accident on an isolated forest road.

ca , usa Felipe Vargas - 21, Jamie McNeill - 21, Brendan Bennett - 21

ca , usa Sasha Sibley - 22, Thomas George - 21, Donovan Sierra - 22

A man undertakes a dangerous ritual in an attempt to save his ailing wife.

ca , usa Tiffany Lin - 22, Elias Ginsberg - 23, Samantha Sadoff - 23

canada

Solmund MacPherson - 22 A starving wolf finds a suit of human skin, crawls inside, and becomes a man.

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A Splash of Color

Transcend time and space with these playful animations, each with their own unique style and sense of wonder.

Sunday October 16th 11am @ Fine Arts Theatre

3:45 PM

ca , usa

Alisha Liu - 21

ca , usa Jules Chin Greene - 24

Afro Algorithms

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Anatola Araba - 23

A girl sinks into contemplation during a picnic at a park.

A filmmaker is told by a six yearold that she is, against all odds, her favorite childhood superhero.

This spawns an identity crisis of race and gender in this personal narrative based on a true story.

In a distant future, an artificial intelligence named Aero is inaugurated as the first AI ruler of Earth. However, she soon finds important worldviews are missing from her databank, including the stories of the historically marginalized and oppressed.

Ciervo

Dead Meat

Grey

ri , usa Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma - 21

An emotionally haunting and visually beautiful experience, ‘Ciervo’ tells the story of a young girl who holds violence, submission, and independence in an uneasy balance as one morphs into the other.

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About A Bat

canada

Adnan Peer Mohamed - 21 A hungry seagull struggles to find something to eat.

ca , usa Vasilina Mikhaylova - 23, Sarah Casey - 22, Anastasia Mikhaylova - 25, Royal Dean - 24

Taken in by a burly lumberjack, a young orphaned wolf pup must choose between his human companion and the call of the wild.

Black Metal

ca , usa Riley Street - 21, Janice Wu - 21, Danielle Mullins - 21, Evan O’brien - 22

Interdimensional Pizza Pushers ny , usa

Introducing iScreen Pro china

Knife Hanging from a Tree ca , usa

Lije Morgan - 21

Jiaxin (Lydia) Wang - 24

Jihee Nam - 24

Rebekah, a twelve year old, defiant little girl, loves a black metal band called Cosmophobia.

But when her overly religious parents forbid her from going to the Cosmophobia concert, Rebekah decides to sneak out herself, causing her parents to run after her, not only to find their daughter but also a better understanding of family.

Follow Honeybear and Fishlips as they race through dimensions to make all of their deliveries in time!

A fictional old commercial promoting a digital mask called ‘iScreen Pro’ implies people’s insane life under the worldwide pandemic.

Sour grapes.

The Kitchlets

The Peach Scarf

In Passing

canada

ca , usa

Silvering

united kingdom

Eilidh Nicoll - 21 Upon discovering a grey hair, a woman becomes entangled in insecurity and fear of the future.

The sanctuary of the bathroom takes a turn for the sinister as she spirals into a panic – and the hair becomes her tormentor.

il , usa

Esther Cheung - 21

Clarisse Chua

Del Sego - 22

A portrait of seventies Hong Kong as my parents remember it.

Mina lives alone in her apartment accompanied by three little house spirits, the Kitchlets, who feed off her positive emotions and take care of her negative ones.

While browsing in the market, Daisy is distracted by a bird who has stolen a scarf from a pretty stranger, Camille and though she hops to action to help reclaim the scarf for her, she runs into trouble along the way. Undeterred, Daisy finds her own way to restore the beloved peach scarf to Camille.

This is Why Girls Go to the Bathroom Together united kingdom

Lydia Reid - 24 Ever wondered why girls never seem to go to the toilet on their own in the club? This film shows why you always need another girl with you to go for a piss.

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Ways of Seeing Sunday October 16th 1.30pm @ Fine Arts Theatre

Bug Farm

oh , usa Lydia Cornett - 25

Four distinct women in Central Florida bond over crickets, superworms and cockroaches on an insect farm in the small town of LaBelle.

ca , usa

María Alvarez - 24 “did i look cuban then?” is an exploration into the intersectionalities of my Cuban-American upbringing and multigenerational womanhood through the lens of poetry, photography, cinematography, screen-printing, and found family footage.

Come As You Are

Long Line of Ladies

Girls & the Party

ca , usa Rayka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome

A girl and her community prepare for her Ihuk, the once-dormant coming of age ceremony of the Karuk tribes of Northern California.

One Day You’ll Go Blind

We Are Like Waves

What We See in the Clouds wa , usa

Leo Pfeifer - 23

Jordyn Romero - 22, Leah de Leon - 23

Barb Hoffman - 21

ca , usa

At age 25, Justin Bishop lost his sight — and his skateboarding career. Three years later he set out to learn, again.

