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On behalf of the Arts Council of York County, welcome to the 2023 Underexposed Film Festival yc. Over the next four days, we will celebrate a decade of bringing independent short film to our community. This year, we screen films spanning five continents and 23 countries as well as films shot right here in York County.

In marriage, the tenth anniversary gift is traditionally the color of silver and made of metal. Metal symbolizes the durability and flexibility needed to sustain the union. The union between the Arts Council and our filmmakers remains strong. As we celebrate this milestone, it is very gratifying to have films in this year’s lineup from directors that have screened with us since year one. As the festival grew, we attracted filmmakers from across the country and around the world. With any long-term relationship, trust is key. We thank all the filmmakers who entrusted their films to our care. We welcome many of you here.

I will not pretend that UFFyc has not had its struggles over the years. Loss of our permanent screening facility, budgetary concerns, and covid were a true test to our durability and flexibility. As I sit here looking at this year’s trophies, silver in color and made of steel, I feel that ten years is just the beginning. This year, we screen more blocks of film than previously, and in three different locations. New filmmakers from new countries have joined our union. Most importantly, our audience continues to grow. If it were not for the support of the community both as audience members and sponsors this festival would not have endured.

As the festival moves into its second decade, I am confident that the relationships between the festival, filmmakers and audience will grow. As I step down from my role as festival director, I wish to thank the Arts Council for supporting and sustaining such an ambitious program. To the filmmakers who have supported us over the years, you have my gratitude, continued support and friendship. It is with great appreciation that I thank our audience for 10 years of support and continued interest in independent short film. Finally, I wish to thank Melanie Cooper for all the hard work, sweat, and care that has lead us to this ten year celebration. I could not have asked for a better partner and collaborator as we grew this festival together. The festival would not have endured without her.

Thank you to everyone for ten wonderful years of film. This festival will always have a special place in my heart and it will continue to have my support. To the Arts Council I wish you much success as you move into the next decade and please, save me a seat on the aisle.

Sincerely, Karen Collins Festival Director Underexposed Film Festival yc

CONTENTS

Letter from Director...................... 3

Film Details (Alphabetical)...... 15

Festival Credits.................................. 4

Jury........................................................ 49

Schedule............................................... 7

Maps..................................................... 58

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Block A: Hopes & Dreams 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

Block B: Duets 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

Block C: Bold & Beautiful 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ

Block D: Emerging 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place

Block E: Kids' Watch Party 4 - 5:30 PM | York County Library

Block F: Teen Watch Party 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library

Block G: Homecoming 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

Block H: Double Feature Jeopardy! & Family Ties 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

Block I: Last Looks & Awards Ceremony 7 - 9:30 PM | Dina’s Place

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WEDNESDAY BLOCK A: HOPES & DREAMS 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed

TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. Swing to the Moon

06:40 min.

G Animation 44 Daddy's Eyes* 15:13 min.

PG-13 Narrative 22 The Realization of Childhood Dreams 09:18 min. G Documentary 39 The Pink Jacket 08:20 min.

G Animation 38 Warsha 15:00 min.

PG-13 Narrative 47 INTERMISSION Cabeceo* Inside the Beauty Bubble

08:12 min.

31:15 min.

PG PG

Narrative Documentary

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Doors open 30 minutes before each block.

All ratings are suggested by the UFFyc. They do not reflect the opinion of the Motion Picture Association of America.

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THURSDAY TBA Pre-screening Event | Details available on underexposedfilmfestivalyc.org

BLOCK B: DUETS

7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed TITLE RUNTIME RATING Reverie 04:54 min.

PG

CATEGORY PG. Experimental 41

Kiri Chaperone Ice Merchants The Bathtub INTERMISSION Clones Neighbour Abdi

03:34 min.

16:10 min.

14:00 min.

19:15 min.

G R PG PG-13

Narrative Narrative Animation Narrative

34 21 31 17

14:10 min.

29:00 min.

PG-13 PG-13

Narrative Documentary

21 37

BLOCK C: BOLD & BEAUTIFUL 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ | Free

TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. LA TIELLE SETOISE 03:43 min.

PG-13 Animation 35 The Call of Water 19:00 min.

PG-13 Narrative 20 Dreaming in Aspect Ratio 02:28 min.

PG Experimental 24 Kesho Pia Ni Siku : 09:20 min.

G Documentary 33 Tomorrow Is Another Day Eyes and Horns 06:15 min. R Experimental 25 MeTube: August Sings Una Furtiva Lagrima 08:00 min.

PG-13 Experimental 36 INTERMISSION Intersections 05:00 min. G Experimental 33 Sierra 15:00 min.

PG Animation 43 Fuego 22:00 min.

PG Narrative 27

* Q&A Participant | Subject to change or cancellation 9

FRIDAY BLOCK D: EMERGING 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed

TITLE RUNTIME RATING SNAX 04:30 min.

PG A Day Without Prohibition 15:00 min.

PG The Gift 10:37 min.

G The First 14:06 min.

PG-13 INTERMISSION Tribes 03:53 min.

PG-13 Egg Man 11:19 min.

G What They Left Behind 06:49 min.

PG The Shadow of the Crows 29:56 min.

PG-13

CATEGORY PG. Animation 43 Narrative 23 Documentary 29 Narrative 26 Animation Narrative Animation Narrative

45 24 48 42

BLOCK E: KIDS' WATCH PARTY 4 - 5:30 PM | York County Library | Free

Sponsored by Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. Swing to the Moon 06:40 min. G Animation 44 URSA: Song of the Northern Lights 10:00 min. G Animation 46 Rainboy 04:05 min. G Animation 39 I am not afraid! 07:02 min. G Animation 30 Luce and the Rock 12:59 min. G Animation 35

BLOCK F: TEEN WATCH PARTY 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library | Free

Sponsored by Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. Amateur Operatives 13:53 min.

G Puppetry 16 The Record 08:38 min.

PG Animation 40 The Nest* 03:17 min.

G Documentary 37 The Shape of the Land 05:37 min.

G Experimental 42 Youth* 14:05 min.

G Narrative 48 10

BLOCK G: HOMECOMING 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed

TITLE RUNTIME RATING The Better Angels 13:00 min.

PG Dead Men And Devils* 16:30 min.

PG-13 I AM NOT OK 12:10 min.

PG The Voice In The Hollow 10:05 min.

PG-13 INTERMISSION Can't Nobody Hide 03:30 min.

G Flat Earther* 10:20 min.

PG Revelation to the Disembodied 09:20 min.

PG Grandma's Hats* 15:28 min.

G Welcome To Forever 09:22 min.

PG-13

* Q&A Participant | Subject to change or cancellation 11

CATEGORY PG. Animation 17 Narrative 23 Experimental 31 Animation 46 Experimental Narrative Experimental Narrative Narrative

20 27 40 30 47

SATURDAY BLOCK H: DOUBLE FEATURE JEOPARDY! & FAMILY TIES 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed

TITLE RUNTIME RATING Rite* 07:43 min.

PG The King in Yellow 04:20 min.

PG-13 The Interrogation* 06:00 min.

PG Garrano 14:08 min.

PG The Button Game

07:20 min.

PG-13 Got Your Back*

17:50 min.

PG Cabarrus* 09:31 min.

PG-13 INTERMISSION Convergence 06:24 min.

PG The Bus* 05:35 min.

G Fine Lines*

12:27 min.

PG Night

15:57 min.

PG-13 Everybody Don't Electric Slide* 15:00 min.

G

CATEGORY PG. Animation 41 Puppetry 34 Narrative 32 Animation 28 Experimental 18 Narrative 29 Narrative 19 Experimental 22 Documentary 18 Narrative 26 Puppetry 38 Narrative 25

BLOCK I: LAST LOOKS 7 - 9:30 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed

TITLE RUNTIME RATING ANGAKUSAJUAJUQ: 20:00 min PG-13 The Shaman's Apprentice Sparkle 19:40 min.

PG-13 The Garbage Man 11:50 min.

G Misophonia* 09:07 min.

G The Third Defector

16:53 min.

