And the Deluge
Dir. Chaire Louise
Runtime 6:53
Comedy
It’s coming from above, from the ceiling… Alone in her North London apartment, Jen (played by Ellie Duckles) attempts to fix what she can no longer ignore, and finds herself in an unexpected position.
Chaire Louise (Claire Louise) is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in NYC and currently based in London.
Chaire has recently completed a Masters of Research of Art: Moving Image program at Central Saint Martins. Since graduating from The Cooper Union with a BFA in 2019, she has primarily worked between post production, youth education and programming. She is currently developing a documentary project.
10 years ago she discovered a spelling mistake on her birth certificate and things have never been the same.
Dir. Chaire Louise
Runtime 6:53
Comedy
It’s coming from above, from the ceiling… Alone in her North London apartment, Jen (played by Ellie Duckles) attempts to fix what she can no longer ignore, and finds herself in an unexpected position.
Chaire Louise (Claire Louise) is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in NYC and currently based in London.
Chaire has recently completed a Masters of Research of Art: Moving Image program at Central Saint Martins. Since graduating from The Cooper Union with a BFA in 2019, she has primarily worked between post production, youth education and programming. She is currently developing a documentary project.
10 years ago she discovered a spelling mistake on her birth certificate and things have never been the same.
istén:'a
Dir. KJ Edwards
Runtime 5:12
Experimental
A retelling of a visit from the artist’s mother, istén:'a looks to dreamspace as a meeting place for us and our late loved ones who we are always tethered to.
KJ Edwards is a Kanien’kehá:ka, mixed-settler filmmaker and media artist. Their family is from Kahnawa:ké and Longueuil, Quebec, Canada; while KJ was born and raised in Treaty 6 Territory, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Holding a BFA in Film Production from the Toronto Metropolitan University, KJ is trained in narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques, using both analogue and digital workflows. She is a 2023 MFA graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where her thesis work involved eco processing analogue film, reflecting on the unpredictability of the medium as that of a collaborator, and the ways that dreams and memory are pathways to storytelling.
KJ’s debut short film Meet The Sky (2021), starring Chanin Lee, T’áncháy Redvers, and Cheri Maracle, is still making festival rounds two years after premiering at the American Indian Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Live Short. Meet The Sky won Best of BC and the Short Film Impact Award at the 2023 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. She is currently adapting the work into a feature, with the help of Canada Arts Council and the Indigenous Screen Office. This version was pitched at the first ever Indigenous Screen Summit at Banff World Media Festival in 2022. Her sophomore short film, istén:'a is making festival rounds and is also being adapted into a longer form piece and installation as well.
Dir. KJ Edwards
Runtime 5:12
Experimental
A retelling of a visit from the artist’s mother, istén:'a looks to dreamspace as a meeting place for us and our late loved ones who we are always tethered to.
KJ Edwards is a Kanien’kehá:ka, mixed-settler filmmaker and media artist. Their family is from Kahnawa:ké and Longueuil, Quebec, Canada; while KJ was born and raised in Treaty 6 Territory, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Holding a BFA in Film Production from the Toronto Metropolitan University, KJ is trained in narrative, documentary and experimental filmmaking techniques, using both analogue and digital workflows. She is a 2023 MFA graduate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where her thesis work involved eco processing analogue film, reflecting on the unpredictability of the medium as that of a collaborator, and the ways that dreams and memory are pathways to storytelling.
KJ’s debut short film Meet The Sky (2021), starring Chanin Lee, T’áncháy Redvers, and Cheri Maracle, is still making festival rounds two years after premiering at the American Indian Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Live Short. Meet The Sky won Best of BC and the Short Film Impact Award at the 2023 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. She is currently adapting the work into a feature, with the help of Canada Arts Council and the Indigenous Screen Office. This version was pitched at the first ever Indigenous Screen Summit at Banff World Media Festival in 2022. Her sophomore short film, istén:'a is making festival rounds and is also being adapted into a longer form piece and installation as well.
Avalanche of Sun
Dir. Francesca Pazniokas
Runtime 7:28
Experimental
AVALANCHE OF SUN is an experimental solo movement piece following trans-nonbinary artist Rae Boyadjis as they conjure a symbolic, meditative triptych on the symbiosis of their past, present and future selves.