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did i look cuban then?

The short documentaries in this program challenge our perspectives of the world, encouraging us to relearn how we understand the people and places around us.

sri lanka , usa

We Are Like Waves is an intimate look into how surfing changes Sanu’s life, documenting the struggles and breakthroughs of becoming a female Sri Lankan surfer.

A lonely animator seeks companionship through asking her friends to tell her what they see in cloud pictures. She then proceeds to animate their visions.

Mawhialeo Ote Alowha (Our Love) new zealand, ukraine Valeriya Golovina - 23, Niamh Swannack - 22, Morgan Hopkins 22, Cameron Cook - 22 Meli and her husband Avito reflect on the pivotal decision of their lives. With much trepidation they left the tiny atoll of Tokelau for New Zealand seeking a better life for their son. 43 years on, they find themselves pulled between family and a longing for home.

Sunday October 16th 7pm @ Fine Arts Theatre

france

Paloma Lopez - 24

Half

ny , usa Jacob Roberts - 24

A group of girlfriends prepare for the anticipated summer party in a cramped bathroom. Between boy talk and makeup, Mercedes navigates her blossoming attraction for her friend Julia.

Half-Jewish, bisexual Jonah Dorman comes out to his girlfriend, shaking the foundation of their relationship and launching a tragicomic exploration of love and religion in New York City.

Novena

Pure

Set in South East Los Angeles, two estranged highschool bestfriends reunite at the novenario ceremony for one of their deceased mothers.

On the eve of her cotillion ball, Celeste, a seventeen-year-old closeted poet, experiences an unexpected new love that shifts her role in the traditional rite of passage ceremony.

ca , usa Fernando Lopez - 24

ny , usa Natalie Jasmine Harris - 23

Utilizing documentary, narrative, formal experimentation, and everything in between, these shorts collectively celebrate the way people navigate and express their identities to the world.

How To Raise A Black Boy ny , usa Justice Jamal Jones - 20 An experimental fairytale dedicated to the modern black boy, in which four boys disappear one night, as many black boys do, and find themselves on a fantastical journey to break the curses of black boyhood.

Joychild

ca , usa Aurora Brachman - 24

A young child tells their mother “I’m not a girl” for the first time.

Searching For The Wave ny , usa

Winter Insect, Summer Flower ca , usa

Chelsea Muscat - 24, Sasha Perez - 24

Tee Jaehyung Park - 21, Gbenga Komolafe - 21

Faye, heartbroken and confused, recalls her memories of her recent relationship with Ava in hopes to understand what went wrong.

This leads Faye to a speculative dark realization about her former partner’s childhood.

A trans woman’s journey through the changing seasons as she breaks out of her physical mold.

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Screening Committee & NFFTY Team

Additional NFFTY Production Team

NFFTY LA Pop-Up Taskforce and Steering Committee NFFTY is a program of The Talented Youth, a 501c3 non-profit Griffith Gustafson Karen Bennett Anita M. Cal Frankie Rubio

Vitória Vasconcellos Benjamin Wiessner Adam Hersko-RonaTas Tiffany Lin

Podcast Producer Robert Bojorquez

Designers Lizzie Frost & Todd Atticus

LA Pop-Up Photographer Po Wei Su

2022 Summer Interns Ruby Lee, Kenny Abe, Iiona Dunkley

Trailer Editor Ryan Saunders

LA Pop-Up Videographer Will Streissguth

Board of Directors Robert Bojorquez President Media Producer

Griffith Gustafson Treasurer Development Finance @ Amazon Studios

Frances Rubio Vice President Film Producer & Data-Driven Marketer

Kim Schwarzkopf Filmmaker, Producer

Alex Johnston Secretary Filmmaker, Scholar & Media Educator, Seattle University

Ogugua Agu Finance & Strategy, Biotech Specialist

Ben Kadie Filmmaker Karen Bennett Filmmaker, Media Educator Frank Clark Creative Director @ Square Tomato Anita M. Cal Film Producer, Media Educator

Board Emeritus

NFFTY LA Pop-Up Staff Jesse Harris Founder

Jocelyn R.C. Co-Founder

Kyle Seago Co-Founder

Alumni Advisory Board

Krupa Kanaiya Marketing Director

Pranay Patwardhan President Creative Director at Animal, New Delhi, India Noah Wagner Vice-President Director & Filmmaker Dennis Kim Filmmaker

Christina Xing Director & Creative Director

Adam Hersko-RonaTas Filmmaker

Morgana McKenzie Director & Filmmaker

Leo Pfeifer Director

Tiffany Lin Filmmaker Alexander Zorn Filmmaker

Barb Hoffman Filmmaker Lindsay Sunada Director/Designer Vitória Vasconcellos Filmmaker/Actor