PG-13

* Q&A Participant | Subject to change or cancellation 12

CATEGORY PG. Animation 16 Narrative Animation Puppetry Narrative

44 28 36 45

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AMATEUR OPERATIVES Puppetry | 2022 | 13:53 min. | G Country United States Language English Producer Daniel Joseph Silverman Director Daniel Joseph Silverman Writer Daniel Joseph Silverman Key Cast Daniel Joseph Silverman, Jack Capellini A new neighbor moves into Tyler and Andy's neighborhood.

However he looks quite similar to a known criminal on the loose. The duo then goes on to investigate themselves.

Block F: Teen Watch Party Friday, March 24 | 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library

ANGAKUSAJUAJUQ: THE SHAMAN'S APPRENTICE Animation | 2021 | 20:00 min.

Country Language Executive Producers Producers

Director Writers Key Cast

Canada English, Inuktitut Zacharias Kunuk, Monica Ittusardjuat, Daniel Christopher, Louise Flaherty Zacharias Kunuk, Jonathan Frantz, Neil Christopher, Nadia Mike Zacharias Kunuk Zacharias Kunuk and Jonathan Frantz Madeline Ivalu, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Jacky Qrunnut

A young shaman must face her first test—a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill.

Facing dark spirits and physical challenges, she must trust her mentor's teachings and learn to control her fear.

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THE BATHTUB Narrative | 2021 | 19:15 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

Spain Catalan Josep Pi Sergi Marti Maltas Sergi Marti Maltas Abel Folk, Paula Jornet Ramon

Riera is taking a well-deserved bath when his cell phone suddenly rings. On the other side of the line is Clara, a girl who insistently tries to sell him a life insurance.

Block B: Duets Thursday, March 23 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

THE BETTER ANGELS Animation | 2021 | 13:00 min. | PG Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

Australia English Richard Chataway Michael Cusack Michael Cusack Samuel Lau

A young soldier trying to escape the horrors of war, finds an abandoned house and within its walls the stories of what might have been.

Block G: Homecoming Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place 17

THE BUS Documentary | 2023 | 05:35 min. | G Country Language Director Key Cast

United States English Rachel S. Roff Whitney Alvarez, Eric Alvarez

Learn about this family of 5 as they do life through the seasons in the mountains of North Carolina in a school bus they converted to a tiny home.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

THE BUTTON GAME Experimental | 2022 | 07:20 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Vladyslav Svyrydenko Vladyslav Svyrydenko Drake Woodall Vladyslav Svyrydenko, Roshelle Sumner, Marqus Bobesich

A brutal display of a life in isolation.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place 18

CABARRUS Narrative | 2022 | 09:31 min. | PG-13 Country Language Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Andrew Huggins Andrew Huggins Russ A Bryan, David Garrett, Chantey Colet, Mike Payne, Dustin Vanhoose

"Cabarrus" offers a glimpse in to the life of a struggling family in North Carolina.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

CABECEO Narrative | 2022 | 08:12 min. | PG Country Language Producers Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Matt Keil, Brian James Crewe Brian James Crewe Brian James Crewe Jennifer Berry, Claudio Predieri, Ella, Rebecca Bartlett, Blythe Kala

A passionate Argentine Tango dance fantasy featuring a woman exploring the sensual and dangerous possibilities presented by a potential new lover.

Block A: Hopes & Dreams Wednesday, March 22 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place 19

THE CALL OF WATER Narrative | 2021 | 19:00 min. | PG-13 Country United States Language English Producers David M. Night Maire, Brian Plain,

Tim Preston Director Kaya Tone Writer Kaya Tone Key Cast Trinity Simpson, Emily Bollman,

Sawyer Wright, Eric Palmer,

Rebecca Hamner, Tamara Jakos, Haiden Davis Flung into the astral-plane, Nadia must face ancient forces in order to realize her responsibility to her homeland.

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ

CAN'T NOBODY HIDE Experimental | 2022 | 03:30 min. | G Country Language Producer Director

United States English John Williams John Williams

“Can’t Nobody Hide” is the second film in a two-film series set to American Gospel Blues from the 1930s. Each film features ENinja and Joyntz from the dance crew Turf Feinz in Oakland, California. The films include, “Black Train is Coming” and “Can’t Nobody Hide.” Music by Blind Willie Johnson, "Can't Nobody Hide from God."

Block G: Homecoming Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place 20

CHAPERONE Narrative | 2021 | 16:10 min. | R Country United States Language English Producers Katie Schiller, Patrick Murray, Russell Kahn Director Sam Max Writer Sam Max Key Cast Zachary Quinto, Russell Kahn An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.

Block B: Duets Thursday, March 23 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

CLONES Narrative | 2022 | 14:10 min. | PG-13 Country United States Language English Producers Nate Walker, Letia Solomon Carly Rogers Director Letia Solomon Writer Nate Walker Key Cast Nate Walker, Charrell Mack An off-key couple finds out they're in over their heads after participating in a new cloning experiment to relieve their student loans.

Block B: Duets Thursday, March 23 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place 21

CONVERGENCE Experimental | 2022 | 06:24 min. | PG Country Language Producers

Directors

Writers

Key Cast

United States English Anahita von Andrian-Werburg, Maya Marzuki Peters Anahita von Andrian-Werburg, Maya Marzuki Peters Anahita von Andrian-Werburg, Maya Marzuki Peters Sean Pfeiffer, Anya Susan

Breaking a long slumber, a mysterious rope leads a soul through a decaying world as he attempts to connect with another.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

DADDY'S EYES Narrative | 2022 | 15:13 min. | PG-13 Country United States Language English Producers Marie Zeniter, Drew Ann Rosenberg,

John K Anderson, Byron Werner, Susannah Blinkoff Director Drew Ann Rosenberg Writer John K Anderson Key Cast Susannah B, India Carney, Cassius Willis,

P. L. Brown, Paulina Nguyen, Willam Belli In this haunting tale of hope and despair, a mother and her daughter, separated for over twenty years by race, fame, and heroin addiction, struggle to find each other before it’s too late. This modern Greek tragedy examines the sacrifices that must be made to make it to the top of the music world.

Block A: Hopes & Dreams Wednesday, March 22 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place 22

A DAY WITHOUT PROHIBITION Narrative | 2022 | 15:00 min. | PG Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

Finland Finnish Nora Kuusisto Elisa Kujala Tanja Lebedeff Tuulia Eloranta, Aamu Milonoff

Two young women decide to defy the dancing prohibition set by the Finnish government by organising a secret graduation dance in a war-torn Helsinki in 1944. Before best friends Elvi and Irja take their biggest step yet into adulthood, they must find the courage to say goodbye to one another.

Block D: Emerging Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place

DEAD MEN AND DEVILS Narrative | 2022 | 16:30 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producers

Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Sammie Cassell, Michael Sailors, Dave Harlequin, Darren W. Conrad, John Sexton, Jerry Keys, Jeffrey Cochran, Kimberly Huffstetler, Angela DuBois Robert W. Filion Brad Hord Ella Grace Misenheimer, Jay Cohen, Michael Sailors, Donnelle Lipsey, Amie Henry, Dana McBride, Sammie Cassell, Dustin Walker

Abby Carlson is AB Negative and immune from a deadly virus that is sweeping the globe. She is on the run from The Devils, a band of AB Negative thugs that will take anything and anyone they want.

Block G: Homecoming Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place 23

DREAMING IN ASPECT RATIO Experimental | 2021 | 02:28 min. | PG Country Language Producer Director Writer

United States English Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

"Dreaming in Aspect Ratio" is a hand-made diary film and experiment in disrupted stereoscopy; an adopted "found" home movie. A playful queer self-portrait in found dream memories; an experimental documentary and Surrealist détournement, bright colors collaged with black and white imagery of the joy of female friendships evoke dreaming and reverie; a lost queer childhood regained through the magic of cinema, disrupting typical self-portraiture and auto-ethnography.

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ

EGG MAN Narrative | 11:19 min. | G Country Language Producers Director Writer

United States English Xingyi Jiang, Yan Hua Hsiao Hsia Huang Lucy Choi

Mr. Ren is an introvert and traditional Chinese father.