Francesca Pazniokas (director) and Rae Boyadjis (performer) work collaboratively as an artistic duo under the name Alienchild. Alienchild produces multidisciplinary work exploring themes of alienation, embodiment, ritual and the occult through a queer, disabled lens.
Dir. Francesca Pazniokas
Runtime 7:28
Experimental
AVALANCHE OF SUN is an experimental solo movement piece following trans-nonbinary artist Rae Boyadjis as they conjure a symbolic, meditative triptych on the symbiosis of their past, present and future selves.
Francesca Pazniokas (director) and Rae Boyadjis (performer) work collaboratively as an artistic duo under the name Alienchild. Alienchild produces multidisciplinary work exploring themes of alienation, embodiment, ritual and the occult through a queer, disabled lens.
Fish Bowl
Dir. Rachel Sweeney
Runtime 18:01
Comedy
Zoe, bride and soon-to-be mother, has a miscarriage at her own rehearsal dinner. When her attempts to hide her miscarriage and shame go completely awry, she finds a way to overcome her guilt and grief — by stealing a dying fish.
Rachel Sweeney is an actor, writer, director, producer, and former vanlifer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She learned her story-telling skills from her Pop, a WWII vet and South Philly’s neighborhood dentist, and started exercising those skills at a very young age, making “tapes” with her dad on their VHS camcorder. She describes her writing as “picking at scabs.” With a relatable and exposing autobiographical authenticity, she mixes absurd laugh-out-loud humor with heartbreak, often touching on taboo subjects. Her short film, Fish Bowl is a hilarious and heartbreaking examination of a miscarriage.The film, which she wrote, directed, and in which she stars, was an official selection at the 2023 Tallgrass, Whistler, Sun Valley, LA Shorts, and SOHO Film Festivals. It received an Honorable Mention for Best International Short from the judges at Whistler. She is a graduate of the Penn State School of Theatre and Schreyer Honors College and was selected for the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honors society. While living in Brooklyn, NY, she performed stand-up comedy, shot her award-winning short Dead Girl, and served as Post Production Coordinator on Showtime’s Billions. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Chris Wright, and their dog, Fish.
Dir. Rachel Sweeney
Runtime 18:01
Comedy
Zoe, bride and soon-to-be mother, has a miscarriage at her own rehearsal dinner. When her attempts to hide her miscarriage and shame go completely awry, she finds a way to overcome her guilt and grief — by stealing a dying fish.
Rachel Sweeney is an actor, writer, director, producer, and former vanlifer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She learned her story-telling skills from her Pop, a WWII vet and South Philly’s neighborhood dentist, and started exercising those skills at a very young age, making “tapes” with her dad on their VHS camcorder. She describes her writing as “picking at scabs.” With a relatable and exposing autobiographical authenticity, she mixes absurd laugh-out-loud humor with heartbreak, often touching on taboo subjects. Her short film, Fish Bowl is a hilarious and heartbreaking examination of a miscarriage.The film, which she wrote, directed, and in which she stars, was an official selection at the 2023 Tallgrass, Whistler, Sun Valley, LA Shorts, and SOHO Film Festivals. It received an Honorable Mention for Best International Short from the judges at Whistler. She is a graduate of the Penn State School of Theatre and Schreyer Honors College and was selected for the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honors society. While living in Brooklyn, NY, she performed stand-up comedy, shot her award-winning short Dead Girl, and served as Post Production Coordinator on Showtime’s Billions. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Chris Wright, and their dog, Fish.
All Hope
Dir. Danie Harris
Runtime 3:40
Music Video
"All Hope" is a synth-driven dream pop song inspired by Victorian madwomen, Kate Bush, and Mitski. Set in a midcentury modern house nestled away in Pennsylvania, the video follows Flor de Lux as they prepare to play a show, but not everything is as it seems in this dark, yet danceable tale of self-sabotage and breaking your own heart.
