Beatrice
Directed by Lorena Alvarado Editor: Lorena Alvarado & Karen OetlingDP: Shep Po KwanProducer: FABRICA, Chiara Codognotto Capuzzo, Karen OetlingColor: Kendra SandersSound Design & Music: Antti L.S. Ikonen
The New Ché of Havana
Directed and edited by: Bryan Chang + Alex MallisProduced by: Allison PottaschCinematography: Bryan Chang A Cuban skateboarder and artist must reconcile looming changes and a nascent free-market economy with his desire to continue operating his tattoo shop – currently illegal in Havana. Vimeo Staff PickFeatured in The AtlanticFeatured in Huck MagazineFeatured in RemezclaPodcasted on NoFilmSchool
Raising Baby Grey
Directed by: Alex MallisProduced by: Alex Mallis + Sascha WeissEdited by Lorena AlvaradoDP: Eric Phillips-HorstOriginal Music: Eliot KrimskyExecutive Producers: Matt O’Neill + Perri PeltzCompany: DCTV After two parents decide to raise their baby as gender neutral, they discover that gender-creative parenting comes with its own set of worries and challenges. Essay in The New Yorker
Song of Clouds
A haunting visual fever dream. Simultaneously, a meditation on the afterlife; the journey to the otherworld and what gets left behind among the living; and the pain and yearning of return.
Out of Here
Written, directed & edited by Dónal ForemanProduced by Emmet FlemingCinematography by Piers McGrailStarring Fionn Walton with Aoife Duffin, Annabell Rickerby, Dan Bergin, Gina Moxley, Arthur Riordan and Dean Kavanagh After a year travelling the world, twenty something Ciaran reluctantly returns to his hometown of Dublin, broke and stuck living with his parents. As he struggles […]
The Image You Missed
A film between Donal Foreman & Arthur MacCaig.Written, directed, edited & produced by Dónal ForemanExecutive produced by Nicole Brenez & Philippe Grandrieux An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig’s decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique […]
okaasan (mom)
In rural Japan, a mother and daughter attempt to reconnect after dealing with the loss of a loved one the previous year. Directors Notes: directorsnotes.com/2019/10/30/kana-hatakeyama-okaasan-mom//NoBudge: nobudge.com/main/okaasan-mom Winner:Dallas International Film Festival – Special Jury AwardNew Orleans Film Festival – Audience AwardNitehawk Shorts Festival – Audience Award, First Time Filmmaker Award Official Selection:Brooklyn Film Festival, Nantucket Film Festival, Bushwick […]
I Don’t Need To Know You
I Don’t Need To Know You explores cruising in Cataluña, Spain. This process of searching for sexual encounters in public places such as parks, beaches has traditionally been viewed in the context of male homo- sexuality. I Don’t Need To Know You ventures further in an attempt to reveal and understand the complexity of motivations and […]
My Own Wings
My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore the intersex identity. Originally the term “hermaphrodite” was used to describe the phenomena, but it has since been substituted with intersex because it was seen as offensive. Intersex people are not born with “both” sexes but born with a variation from the standard of […]
Public Money
Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in a process called “participatory budgeting”, wherein community members gain a role in deciding how to spend part of a public budget. Following the process over one year in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park—a multicultural neighborhood […]
