23rd Maine International Film Festival Program Guide

July 7–16

2020

10 Days of Film in Skowhegan

WHY ARE WE HERE? WHO AM I?

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?

The arts and humanities are crucial for understanding big questions, attempting to respond to them, and embracing the different answers that emerge. The Center for the Arts and Humanities offers a platform for the entire Waterville community to explore such questions in the belief that they underpin successful careers and meaningful lives.

Festival Staff

Mike Perreault Executive Director

Ken Eisen

Programming Director

Julia Dunlavey Assistant Executive Director

Karen Young Shorts Programmer

Nate Towne Marketing Director

J-sun Bailey Technical Director

Alan Sanborn Technical Coordinator

Jak Peters Associate Programmer Festival Trailer Creator

Nancy Bixler

Associate Programmer

Bria Watson Associate Programmer

Taylor Peterson

Associate Programmer

Adelia Scheck Festival Box Office

Dora Wang Festival Box Office

Arleen King-Lovelace Guest Services

Byron Greatorex Print Shipping Coordinator

John Meader

Festival Photographer

Mali Welch / All Over It Festival Graphic Design

Ticket Information

Individual Tickets

Individual tickets for all festival screenings and events are available online at MIFF. org. Advance ticket sales for Skowhegan Drive-In screenings will close four hours before showtime. After the cut-off time, tickets may only be purchased at the Festival Box Office beginning two hours prior to showtime, subject to availability. All screenings: $10

Full Festival Pass | $95

Full Festival Passes are only available for online pre-order, and will be available to pick up at the Festival Box Office at the Skowhegan DriveIn beginning two hours prior to each screening. All admission is subject to availability, and priority admission cannot be guaranteed for any pass or ticket holders at the venue. Please note that Full Festival passes are not available for purchase at the Skowhegan Drive-In.

SKOWHEGAN DRIVE-IN

201 Waterville Road

Skowhegan, Maine

Camera Policy

Please note that photographs and footage will be taken throughout MIFF. These will be used by the Maine Film Center for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media or in any third party publication. Your presence at festival events or venues constitutes your consent to being included in such recordings. No cameras or recording devices other than those for official use may be used during film screenings.

PRESENTING SPONSORS

SHOWRUNNER SPONSOR OFFICIAL VEHICLE OF MIFF

Welcome to the Maine International Film Festival!

This year has presented us with a great number of challenges. In March we made the difficult but necessary decision to close Railroad Square Cinema until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But we knew MIFF must go on: we’re proud to host the festival for the 23rd year at the Skowhegan Drive-In Theatre and to offer a virtual selection of features and short films at MIFF.org. It’s not the same festival experience you’ve come to know and love, but it’s one that I hope will bring our community together safely to enjoy transformational cinema in a historic and unique venue under the stellar Maine night sky (or wherever you might be).

DAY SPONSORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS HOSPITALITY SPONSORS

In May, as protests for racial justice spread across the world in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, we knew we had a responsibility to take a stand as one of a very limited number of film exhibitors able to screen films at this time. We dedicate this year’s Maine International Film Festival to all lives lost to racist violence. With our mission to educate, entertain, and build community through film, we aim to support and empower the work of black filmmakers and storytellers, whose work is more challenging and important now than ever. All donations made to MIFF this year will benefit Black Public Media’s COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, which provides critical support to developing, producing, funding, and distributing media content about the African American and global black experience. Black Public Media’s mission is to commit to a fully realized expression of democracy by supporting diverse voices through training, education, and investment in visionary content makers.

Our staff and team of volunteers have worked tirelessly and with flexibility and ingenuity to make this festival possible. Our partners and sponsors, both within our hometown of Waterville and across the state, give generously to illumine our annual celebration of film. I hope you’ll support these restaurants, hotels, businesses, and organizations throughout the year, and that you’ll make the time to explore the scenic Central Maine region.

I look forward to seeing you at the movies!

PRODUCER’S CLUB

Jill Gordon and Jon Haddow

Joel and Alice Johnson

DIRECTOR’S CLUB

Patricia Clark

Nancy Sanford

Joan Phillips-Sandy

MIFF FAN CLUB

Third Row Center in memory of Peter Townsend

Brian Robitaille | Joan and Peter Beckerman

Kathryn Slott | Karen Kusiak | Jennifer Strode

Mike Perreault Executive Director Maine Film Center

MEDIA SPONSORS FUNDED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

All shows at the Skowhegan Drive-In begin shortly after sunset, at approximately 8:45 p.m. The Festival Box Office will open two hours prior to showtime.

Tuesday July 7

Opening Night: HEROIC LOSERS

WednesdayJuly 8 MAINE SHORTS

ThursdayJuly 9

A BRIGHT LIGHT: KAREN AND THE PROCESS Shown with: PRIMARY NEEDS

Friday July 10 INSTINCT

SaturdayJuly 11

Centerpiece Film: AMERICAN THIEF

SundayJuly 12 QUEEN LEAR

MondayJuly 13 WHITE RIOT

Tuesday July 14 THE 11TH GREEN

WednesdayJuly 15 LATCHO DROM

ThursdayJuly 16

Closing Night: THE LAST SHIFT

Northeast Premiere

HEROIC LOSERS

Argentina 2020 - DCP - 116 minutes In Spanish with English subtitles

Director: Sebastian Borzensztein

Producers: Fernando Bovaira, Leticia Cristi, Chino Darín, Ricardo Darín, Simón de Santiago, Axel Kuschevatzky, Matías Mosteirín, Federico Posternak, Hugo Sigman

Screenplay: Sebastian Borzensztein, Eduardo Sacheri, based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri

Cinematography: Rodrigo Pulpeiro

Cast: Ricardo Darin, Luis Brandon, Verónica Llinás

Tuesday July 7

STREAMING ONLINE

July 7–16 ACTUALLY, ICONIC: RICHARD ESTES

REPRESENT FROM AWAY SHORTS

MAINE SHORTS

Available online July 9

Tough times. The economy is at its nadir. There’s not much money in the present and not much hope on the horizon for a motley crew living in rural Argentina in 2001…until retired soccer player Fermin (Ricardo Darin, the charismatic star of THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES and WILD TALES) comes up with a plan to pool everyone’s scant resources in a cooperative. Things look good until a lying bank manager convinces them to put all their hard-earned money into a savings account he knows is about to go bust, leaving their money in the bank’s hands. But, with an ingenious scheme, Fermin and company plan a clever heist of their own to get back what’s theirs. Can it work? Part hilarious comedy, part ingenious social critique, part suspenseful heist film, HEROIC LOSERS gives us people to root for, an unforgettable bunch of characters who make their own way together when all else fails, and one heck of an entertaining night at the movies.

Sponsored by Joel and Alice Johnson

FILMS AT THE DRIVE-IN MAINE SHORTS

North American Premiere

Wednesday

July 8

online July 9

A BRIGHT LIGHT: KAREN AND THE PROCESS

France 2020 - DCP - 52 minutes

In English and in French with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Emmanuelle Antille

Producers: Luc Peter, Emmanuelle Antille

Thursday July 9

FELIX THE ROBOT

Portland - 13 minutes

Director: Joseph Ahern

A man-robot hybrid in decline, dreams of becoming a karaoke singer.

MERIDIANS

Fairfield - 5 minutes

Director, Producer: Joey Searle

David Gulak’s vision for food and community, nourishes and sustains us!

OH FOR A MUSE OF FIRE

Moosehead Lake - 11 minutes

Director: Peter Rohan

Producer: Laura Darrell

Screenplay: Peter Rohan, Laura Darrell

Cast: Julian Elfer, Eva Kaminsky, Laura Darrell

A struggling actress goes to her aunt’s lake house to recuperate from the big city.

SAY CHEESE

New Sharon - 7 minutes

Director, Producer, Screenplay: Gordon LePage

Filmed in stop-motion animation, a girl rescues a mouse at an art auction.

SHOULDER SEASON

Rockland - 9 minutes

Director: Halle Johns

Producer: Lucy Green

Cast: Benjamin Dorr, Kristin Dillon, Ryan

Jackson, Benjie Blake, Lee Smith

A recreational dodgeball league pulls everyone through the worst of Maine’s winters.