Danie Harris is a documentary and commercial director whose work focuses on social justice and movement. Her work has been covered by publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, WXPN, The Honey Pop. She’s worked with brands and names including Hearst Media, VeryLocal Streaming, Discover Lancaster, Amistad Law Project, Yvette Young, Rozes, and Oscar-nominated Son Lux. Danie’s directing style is grounded in having been a performer herself for many years - working intimately with each person on and behind screen to bring their unique experience to the project.
Dir. Danie Harris
Runtime 3:40
Music Video
"All Hope" is a synth-driven dream pop song inspired by Victorian madwomen, Kate Bush, and Mitski. Set in a midcentury modern house nestled away in Pennsylvania, the video follows Flor de Lux as they prepare to play a show, but not everything is as it seems in this dark, yet danceable tale of self-sabotage and breaking your own heart.
Danie Harris is a documentary and commercial director whose work focuses on social justice and movement. Her work has been covered by publications including The Philadelphia Inquirer, WXPN, The Honey Pop. She’s worked with brands and names including Hearst Media, VeryLocal Streaming, Discover Lancaster, Amistad Law Project, Yvette Young, Rozes, and Oscar-nominated Son Lux. Danie’s directing style is grounded in having been a performer herself for many years - working intimately with each person on and behind screen to bring their unique experience to the project.
Human Relationships
Dir. Maria Romanova-Hynes
Runtime 2:00
Micro Short
No matter how close two people might become, they will always remain strangers. Can they agree to meet each other again and again at a comfortable distance, so they can keep surprising themselves with what they haven't discovered yet?
Maria Romanova-Hynes is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and visual artist focusing on the representation of traumatic absences. An alumna of Trinity College Dublin and Leiden University, Maria has published scholarly articles on trauma, poetry and artistic research in peer-reviewed journals and has had photographic projects featured in various publications. Currently she is developing the film anthology project "A Triptych of Loss," which she intends to direct in Ireland, and the photography series "Being, Entombed" to accompany a scholarly book on the phenomenology of home. Her short films and screenplays have won accolades at the 54th Nashville Film Festival, the 24th Kerry International Film Festival, Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition and the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, among others. Additionally, she is involved with the performing arts, having recently directed Samuel Beckett’s “Rough for Theatre I” (produced by InPlayers Amsterdam). She is based in Ireland and the Netherlands. To learn more about Maria’s current projects and view her artistic portfolio, please visit : www.romanovahynes.com
Dir. Maria Romanova-Hynes
Runtime 2:00
Micro Short
No matter how close two people might become, they will always remain strangers. Can they agree to meet each other again and again at a comfortable distance, so they can keep surprising themselves with what they haven't discovered yet?
Maria Romanova-Hynes is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and visual artist focusing on the representation of traumatic absences. An alumna of Trinity College Dublin and Leiden University, Maria has published scholarly articles on trauma, poetry and artistic research in peer-reviewed journals and has had photographic projects featured in various publications. Currently she is developing the film anthology project "A Triptych of Loss," which she intends to direct in Ireland, and the photography series "Being, Entombed" to accompany a scholarly book on the phenomenology of home. Her short films and screenplays have won accolades at the 54th Nashville Film Festival, the 24th Kerry International Film Festival, Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition and the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, among others. Additionally, she is involved with the performing arts, having recently directed Samuel Beckett’s “Rough for Theatre I” (produced by InPlayers Amsterdam). She is based in Ireland and the Netherlands. To learn more about Maria’s current projects and view her artistic portfolio, please visit : www.romanovahynes.com
Universe Moves So Fast
Dir. Sarah E. Jenkins & Gina Kamentsky
Runtime 3:55
Music Video
Memories of the past and future collide in celluloid images on the walls of unconscious thoughts. A trip through all the thoughts that fall pass your dreamy eyes.
Sarah E. Jenkins is a queer Appalachian artist & experimental animator based in Northampton, MA. Their recent moving image work explores the possibilities of site-responsive stop motion animation in outdoor environments. Their work has been exhibited at the ICA Boston, Emerson Contemporary, Buffalo AKG Museum, and the Torrance Art Museum. In 2023, there was a retrospective screening of Jenkins’ moving image work for the Ciné Culture Series at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Jenkins’ work has screened at the Moviate, BUFF, Queer Fear, and Squeaky Wheel film festivals. Jenkins’ residencies include MacDowell, the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, and the Santa Fe Art Institute’s 2023 Thematic Residency: Changing Climate. Jenkins’ site-responsive project Slate Lines is currently installed as a 6 month solo exhibition at the Boston Children’s Museum. Their work is included in the forthcoming book Queering Appalachia's Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers, University of Kentucky Press (2024). Jenkins’s current project is a collaborative quilt, where she and her grandma, Donna L. Jenkins, mail quilting squares back and forth. When they aren’t teaching or making art, she spends time taking meandering walks with her adventure cat, Nessie.
