October 8, 2015

SHORTS: POINTS OF VIEW

Tales of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Stonehenge meets a grand cuckoo clock in The Clock of the Long Now (USA, 3 min., Jimmy Goldblum, Adam Weber). The Typist (USA, 8 min., Kristine Stolakis), a gay Korean War Vet, comes to terms with his role in discharging gay soldiers. A mother’s obsession causes her son to grapple […]

October 8, 2015

THE SURRENDER

2014 SHORT DOCUMENTARY WINNER In August 2010, Stephen Kim, a brilliant State Department intelligence analyst, was indicted under the Espionage Act for jeopardizing national security by allegedly divulging classified information to a reporter; The Surrender intimately documents Stephen Kim’s struggle to understand the events leading up to his prosecution as well as his last free […]

October 8, 2015

THE TYPIST

NYC PREMIERE The forgotten history of a gay Korean War veteran tasked with writing the military discharges of outed gay seamen.

October 8, 2015

LENNY AND THE RAT

WORLD PREMIERE Lenny and the Rat captures a day in the life of union organizer Lenny Anselmo and the 20-foot inflatable rat he places at non-union construction sites around New York City

October 8, 2015

MAC PREMO – STUFFMAKER

WORLD PREMIERE Mac Premo is a collagist, animator, commercial director and carpenter whose goal is to make good stuffs.

October 8, 2015

NOT SO NAMASTE

US PREMIERE Now a yoga teacher in the US, Ella Cojocaru, a former Olympian gymnast, recalls her defection from Bucharest on the eve of the Romanian revolution.

October 8, 2015

RESIDENT ALIEN

WORLD PREMIERE 15-year-old Carlos saw his best friend shot dead in front of him in Honduras and escaped gang violence by fleeing to his grandmother in the U.S., but his undocumented status leaves him vulnerable to deportation.

October 8, 2015

SATELLITE BABY

WORLD PREMIERE The ‘Satellite Baby’ phenomenon is the term coined to depict children of immigrant parents who were born in the US and sent overseas as a solution to the lack of affordable childcare.

October 8, 2015

GOING BACK HOME

WORLD PREMIERE A Lost Boy of Sudan works three jobs in a tireless effort to achieve the American Dream and return home.

October 8, 2015

LOOKING AT TIME

NYC PREMIERE Salim Shariff, a 72-year-old watch repairman originally from Bombay, India, now living & working in the Jackson Heights shares his memories of living in NY for the past 30 years.