THE BOLD COAST

Camden - 10 minutes

Director, Screenplay: Camille Howard

Cast: Faith Kelly

Penny and Laurel are best friends. Penny is about to become a mermaid.

THE CALLER

Brunswick - 7 minutes

Director: Thomas Barzilay Freund

Cast: Cirque Gammelin

A man is night-visited by an unwelcome presence.

THE SPACE BETWEEN WORDS

East Madison - 6 minutes

Director: M Stanford Campbell

Cast: M Stanford Campbell, Peter B Campbell

This stop-motion animation depicts a couple’s daily life in rural Maine.

Cinematography: Carmen Jaquier

Do you know who Karen Dalton was? If you do, you are both well-versed in fantastic and trailblazing 60s/70s folk music, very eager to see this movie… and very lucky! Worshipped by her peers but virtually unknown to the general public, Dalton blazed a trail from Colorado to the Greenwich Village folk scene of the ‘60s, where she played with the likes of Tim Hardin, Fred Neil and Bob Dylan, who said “My favorite singer... was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday and played guitar like Jimmy Reed.” Her little-known story is a complex one, but her music sings out still. French director Emmanuelle Antille takes us on a subjective documentary that travels across the United States in Dalton’s footsteps in search of one of the 1960s’ most astonishing voices.

SHOWN WITH:

New England Premiere

PRIMARY NEEDS

Mexico 2020 - DCP - 29 minutes

In Spanish with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Mariana Azcárate

Producers: Leonor Azcárate, Mariana Azcárate, Sergio Donis, Andrés Klimek

Cinematography: Sergio Donis

Cast: Dánae Vergara Atrián, Guillermo López, Roberto Alon

Another remarkable, multi-toned film about a singer by an accomplished young female director—but for sure, a very different one, and not just because PRIMARY NEEDS is a work of fiction. Sol, who dreams of being a great success, works in a bar as a singer, but loses her job after she refuses her boss’ advances. Penniless and feeling down and harassed, she meets a surprising stranger, a literally small man who has experienced more than his own share of injustice and indignity, though he holds himself with élan. Might there be some harmony here?

Sponsored by Kathryn Slott

Sponsored by Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce

Oh For a Muse of Fire (2020)

FILMS AT THE DRIVE-IN

Northeast Premiere INSTINCT

Netherlands 2020 - DCP - 108 minutes

In Dutch with English subtitles

Director: Halina Reijn

Producers: Laurette Schillings, Halina Reijn, Carice van Houten, Frans van Gestel, Arnold Hestenfeld

Screenplay: Esther Gerritsen, based on a story by Halina Reijn

Cinematography: Jasper Wolf

Cast: Carice van Houten, Marwan Kenzari, Marie-May van Zuilen, Pieter Embrechts

Both a truly tense erotic thriller and a super-charged psychological drama, directed with great aplomb by celebrated Dutch actress Halina Reijn, INSTINCT is also just as much a mesmerizing showcase for two of the strongest acting performances of the year, by Carice van Houten (best known here for GAME OF THRONES) and Marwan Kenzari (best known here for ALADDIN, which INSTINCT resembles… not one jot.) Nicoline, an experienced psychologist, starts a new job at a penal institution. In her new position, she meets Idris, a sex offender who committed a series of grave crimes. After five years of treatment, he is about to go on his first unaccompanied probation. His team of practitioners are enthusiastic about his development, but Nicoline does not trust him, and questions the wisdom of his impending release. Idris tries his hardest to convince Nicoline of his good intentions as slowly but surely, a sexually-charged dynamic begins to emerge between the two. This is dangerous ground…and a truly taut cinematic experience with an ending that could be as surprising as its start. INSTINCT was the Netherlands’ entry to this year’s Academy Award competition for Best Foreign Language Film, for good reason. Sponsored by Jennifer Strode