Gina Kamentsky is an animator, kinetic sculptor, sound artist and educator based in Providence Rhode Island. Her anxious and joyful short films blast out at twenty-four frames per second searing eyeballs and sending waves of buzz and crackle into the ether. Over her three-decade career, she’s progressed through numerous forms including painting, drawing, and collaging on film, Rotoscope, Musique concrète, sound collage, stop motion, and pixilation. Kamentsky’s films have screened at festivals nationally and worldwide including Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animator Festival in Poznań Poland. Along with her creative practice, she is a visiting lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design.
Dir. Sarah E. Jenkins & Gina Kamentsky
Runtime 3:55
Music Video
Memories of the past and future collide in celluloid images on the walls of unconscious thoughts. A trip through all the thoughts that fall pass your dreamy eyes.
Sarah E. Jenkins is a queer Appalachian artist & experimental animator based in Northampton, MA. Their recent moving image work explores the possibilities of site-responsive stop motion animation in outdoor environments. Their work has been exhibited at the ICA Boston, Emerson Contemporary, Buffalo AKG Museum, and the Torrance Art Museum. In 2023, there was a retrospective screening of Jenkins’ moving image work for the Ciné Culture Series at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Jenkins’ work has screened at the Moviate, BUFF, Queer Fear, and Squeaky Wheel film festivals. Jenkins’ residencies include MacDowell, the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, and the Santa Fe Art Institute’s 2023 Thematic Residency: Changing Climate. Jenkins’ site-responsive project Slate Lines is currently installed as a 6 month solo exhibition at the Boston Children’s Museum. Their work is included in the forthcoming book Queering Appalachia's Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers, University of Kentucky Press (2024). Jenkins’s current project is a collaborative quilt, where she and her grandma, Donna L. Jenkins, mail quilting squares back and forth. When they aren’t teaching or making art, she spends time taking meandering walks with her adventure cat, Nessie.
Gina Kamentsky is an animator, kinetic sculptor, sound artist and educator based in Providence Rhode Island. Her anxious and joyful short films blast out at twenty-four frames per second searing eyeballs and sending waves of buzz and crackle into the ether. Over her three-decade career, she’s progressed through numerous forms including painting, drawing, and collaging on film, Rotoscope, Musique concrète, sound collage, stop motion, and pixilation. Kamentsky’s films have screened at festivals nationally and worldwide including Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Animator Festival in Poznań Poland. Along with her creative practice, she is a visiting lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design.
An Artist's Life
Dir. Amanda Foreman
Runtime 2:00
Micro Short
One evening, a dedicated artist questions their life’s work.
'It's great! It's like the shortest M Night movie, but a comedy... I even like the credits font.'- JJ Abrams
Amanda Foreman was born and raised in Los Angeles. The daughter of successful movie producer John Foreman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Prize’s Honor, etc.) and actress Linda Lawson, she grew up in and around the entertainment industry. Surrounded by artists of all kinds, from Joan Didion and Gore Vidal to Rock Hudson and Paul Newman, Amanda was inspired to become a creator from an early age. Upon graduating from USC with a BFA in Drama, she began her long career as an actress, working in television (Felicity, Six Feet Under, Parenthood, Grey’s Anatomy, etc.) and films (Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Cloverfield, Happy Endings, Inland Empire, etc). Eventually, her interests grew to include writing and developing pilots with Warner Horizons, HBO and Bad Robot, as well as working as a Voice Over actor. She recently wrote and directed her first short film. She spends much of her free time volunteering with animal rescue groups and currently lives in West Hollywood with her boyfriend and two terrible cats.
Dir. Amanda Foreman
Runtime 2:00
Micro Short
One evening, a dedicated artist questions their life’s work.
