NYC PREMIERE From Emmy-nominated In The Family filmmaker Joanna Rudnick, On Beauty follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew tired of the industry’s rigid standards. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to […]
NYC PREMIERE Sebastiano’s passion is documenting war. But at what cost? His award-winning photographs from Syria and Afghanistan are widely published. His girlfriend, Gessica, who is proud of him, fears for his life constantly and struggles to understand Sebastiano’s drive to work in combat zones. This short documentary is a mixture of compelling verite and […]
Iconic and ubiquitous, thousands of manhole covers dot the streets of New York City. Enlivening the everyday objects around us, this short film is a glimpse of the working lives of the men behind the manhole covers in New York City. This is playing part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PARTS + LABOR
WORLD PREMIERE This is an intimate film about Emilio a 90 year old cobbler living in Barcelona. He reflects on his life, the history of his country and introduces us to his craft. When the crisis hit Spain his son Daniel decides to come and work for him. This is a story about a father and a […]
NYC PREMIERE A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a pickle business. This is playing part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PARTS + LABOR
NYC PREMIERE Working from his ramshackle home studio in rural France, taxidermist Jacques Gilbert breathes new life into dead skin – transforming plaster, metal and flesh into eerily lifelike sculptured animals. From improvising his first animal at the age of 12 through to the realities of working surrounded by death, Jacques offers a fascinating insight […]
WORLD PREMIERE The roads we erect and the cars we drive maximize our comfort and efficiency, but at what cost? As You Pass By commences an exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, an infamous highway in New York City that slices through the two named boroughs. We pause in Woodside, Queens to observe one of the […]
NYC PREMIERE Leading United States legal expert on China, and the first American lawyer there after normalization of US-China relations, Jerome Alan Cohen, tells the harrowing tale of how and why his China studies prepared him to rescue his college classmate, Jack Downey, from ‘behind enemy lines’ after Downey’s CIA mission to infiltrate communist China […]
Travel down US Highway 127 from Michigan to Alabama and meet the people at the world’s longest yard sale — an annual four-day, 690-mile exchange of not only goods, but also narratives. As we traverse the sale, we meet a quirky cast of characters. Through objects bought and sold, they tell stories of love, loss, […]
A recollection of the infamous, edgy, lesbian party Clit Club, which boasted a intergenerational, cross-racial, sexually charged, mixed class venue emblematic of gritty, vibrant, pre-gentrified Manhattan. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND