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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 Festival Credits.................................. 4 Schedule............................................... 7 Film Details (Alphabetical)...... 15 Jury........................................................ 49 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 F: Teen Watch Party 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library
Block E: Kids' Watch Party 4 - 5:30 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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BLO CK A: HOPES & DREAMS
L O CATION S
Snacks and drinks available to purchase. Concessions closes after intermission. THE
Burro Alley
153 East White Street, Rock Hill, SC 29730
Food and drinks available to purchase from Jackass Cafe & Wine Bar. Please note, this is an outdoor screening. Dress for the weather.
YORK COUNTY LIBRARY
Rock Hill Branch | Moore Room
138 East Black St. Rock Hill, SC 29730
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.
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* 08:12 min. PG Narrative 19 Inside the Beauty Bubble 31:15 min. PG Documentary 32
WEDNESDAY
7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed
1 UP AT 9 PM | 140 E. Main St., Suite 140
DINA’S PLACE Winthrop University | DiGiorgio Campus Center 2020 Alumni Dr., Rock Hill, SC 29730
PLAYER
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TBA Pre-screening Event | Details available on underexposedfilmfestivalyc.org
BLO CK B: DUETS
BLO CK C : BOLD & BEAUTIFUL
TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. Reverie 04:54 min. PG Experimental 41 Kiri 03:34 min. G Narrative 34 Chaperone 16:10 min. R Narrative 21 Ice Merchants 14:00 min. PG Animation 31 The Bathtub 19:15 min. PG-13 Narrative 17 INTERMISSION Clones 14:10 min. PG-13 Narrative 21 Neighbour Abdi 29:00 min. PG-13 Documentary 37
7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed 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
8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ | Free * Q&A Participant | Subject to change or cancellation
THURSDAY 9
BLO CK D: EMERGING
BLO CK E: KIDS' WATCH PARTY
BLO CK F : TEEN WATCH PARTY
FRIDAY 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
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| York County Library | Free Sponsored by Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. SNAX 04:30 min. PG Animation 43 A Day Without Prohibition 15:00 min. PG Narrative 23 The Gift 10:37 min. G Documentary 29 The First 14:06 min. PG-13 Narrative 26 INTERMISSION Tribes 03:53 min. PG-13 Animation 45 Egg Man 11:19 min. G Narrative 24 What They Left Behind 06:49 min. PG Animation 48 The Shadow of the Crows 29:56 min. PG-13 Narrative 42
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8:30 PM
3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed 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
- 5:30 PM | York County Library | Free Sponsored by Rock Hill Coca-Cola Bottling Company 10
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TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. The Better Angels 13:00 min. PG Animation 17 Dead Men And Devils* 16:30 min. PG-13 Narrative 23 I AM NOT OK 12:10 min. PG Experimental 31 The Voice In The Hollow 10:05 min. PG-13 Animation 46 INTERMISSION Can't Nobody Hide 03:30 min. G Experimental 20 Flat Earther* 10:20 min. PG Narrative 27 Revelation to the Disembodied 09:20 min. PG Experimental 40 Grandma's Hats* 15:28 min. G Narrative 30 Welcome To Forever 09:22 min. PG-13 Narrative 47 BLO CK G: HOMECOMING 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed * Q&A Participant | Subject to change or cancellation 11
BLO CK H: D OUBLE FEATURE
BLO CK I : LAST LOOKS
TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. Rite* 07:43 min. PG Animation 41 The King in Yellow 04:20 min. PG-13 Puppetry 34 The Interrogation* 06:00 min. PG Narrative 32 Garrano 14:08 min. PG Animation 28 The Button Game 07:20 min. PG-13 Experimental 18 Got Your Back* 17:50 min. PG Narrative 29 Cabarrus* 09:31 min. PG-13 Narrative 19 INTERMISSION Convergence 06:24 min. PG Experimental 22 The Bus* 05:35 min. G Documentary 18 Fine Lines* 12:27 min. PG Narrative 26 Night 15:57 min. PG-13 Puppetry 38 Everybody Don't Electric Slide * 15:00 min. G Narrative 25
JE OPARDY! & FAMILY T I ES 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed TITLE RUNTIME RATING CATEGORY PG. ANGAKUSAJUAJUQ: 20:00 min PG-13 Animation 16 The Shaman's Apprentice Sparkle 19:40 min. PG-13 Narrative 44 The Garbage Man 11:50 min. G Animation 28 Misophonia* 09:07 min. G Puppetry 36 The Third Defector 16:53 min. PG-13 Narrative 45
7 - 9:30 PM | Dina’s Place | Ticketed SATURDAY * Q&A Participant | Subject to change or cancellation 12
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Cinema Carolina (Eligible)
Woman to Watch (Eligible)
Collegiate Student Film
Q&A Participant
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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 Canada
Language English, Inuktitut
Executive Zacharias Kunuk, Monica Ittusardjuat, Producers Daniel Christopher, Louise Flaherty
Producers Zacharias Kunuk, Jonathan Frantz, Neil Christopher, Nadia Mike
Director Zacharias Kunuk
Writers Zacharias Kunuk and Jonathan Frantz
Key Cast 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 Spain
Language Catalan
Producer Josep Pi
Director Sergi Marti Maltas
Writer Sergi Marti Maltas
Key Cast 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 Australia
Language English
Producer Richard Chataway
Director Michael Cusack
Writer Michael Cusack
Key Cast 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
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THE BUS
Documentary | 2023 | 05:35 min. | G
Country United States
Language English
Director Rachel S. Roff
Key Cast 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 United States
Language English
Producer Vladyslav Svyrydenko
Director Vladyslav Svyrydenko
