Bentonville Film Festival

Shorts: Seeking Power

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Flight 182
Rippin Sindher is a fearless South Asian filmmaker whose work fuses sociology and cinema to spark vital conversations on justice and identity. She won the 2023 Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge for FLIGHT 182'—'executive produced by Emmy® winner Archie Panjabi. The film was celebrated at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, iSAFF Canada, Tasveer, and San Luis Obispo International. The feature adaptation was a finalist for the 2025 Sundance Cultural Impact Residency. Sindher’s acclaimed films include SEVA, ZONE, The Hideout, Happy, and Broken Drawer. She brings television experience from Criminal Minds: Evolution, S.W.A.T., and Ryan Murphy’s Ratched. A former creative director for global brands, she is now an independent filmmaker represented by RAIN and part of the Shondaland Directing Program.
In The Jungle
Ky Dickens (Telepathy Tapes, Show Her the Money) is an award-winning filmmaker and podcaster celebrated for her transformative documentaries that tackle complex social issues, influence public policy, and ignite cultural change. She has received numerous accolades, including the Focus Award for Achievement in Directing and the Change Maker Award for advancing social change through art and film. In 2025, Telepathy Tapes recently won The Webby Award for best indie podcast. In 2024, Show Her the Money, featuring Elizabeth Banks and Sharon Gless, was named one of the decade’s best financial films by US News and World Report. Ky’s previous films have premiered at SXSW, been screened for the United States Congress, among other honors.
Level Up
Gabrielle Roberts is an AI and virtual production specialist pioneering the intersection of computer science and film. She has worked with Oscar-winning filmmakers, led virtual human innovations at the Sequoia-backed startup Brud, and played a key role in Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender. She has contributed to upcoming Lucasfilm projects as a virtual production lead, has collaborated with studios across China, and is an Adjunct Professor at USC. She is currently working with Google Deepmind and Warner Brothers on the AI-powered "The Wizard of Oz" premiering at the Las Vegas Sphere. Gabrielle is a Schwarzman Scholar and has received the Princess Diana Award for founding Code Your Chances, an international nonprofit teaching creative computer science. She is a proud recipient of the BFF M&M's For All Funkind Grant.
Pow!
Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based comedian, Peabody and Emmy-nominated TV writer, director and an enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Growing up, Joey aspired to become a local TV weatherperson because he didn’t see Native American comedians on screen and thought a career in comedy was off-limits. He has since proven otherwise, carving a niche in animation by writing for acclaimed series like Spirit Rangers (Netflix), Molly of Denali and Alma’s Way (PBS), New Looney Tunes and Lego Ninjago: Decoded (Cartoon Network), and Paw Patrol (Nickelodeon).
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The year is 1973 and it's a typical school day for twelve-year-old Eric, but Eric is not a typical boy. With hearing aids, glasses and the status of 'outcast', he's a perpetual loner at the back of the class at a school for the hearing. His escape: drawing Tarzan and Jane cartoons – inspired by his crush, Lizzie.


Filmmaker Bio: Ky Dickens (Telepathy Tapes, Show Her the Money) is an award-winning filmmaker and podcaster celebrated for her transformative documentaries that tackle complex social issues, influence public policy, and ignite cultural change. She has received numerous accolades, including the Focus Award for Achievement in Directing and the Change Maker Award for advancing social change through art and film.

In 2025, Telepathy Tapes recently won The Webby Award for best indie podcast. In 2024, Show Her the Money, featuring Elizabeth Banks and Sharon Gless, was named one of the decade’s best financial films by US News and World Report. Ky’s previous films have premiered at SXSW, been screened for the United States Congress, among other honors.

  • Language
    English
  • Country
    USA
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Ky Dickens
  • Screenwriter
    Chelsea Kania
  • Producer
    Amy McIntyre, Sydney Thomson
  • Cast
    Malcolm Engel, Genevieve Jane, Elias Totleben
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