Friday-February 11, 2022 – Online for 24 hours!
Short Program #2
Covid Crusader: The Carla Brown Story – Randy Slavin (Port Washington, New York) Motivated by the death of her husband due to COVID-19, Carla Brown is on a mission to vaccinate the African American population of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 2021; 3 min.
Memory Builds The Monument – Isaac Yowman (Houston, Texas) Compelled by the vivid memories of the legendary Club Matinee by aging citizens, this film leaps into the music, the art, and the community of Houston’s historic 5th Ward. The doc highlights the impossible to ignore cultural and social challenges of African-Americans in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s living in the South. The through-line of this story showcases how the music of these eras played a part in defining generations and bringing people of all ethnicities and backgrounds together and how memories, at the verge of being lost can be shared to propel the future. 2021; 15 min.
Joey Skaggs: Fish Condos – Judy Drosd and Joey Skaggs (New York, New York) This short documentary is the fifth in the ongoing and growing series, Joey Skaggs: Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond. In 1983, Joey Skaggs invented condominiums for upwardly mobile guppies and forever changed the status quo of fish tanks. Decades later, his Fish Condos are still thriving. In this film, Joey shares the origin story and traces the saga of his satirical aquatic sculptures. 2021; 19 min.
Threads of Desire – Bianca Di Marco (New York, New York) Threads of Desire tells the story of Bettina, a lonely and overlooked farmer who steals an elegant dress from town. Riddled with guilt, Bettina must choose between following her conscience or her fantasies of owning a beautiful gown. 2021; 9 min.
¡Llámame Chinita! – Stacy Chu (Los Angeles, California) Lulu, a 30-year old woman from China, travels alone to Mexico in the middle of the Pandemic. Despite her distance from home, her daily life and pressures seem to follow. In Chinese and Spanish, subtitled. 2021; 22 min.