'It's great! It's like the shortest M Night movie, but a comedy... I even like the credits font.'- JJ Abrams
Amanda Foreman was born and raised in Los Angeles. The daughter of successful movie producer John Foreman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Prize’s Honor, etc.) and actress Linda Lawson, she grew up in and around the entertainment industry. Surrounded by artists of all kinds, from Joan Didion and Gore Vidal to Rock Hudson and Paul Newman, Amanda was inspired to become a creator from an early age. Upon graduating from USC with a BFA in Drama, she began her long career as an actress, working in television (Felicity, Six Feet Under, Parenthood, Grey’s Anatomy, etc.) and films (Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Cloverfield, Happy Endings, Inland Empire, etc). Eventually, her interests grew to include writing and developing pilots with Warner Horizons, HBO and Bad Robot, as well as working as a Voice Over actor. She recently wrote and directed her first short film. She spends much of her free time volunteering with animal rescue groups and currently lives in West Hollywood with her boyfriend and two terrible cats.
Rattle
Dir. Jaina Cipriano
Runtime 4:21
Music Video
Music Video for the song Rattle by Superdown
Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer and filmmaker exploring the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment. Jaina founded Finding Bright Studios - a design company in Lowell specializing in set design for music videos and immersive spaces. She has collaborated with GRRL HAUS, Boston Art Review, and was a Boston Fellow for the Mass Art Creative Business Incubator and a finalist in EforAll Merrimack Valley.
Dir. Jaina Cipriano
Runtime 4:21
Music Video
Music Video for the song Rattle by Superdown
Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer and filmmaker exploring the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment. Jaina founded Finding Bright Studios - a design company in Lowell specializing in set design for music videos and immersive spaces. She has collaborated with GRRL HAUS, Boston Art Review, and was a Boston Fellow for the Mass Art Creative Business Incubator and a finalist in EforAll Merrimack Valley.
Alone in Madness
Dir. Jess Lee
Runtime 3:35
Music Video
Alone in Madness celebrates intergenerational queer community with a collaboration between Montréal's Lesbians on Ecstasy & next gen Lucy's Delirium, in this playful music video. An ode to Le Cagibi, a longstanding queer cafe, co-op and performance space recently shuttered, Alone in Madness follows a robot getting their nerve up to play at an open mic to a dubious crowd and crew of friends set to shake up the scene.
Jess Lee (she/her) is a queer director, screenwriter and script supervisor based in Montréal, Canada. Her short film Sweet Affliction screened at festivals internationally, including Montréal's Image + Nation LGBTQ film festival where it won the Prix du Public award. Her second short, LANDFILL is set to premiere Spring 2024. Jess' experimental films and music videos have also been showcased internationally, garnering over 28,000 views. This is her third video for Lesbians on Esctasy.
Dir. Jess Lee
Runtime 3:35
Music Video
Alone in Madness celebrates intergenerational queer community with a collaboration between Montréal's Lesbians on Ecstasy & next gen Lucy's Delirium, in this playful music video. An ode to Le Cagibi, a longstanding queer cafe, co-op and performance space recently shuttered, Alone in Madness follows a robot getting their nerve up to play at an open mic to a dubious crowd and crew of friends set to shake up the scene.
Jess Lee (she/her) is a queer director, screenwriter and script supervisor based in Montréal, Canada. Her short film Sweet Affliction screened at festivals internationally, including Montréal's Image + Nation LGBTQ film festival where it won the Prix du Public award. Her second short, LANDFILL is set to premiere Spring 2024. Jess' experimental films and music videos have also been showcased internationally, garnering over 28,000 views. This is her third video for Lesbians on Esctasy.
Imprints
Dir. Abigail Hendrix
Runtime 3:22
Experimental
Using archival footage, my own 16mm images, and audio of my grandmother and great-grandmother, Imprints is a fiction constructed from apparent reality, exploring the transformations and manipulations of memory over time.
Abigail Hendrix is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker based in Boston, MA. With a BA in anthropology from the University of Washington, Hendrix is currently pursuing an MFA in Film and Media Art at Emerson College with emphases on animation, experimental media, and ethnography. Hendrix has edited short documentaries and concert videos for Smithsonian Folklife, Smithsonian Folkways, and The Roadwork Center, and has written screenplays and non-fiction prose pieces for various publications such as Smithsonian Folklife.