After his American-born son decided to donate his heart out to others after he died, Mr. Ren leaves his home and temporarily stays in a motel. One day, he meets this young boy who claims he got heart transplant from this Chinese guy.

Block D: Emerging Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place 24

EVERYBODY DON'T ELECTRIC SLIDE Narrative | 2022 | 15:00 min. | G Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Anil Dhokai Rodney Stringfellow Rodney Stringfellow Karen Abercrombie, Amahri Snipes

At a large family gathering after a funeral, an older woman confronts an awkward young man she doesn’t recognize. In order to reveal his identity, she forces him to use a haunted typewriter that will only type the truth.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

EYES AND HORNS Experimental | 2021 | 06:15 min. | R Countries Republic of Korea, Germany, United States Language No Dialogue Producer Fabian Driehorst, Chaerin Im Director Chaerin Im Writer Chaerin Im Exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, lines blur and boundaries of sexes disappear.

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ 25

FINE LINES Narrative | 2022 | 12:27 min. | PG Country Language Producers Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Kristine Scruggs, Jim McQuaid Jim McQuaid Kristine Scruggs Heather Shore, Berklee Axford, David Henderson, Jessenia Mills, Andrew Farmer, Ollie Mann, Brilyn Johnston, Sunny Read

A mom wakes up and makes a decision - whether or not to look at her phone. What follows is two versions of the same day, exploring how this small difference affects her interactions with her teenage daughter, Lina, and sets off a cascade of events.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

THE FIRST Narrative | 2022 | 14:06 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Diana Jacobsen Emily McDougall Emily Baker Kyra Wisely, Payton Hubert

When her teenage sister starts showing interest in a much older, more dangerous man, Rowan must decide between getting involved, or keeping her sisters secret.

Block D: Emerging Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place 26

FLAT EARTHER Narrative | 2022 | 10:20 min. | PG Country Language Producers Director Writers

Key Cast

United States English Brian James Crewe, Matt Keil Brian James Crewe Brian James Crewe, Matt Keil, Joe Holt, Amy Sloan, Mario Rivas Joe Holt, Amy Sloan

Martin and Cassandra’s promising second date takes an unexpected turn when their conversation challenges personal beliefs and their assumptions about each other.

By the end of the night both will find they are living in a world much different than what they believed it to be.

Block G: Homecoming Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

FUEGO Narrative | 2022 | 22:00 min. | PG Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Edwin FrankO Edwin FrankO Edwin FrankO Edwin FrankO, Serena Khan Cuevas, Marc Reign, Martin Chan, Rhys Green

Passion and purpose collide as Gio tries to find himself within complicated family dynamics.

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ 27

THE GARBAGE MAN Animation | 2022 | 11:50 min. | G Country Language Producer Director Writer

Portugal Portuguese Rodrigo Areias Laura Gonçalves Laura Gonçalves

On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are crossed to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte, in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.

Block I: Last Looks Saturday, March 25 | 7 - 9:30 PM | Dina’s Place

GARRANO Animation | 2022 | 14:08 min. | PG Country Language Producers

Directors Writers

Portugal Portuguese Agnė Adomėnė, Rodrigo Areias, David Doutel, Vasco Sá Vasco Sá, David Doutel David Doutel, Vasco Sá

A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place 28

THE GIFT Documentary | 2022 | 10:37 min. | G Country Language Director Key Cast

United States English Elizabeth Love Hannah Donelan, Renee Fletcher, Faith Fosco, Mary Fosco, Elizabeth Johnson, Anya Lei Koza, Elizabeth Love, Caroline Puchek, Maddie Puchek, Allison Quinn

"The Gift" shares the perspectives of 10 young Chinese American women, who were adopted from China from 1998 to 2001 during China’s one-child policy, which was implemented in 1979 and discontinued in 2016.

Block D: Emerging Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place

GOT YOUR BACK Narrative | 2021 | 17:50 min. | PG Country United States Language English Producer Darce Cruea Director Mitch Hudson Writers Mitch Hudson, Stephen Dean Key Cast Nico Ford, Tyler Cain, Joe Geracie,

Peyton Whetstone, Cameron Eubanks,

Michael Thomas, Connor Powers, Luke Dampier In the 1960s, a group of high school buddies decide to climb their local water tower... Based on a true memoir, and produced in loving memory of Steve Cruea and Jim "Turd" Swanson.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place 29

GRANDMA'S HATS Narrative | 2022 | 15:28 min. | G Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Strawhouse Pictures Anil Dhokai Anil Dhokai Sarah Villalobos, Stephanie Lindsay, Dianne Paukstelis, Annette Saunders, Joyce Kernodle, Arthur Lightbody

A granddaughter sorts through a hat collection left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Upon trying them on, she discovers that the hats give her the ability to peer into her grandmother's memories.

Block G: Homecoming Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

I AM NOT AFRAID! Animation | 2022 | 07:02 min. | G Countries Language Producers Director Writer Key Cast

Norway, Germany German, Norwegian Fabian Driehorst, Lillian Løvseth Marita Mayer Marita Mayer Frede Mayer-Gulliksen, Katharina Welzl, Justus Raphael Velte, Jens Jonathan Gulliksen

During a game of hide and seek Vanja leaves the bright living room and enters a dimly lit courtyard, which has far too many dark corners, weird shadows and strange noises.

To overcome the fear, Vanja turns into a dangerous tiger!

Block E: Kids' Watch Party Friday, March 24 | 4 - 5:30 PM | York County Library 30

I AM NOT OK Experimental | 2022 | 12:10 min. | PG Country United States Language English Producers Ben Glickstein, Dean Taucher, Gabrielle Lansner Director Gabrielle Lansner Writer Tiffiney Davis Key Cast Pat Hall, Dahsir Hausif, Tiffiney Davis A mother and son respond to the unending killings of Black Americans amidst the backdrop of the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. Dance and archival photographs are woven together to evoke fear, outrage, and anger and the need for communities to come together and find solutions.

Block G: Homecoming Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

ICE MERCHANTS Animation | 2022 | 14:00 min. | PG Country Language Producers Director Writer

Portugal No Dialogue Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença João Gonzalez João Gonzalez

NOMINEE | 95th Academy Awards Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

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INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE Documentary | 2021 | 31:15 min. | PG Country Language Producers

Directors Writers Key Cast

United States English Cheryl Bookout, Cheri Gaulke, America Young, Stacy Sweeting Cheryl Bookout, Cheri Gaulke Cheryl Bookout, Cheri Gaulke Jeff G. Hafler

Enter a pastel dreamland of 3,000 vintage beauty artifacts in the desert community of Joshua Tree, California and meet "America's hairstorian" Jeff Hafler as he struggles to keep his roadside attraction afloat during a remarkable year that changes his life and the lives of his husband and son.

Block A: Hopes & Dreams Wednesday, March 22 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

THE INTERROGATION Documentary | 06:00 min. | PG Director Language Writer Key Cast

Jim Carson English Jim Carson Annette Saunders, Jonathan Stephens, Paul Gibson

The food police crash a party.

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INTERSECTIONS Experimental | 2022 | 05:00 min. | G Country Language Director

United States Spanish Hart Ginsburg

Recently, we visited in Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan. Years have passed since living there, so naturally memories revisited us - the everyday movements: the trains, local markets, homemade tofu, and seemingly ubiquitous interactions with others. Without deliberate intention to film, only traveling with a cell phone and notepad, a dangerous thought emerged: Why not visit the infamous Shibuya intersection? We traveled there to take stills, then footage. Thoughts of intersections were an impetus with related associations to themes of “intersectionality” - in how we hold various identities depending upon contextual, environmental and other variables. But then we might ask, where do these identities or intersections of our lives lead us to next?

