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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

Derek has been in and around movies & television production for years; this is his first foray into writing, animation and directing.

A short film about a young robot with a defective part, trying to find their way in the world. Project Links  Website

Misha Ghose has been the talent behind several lauded concepts in the world of indie music videos. She’s worked alongside quite a few pioneering artists born out of India’s independent scene including the likes of Parekh & Singh, Dualist Inquiry and Your Chin. The dream-like sequences that each of their unique sounds have been translated… Continue reading Director Biography – Misha Ghose (WAITING FOR ME)

Conceptualized and produced in India by a female led team and features queer, trans, female and gender non-conforming cast members. With its contrasting industrial imagery and color palettes, the visual brings to life the song’s empowering message, an eco-feminist call to action that eschews institutionalized power structures in favor of forging new narratives of self-expression.… Continue reading Short Film: WAITING FOR ME by Madame Gandhi, 3min, USA, Music Video

Dr. Mark Padilla is a Professor of anthropology at Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies. He produced the award-winning documentary “Collapse” which addressed the politicization of the number of dead in Puerto Rico after hurricane María hit the island on 2017. Dr. Nelson Varas-Díaz is a Professor of social-community psychology at Florida… Continue reading Director Biography – Mark Padilla, Nelson Varas-Díaz (PARTICULAR FRIENDSHIPS)

Susan entered the convent as a naive young woman. There she established a “particular friendship” that would send her on a path of self discovery. Religion, transgression, sexuality, censorship, love and happiness, become intertwined in this short biographical documentary film. Through Susan, we revisit the importance of being unafraid, at all stages of our lives.

Leo LIBorn in 1991, graduated from Department of Filmmaking, Taipei National University of Arts. WU Zi-jingGraduated from Department of Theatrical Design & Technology, Taipei National University of Arts, majoring in stage design. Currently studying at Taipei National University of Arts, Graduate Institute of Theatre Performance and Playwriting, majoring in directing. In 2008, Wu Zi-jing commenced… Continue reading Director Biography – Leo LI, WU Zi-jing (SOMEWHERE OUT THERE)