Saturday July 11

World Premiere

AMERICAN THIEF

USA 2020 - DCP - 78 minutes

In English

Director: Miguel Silveira

Producer: Michel Stolnicki

Screenplay: Miguel Silveira, Michel Stolnicki, Missy Hernandez

Cinematography: John Wakayama Carey

Cast: Xisco Maximo Monroe, Khadim Diop, Ben Becher, Josefina Scaro

Wow! What a discovery AMERICAN THIEF is! Four years in the making but fresher than today, this wildly original, truly thrilling film has the immediacy, daring and perspective of only the best cinematic triumphs of recent years—yet it’s a true American indie, shot because it had to be, and introducing us to several great talents. Toncruz and Diop are teenage hackers. Diop wants to awaken society to the reality of overreaching government surveillance programs, while Toncruz wants to use technology to avenge his father’s murder. As Toncruz connects to internet criminals on the deep web, Paul Hunter, a disgruntled and possibly somewhat askew video blogger, rants about political conspiracy theories. Both Paul and Toncruz are contacted by a mysterious, nameless figure who claims to be able to provide what they all need to expose the truth. Meanwhile, an artificial intelligence programmer observes what unfolds as she attempts to contain the monster she’s created. AMERICAN THIEF leads up to an astonishing climax on Election evening 2016. Wow! Did we say that already?

Sponsored by Nancy Sanford

North American Premiere QUEEN LEAR

Turkey 2020 - DCP - 84 minutes

In Turkish with English subtitles

Director, Cinematography: Pelin Esmer

Producers: Dilde Mahali, Pelin Esmer

Sunday July 12

Funny, sweet, modest and, in its own way, profound. Not a bad combo! QUEEN LEAR travels with a group of women and a female-led documentary crew, captained by director Pelin Esmer, to where no mere KING Lear has gone before! 16 years ago, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” following dusty and risky roads to remote, forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey that are hardly reached by even drinking water. The play delicately becomes “Queen Lear” in the hands of the group. The troupe’s and villagers’ discoveries may parallel your own as you watch this remarkable cinematic odyssey.

Sponsored by Patricia Clark

North

American Premiere

WHITE RIOT

United Kingdom 2020 - DCP - 80 minutes In English

Director: Rubika Shah

Producer: Ed Gibbs

Screenplay: Rubika Shah, Ed Gibbs

Cinematography: Susanne Salavati

Monday July 13

A country deeply divided about immigration. Racism rearing its ugly head again. A generation rebelling to change and make a world that’s different and better. Sound familiar? This could describe the U.S. in the present day. Or the U.K. in 1976, when Rock Against Racism was founded in collaboration with musically and politically terrific punk bands including The Clash, Steel Pulse and Tom Robinson to form the biggest—and certainly the most energetic and musically charged—civil rights movement in British history. WHITE RIOT is director Rubika Shah’s inspirational and incendiary documentary about a cause that brought black and white, music and politics, energy and intelligence together in a truly revolutionary way. It’s a kick to watch—and to hear!

Sponsored by Joan Phillips-Sandy

CENTERPIECE FILM

FILMS AT THE DRIVE-IN CLOSING NIGHT

East Coast Premiere

THE 11TH GREEN

USA 2020 - DCP - 108 minutes

In English

Director, Screenplay: Christopher Munch

Producers: Valeria Lopez, Christopher Munch

Cinematography: Sara Garth

Cast: Campbell Scott, Agnes Bruckner, Ian Hart, George Gerdes

Director Christopher Munch’s films, including THE LIFE AND TIMES and COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY, have always been distinctive, inventive and original. But Munch has outdone himself with THE 11TH GREEN, which features a great central performance by Campbell Scott, of films from BIG NIGHT to ROGER DODGER to AMAZING SPIDER MAN 2… and a truly otherworldly plot. When his 85-year-old father drops dead of a heart attack, Jeremy Rudd is summoned to the exclusive California golf resort where he lived. Though estranged from his father for two decades (Jeremy’s muckraking Washington journalism flew in the face of his father’s career in classified aerospace programs), he is now forced to become acquainted first-hand with the man’s secretive legacy. In his father’s former assistant, Laurie (Agnes Bruckner of BLUE CAR and MURDER BY NUMBERS), a woman with a past, he develops a romantic interest that threatens to undermine his judgment. But his judgment is even more challenged when his father’s protégé, Jacobsen, a charming but shifty intelligence operative, offers him several astonishing reels of film that purport to document our interaction with off-world visitors half a century ago. It doesn’t take long for the trail to lead to a post-presidency version of Dwight Eisenhower who has dreams of a future president asking his help and a possible attempt by elements of the government to open the murky topic of UFOs to the light of day. THE 11TH GREEN is a film to ponder, wonder at, and discover.