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ

KESHO PIA NI SIKU :

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY Documentary | 2021 | 09:20 min. | G Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

Kenya English Wanzilū Maingi Ng'endo Mukii Njeri Mereka Njeri Mereka

Kesho Pia Ni Siku is a story of rebirth. It means “Tomorrow is Another Day.” Njeri Mereka is a smooth-talking, hymnsinging, 67 year old grandmother who runs her small boutique, Kanyoko Fabrics and Designs in Nairobi. She retells how she unintentionally started her business from the boot of her 1990 Toyota Corolla, survived a market fire, the social alienation of divorce, and the economic calamities of Kenya, to become independent as a business woman, and face another day.

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THE KING IN YELLOW Puppetry | 2022 | 04:20 min. | PG-13 Country Language Director Writer

United States No Dialogue Cole Frederick Cole Frederick

In a place forgotten by man, before the primordial forces that bind the universe settled, time stood still. Hidden in endless sacrifices, a god spoke back. Dreams became plagued by The Yellow Sign and within these maddening dreams, they slowly found order, they found a purpose.

They need their King.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

KIRI Narrative | 03:34 min. | G Director Language Writer Key Cast

Jim Carson English Jim Carson Jim Carson, Annette Saunders

Technology is scarier than Kubrick envisioned.

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LA TIELLE SETOISE Animation | 2022 | 03:43 min. | PG-13 Country France Language No Dialogue Directors Lucy Mazars, Aurélien Pascal,

Clara Roussel, Thomas Kinowski

Carla Borscia, Amish Jain, Joris Bourgouin In Sète, in a small restaurant, Viviane the cook prepares a Tielle contest. In the stress of the preparation, she has to deal with the betrayal of her delivery man Jacquie and the rebellion of her main ingredient. A chase starts in the kitchen.

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ

LUCE AND THE ROCK Animation | 2022 | 12:59 min. | G Country Language Director

Belgium English Britt Raes

One day, out of nowhere, a giant Rock lays in the middle of the peaceful little village where Luce lives. The villagers can’t even open the door to their houses anymore! Luce is angry: go away Rock, you don’t belong here! And why are you here anyway?

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METUBE: AUGUST SINGS UNA FURTIVA LAGRIMA Experimental | 2020 | 08:00 min. | PG-13 Countries Austria, Hungary Language German Producers Daniel Moshel, Eugen Klim Director Daniel Moshel Writers Daniel Moshel, Eugen Klim Key Cast August Schram, Elfie Wunsch,

Sira Topic, Thomas Weinhappel, Michael Schertenleib,

Alessandro Bressanello, Selina Ströbele, Emem Augendopler The third part of the internationally award-winning MeTube short film series. This time the intergalactic music nerds August and Elfi conquer the opera stage and orchestrate their final adventure in an opulent manner.

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ

MISOPHONIA Puppetry | 2022 | 09:07 min. | G Country United States Language No Dialogue Producers Linda Wingerter, Alex Griffin, Jessica Simon Director Linda Wingerter Writer Linda Wingerter A quiet bus ride turns into an aural nightmare for a book-reading commuter. With every stop the bus fills with people and sounds, becoming a chaotic cacophony joyful to everyone but her. Only when the bus reaches her seaside destination do we discover she is not the average commuter.

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NEIGHBOUR ABDI Documentary | 2022 | 29:00 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producer Director Writer

Netherlands Dutch Richard Valk Douwe Dijkstra Douwe Dijkstra, Abdiwahab Ali

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour and filmmaker Douwe. Through playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, Abdi and Douwe embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throughout.

Block B: Duets Thursday, March 23 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

THE NEST Documentary | 2021 | 03:17 min. | G Country Language Producer Director Writer

United States English Kim Brattain Chelsea Engle Corey Stewart

The Nest Academy of Charlotte, N.C., provides immigrant children with the emotional and academic security they need to grow and thrive as scholars and citizens. The goal of Kim Brattain Media was to convey the compelling story of these children, the trauma they have overcome, the obstacles they face daily, and the small, privately-funded school that strives to replace heartbreak with hope.

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NIGHT Puppetry | 2021 | 15:57 min. | PG-13 Countries State of Palestine, Germany,

Jordan, Qatar Language Arabic Producers Fabian Driehorst, Jessica Neubauer, Saleh Saleh Director Ahmad Saleh Writer Ahmad Saleh Key Cast Hiam Abbass, Salma Saleh,

Rafia H. Oraidi The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town.

Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul.

Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place

THE PINK JACKET Animation | 2022 | 08:20 min. | G Countries Language Producers

Director Writer Key Cast

Portugal, France Portuguese Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim, Fabrice Dugast, Jean-François Le Corre, Pedro Medeiros, Humberto Rocha Mónica Santos Mónica Santos Gilberto Oliveira

A political musical film about a Pink Jacket that always has something up his sleeve. In the comfort of his home, Casaco Rosa uses couture and torture to stitch up the opponents of the system.

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RAINBOY Animation | 2022 | 04:05 min. | G Countries Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

Bosnia, Herzegovina No Dialogue Mladen Đukić Sandra Marić Sandra Marić Sandra Marić

Rainboy and his raining cloud annoy passers-by from the very beginning of the story - nobody wants to be wet. He starts a journey and finds his purpose - he and his cloud will travel and do good. Unselfishly giving help to others has its price - his cloud dries out. Fortunately, he meets a girl with a similar cloud and when he shows her how to do good, a rainbow-like bond emerges and his power to do good returns.

Block E: Kids' Watch Party Friday, March 24 | 4 - 5:30 PM | York County Library

THE REALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD DREAMS Documentary | 2022 | 09:18 min. | G Country Language Director

United States English John Akre

Ordella Walker and Amy Stolee, schoolteachers from rural Minnesota, took a trip by train in 1933 that expanded their picture of the world around them. Ordella documented that trip in a scrapbook and Amy's grandson John made this movie about that scrapbook.

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THE RECORD Animation | 2022 | 08:38 min. | PG Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

Switzerland French Sophie Laskar-Haller Jonathan Laskar Jonathan Laskar Robert Bogdan Hatisi, Emmanuel Laskar, Samuel Müller

An antique music instrument dealer recieves a magical vinyl record from a traveller: “It reads your mind and plays your lost memories.” Obsessed by this endless record, the antique dealer listens to it again and again, and the memories reemerge until one last and most painful memory is revealed: how he got separated from his mother on the Swiss border during World War II.

Block F: Teen Watch Party Friday, March 24 | 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library

REVELATION TO THE DISEMBODIED Experimental | 2022 | 09:20 min. | PG Country Language Producer Director Writer

United States English Shannon Silva André Silva André Silva

Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, mythological, and ecological dimensions.

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REVERIE Experimental | 2021 | 04:54 min. | PG Country Language Producers Director Writer Key Cast

United States No Dialogue Caitlin Gray, Allan James Paug Caitlin Gray Caitlin Gray Hailey Rose Walsh, Darvensky Louis

A woman is haunted by the memory of her lost love.

Block B: Duets Thursday, March 23 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

RITE Animation | 2023 | 07:43 min. | PG Country United States Language English Director Forest Rain Key Cast Aiste Vaiciunaite, Anthony Strangeweather Spearheading the search for sentient life on other worlds is the job of Odyssey 1, solo space pilot and explorer. His boots-on-the-ground mission takes him to a barren land inhabited by the ruins of an ancient civilization. As the night approaches, melodic tones illuminate the forsaken dunes, welcoming their guest with visions of a mysterious feminine presence, one whose existence is seemingly tied to the planet’s past. The line between dream and reality is blurred as Odyssey 1 is drawn into her caverns below the surface like a moth to a light. He soon discovers that he’s been selected to be part of something greater.

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THE SHADOW OF THE CROWS Narrative | 2022 | 29:56 min. | PG-13 Country Languages Producer Director Writer Key Cast

France French, Spanish Adeline Le Dantec Elvira Barboza Elvira Barboza Alicia Debruyne, Soledad Romero, Rafael Bianciotto, Daniel Tabet

1986, in a village in France. Natalia, of Argentinean origin, is 11 years old when she discovers strange scars on her father's body. From then on, the shadow of the past hangs over the daily life of the little girl, whose childish gaze questions exile and the adult world.