Dir. Abigail Hendrix
Runtime 3:22
Experimental
Using archival footage, my own 16mm images, and audio of my grandmother and great-grandmother, Imprints is a fiction constructed from apparent reality, exploring the transformations and manipulations of memory over time.
Abigail Hendrix is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker based in Boston, MA. With a BA in anthropology from the University of Washington, Hendrix is currently pursuing an MFA in Film and Media Art at Emerson College with emphases on animation, experimental media, and ethnography. Hendrix has edited short documentaries and concert videos for Smithsonian Folklife, Smithsonian Folkways, and The Roadwork Center, and has written screenplays and non-fiction prose pieces for various publications such as Smithsonian Folklife.
Wiener
Dir. Natalie Peracchio
Runtime 16:00
Comedy
A meaty comedy about a college admissions tour gone wrong.
Natalie Peracchio’s film and video work embraces transcendent metamorphosis with heart, humor, and a touch of surrealism. Her narrative and experimental films transform characters into creatures and imagination into reality. A pointed use of analog film processes and aesthetics contribute to her unique directorial voice and help to shape the curious worlds in which dreams and nightmares intertwine.
Her short film, Beast, has screened in film festivals across the US and is featured in the Discover Indie Film series on Amazon Prime Video. She earned a BA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MFA from Emerson College.
Dir. Natalie Peracchio
Runtime 16:00
Comedy
A meaty comedy about a college admissions tour gone wrong.
Natalie Peracchio’s film and video work embraces transcendent metamorphosis with heart, humor, and a touch of surrealism. Her narrative and experimental films transform characters into creatures and imagination into reality. A pointed use of analog film processes and aesthetics contribute to her unique directorial voice and help to shape the curious worlds in which dreams and nightmares intertwine.
Her short film, Beast, has screened in film festivals across the US and is featured in the Discover Indie Film series on Amazon Prime Video. She earned a BA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MFA from Emerson College.
I HEART HORSE
Dir. Allison Radomski
Runtime 5:32
Experimental
A lonely doodler forges an emotional bond with a horse.
Allison Radomski is a filmmaker and director based in Boulder County, Colorado. In addition to working with digital means, she plays frequently with VHS-C, hand-painted animation, distorted film, and found footage. Inhabiting experimental, narrative, and documentary genres, her films explore the tensions between behavior and intent while also seeking out realms of abstraction in ordinary life.
Dir. Allison Radomski
Runtime 5:32
Experimental
A lonely doodler forges an emotional bond with a horse.
Allison Radomski is a filmmaker and director based in Boulder County, Colorado. In addition to working with digital means, she plays frequently with VHS-C, hand-painted animation, distorted film, and found footage. Inhabiting experimental, narrative, and documentary genres, her films explore the tensions between behavior and intent while also seeking out realms of abstraction in ordinary life.
When The Beat Drops
Dir. Amy Janna
Runtime 14:58
Drama
On a breezy summer night Maya and Sem look up at the starry night sky. Life is smiling down at them. Everything makes sense... until the beat drops. Tragedy hits them. Swiftly and ruthlessly.
Amy Janna (1993) is a Dutch director. In 2017 Amy graduated from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU). With her graduation film 'Boefjes' (Rascals) she won the Fiction Wildcard prize from the Netherlands Film Fund. Amy was 9-years-old when she first saw the world through the lens of a handycam and with this her love for film was born. For Amy, visualising the emotions of her characters is the most exciting thing there is.
Dir. Amy Janna
Runtime 14:58
Drama
On a breezy summer night Maya and Sem look up at the starry night sky. Life is smiling down at them. Everything makes sense... until the beat drops. Tragedy hits them. Swiftly and ruthlessly.
Amy Janna (1993) is a Dutch director. In 2017 Amy graduated from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU). With her graduation film 'Boefjes' (Rascals) she won the Fiction Wildcard prize from the Netherlands Film Fund. Amy was 9-years-old when she first saw the world through the lens of a handycam and with this her love for film was born. For Amy, visualising the emotions of her characters is the most exciting thing there is.