Sponsored by Joan and Peter Beckerman

Wednesday

July 15

Northeast Premiere THE LAST SHIFT

USA 2020 - DCP - 90 minutes

In English

Director, Screenplay: Andrew Cohn

Producers: Ron Yerxa, Albert Berger, Sam Bisbee, Bert Kern, Alex Lipschultz

Cinematography: W. Mott Hupfel III

Cast: Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Allison Tolman, Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Thursday July 16

Restoration U.S. Premiere

LATCHO DROM

France 1994 - DCP - 103 minutes

Sung in various languages with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Tony Gatlif

Producer: Michel Ray-Gavras

Cinematography: Éric Guichard

U.S. digital restoration premiere of the truly spectacular film (the first major release of Waterville’s own Shadow Distribution, never available on streaming, DVD, BluRay, download, or anything else.) Winner of a special award from the National Society of Film Critics in 1994, LATCHO DROM was called “haunting, vibrant…the ultimate music video”

(John Anderson, Newsday)…only this is no mere music video. Shot in ravishing widescreen images, LATCHO DROM is a journey told entirely through music, song and one spectacularly staged visual sequence and jaw-dropping musical performance after another, literally following the path of the Rom or Romany people (more popularly but questionably called “gypsies”) through the Rom musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain.

Sponsored by Third Row Center in memory of Peter Townsend

Midwestern white working class Stanley (Richard Jenkins, Oscar nominee for THE SHAPE OF WATER and THE VISITOR) is retiring after 38 reasonably proud years as a fast-food worker, intending to move to Florida, but when he’s tasked with training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a bright, aspiring young black journalist on probation with a family, Stanley discovers uncomfortable truths about himself and the culture and world he’s rarely questioned. Warm and unflashy, THE LAST SHIFT is both timely and terrific, a smart, quiet film about how much needs to change that refuses pat answers and simply engages us deeply. Jenkins is just plain terrific as a guy who’s traded four decades of his life and loyalty to Oscar’s Chicken and Fish in what he considered fair trade in wages that started at $3.10 an hour in 1971 and has now reached the dizzying heights of $13.00. Executive produced by Alexander Payne (SIDEWAYS, ELECTION), who was at one time going to direct it, THE LAST SHIFT, the fine fiction debut of documentary-maker Andrew Cohn, bears the best of each, Payne’s sly humor and Cohn’s determined honesty.

Sponsored by Jill Gordon and Jon Haddow

VIRTUAL FESTIVAL

ACTUALLY, ICONIC: RICHARD ESTES

USA 2020 - 68 minutes

In English Director, Producer: Olympia Stone

Screenplay: Jody Becker

Cinematography: Adam Shanker

Admired by artists ranging from Salvador Dali to Chuck Close, Richard Estes is a humble icon of modern art. Despite having avoided media attention throughout his long career, he has been called the “king of photorealism,” a movement he helped launch in the late 1960’s. His break with abstract, non-representational art transformed modern painting. He is also a Maine resident, and, in 2014, a major retrospective of Estes’ painting was exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art. Now, at 87, he is ready to reveal the techniques and inspiration behind his art. In ACTUALLY, ICONIC: RICHARD ESTES, filmmaker Olympia Stone explores a rich survey of Estes’ masterpieces with unprecedented access to the artist including glimpses into Estes’ personal life, from his isolation as a child, always being a little “strange,” to coming out in the early 1960s in NYC and the “total wipeout” of the AIDS epidemic on his intimate and personal friendships. Stone creates a delicate portrait which does more than just explore Estes’ lifetime of creative output; it humanizes it. Viewers will also see New York City through the artist’s eye; capturing the refreshing and also nostalgic flavor of the city and its angle on a famous era.