Block D: Emerging Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place

THE SHAPE OF THE LAND Experimental | 2020 | 05:37 min. | G Language Producer Director Writer

English Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer

"The Shape of the Land" is an animated illustrated poetic text that uses words and image as well as voice to convey a personal/political/environmental philosophy. It is a longer form work that relates to a series of short animations I have been recently posting on Instagram. The 2D animation is drawn frame by frame on a digital screen but is done in the spirit of the direct drawing on film technique that was used by many animation pioneers. It is meant to be a visual work that functions as a painting in motion.

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SIERRA Animation | 2022 | 15:00 min. | PG Country Language Producers Director Writer

Estonia No Dialogue Erik Heinsalu, Aurelia Aasa Sander Joon Sander Joon

Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.

Block C: Bold & Beautiful Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ

SNAX Animation | 2022 | 04:30 min. | PG Country Language Director

France No Dialogue TEAM SNAX

Three domestic lizards will have to survive against a cute but ravenous salamander.

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SPARKLE Narrative | 2022 | 19:40 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

United States English Kristin Loudis Kristen Wolf Kristen Wolf Ethan Fletcher Daly, Eli Weadley, Burke Brown, Ilasiea Gray, Joseph Tabano

A non-binary child struggles to find the perfect Father's Day gift for their disapproving dad.

Block I: Last Looks Saturday, March 25 | 7 - 9:30 PM | Dina’s Place

SWING TO THE MOON Animation | 2022 | 06:40 min. | G Country France Language No Dialogue Directors Marie Bordessoule, Adriana Bouissie,

Nadine De Boer, Elisa Drique,

Chloé Lauzu, Vincent Levrero, Solenne Moreau Living in the forest, little spider Temi dreams of catching the Moon. For that, she will do anything.

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THE THIRD DEFECTOR Narrative | 2022 | 16:53 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

United States, France French Melissa Jo Peltier John Gray John Gray Margot Luciarte, Lassana Lestin, Dee Lay Cherod, Cédric Weber

What seems like a simple assignment for a spy to keep tabs on an Iranian defector becomes a more complicated game of cat and mouse in the streets of Paris.

Block I: Last Looks Saturday, March 25 | 7 - 9:30 PM | Dina’s Place

TRIBES Animation | 2022 | 03:53 min. | PG-13 Country France Language No Dialogue Directors Emmanuel Kurukulasuriya,

Lucile Mangenot, Raphaël Jolivet,

Ilowna Lust, Alexandre Canivet,

Mélodie Tanier, Diane Nuty, Dimitri Besnard Near the Omo river in Ethiopia, a boy’s coming of age ceremony is about to be ruined by an armed group thus taking away his innocence.

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URSA: SONG OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS Animation | 2021 | 10:00 min. | G Country Language Producer Director Writer

Norway No Dialogue Ulvenfilm AS Natalia Malykhina Natalia Malykhina

A little polar bear Ursa is alone in the cold dark Arctic and looking for his mum. He walks through a blizzard, through icy cold tundra and sharp ice hummocks, towards the northern lights and the magic song in hope to find his mother. After many challenges he comes to the edge of the earth. In front of him is only the sea and the northern lights. And there in the distance, in the northern lights he sees his mum!

Block E: Kids' Watch Party Friday, March 24 | 4 - 5:30 PM | York County Library

THE VOICE IN THE HOLLOW Animation | 2022 | 10:05 min. | PG-13 Countries United States, Kenya,

United Republic of Tanzania Language Swahili Producers Tran Diem Ma, Alex Alvarez, Miguel Ortega Director Miguel Ortega Writer MIguel Ortega, Tran Ma Key Cast Janeth Makungu, Rosallea Kinyl, Goodluck Gabriel An African fable of sisterhood, envy and ancient evil.

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WARSHA Narrative | 2021 | 15:00 min. | PG-13 Country Language Producer Director Writer Key Cast

France, Lebanon Arabic Coralie Dias Dania Bdeir Dania Bdeir Khansa

A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.

Block A: Hopes & Dreams Wednesday, March 22 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place

WELCOME TO FOREVER Narrative | 2021 | 09:22 min. | PG-13 Country United States Language English Producers Melissa Jo Peltier, PGA, John Gray Director John Gray Writer John Gray Key Cast Alicia Hannah, Sebastian Roché, Jack Lonergan The brilliant designer of smart houses leaves a posthumous surprise for his widow.

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WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND Animation | 2022 | 06:49 min. | PG Countries Language Director Writer

United States, China Mandarin Chinese Xingyu Gu Xingyu Gu

Several years after her grandfathers had passed away, a young woman recollects her memories of them.

Block D: Emerging Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place

YOUTH Narrative | 2022 | 14:05 min. | G Country United States Language English Producers Eden Lee, Gavin Harwell, Johanna Riley Director Trey Riley Writer Trey Riley Key Cast Lacey Caroline, Camila Escobar It's a Friday night in the summer of 98'. For two teen girls, tonight is everything. Because tomorrow, it all changes.

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JURORS ROB ADLER

Rob Adler is a celebrity performance coach and the founder of the AdlerImprov Studio in Hollywood. He is an expert in improvisation for stage and screen and writes an advice column for the actors trade paper Backstage.

As an actor, Adler is a member of Theatre Dybbuk, Los Angeles’ Jewish Theatre Company and the renowned Interact Theatre Company. As a filmmaker his short films have won acclaim at festivals worldwide including here at Underexposed. He serves as an adviser for Juba Under the Stars a film festival in South Sudan, the worlds youngest nation and is on the faculty at Chicago’s Theatre School at DePaul University.

SHAREEN ANDERSON

Shareen Anderson is an award-winning producer and director based in New York City. She created and executive produced The Murder of Laci Peterson, a six-part limited documentary series for A&E, which won a silver medal at New York Festivals International Television and FilmAwards, and Saving Soweto, an eight-part documentary series for Al Jazeera English, which took the bronze medal at New York Festivals International Television and Film Awards. She has also worked as Supervising Producer on Nat Geo’s To Catch A Smuggler, It Couldn’t Happen Here for the Sundance Channel, and Supervising Field Producer on Suspicious Minds and The Shadows of Death for Investigation Discovery. Her first feature documentary, Charents: In Search of My Armenian Poet, won the Audience Choice Award at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto, Canada and aired on PBS. Clash, a scripted series she co-created, was a 2020 MIPTV Drama Pitch Finalist. She is currently developing several documentary projects and a mystery scripted series for teens.

MEGHANN ARTES

Meghann Artes is an award-winning filmmaker and animator who has worked with Sesame Street, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, NBC, and ABC. Her short films have enjoyed success in festivals across the country, and she was awarded an Emmy and Peabody for her work at Sesame Street.

Meghann holds an MFA from the Animation Workshop at UCLA and is currently an independent filmmaker and a professor at DePaul University in Chicago.

JOAQUÍN BALDWIN

Joaquín Baldwin was born in Paraguay, where he learned animation and computer graphics mostly by watching online tutorials.

At age 19, he moved to the US to study film and animation, where he received a BFA from CCAD, and an MFA from UCLA. He was the recipient of a full scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

His short films (Sebastian’s Voodoo, The Windmill Farmer, Papiroflexia, Better Days) have won over 100 awards and honors at festivals and competitions such as Cannes, the Student Academy Awards, Cinequest, and USA Film Festival. Soon after receiving his master's degree, he began working at the Walt Disney Animation Studios as a CG Layout Artist, then as a Layout Supervisor, and later as a Director of Cinematography, working on films such as Encanto, Zootopia, Frozen, Wish, and Moana.

Never content with sticking to his lane, Joaquín has experience as a professional photographer, illustrator, comic artist, web designer, and 3D designer, and in the past few years he has been dedicating every second of his free time to developing his own series of epic fantasy novels, the Noss Saga. His varied skillset came in handy when developing his fantasy saga, allowing him to create his own illustrations, maps, 3D models, book covers, website, and even his own language (phonetics, runes, and all).

He has been working at Disney for the past 12 years, and currently lives in Los Angeles.

