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Block 1 @ 3:30 PM

Betye Saar: Ready to be a Warrior

Director: Angela Robinson Witherspoon

Country: United States

RT: 77min

Synopsis: “Make Better Art” is the phrased coined by famed 96 year old Los Angeles artist Betye Saar. This film documents her incredible journey as a creator, teacher, activist, mother and Black woman in America....

Block 2 @ 3:30 PM

Good Boy

Director: Russell Chadwick

Country: United States

RT: 34min

Synopsis: Always Wrestle. Doug Seus found kinship in the arms and claws of a 1500 pound Grizzly Bear. Good Boy is a look at how Bart The Bear, Doug Seus, and his incredible family built a bond that took them all over the world and on screen with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Featuring interviews with Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, and Brad Pitt, Good Boy goes beyond the usual behind-the-scenes look to show how Doug learned to speak with one of the wildest animals in the world. What does it take to speak Grizzly?...

On Sacred Ground

Director: Josh, Rebecca Tickell

Country: United States

RT: 86min

Synopsis: A journalist and oil company executive find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota....

Block 3 @ 3:45 PM

By Design: The Joe Caroff Story

Director: Mark Cerulli

Country: United States

RT: 53min

Synopsis: From one creative mind came dozens of the most iconic logos in film and TV – the original West Side Story, 007, Rollerball, Orion Pictures, A Hard Day’s Night and many more. This documentary traces the amazing life journey of graphic designer Joe Caroff – from growing up in the Great Depression and serving in WWII to making his mark in Hollywood and beyond. A true American success story that will inspire your creativity and touch your heart...

Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist

Director: Clara Kuperberg & Julia Kuperberg

Country: France

RT: 53min

Synopsis: Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood’s most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She became director at Paramount, as the first woman to direct a talking picture for the star Clara Bow. A true pioneer of the cinema, she was the only woman director at a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s and 1940s, openly lesbian, dressed like a man, making movies “avant-gardiste about women’s condition....

Block 4 @ 4:30 PM

Midday Black Midnight Blue

Director: Samantha Soule, Daniel Talbott

Country: United States

RT: 88min

Synopsis: Isolated in an empty house, Ian remains in grief over the loss of a woman he loved who died two decades ago. The memory clamoring to be released, and his daily existence turning ever darker, Ian will have to find a way to let her go....

Quarter to Three

Director: Isa Totah

Country: United States

RT: 18min

Synopsis: Inspired by true events in, legendary performer, Ben Vereen’s life and performed by Mr. Vereen himself, Quarter to Three is an intimate account of the actor’s struggles, and ultimate resilience, in the face of several tragedies that have befallen him. It’s the summer of 2020, shortly after, yet, another devastating event in Ben’s life. At a loss for answers, he turns to the one place he’s felt most at peace, the theater. All alone on a stage in the middle of the night, he rips open his heart in an unapologetic plea to anyone who may be listening....

Block 5 @ 4:30 PM

Hangman

Director: Sam Upton

Country: United States

RT: 23min

Synopsis: Dr. Joyce Hendricks is a professor of psychiatry at the Harvard school of medicine. She specializes in the study of violent individuals, specifically serial killers. She and her colleague have been documenting their work. This is their first day in Huntsville, Texas where they meet Bobby....

A Pity

Director: Kevin and Alec Barth

Country: United States

RT: 92min

Synopsis: A disgraced politician takes a vow of silence after a public scandal abruptly ends his campaign, and his marriage. In self-imposed exile at a former monastery on a lake, he is confronted by the women in his life, and as night descends, a mysterious visitor appears from another time.....

Block 6 @ 6:20 PM

Death on the Border

Director: Wendy Wilkins

Country: United States

RT: 91min

Synopsis: Inspired by true events from when Wilkins was a young female cop. A woman leaves her abusive relationship with her Dirty Detective when she discovers he is helping move sex trafficked girls coming over the Mexican Border. When attempting to save just one truck load before “disappearing forever” everything goes horribly wrong and takes her on a path that completely changes everything. Maddy teams up with a female cop , Rhonda, who also finds out her partner, John B, is involved....

Block 7 @ 6:45 PM

When We Danced

Director: Ryan Moore

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: A grandfather struggles to confront a failed dream when he reluctantly agrees to teach his awkward grandson how to dance....

Introducing Billy Bradley

Director: Michael Charles Roman

Country: United States

RT: 12min

Synopsis: A floundering former child actor must decide: save his life or revive what’s left of his career. Based on actual events....

The Caddy

Director: Gabriel Beristain

Country: United States

RT: 15min

Synopsis: Enrique Villages is not really a kidnapper. But tell that to Jerry Stell, an American businessman in an abandoned warehouse in Mexico City. All Jerry knows is that while golfing his caddy Enrique turned on him and kidnapped him at gunpoint, with the help of Gilberto. But when Gilberto turns on his boss and kidnaps Enrique too, a terrified Enrique manages to break free and get the drop on him. With his plan in shambles and the police closing in, Enrique is left with the dilemma: decide his own fate, or let Jerry or the police decide it for him....

Daedalus

Director: Katerina Munis

Country: United States

RT: 20min

Synopsis: Young refugee Lux is desperate to escape the detainment camp where she and her cunning older sister Arsinoe are held captive. Arsinoe possesses a miraculous gift that could free them, however she fights to keep Lux imprisoned by her side....

Swipe NYC

Director: Sue Zarco Kramer

Country: United States

RT: 29min

Synopsis: Swipe NYC, is a Brooklyn-based dramedy short about Syd a newly divorced, empty nester who must reinvent herself in the world of “middle aged single-dom” in New York City. She throws herself into the vulnerable, scary, sexy, world of online dating. Each date serves as a metaphor of Syd picking up the pieces of her life and regaining her sense of sexuality, confidence, empowerment, and independence....

Block 8 @ 8 PM

Mercy

Director: Tony Dean Smith

Country: United States

RT: 85min

Synopsis: Leah Gibson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jon Voight star in this action-packed thriller. An ex-military doctor finds herself in a deadly battle for survival when the Irish mafia seize control of the hospital at which she works. When her son is taken hostage, she is forced to rely upon her battle-hardened past and lethal skills after realizing there’s no one left to save the day but her....

Block 9 @ 8:30 PM

Blowin’ smoke

Director: Isaac Medeiros

Country: United States

RT: 100min

Synopsis: Six different stories packed with absurd characters and ridiculous situations. Ranging in time periods from the old west to the present day. Each of these six entertaining short stories visits themes and discussions of love, violence, religion, philosophy, politics, cinema, pop culture, world history, present day events and of course, Cigarettes....

Block 10 @ 8:45 PM

The Kibomango Story

Director: Savva Svet

Country: United States

RT: 4min

Synopsis: The incredibly true story of Kibomango, a former child soldier turned Congolese national boxing champion. Now a struggling mechanic, he has devoted himself to helping former child soldiers and street children of Goma through boxing. Kibomango aims to instill in them a sense of discipline, ambition and self-worth....

In your Dreams

Director: Michael Patrick O’Hara

Country: Canada

RT: 10min

Synopsis: Clodagh Dunlop of Belfast, Northern Ireland – learns to survive through her dreams after suffering a deadly Brain Stem Stroke and enduring locked-in syndrome for over 3 months....

Alex Lewis Mountain

Director: Simon Ratigan

Country: UK

RT: 92min

Synopsis: A feature documentary following quadruple amputee Alex Lewis as he sets out to prove to himself, his son and the rest of the world that anything is possible by climbing Ethiopia’s highest mountain using the world’s first, off-road, solar-powered, mobility, hand cycle....

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