Online

July 7-16

“FROM AWAY” SHORTS

East Coast Premiere

REPRESENT

USA 2020 - 95 minutes

In English Director, Cinematography: Hillary Bachelder

Producer: Rachel Pikelny, Anne Sobel

Hillary Bachelder grew up in Maine and was at MIFF in 2008 when her film was presented as part of the Maine Student Film and Video Festival, and she has also been a MIFF volunteer. But no local connections are necessary for REPRESENT, her first feature, to represent Hillary’s filmmaking abilities. In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms. REPRESENT is equal parts personal and political, with candidates of different ages, races, income levels, systems of support, and political parties: Myya, 22, attempts to spark a youth movement and unseat the incumbent mayor of Detroit, MI; Bryn, 33, a farmer and working mother in Granville, OH, runs for township trustee, but, in doing so, is placed in opposition with the only woman currently elected; and Julie, 47, walks a tightrope between her identities as a Korean immigrant, woman of color, and Republican candidate for State Representative in a liberal Chicago suburb. Through the nuances of local politics, REPRESENT elevates both the systemic failings and unsung heroes at the heart of our “smallest” elections. With a most definite female-centric interest.

Sponsored by Karen Kusiak

BABY BITES

USA - 10 minutes

Director: Nabil Elbehri

Producers: Molly Longwell, Nabil Elbehri, Kenna Capablo

Screenplay: Molly Longwell

Cast: Sarah Coffey, Julia Rose Duray

A young woman with an eating disorder antagonizes her only friend.

BUTTERFLY

USA - 10 minutes

Director, Screenplay: Lazarus Lazarides

Producers: Lazarus Lazarides, Vasilios Callitsis, Karolina Stellaki

Cast: Wesli Spencer, Maya Jasmin Szost, Daniela Tolmazin, Jose Ignacio Gomez

Brian has a painful encounter that clarifies his self-acceptance of his nonconforming gender identity.

CARPETLAND!

USA - 23 minutes

Director: David Light

Producers: Nick Hurt, Damian Winterbottom

Screenplay: Steven Robertson, Damian Winterbottom

Cast: Steven Robertson, Lauren Donahue

Two low-level employees at Carpetland! have to face competition from Carpet World after a freak accident claims a co-worker.

DESTETE

Argentina - 14 minutes

Director, Screenplay: Ines Gowland

Producer: Joy Jorgensen

Cast: German de Silva

A woman goes home to reckon with her family’s ranch on the Pampas.

HELLO AHMA

Singapore - 16 minutes

Director, Screenplay: Siyou Tan

Producers: Paul V. Fishback, Samantha Lee, Shincy Lu

Cast: Sofie Yu Xuan Yang, Ying Yuen, Wu Mama

A child living in the USA mourns her grandmother’s death back in China.

IN THE BLOOD

USA - 7 minutes

Director, Screenplay: Regina Banali

Producers: Regina Banali, Nancy

O’Brien

Cast: Frankie Banali, Tal Berkovich, Joe Chambrello, Alex Grossi, Chuck Wright, James Durbin, Jim Law

A spoof of the spaghetti western THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

MUDMINNOW CHANNEL

USA - 7 minutes

Director, Screenplay: Patrick Moser

Producer: Chris Moser

Screenplay: Patrick Moser

Cast: Jackson Moser, Barbara Lawrence

The adventures of a large, yellow-headed being propel this experimental animation.

OUZO AND BLACKCURRANT

United Kingdom - 7 minutes

Director: Nat Luurtsema

Producers: April Kelley, Sara Huxley

Screenplay: Nat Luurtsema

Cast: Cherelle Skeete, Sara Huxley

A reunion of two friends at their old stomping grounds turns horrific.

SALES READY

USA - 12 minutes

Director: Philip Steiger

Screenplay: Philip Steiger

Cast: Jacob Wysocki, Mary Holland, Johnny Ray Meeks, Julie Brister

A high school student is recruited to run his father’s cutlery Ponzi scheme.

WATERS OF MARCH

USA - 16 minutes

Director: Chase Johnson

Producers: Suveer Bhatia, Chase Johnson

Screenplay: Chase Johnson

Cast: Malik Willcot, Sylvia Aubrey, Jon Kent Ethridge, Sherri Johnson, Daryl Tanner, Awo Fasegun

A young man and his extended family deal with the loss of the family matriarch.

Sponsored by Brian Robitaille

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