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CORETTA BEDSOLE

Coretta Bedsole is a lover of films and the arts. When she is not traveling with her retired husband, she works as a part time consultant focusing on effective communications and messaging to consumers and elected officials. In 2017 she retired as a lobbyist after spending over 30 years working with the South Carolina State Legislature. She represented a wide range of nonprofits, professional. and trade associations during her career. One of her favorite clients was IATSE Local 491. She is a graduate of Winthrop University and the mother of an amazing musician, Derrick Lee Johnson. She and her husband, George Johnson, live in Chapin, South Carolina where they enjoy volunteering at their local food pantry, taking long walks around the lake and hanging out with friends.

JIM DE SEVE

James A. de Sève (Lecturer in Film Studies, Artist-in-Residence) is an award-winning filmmaker and artist-inresidence in Union College’s Film Studies program. His films have appeared on PBS, Netflix, Fox, Canal+, Logo, CBC Canada and other worldwide outlets, in coast-to-coast movie theater release by Roadside Attractions and in over 100 international film festivals including Tribeca, the Flaherty Film Seminar, HotDocs, IDA, Montreal Festival of World Film, Taiwan International, Tokyo International and many more. He has received grants from the Independent Feature Project, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Stonewall Fund, the Marcelle Foundation and others. His production clients have included MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and the American Museum of Natural History. For ten years he served on the board of the New York Media Alliance and the Sanctuary for Independent Media. He taught for nine years at Film Video Arts in Manhattan. Stephen Holden of the NY Times reviewed his film Tying the Knot, winner of eleven festival awards, calling it “wrenching and skillful.”

Variety called the film “a lively and cogent doc.” Tying the Knot received four stars from the Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and the LA Times. (www.1049films.com) De Sève’s film on Indonesian singing dove competitions titled ManDove (www.singingdove.com), which he produced with his husband and filmmaking partner Kian Tjong, has screened in anthropology departments and ethnographic and documentary film festivals around the world including in Moscow, Kazan, Iran, China, Japan, Uruguay and Argentina. De Sève holds a BA in Fine Arts from SUNY Albany and an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was given a full scholarship and awarded the graduate Morris Award. He and Tjong are currently preparing to release The Mama Sutra, a poetic and personal film about a Chinese mother and sons’ heartwarming attempts at mutual understanding

DARRYL DILLARD

Darryl Dillard is an award winning writer, actor, director, and producer. His credits include network tv shows Legacies, Sistas, Star, The Resident, Ozark, Monarch, and Will Trent.

He co wrote and acts in the play Hardball, a one act that has been performed in Atlanta.

He has also worked as a casting associate on several projects. He has also directed shorts Cowboy Joe, and the award winning Who’s With Me? Darryl’s latest script EXTRA EXTRA is currently in the festival circuit.

CHARLES EASLEY

Charles Easley is an Amazon best selling author of his book series, Misadventures of an Urban Nerd. He recently directed the documentary Rude Gay Ryders that premiered on The On Channel. He has been a columnist for Q City Metro, Creative Loafing, and has been an historical contributor for The Huffington Post.

Easley was reared in Houston, Texas. He received his BA degree in Mass Communication from Huston-Tillotson College in Austin, Texas in May 1991. He completed his graduate sutdies on a full Fellowship (The Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship) at the University of Iowa, where he received a MA in Communication Studies with an emphasis in film and video production in August 1994.

Charles is the host of three wildly entertaining #704PPC podcast episodes with Dr. Dee Honeycutt and radio legend Chirl Girl. He has appeared on media outlets, including NPR, The BJ Murphy Show, and on The Satisfied Life with Ramona Holloway, where he served as guest host for several shows.

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Charles helps others share their stories so they can inspire others. He is a committed educator, artist, and mentor.

He is a seasoned educator whose tenure includes serving as an Assistant Professor of Mass Communications at Clark-Atlanta University, Assistant Professor at Barber-Scotia College, Adjunct Professor at Queens University, Instructor and Program Director for the Digital Film and Video Program at the Art Institute of Charlotte. He has enjoyed a very successful career, blending academic and professional environments. He brings critical analysis of academia to a production environment while taking the sensibility of practical application into the classroom.

JOSIE FIFE

"I have always been an artist."

Josie Fife was born in New Mexico in 1958 and graduated and received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Utah in 1991. Upon graduation, she began working in the film industry mostly as a lead scenic artist.

During her film career, she also has worked in props, set dressing and served briefly as production designer at New Mexico State. She continued to pursue her art with shows in Utah, Wyoming, Seattle, and Montana where she lived off and on.

Josie is mostly retired now unless something special comes along, but continues to draw and paint in Salt Lake City, Utah.

NICOLA HEPP

Educated in Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands, Nicola Hepp obtained her Master in Choreography and New Media at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in 2006. She has ample experience in choreographing live performances and installations that involve video and projections. Nicola’s choreographies and films have been shown in festivals and venues internationally and have won several awards and nominations.

Besides making her own films, she founded and leads The Movers Dance for Film, a production house and agency for dance and film. The Movers cast dancers and choreographers for screen based projects. As a choreographer and casting director, Nicola has collaborated with directors such as Anton Corbijn, Michiel van Erp, Diederik van Rooijen and Nina Aaldering and worked for brands such as T-Mobile, Cenomi, Zalando and McDonalds. Nicola received a research grant for combining dance and film to invoke kinesthetic empathy in the viewer, supported by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds/Horizon in 2022. Articles and Interviews have been published by Videodance Studies Valencia, Dans Magazine NL, Wearemovingstories and Women Cinemakers.

JOANNE HOCK

Known for her even keel presence on set, Joanne Hock is a multi-talented writer/director/cinematographer who has been working in the film industry for over 30 years.

Joanne was an ad agency copywriter/producer that was “bitten” by the production bug while working on commercials. Pushing boundaries, she was tapped by Kodak Films in the mid-90’s as one of the few women cinematographers working in the business. Joanne lensed hundreds of TV ads before shifting into writing and directing feature narratives. In the last 12 years she’s helmed 7 movies and directed several Hollywood legends: including Cloris Leachman, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Welch, Melissa Gilbert, Bill Cobbs and James Hong. Joanne also built a reputation for creatively shaping emerging talent and their on camera performances including Darby Camp, Madison Bailey and Erika Gluck.

Storytelling is her passion and Joanne loves both the mental and physical challenge of a demanding schedule.

She’s helmed 8 documentaries as either Director or as Director of Photography and has 30+ cable TV network True Crime shows to her credit. Her screenplay for When We Last Spoke won the prestigious Austin Film Festival Audience Favorite Award and her script, Wednesdays at the Gem, a Nichols Fellowship Finalist, is now in development through her company, Joanne Hock Films. She is currently writing a seven episode limited series based on the book, Child of the Forest, and Holocaust survivor/living witness, Charlene Schiff.

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GREG HOLFELD

Since dropping out of Vancouver's Emily Carr College of Art in the mid 80s, Greg Holfeld has directed dozens of commercials and commissioned films, animated and storyboarded more film and television than he's actually watched, created short films screened in competition the world over, and illustrated a stack of children's books and comics higher than a sugar-gorging six-year-old. In a poorly arranged deal with Satan, he won an Annecy cristal for a toilet training film in 2002. His latest short Pinchpot (opening film of UFFyc 2019) was awarded best animated short of 2019 by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. Greg also lectures in animation and illustration at CDW and University of South Australia. He spends his spare time coaxing edible vegetables out of the hard, dry earth of his home in Adelaide.

CASHELL HORGAN

Cashell Horgan born in Ireland is a multi-award winning filmmaker. He studied media at the College of marketing and Design in Dublin. After graduating he specialised in stop-motion animation and made his first film winning the prestigious James Horgan Prize, Galway film festival.

While producing and directing short films inserts for television he also taught animation and film at the European School of Animation and the National Film television School Ireland.

He was worked in film and TV as a Director and Editor, he has made several television appearances regarding his work. Cashell has served as a Jury member for Fantasporto, Malta Short TV festival and Amarcort film.

