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Jade Anouka is an award winning actor, poet and writer. Her & Her is her directing debut. Director Statement This is her first foray into directing. Filmed during lockdown and entirely on an iPhone 11 using Filmic pro. This filmed was made possible by a commission from the BBC Culture In Quarantine.

Her & Her have been seeing each other for a few months now and are both very much in love. But they have just moved in to Her small one bedroom flat and of course she’s brought the dog! Suddenly Her home is their home and the realities of their differences come to full view.… Continue reading Short Film: HER & HER, 13min,. UK, Experimental/Relationship

Victor M. Rocha is a current fourth-year student at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television and intern at Sony Pictures Television Comedy Development. He expects to graduate UCLA this June with a concentration in screenwriting and narrative directing. Born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley of California, Victor considers himself a true valley… Continue reading Director Biography – Victor M. Rocha (BEING IN)

Rita Krasniqi was born in October 21, 1994 in Mitrovicë, Kosovo. She was raised in the capitol city Prishtina where she has finished her undergraduate studies for Film and TV Directing at the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Arts. She is based in Los Angeles, CA, both working and finishing her graduate studies at the… Continue reading Director Biography – Rita Krasniqi (ADELINA)

After convincing his friends to perform in their Drag outfits at a night club owned by a very homophobic businessman, things go awry when their performance is stopped suddenly by a wardrobe malfunction and their true identities are revealed, putting all their lives in instant peril. Project Links  Website News & Reviews “Meet Rita Krasniqi… Continue reading Short Film: ADELINA, 15min., Kosovo, Drama

Zhongyu (Robin) Wang is an award-winning director and screenwriter. He graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and is now an MFA candidate in Film & Television Production at the University of Southern California. Robin was born in Xi’an, China in 1995, and decided to study abroad to pursue his… Continue reading Director Biography – Robin Wang (GRADUATION)

Following a graduation celebration, four Chinese must navigate their relationships’ future as dictated by the circumstances of life and their families. Project Links  Website  Facebook News & Reviews “Urbanworld Film Festival Adds Spotlight Conversation”Deadlinehttps://deadline.com/2020/09/urbanworld-film-festival-lineup-stacey-abrams-all-in-the-fight-for-democracy-1234579258/ “Urbanworld Announces 2020 Virtual Festival Slate”Black Film and TVhttps://www.blackfilmandtv.com/news/urbanworld-announ

Erika is a dancer who makes dances, films, theatre, stories, and shadow boxes. She likes to hide things in the work so that folks can choose their level of engagement—do a surface read of the work’s formalism, high production values, virtuosic dance moves; or peek up under its skirt where she hides the good stuff,… Continue reading Director Biography – Erika Randall (PAULA + FRANCESCA)

Paula + Francesca (P+F) is a short dance film that gives trouble to Dante and his ideas about hell and who goes there. A queering of The Inferno’s story of the classic clandestine lovers and their unhappy landing in the Second Circle, P+F is both hate mail to Dante and a love letter from Franny… Continue reading Short Film: PAULA + FRANCESCA, 10min, USA, Dance