Industry Advisory Board Leomary Rodriguez Program Director

Nathan Xia LA Pop-Up Production Coordinator 24

Ryan Saunders Managing Director

Dan Hudson Outgoing Executive Director

Philip Alvy Executive Director | Arts Integrated

Benjamin Wiessner Producer // VP of Sales & Distribution | Vanishing Angle

Toby Brooks Senior Manager, Ignite | Sundance Institute

Anna Proulx Visual and Performing Arts Program Director | Syracuse University Los Angeles Semester (SULA)

Kendra Ann Sherrill Festival Director of Children’s Film Festival Seattle | Northwest Film Forum

Azul Quetzalli Academy Manager & Mentor | BAYCAT

Bri Castellini Film Community Manager | Seed&Spark

Sean Wiener Director of Programs, Media Arts Lab | Jacob Burns Film Center

MarBelle Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief | Directors Notes

Alex Rose Creative Economy Advocate | City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture and Office of Economic Development

Noel Goodwin Venue Education Manager | BFI

Matt Cici Founder | A Creative Megan Garbayo-López Education Manager | SIFF

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Story of NFFTY

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2016

2017

The 10th anniversary festival includes 227 films from 24 countries, as well as an inaugural screenwriting competition: Story Starts Here. NFFTY takes its first steps into VR/360° with a panel and product demos. Starting to be recognized as one of the leaders in the film festival world, NFFTY is named “One of the 50 Best Festivals Worth the Entry Fee” by MovieMaker Magazine, TeenTix Best Film Organization, and one of FilmFreeway’s Top 100 Rated Festivals.

NFFTY forges into its second decade with the largest festival yet, featuring 257 films from around the world.

NFFTYX launches with a full VR/360° event featuring a boot camp and screening gallery. The Story Starts Here Screenplay Competition and Works In Progress round out a wildly successful year!

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2008–2009

Jesse Harris realizes the need for an organization to support young filmmakers and joins with Jocelyn R.C. and Kyle Seago to launch NFFTY as a one-night festival with 14 films, and to form a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, The Talented Youth.

NFFTY expands to a three-day event, screening 113 films with over 4,000 in attendance, and launches year-round programming, NFFTY 365.

In 2009, NFFTY begins accepting international films.

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2011

2018

2019

NFFTY expands again to become a four-day festival, featuring 190 films from 33 states and 16 countries and additional networking opportunities for filmmakers. A 48-Hour Film Contest is added to the festival weekend.

Now the world’s largest film festival for emerging filmmakers, NFFTY 2011 screens 225 films, adds even more programming and opportunities, and is attended by over 200 filmmakers and an audience of 8,500.

The four-day festival moves to October, and after receiving over 1,300 submissions, NFFTY screens 266 films from 24 countries and 24 U.S. States. In partnership with Oculus, NFFTYX creates an entire VR/360° gallery with NFFTY Official Selections from filmmakers and creators 24 and under. Over 50% of NFFTY 2018’s Official Selections are directed by female or non-binary identifying filmmakers!

2012

2013

NFFTY more than doubles the number of professional development events offered at the festival, and co-produces the 2nd Annual Film Career Day with the City of Seattle, including a keynote from Oscarwinning NFFTY alumna Rayka Zehtabchi. Producing partners of the 13th festival include Seed&Spark, NowThis, Sundance Institute, and Vimeo. Now 13 years strong, NFFTY has developed robust juries across eight competitions, with 31 jurors from film studios, festivals, and other positions of influence in the industry.

NFFTY adds the Future of Film Expo trade show to the festival and features eight panels, 14 workshops, and over 30 exhibitors. Festival attendance exceeds 10,000.

NFFTY features 215 films from around over 30 countries and launches NFFTY Creative, connecting brands with NFFTY alumni to work on original projects. NFFTY alumni are now working for prestigious companies such as Pixar and HBO.

2020–2021

2022 NFFTY returned to an in-person festival for its 15th edition, welcoming over 4,000 attendees back to the cinema in Seattle for screenings, mixers, and panels. The 15th edition was more global than ever, showcasing the work from 39 different countries (along with 30 different states).

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2015

NFFTY launches a Young Women in Film initiative, a year-round effort to support young female filmmakers.

Of the 214 films that screen, over 40% are directed by women. NFFTY alumni produce both an original documentary and a national televised commercial for NFFTY Creative partners, garnering both ADDY and Telly Awards.

NFFTY features a record 248 films from 30 states and 25 countries, with over 12,000 in attendance and 48% female-directed films. The festival adds its WorksIn-Progress event and launches the NFFTY Alumni Advisory Board.