Pyrotechnics
Dir. Onyou Oh
Runtime 11:01
Experimental
When the theater puts up fireworks by itself, an imaginary cinema rises from a woman's eyes as a vision.
Born in South Korea and raised in the Philippines, Onyou Oh is a filmmaker whose works vary from abstract, experimental pieces to poetic, narrative shorts. She received her MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. Her films have been invited to and screened at various film festivals, including Jeonju International Film Festival, EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, and San Diego Underground Film Festival. She currently creates eclectic visual imagery from her studio, Luminous Flux.
Dir. Onyou Oh
Runtime 11:01
Experimental
When the theater puts up fireworks by itself, an imaginary cinema rises from a woman's eyes as a vision.
Born in South Korea and raised in the Philippines, Onyou Oh is a filmmaker whose works vary from abstract, experimental pieces to poetic, narrative shorts. She received her MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. Her films have been invited to and screened at various film festivals, including Jeonju International Film Festival, EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, and San Diego Underground Film Festival. She currently creates eclectic visual imagery from her studio, Luminous Flux.
Here to Make Friends
Dir. Meghan Ross & Justin Ross
Runtime 10:27
Comedy
An anxious, aging millennial, Arab-American Austin transplant goes on a mission to find the platonic love of her life after realizing she’s never had one lasting female friend, but will have to figure out how to befriend herself first.
Meghan Ross is an Austin-based writer/director/comedian who was selected for 2022 Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship, Sundance Episodic Lab 2021-2022, and 2022 NewNarratives grant from NewFilmmakers LA & Warner Bros. Discovery’s OneFifty for her half-hour comedy Here to Make Friends (also her personal tagline). Her shorts made The New Yorker’s Best Shouts of 2020 list, she was nominated for The Webby Awards for If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth, featuring narration by Jon Hamm, and her writing has appeared in Reductress, VICE's Broadly, TV Without Pity, The Toast, and other defunct but beloved sites. She hosted the late night show That Time of the Month for 5 years and is currently Head of Creator Success at Seed&Spark. Most importantly, Meghan’s an aspiring stage mom to her rescue pit-lab, Dreidel.
Justin Ross is a New Jersey-based director, producer, and founder of Brave Makers production company. Notable works include producing a segment for Montefiore Health System featured in the Robin Hood: Rise Up New York live TV special, as well as an interview produced for The Today show. He’s directed national campaigns for organizations like Girls Leadership and directed livestream red carpet events at Tribeca Film Festival. Watch The New Yorker shorts directed
and produced by the Ross siblings here: meghanrross.com/side-hustles
Dir. Meghan Ross & Justin Ross
Runtime 10:27
Comedy
An anxious, aging millennial, Arab-American Austin transplant goes on a mission to find the platonic love of her life after realizing she’s never had one lasting female friend, but will have to figure out how to befriend herself first.
Meghan Ross is an Austin-based writer/director/comedian who was selected for 2022 Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship, Sundance Episodic Lab 2021-2022, and 2022 NewNarratives grant from NewFilmmakers LA & Warner Bros. Discovery’s OneFifty for her half-hour comedy Here to Make Friends (also her personal tagline). Her shorts made The New Yorker’s Best Shouts of 2020 list, she was nominated for The Webby Awards for If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth, featuring narration by Jon Hamm, and her writing has appeared in Reductress, VICE's Broadly, TV Without Pity, The Toast, and other defunct but beloved sites. She hosted the late night show That Time of the Month for 5 years and is currently Head of Creator Success at Seed&Spark. Most importantly, Meghan’s an aspiring stage mom to her rescue pit-lab, Dreidel.
Justin Ross is a New Jersey-based director, producer, and founder of Brave Makers production company. Notable works include producing a segment for Montefiore Health System featured in the Robin Hood: Rise Up New York live TV special, as well as an interview produced for The Today show. He’s directed national campaigns for organizations like Girls Leadership and directed livestream red carpet events at Tribeca Film Festival. Watch The New Yorker shorts directed
and produced by the Ross siblings here: meghanrross.com/side-hustles
Upcoming screenings
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