ARPITA KUMAR

Arpita Kumar grew up in India and works as a filmmaker in Los Angeles, CA. Her award - winning films have screened internationally at numerous film festivals and venues including Mill Valley, PBS Online Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Sarasota, Atlanta, Cleveland, Bend Film, Athens, DC Shorts, Reykjavik, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, amongst others.

Arpita is one of the three winning writers to work on the New Normal anthology series with Project Greenlight Digital Studios, Color Creative TV, Issa Rae, and Adaptive Studios.

As a part of the Film Independent’s Project Involve fellowship, Arpita wrote and directed a short narrative film, My Dear Americans, which won the PBS People’s Choice Award for 2014. Additionally, Arpita was selected for the Transatlantic Talent Lab at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) in 2014 and nominated for the Golden Egg Award in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Arpita’s achievements and films have been covered by innumerable prestigious media outlets including NPR, Huffington Post, PBS, Black Public Media, Indiewire, USA Today, BuzzFeed, India Today, Indian Express, The Hindu, B4U, DearCinema, Quartz, and DNA. Arpita worked under Kirby Dick for his Oscar nominated documentary, The Invisible War, about rape in the U.S. military. She has a MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts, a MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Iowa, and a BA in Film/Literature from Hampshire College. More information about her work can be found here: www.arpitakumar.com.

Odd Talkies is Arpita Kumar’s production company. Together with Giulia Caruso and Gorav Kalyan of Nonetheless Productions, she is in development for her debut feature film, Gori.

LADD LANFORD

Ladd Lanford has been an active member of the professional film community for more than 28 years. Born and raised in Rock Hill, S.C., Ladd attended Northwestern High School, The University of Virginia, New York University (Filmmaking & Cinema Studies B.F.A, 1990) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A., 1994).

Moving to Los Angeles in 1994, Ladd began working as an Assistant Editor and joined the Motion Picture Editor’s Guild in 1995, working with such Directors as James Cameron (Titanic, 1997), Tony Scott (Enemy of the State, 1998) Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, 1999) and M. Night Shyamalan (Unbreakable, 2000).

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Since 2001, Ladd has worked on literally hundreds of feature films as a VFX and Digital Intermediate Producer (Pacific Title & Art Studio, 2001 – 2009), Studio Account Executive and Director of Feature Film Sales (Technicolor, 2009 – 2021) and Vice-President of Feature Films (Picture Shop, 2021 – present).

Recent credits include The Fabelmans, Knock at the Cabin, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.

SAM MCMURRAY

A self-annointed “Greenwich Village Idiot,” Sam grew up in the theatre world and after college entered that world as a dues paying Equity member. He has too many New York theater credits to list here, but is particularly fond of Translations, A Soldier's Play, Savage in Limbo, The Taking of Miss Janie, Kid Purple, Comedians, and Gray Spades. He is a long time member of Ensemble Studio Theater and a veteran of many summers at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights conference, where he debuted works by John Patrick Shanley, James Yoshimura and Adam Rapp, among others, as well as a regular contributor to the Seven Devils in McCall, Idaho.

Sam moved to LA in 1986. Notable film credits are: Raising Arizona, L.A. Story, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Stone Cold, Mod Squad, Slappy and the Stinkers. Upcoming films include A Thanksgiving Engagement, The Craigslist Killer, Americons, and Jenny’s Wedding.

TV credits abound with The Tracey Ullman Show, Likely Suspects, A League of their Own, Matt Waters, Medicine Ball, Stand by your Man, and his favorite, Dinosaurs. More recently, he recurred on King of Queens, Friends, Freaks and Geeks, and Breaking Bad, and even more recently on Scandal and The Fosters. This fall Sam debuted a new series for ABC on Friday nights called Cristela, which deserved a better fate, but network people are just as obtuse now as they ever were.

CHRISTINE PAPALEXIS

Christine has been performing and making puppets and costumes since discovering her love of puppetry at Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles. Hand puppets were next, followed by cable, animatronic and hydraulic puppets for movies, television, videos and commercials. She had the good fortune to work on a Roger Corman film, puppeteering a giant cockroach creature with buckets of blood and slime. After that she spent years at various creature effects companies in Los Angeles, puppeteering everything from aliens, a bull, a gorilla, a couple lusty sex scenes with marionettes, a martian, penguins, a pink teddy bear and more.

She has been lead puppeteer/lead builder for many projects. She recently completed her directorial debut with a short marionette film, Amaterasu, based on a Japanese folk tale, with support from Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams. She has created her own artwork, including two marionette shows made of found objects.

Christine is a past president of the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry and regularly contributes to local and national puppet publications.

DALE POLLOCK

Dale M. Pollock, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, received a BA in Anthropology from Brandeis University in 1972 and a MS in Communications from San Jose State University. In 1977, he became the head film critic for Daily Variety until he was hired by the Los Angeles Times to be their chief entertainment correspondent. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in the early 1980s and wrote Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas in 1984, which has sold more than 150,000 copies and remains in print. In 1985, Pollock joined David Geffen’s company as a development executive, where he discovered the scripts for Beetlejuice, The Burbs and Universal Soldier. He joined A&M Films as vice president in charge of production, and was named president in 1990, producing such films as The Beast, The Mighty Quinn, A Midnight Clear and Mrs. Winterbourne. Pollock ran his own film company Peak Productions for 10 years, producing the box office hit Set It Off. He co-founded the producing program at the American Film Institute in 1995. In 1999 he became Dean of the School of Filmmaking at the (then) North Carolina School of the Arts, stepping down in 2006 to become Professor of Cinema Studies. He was awarded Emeritus status in 2019 and served as Interim Dean for nine months in 2021. Pollock was awarded an Endowed Professorship in Film in his name at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking in 2014 and is the 53

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2016 recipient of the UNC Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence. He also received the 2020 Arts Council of Winston Salem’s Annual Award, its highest honor. Pollock's first work of fiction, Chopped: A Novel will be published in March 2023, and he is at work on a book about how Hollywood has treated aging in the movies.

KENJI QUARTA | www.quratakenji.com

His Film Speed Girl won the Grand Prix at Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award in 2009. Everytime We Say Goodbye was awarded the Grand Prix and Audience Award at Asia's largest film festival, Short Short Film & Asia, a festival officially recognized by the Academy Awards. In 2017, he wrote and directed the TV series, Futari Monologue. In 2019, he released Indigo Children, a full-length feature film, and two short films, Goodbye Dorothy and Robin. Kenji didn't slow down during the pandemic. He Directed 6 episodes of Aikatsu Planet! in 2021. In 2022, he wrote and directed two films based on the popular video game, A3!, which has been downloaded over 7.5 million times. The two films, Mankai Movie A3! Spring & Summer and Mankai Movie A3! Autumn & Winter will be released worldwide this year.

MICHAEL RIVERS

Michael Rivers is a film enthusiast who served in the United States military, Rivers has worked as a Senior Systems Engineer for Atrium Health for the last 11 years. He resides with his family in Rock Hill

J. MICHAEL SIMPSON

Simpson completed a B.A. from Western Illinois University and a tour in Germany with the Air Force before attending Illinois State University for his M.F.A. While in a graduate art history course, Simpson recalls making the connection between his childhood experiences and his art. The connection was the Sublime. The art and writings associated with ‘the Sublime’ gave relevance to the awe and wonder he experienced playing out-of-doors as a child. Simpson states, “For the first time, aesthetics paralleled events in my life while providing a painterly approach to express the wonder I felt while exploring the woods and rivers of Illinois.”

During a family reunion in the Colorado Rockies Simpson discovered a white-water river. The surface turbulence of the river embodied the wonder, energy and spirit he associated with sublime chaos of the flow of life. This work continued as he painted moments of river turbulence on rivers across the country. That work has been exhibited in over 200 exhibitions and placed in such corporate collections such as IBM, Tropicana, and McGraw-Hill. Simpson has received a fellowship/residency at the Millay Colony of the Arts, an Alabama state grant for painting, and a residency at McColl Center for the Visual Arts in Charlotte, NC. It was at the McColl Center that he asked to borrow their digital photo camera to document his favorite river site. Instead, he was loaned a digital video camera to use for the trip. He quickly realized that video of the river turbulence could inform his paintings and drawings in ways observation or a film-camera could not. Video dramatically changed his work process. He now transcribes the videos of rivers into paintings, drawings, mixed media installations or finished video short productions that focus on how digital technology has altered our understanding of place.

