Shout out to the LA Shorts Film Festival for putting many of their films on YouTube. The one featured here, Moving On, stars the homie Elvis Nolasco. This man is such an amazing actor and human being and he…
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A couple, Erika and Josh, sit on a park bench. One professes their love for the other while the other one ends the relationship. However, one ends up dead and the other is interrogated. What really happened? We invite…
In the summer, boys leap from heights up to 110 feet into the Harlem River. It’s a dangerous rite of passage going back generations in the Bronx, New York City. In this festival favorite short documentary, kids stand struck…
Inwood Center 5030 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, New York 10034 Imelda O’Reilly, is a filmmaker and previously taught at NYU as an Assistant Arts Professor in the graduate film program located in TischAsia, Singapore. She will lead this…
BY Erica Simone In this globalized world of consumption we live in, rarely do we stop to think about where our goods actually come from, who cultivated them or what life is like for the people at the beginning…
If we don’t support our art, who will? Making a film isn’t easy. It takes gumption, dedication, skill, patience, and oh yeah, money. The young people behind Mari en Maraña are trying to make a short film that takes…
Two women, one from Haiti and one from Dominican Republic, are part of the Border Network of Women Artisans formed by 90 women from 7 frontier communities between Haiti and D.R.. They recycle and take advantage of the resources…
Mari en Maraña – A Short Film The Breakdown A Dominican college freshman finds her first break heating up when a chance encounter with a Haitian stranger leads to turmoil at her grandmother’s 90th birthday party. The lowdown is…
Back in April of 2012, we ran an article on the Indiegogo campaign to fund the making of a documentary film about the kids that fearlessly dive off of the enigmatic C-Rock. Well, the film will be screening this…