Writer Drake Woodall
Key Cast 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
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CABARRUS
Narrative | 2022 | 09:31 min. | PG-13
Country United States
Language English
Director Andrew Huggins
Writer Andrew Huggins
Key Cast 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 United States
Language English
Producers Matt Keil, Brian James Crewe
Director Brian James Crewe
Writer Brian James Crewe
Key Cast 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
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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 United States
Language English
Producer
John Williams
Director 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
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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
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CONVERGENCE
Experimental | 2022 | 06:24 min. | PG
Country United States
Language English
Producers Anahita von Andrian-Werburg, Maya Marzuki Peters
Directors Anahita von Andrian-Werburg, Maya Marzuki Peters
Writers Anahita von Andrian-Werburg, Maya Marzuki Peters
Key Cast 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
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A DAY WITHOUT PROHIBITION
Narrative | 2022 | 15:00 min. | PG
Country Finland
Language Finnish
Producer Nora Kuusisto
Director Elisa Kujala
Writer Tanja Lebedeff
Key Cast 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 United States
Language English
Producers
Sammie Cassell, Michael Sailors, Dave Harlequin, Darren W. Conrad, John Sexton, Jerry Keys, Jeffrey Cochran, Kimberly Huffstetler, Angela DuBois
Director Robert W. Filion
Writer Brad Hord
Key Cast 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
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DREAMING IN ASPECT RATIO
Experimental | 2021 | 02:28 min. | PG
Country United States
Language English
Producer Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Director Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Writer 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 United States
Language English
Producers Xingyi Jiang, Yan Hua
Director Hsiao Hsia Huang
Writer 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
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EVERYBODY DON'T ELECTRIC SLIDE
Narrative | 2022 | 15:00 min. | G
Country United States
Language English
Producer Anil Dhokai
Director Rodney Stringfellow
Writer Rodney Stringfellow
Key Cast 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
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FINE LINES
Narrative | 2022 | 12:27 min. | PG
Country United States
Language English
Producers
Kristine Scruggs, Jim McQuaid
Director Jim McQuaid
Writer Kristine Scruggs
Key Cast 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 United States
Language English
Producer
Diana Jacobsen
Director Emily McDougall
Writer Emily Baker
Key Cast 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
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FLAT EARTHER
Narrative | 2022 | 10:20 min. | PG
Country United States
Language English
Producers Brian James Crewe, Matt Keil
Director Brian James Crewe
Writers Brian James Crewe, Matt Keil, Joe Holt, Amy Sloan, Mario Rivas
Key Cast 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 United States
Language English
Producer
Edwin FrankO
Director Edwin FrankO
Writer Edwin FrankO
Key Cast 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
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THE GARBAGE MAN
Animation | 2022 | 11:50 min. | G
Country Portugal
Language Portuguese
Producer Rodrigo Areias
Director Laura Gonçalves
Writer 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 Portugal
Language Portuguese
Producers Agnė Adomėnė, Rodrigo Areias, David Doutel, Vasco Sá
Directors Vasco Sá, David Doutel
Writers 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
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THE GIFT
Documentary | 2022 | 10:37 min. | G
Country United States
Language English
Director Elizabeth Love
Key Cast 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
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GRANDMA'S HATS
Narrative | 2022 | 15:28 min. | G
Country United States
Language English
Producer Strawhouse Pictures
Director Anil Dhokai
Writer Anil Dhokai
Key Cast 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 Norway, Germany
Language German, Norwegian
Producers Fabian Driehorst, Lillian Løvseth
Director Marita Mayer
Writer Marita Mayer
Key Cast 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
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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 Portugal
Language No Dialogue
Producers Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença
Director João Gonzalez
Writer 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.
Block B: Duets
Thursday, March 23 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
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INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE
Documentary | 2021 | 31:15 min. | PG
Country United States
Language English
Producers Cheryl Bookout, Cheri Gaulke, America Young, Stacy Sweeting
Directors Cheryl Bookout, Cheri Gaulke
Writers Cheryl Bookout, Cheri Gaulke
Key Cast 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 Jim Carson
Language English
Writer Jim Carson
Key Cast Annette Saunders, Jonathan Stephens, Paul Gibson
The food police crash a party.
Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties
Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place
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INTERSECTIONS
Experimental | 2022 | 05:00 min. | G
Country United States
Language Spanish
Director 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 Kenya
Language English
Producer Wanzilū Maingi
Director Ng'endo Mukii
Writer Njeri Mereka
Key Cast 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.
Block C: Bold & Beautiful
Thursday, March 23 | 8 - 10 PM | The Mercantile HQ
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THE KING IN YELLOW
Puppetry | 2022 | 04:20 min. | PG-13
Country United States
Language No Dialogue
Director Cole Frederick
Writer 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 Jim Carson
Language English
Writer Jim Carson
Key Cast Jim Carson, Annette Saunders
Technology is scarier than Kubrick envisioned.
Block B: Duets
Thursday, March 23 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
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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 Belgium
Language English
Director 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?
Block E: Kids' Watch Party
Friday, March 24 | 4 - 5:30 PM | York County Library
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METUBE: AUGUST SINGS
UNA FURTIVA LAGRIMA
Experimental | 2020 | 08:00 min. | PG-13
Countries Austria, Hungary
Language German
Producers
Director
Writers
Daniel Moshel, Eugen Klim
Daniel Moshel
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.
Block I: Last Looks
Saturday, March 25 | 7 - 9:30 PM | Dina’s Place
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NEIGHBOUR ABDI
Documentary | 2022 | 29:00 min. | PG-13
Country Netherlands
Language Dutch
Producer Richard Valk
Director Douwe Dijkstra
Writer 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 United States
Language English
Producer Kim Brattain
Director Chelsea Engle
Writer 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.
Block F: Teen Watch Party
Friday, March 24 | 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library
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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 Portugal, France
Language Portuguese
Producers
Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim, Fabrice Dugast, Jean-François Le Corre, Pedro Medeiros, Humberto Rocha
Director Mónica Santos
Writer Mónica Santos
Key Cast 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.
Block A: Hopes & Dreams
Wednesday, March 22 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
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RAINBOY
Animation | 2022 | 04:05 min. | G
Countries Bosnia, Herzegovina
Language No Dialogue
Producer Mladen Đukić
Director Sandra Marić
Writer Sandra Marić
Key Cast 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 United States
Language English
Director 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.
Block A: Hopes & Dreams
Wednesday, March 22 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
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THE RECORD
Animation | 2022 | 08:38 min. | PG
Country Switzerland
Language French
Producer Sophie Laskar-Haller
Director Jonathan Laskar
Writer Jonathan Laskar
Key Cast 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 United States
Language English
Producer Shannon Silva
Director André Silva
Writer André Silva
Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, mythological, and ecological dimensions.
Block G: Homecoming
Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
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REVERIE
Experimental | 2021 | 04:54 min. | PG
Country United States
Language No Dialogue
Producers Caitlin Gray, Allan James Paug
Director Caitlin Gray
Writer Caitlin Gray
Key Cast 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.
Block H: Double Feature - Jeopardy! & Family Ties
Saturday, March 25 | 2 - 4 PM | Dina’s Place
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THE SHADOW OF THE CROWS
Narrative | 2022 | 29:56 min. | PG-13
Country France
Languages French, Spanish
Producer Adeline Le Dantec
Director Elvira Barboza
Writer Elvira Barboza
Key Cast 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 English
Producer Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer
Director Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer
Writer 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.
Block F: Teen Watch Party
Friday, March 24 | 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library
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SIERRA
Animation | 2022 | 15:00 min. | PG
Country Estonia Language No Dialogue
Producers Erik Heinsalu, Aurelia Aasa
Director Sander Joon
Writer 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 France
Language No Dialogue
Director TEAM SNAX
Three domestic lizards will have to survive against a cute but ravenous salamander.
Block D: Emerging
Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place
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SPARKLE
Narrative | 2022 | 19:40 min. | PG-13
Country United States
Language English
Producer Kristin Loudis
Director Kristen Wolf
Writer Kristen Wolf
Key Cast 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.
Block A: Hopes & Dreams
Wednesday, March 22 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
Block E: Kids' Watch Party
Friday, March 24 | 4 - 5:30 PM | York County Library
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THE THIRD DEFECTOR
Narrative | 2022 | 16:53 min. | PG-13
Country United States, France
Language French
Producer Melissa Jo Peltier
Director John Gray
Writer John Gray
Key Cast 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.
Block D: Emerging
Friday, March 24 | 3 - 5 PM | Dina’s Place
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URSA: SONG OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
Animation | 2021 | 10:00 min. | G
Country Norway
Language No Dialogue
Producer Ulvenfilm AS
Director Natalia Malykhina
Writer 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.
Block G: Homecoming
Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
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WARSHA
Narrative | 2021 | 15:00 min. | PG-13
Country France, Lebanon
Language Arabic
Producer Coralie Dias
Director Dania Bdeir
Writer Dania Bdeir
Key Cast 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.
Block G: Homecoming
Friday, March 24 | 7 - 9 PM | Dina’s Place
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WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND
Animation | 2022 | 06:49 min. | PG
Countries United States, China
Language Mandarin Chinese
Director Xingyu Gu
Writer 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.
Block F: Teen Watch Party
Friday, March 24 | 7 - 8:30 PM | York County Library
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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.
ME GHANN 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.
JI M DE SE VE
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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GRE G 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 KU MAR
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 POLLO CK
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
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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 RIVER S
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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KARE N STO CK
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 TE NNOR
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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