His work has been exhibited in over 200 exhibitions and placed in such corporate collections as IBM, Tropicana, and McGraw-Hill. His video productions have been shown in the 9th Pune Short Film Festival, Maharashtra, India, “Spaces, Its Liquid,” International Art & Architecture Festival, Venice, Italy, and six times in the Underexposed Film Festival yc in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Recently, his video work was presented in installations incorporating painting drawing, silkscreen, and video in a one-person exhibition titled Since Then in the Anderson Art Center in Anderson, South Carolina and at Caldwell County Art Center, Lenoir, North Carolina.

Simpson, a veteran art educator, taught studio courses for Auburn University, Eastern Michigan University, and Winthrop University. He retired from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; there he taught drawing, painting, and mixed media courses. He currently maintains a studio at the Tom S. Gettys Center where he creates his video-based work. Attached to his studio is the Sprengeri Studio Gallery, a showcase for the work of contemporary regional artists.

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KAREN STOCK

Stock began teaching at Winthrop in 2004. Her specialty is modern and contemporary European art. She guestcurated an exhibition at Winthrop titled Performing Gender and investigates gender issues in her scholarship. Stock also received a Fulbright teaching scholarship and spent six months teaching art history in Beijing, China.

ADRIA TENNOR

Adria Tennor earned her BFA in stage directing and acting from New York University and Playwrights Horizons Theater School. She began her career as an actress, and her first professional job was playing a twelve-year old boy looking at porn in Tompkins Square park in Hal Hartley’s Amateur, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. She works regularly in television and film and is most known for her recurring role on Mad Men as well as in the Academy Award-winning film, The Artist. Dissatisfied with the amount of work available to women, Tennor began writing her own material, performing stand-up early in her career. She then spun her material into a rave-reviewed one-woman show, StripSearch, about finding love and happiness with the help of a twelve-foot pole.

Another monologue she wrote and performed, Pie in the Sky, was published in the anthology – Worst Laid Plans – alongside works by Whitney Cummings, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Allison Brie and Laraine Newman. Tennor made her directorial debut with a self-penned childhood drama, Cracked, starring Marguerite Moreau, which garnered awards and laurels around the country. Her second film, Pie, starring Jessica Paré, was a favorite on the festival circuit in 2018, also garnering awards and laurels internationally. Her feature script, Never Been Born, won her a CineStory Fellowship. Currently, she is teaching and coaching actors and non-actors both virtually and in-person in Los Angeles. Her ambition is to create and tell more stories for and about women and to foster opportunities for a diverse point of view in theater, film and television.

KIAN TJONG

Kian Tjong is an independent filmmaker currently in Troy, NY. Tying the Knot was Kian’s first film; he views it as the perfect combination of his passions in human rights activism and filmmaking. Tjong’s anthropology film Mandove played widely in ethnographic and anthropology festivals worldwide. He is currently working on films: The Momma Sutra and Hakka Cha Cha Cha, both of which explore family dynamics and history of a Chinese Hakka family. Kian received his MBA from the University of Hawaii.

DAVID WHITE

Senior Multimedia Producer/Editor, Healthy Directions Creative Director, g14 Productions David is a senior producer/editor with Healthy Directions and filmmaker. He produced, edited, and directed the feature length documentary, Going to the Devil: The Impeachment of 1868 and the documentary short The Forgotten War: The Lasting Legacy of World War I, both of which can be found streaming on Wondrium. David is the former supervising producer for digital content for The Great Courses, where he created and curated educational nonfiction programming.

In addition, he serves as a creative director for g14 Productions, producing short and long form narrative films with his partner Matthew Balthrop. g14 Productions was honored to be a part of the UFFyc’s 2017 program and honored further still to receive the Terry Roueche Audience Choice Award that year. David is also a former sketch comedy writer and performer for the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NY where he produced shows with his sketch group, Stone Cold Fox. David has been creating moving media for over 20 years as a writer, director, editor, and producer and appreciates being able to bring his experience and perspective to all the projects, students, and organizations with who he’s had the pleasure to work.

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DAVID WOHL

Dr. David Wohl served as Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Winthrop University before retiring in 2017. Prior to his arrival at Winthrop University in 2010, Dr. Wohl served as Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Communications and Media Studies at West Virginia State University in Institute, WV for over 25 years. He was the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Charleston Stage Company in Charleston, WV and held the position of General Manager of the Porthouse Repertory Theatre in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He has published articles and reviews in such publications as Theatre Journal, Southern Theatre, and Journal of the Association for Communication Administration. He has directed over 100 theatre productions, including Jane Eyre, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, True West, On Golden Pond, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, A Raisin in the Sun, Proof, Art, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, To Be Young Gifted, and Black, and The Rocky Horror Show.

Between 1975 and 2010, Dr. Wohl was one of the leaders in West Virginia's arts community. He served on the West Virginia Arts Commission's Peer Assistance Network since its inception in 1990 and has conducted numerous workshops on grant writing, strategic planning, board development and marketing for over thirty nonprofit organizations throughout West Virginia. He served seven years as President of Arts Advocacy of West Virginia and for three years coordinated "Arts Day" at the WV Legislature. He was instrumental in lobbying the WV legislature for the creation of the Cultural Resources and Capitol Improvement grant fund, which has given over $15 million to arts organizations throughout West Virginia.

In 1998, Dr. Wohl served a term as President of the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), the largest regional theatre association in the country, where he has served for over a decade as Finance Committee Chair for SETC. Dr. Wohl has served on numerous boards of directors, including the Kanawha Players, the West Virginia Theatre Conference, the Southeast Theatre Conference and the Paradise Film Institute. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Festiv-ALL Charleston, an annual 10-day celebration of the arts in West Virginia’s capitol city.

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The Arts Council of York County connects people through art, culture, dance, drama, film, & music with a vision to create and support a thriving, diverse, and vibrant community in York County.

W H AT W E D O • Manage art galleries in Old Town Rock Hill

• Create and support public art projects

• Program art events and festivals

• Provide affordable studio space to local artists

• Host art classes for adults

• Rent facility space for art programs and private events

W H O W E S E RV E The Arts Council strives to serve all of York County, SC, including local residents, students and art teachers, amateur and professional artists, local businesses, and other arts organizations.

LEARN MORE Visit yorkcountyarts.org to learn more about events & gallery exhibits, donations, artist & affiliate memberships, volunteer opportunities, artist opportunities, and more!

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JONATHAN LANDAU

Jonathan Landau has been producing, directing, and writing independent films for over 3 decades. His debut feature as a writer/director, The Last Summer, was shot in 2001 on 35mm. Since that time, Mr. Landau has produced 7 features, 6 shorts (3 of which he also was writer/director), 3 pilot episodes, and 2 full seasons of webseries. His last 2 short films as a writer/director, Pushing Buttons and The Vamprentice, as well as a short you produced Cezanne, have all played at The Underexposed Film Festival yc. Most Recently, Jonathan’s 2nd feature as a writer/ director, The Devil’s Stomping Ground, world premiered at the 2022 Cucalorus Film Festival, and just played in theatres across the Carolinas for 2 weeks this February. Jonathan is a co-owner of Brand Spanking New Productions.

MARTY LANDAU

Marty Landau has been producing films and television projects for a decade. Her credits include the feature films, The Devil’s Stomping Ground, Remember Yesterday, The Terrible Two, and Beyond the Living, In addition to these features, Mrs. Landau has also produced many short films, including Underexposed Film Festival yc entrees: Pushing Buttons, Cezanne, and The Vamprentice. Marty has acted in several projects too and also does location management on larger budget shows.

Most recently she was Location Manager on Simu Liu’s new film, One True Loves, which comes out in theaters this April. Marty is a co-owner of Brand Spanking New Productions.

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