NFFTY 2020 was considered by the majority of attendees as the best virtual festival experience of 2020. The 14th NFFTY expanded to a 10-day festival, to include all of the livestreamed and ondemand programming, as well as an inaugural virtual Filmmaker Summit with two full days of professional development programming. For the third year running, 50%+ of official selected films were by female/non-binary filmmakers, and over 40% of films were by non-white filmmakers. Our juried competitions expanded from 9 to 11 categories, with 40 top industry professional jurors, and $7,500 in cash was distributed to NFFTY 2020 award winners. 2021 saw the launch of a number of new programs and initiatives, including a five-week inaugural National Youth Filmmaker Summit, and a reimagined 3rd edition of Film Career Day as our first hybrid event.

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Specials Thanks

Film Index

NFFTY is grateful to the following persons who have contributed this year, without whom we would not be able to produce our LA Pop-Up: Xi Tian and Jonathan Shakes Camilo Diaz Caro John Alexander MacLeod Robert Bojorquez Monique Courcy Lorrie Harrison Gaelle Bara Jennifer Barker Pranay Patwardhan Kate Becker Helen Valkavitch Karen Bennett Sharon Friedland Cheri Gaulke Catherine McCord Bonnie Trueman Donna Brown Ashraf Hasham Caelin Homola Chris Newell Philip Alvy Wistar Kay Anita M. Cal Romain Vakilitabar Ron Klein Alex Beresniewicz

Susan Buster Thomas Anne Bobroff Boie Dawson Taylor Vicky Lee Nanci Vaeth and Carl Kadie Dennis Sungmin Kim Ben Kadie Amit Awaghade Stefanie Malone Iona Brindle Sydney Jarol Tiffany Lin Alex Emerson Mark & Jane Eisner Steven Crespo Emilio Torres Bryan Roth Jacob Alberts Naomi West Adam Hersko-RonaTas Melissa Jurcan Linda Bumgardner Beth Barrett Alfredo Jiminez Kim Schwarzkopf Sarah Read

Lesley Pfeifer Brain Alter Phillipa Gustafson Alexander Carrigan Leo Pfeifer John Platt Caroline Rensel Ariel Glassman Griffith Gustafson Al Hillel & Sue Wiedenfeld Erin Katz Peter Barnes Liv Faris Frankie Rubio Karen Bystrom Lori Seago Dan Lesser Alexander Johnston Maureen Gans Maja Gans Jocelyn R.C. Arielle Friedman Frank Clark Rachel Noll James Frank Harris Mark Kilcollin

Additionally, we would like to thank the following funders and agencies who have given support to our 2022-23 Programming Seaon, including necessary relief funding due to the economic impacts of COVID-19:

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20 Knife Hanging from a Tree

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About a Bat

20 LONG LINE OF LADIES

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Afro Algorithms

20 Mawhialeo Ote Alowha (Our Love)

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Beneath The Grass

17 Mia Gladstone “Food”

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Black Metal

20 Milk Teeth

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Scan Design Foundation

Brumatti “In Shape For Summer”

18 NOVENA

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Bug Farm

22 No Crying at the Dinner Table

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Busan, 1999

16 One Day You’ll Go Blind

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SITY Foundation

Chappell Roan “California”

18 Pathei Mathos

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Harley Soltes Charitable Fund

Chicks

19 Plum Town

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Chico Virtual

17 Poachers

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Ciervo

20 Proto

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City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture 4Culture Washington State Arts Commission National Endowment for the Arts

ArtsFund James D. Scheinfeld Family Foundation

Courtney Barnett “Write a List of Things to Look Forward To” Dead Meat did I look cuban then?

Equinox Eureka Girls & the Party

Lastly, we are grateful to the contributions of the following individuals and organizations who are making this Pop-Up possible:

Our friends at the following organizations:

All of our industry presenters and screening hosts

– Reel Works

All of our LA-based NFFTY alumni All of our NFFTY Pop-Up volunteers Our NFFTY Industry Advisory Board, including programming partners Vanishing Angle and Seed&Spark Our NFFTY Alumni Advisory Board Our Community Partners

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Grey HALF

– Asian American Documentary Network | A-Doc

HOW TO RAISE A BLACK BOY

– Association Internationale du Film d’Animation / International Animated Film Association | ASIFA

Hex & Rage I Guess I’m in Love

– Mala Forever – Ghetto Film School – Video Consortium – OMG EVERYWHERE – Flux

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16 SECRET MENU 20 Searching for the Wave

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22 Silvering 18 Team Meryland

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17 The Girl in the Woods 23 The Headhunters Daughter

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20 The Heroes of Baseball 23 The Kitchlets

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23 The Painted 19 The Peach Scarf

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I Like the Look of Today

18 This is Why Girls Go to the Bathroom 18 Together

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INTI: The Sun Rising

17 We Are Like Waves

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In Passing

20 What We See in the Clouds

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Interdimensional Pizza Pushers

21 Winter Insect, Summer Flower

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Introducing iScreen Pro

21 Winter of ‘79

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Jany Green “Lost in Love”

18 Wolf in Dude’s Clothing

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Joychild

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