Coming and going and making plans – will there be muscle memory when it's time to move?
Precious Sarria and her family experienced housing insecurity for over two years. After successfully transitioning into housing, they volunteered to document their lives to raise awareness for rising homelessness in regions surrounding Silicon Valley.
MEET THE FILMMAKER: ELIZABETH LO
Elizabeth Lo is an award-winning filmmaker who is interested in finding new, aesthetic ways of exploring the boundaries between species, class, and unequal states of personhood. Her work has been broadcast and showcased internationally, including at Sundance, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, SXSW, IDFA, True/False, Tribeca, Hot Docs, New York Times Op-Docs, Field of Vision, and PBS’ POV. Elizabeth has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 List, Cannes Lions’ New Directors Showcase, and the artist academics of Locarno Film Festival and New York Film Festival. Her debut feature, STRAY, won the Top Jury Prize at Hot Docs and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, a Critics Choice Award, and two Cinema Eye Honors after premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020. Stray will be released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures and Dogwoof in 2021. Elizabeth’s award-winning short films - including Hotel 22, Bisonhead, Mother’s Day, The Disclosure President, Last Stop in Santa Rosa, Treasure Island, Notes from Buena Vista - have been released for distribution to educational institutions and libraries around the world. Elizabeth was born and raised in Hong Kong and holds a B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an M.F.A. from Stanford University. Elizabeth is currently in development on her second feature-length film under the mentorship of the Concordia Studio Fellowship.
MEET THE FILMMAKER: DANIEL CHEIN
Daniel Chein is an independent filmmaker whose work explores transculturalism and expressions of identity in the performative. His latest short About a Home will have its world premiere at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. His last short film Basha Man premiered at CAAMFest2017, where it won the AT&T Film Award. His feature documentary in production, Sonsplitter, profiles a gay German Turk dancer for the internationally renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch confronting traumatic silence within his family. Daniel is a member of A-Doc and a board member of the Global Lives Project. Recently, he was a 2018 BAVC National Mediamaker Fellow, a North Star Resident at the Points North Institute, and a recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Film. Daniel is currently a SFFILM FilmHouse resident and visiting faculty at the University of California Berkeley. He received a BA in Anthropology and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.
- Year2020
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- DirectorDaniel Chein & Elizabeth Lo
- ScreenwriterDaniel Chein, Elizabeth Lo
- ProducerDaniel Chein, Elizabeth Lo
- CastPrecious Sarria
Coming and going and making plans – will there be muscle memory when it's time to move?
Precious Sarria and her family experienced housing insecurity for over two years. After successfully transitioning into housing, they volunteered to document their lives to raise awareness for rising homelessness in regions surrounding Silicon Valley.
MEET THE FILMMAKER: ELIZABETH LO
Elizabeth Lo is an award-winning filmmaker who is interested in finding new, aesthetic ways of exploring the boundaries between species, class, and unequal states of personhood. Her work has been broadcast and showcased internationally, including at Sundance, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, SXSW, IDFA, True/False, Tribeca, Hot Docs, New York Times Op-Docs, Field of Vision, and PBS’ POV. Elizabeth has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 List, Cannes Lions’ New Directors Showcase, and the artist academics of Locarno Film Festival and New York Film Festival. Her debut feature, STRAY, won the Top Jury Prize at Hot Docs and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, a Critics Choice Award, and two Cinema Eye Honors after premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020. Stray will be released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures and Dogwoof in 2021. Elizabeth’s award-winning short films - including Hotel 22, Bisonhead, Mother’s Day, The Disclosure President, Last Stop in Santa Rosa, Treasure Island, Notes from Buena Vista - have been released for distribution to educational institutions and libraries around the world. Elizabeth was born and raised in Hong Kong and holds a B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an M.F.A. from Stanford University. Elizabeth is currently in development on her second feature-length film under the mentorship of the Concordia Studio Fellowship.
MEET THE FILMMAKER: DANIEL CHEIN
Daniel Chein is an independent filmmaker whose work explores transculturalism and expressions of identity in the performative. His latest short About a Home will have its world premiere at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. His last short film Basha Man premiered at CAAMFest2017, where it won the AT&T Film Award. His feature documentary in production, Sonsplitter, profiles a gay German Turk dancer for the internationally renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch confronting traumatic silence within his family. Daniel is a member of A-Doc and a board member of the Global Lives Project. Recently, he was a 2018 BAVC National Mediamaker Fellow, a North Star Resident at the Points North Institute, and a recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Film. Daniel is currently a SFFILM FilmHouse resident and visiting faculty at the University of California Berkeley. He received a BA in Anthropology and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.
- Year2020
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- DirectorDaniel Chein & Elizabeth Lo
- ScreenwriterDaniel Chein, Elizabeth Lo
- ProducerDaniel Chein, Elizabeth Lo
- CastPrecious Sarria