2021 Atlanta Film Festival

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6 films in package
Simone: A Survivor's Story
A visually poetic diary of Ugandan model Simone Awor’s intimate journey to overcome breast cancer and find healing within herself and her community.
Scarlet Medusa
At the edge of Shirahama, a coastal tourist town in Japan, an ageing scientist works to unlock the biological secret of immortality held in the life cycle of a tiny jellyfish. At a temple in Kyoto, a Zen priest contemplates the metaphysical immortality held within a single breath.
Stunned, I Remain Alert
Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights. Now, more than three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he's witnessing the return of those same practices.
Ten Leaves Dilated
A documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South.
Closed captions available
How to Disappear
An anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of a war game. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion - in both digital and physical-real warfare.
Closed captions available
Seeking Aline
Rokhaya, a young director, returns to her home in Senegal to make a film about a local historical figure. Throughout her research, which consists of interviews with local personalities, discussions with her team and fictional scenes shot on location, we discover the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta.
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A documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth in the South.


This film is in the Documentary Short Competition.


MEET THE FILMMAKER: KATE E. HINSHAW

Kate E. Hinshaw is a tactile filmmaker and cinematographer who works with digital and film cameras alike. Coming from an experimental background, she is interested in using the cinematic gaze to render visible the interiority of the feminine. Tactily, she works with 16mm and super 8mm film through bleaching, scratching, painting, and burning the emulsion in order to tell stories through color and texture. Her work has screened at SXSW, Atlanta Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, and Indie Grits. She earned an MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Spring 2020 where she was awarded a teaching excellence award for her work as a digital cinematography instructor. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia where she publishes and curates Analog Cookbook—a film zine that celebrates and shares knowledge of analog filmmaking, darkroom processes, and features artists from all over the world.


MEET THE FILMMAKER: EBONY BLANDING

Ebony Blanding (b. Atlanta, GA. 1985) is a writer/director based in Atlanta whose work seeks to radically depict worlds through the Black female experience and perspective. Through narrative, experimental and documentary film, Blanding meditates on Black folks living in the south and mythical figures that live within the yoke of physical and spiritual worlds.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    14 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Director
    Kate E. Hinshaw (Co-Directed by Ebony Blanding)
  • Screenwriter
    Kate E. Hinshaw
  • Producer
    Kate E. Hinshaw
  • Cast
    Lauren Holt, Joan Hinshaw, Katie Minyard, Andrea Blanton, Ceylan Odunkesenler, Claudia Schwabe, Lindsey VanAlstyne
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