From Shame to Pride explores queer identity in a deeply meditative reflection on childhood in Brazil in the 1990s.&nbsp;

From Shame to Pride

This animated short film explores queer identity in a deeply meditative reflection on childhood in Brazil in the 1990s.

"Becoming: ORLANDO DUGI" explores the connection of Orlando's contemporary designs with his traditional Navajo upbringing, the honoring of Native women, especially his grandmothers. It challenges the notion that Native art must be fixed in time, and shows how weaving the past into the present can be a powerful form of cultural expression. Filmed over 3 months, the documentary captures Orlando's process of creating his 2020 Capsule Collection in intricate and vibrant detail, and includes deeply personal reflections on his experience as an Indigenous artist. It culminates with the reveal of his finished designs at Santa Fe Indian Market's Virtual Fashion Show. Sponsored by:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/d35fc9e1e2a1521d378b9248bb41f39a.png" width="134">

Becoming: Orlando Dugi

Fashion designer Orlando Dugi (Navajo) weaves the past into the present and challenges notions of what it means to be an Indigenous artist.

The Panola Project chronicles the journey of the unstoppable Dorothy Oliver to vaccinate her rural, Black town of Panola, AL from the convenience store she runs out of a mobile home. Nearly 99% of adults in her town have received the shot in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. Sponsored by:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/6833c8b0a5a72af29904f54e128a69ae.png" width="259">

The Panola Project

Dorothy Oliver mounts heroic efforts to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama safe from COVID-19.

In Thailand’s Deep South, Abdullah has cut himself off from modern communications. He makes long drives through dangerous, dark roads to meet people in person. He uses only a landline to check on his wife and son at home. He refuses to register his biometrics to get a SIM card as mandated by law. The Thai government says this is necessary in the Malay Muslim-majority southernmost provinces, where militants wage an insurgency and use burner phones to detonate bombs. But Muslim locals say it is just the latest tool for the Thai security services to intervene in their lives. Pattani Calling is a story of a community forcibly disconnected from modern communication by state digital policies. Sponsored by:<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/7d7f5106046a677099c611df1c4e7ab1.png" width="302">

Pattani Calling

To get a SIM card in insurgency-hit southern Thailand, you must have your face scanned by the government.

A personal, visual essay about gender transition - focusing on the social context and implications and exploring how the world is different living as female compared to being perceived as male. Jack tells his story by using and reframing gender focused tropes and imagery from popular culture, mythology, history and art.

Everyman

A non-binary transman talks about his social transition.

In 1961, France established its space-center in Kourou, French Guiana, expropriating local Guianese. Field investigation meets archival video to empower a silenced population.

Listen to the Beat of Our Images

When Mohamad Hafez received a single-entry visa to study architecture in the United States, he realized if he couldn't return home to Syria, he could make home. A skilled architectural model-maker, he spent his years in exile sculpting life-like renditions of his Damascus neighborhood. When the civil war broke out and his parents fled to the United States as refugees, Mohamad's bottled-up frustration erupted on his models. In a fit of mania, he broke his artworks, leaving them shattered, bombed-out replicas of the Syrian buildings he saw on the news. And yet, when word of his broken pieces spread, Mohamad became an inspiration to refugees and immigrants in the diaspora who dreamed of homes that only existed in memories. A Broken House is a film about loss and love, responsibility and identity -- about homesickness for the places to which we can no longer return.

A Broken House

The Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez received a one-way ticket to the United States. Missing his homeland, he decided to create a stand-in, sculpting life-like miniatures of the Damascus cityscape he had left behind.

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