2021 Atlanta Film Festival

Going Places

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5 films in package
The Field Trip
A group of fifth graders learn what it takes to get ahead in the modern American workplace.
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Big Happiness
A meditation on transnational adoption, identity, and colorblindness growing up in a transracial family.
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Desert Dogs
Aya and Ibrahim live life by their own rules, from one moment to the next. They represent what they call "the new generation of Morocco", with an uprising skateboarding culture at its center.
Seahorse
Over the course of her little brother's swimming lesson, Yezidi wrestles quietly with her fearsome memories of the Mediterranean Sea.
I Am Wounded
Aram and Mihemed are two teenage brothers struggling to earn a living for their family in a society that has been wounded by the effects of war. Depicting the brothers' everyday effort to make ends meet, the camera is a bystander of fractions of boyhood in an environment where boyhood has no place.
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Growing up and going out in the world, these films ponder coming of age with all the candor and fearlessness of youth.

A group of fifth graders learn what it takes to get ahead in the modern American workplace.


MEET THE FILMMAKER: MEGHAN O’HARA

Meghan O’Hara is a documentary filmmaker and Assistant Professor at CalState Monterey Bay. She directed the feature documentary In Country in 2014. Currently, she is developing a film about NASA’s Tektite Program with support from the NEH.


MEET THE FILMMAKER: MIKE ATTIE

Mike Attie is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened at Sundance, HotDocs, Full Frame and CPH:DOX. Mike was a 2014 Sundance Institute DFP fellow and is currently a professor of film at the University of the Arts.


MEET THE FILMMAKER: RODRIGO OJEDA-BECK

Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck is an award-winning filmmaker, who’s work spans across the narrative and documentary spectrum. His films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Locarno and CPH:DOX. He currently is teaching film at California State University Monterey Bay.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Director
    Meghan O'Hara, Mike Attie, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
  • Producer
    Meghan O'Hara
  • Cast
    The students of Farmington View Elementary (Hillsboro, OR), Free Orchards Elementary (Cornelius, OR), Sweetbriar Elementary (Troutdale, OR), Witch Hazel Elementary (Hillsboro, OR)
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