This film block is sponsored by Bob &amp; Jen McIntosh.Featuring "The Lost Astronaut," part of our Black Lives Matter component. Want to enhance your viewing experience? Purchase a <a href="https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/60769/auctions/76477/auction_items/2409945" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Festival-To-Go bag</a>, valued at $75+, to better enjoy your Virtual Festival (plus, we’d love to see you at the office)!&nbsp;

Her folding chair on the sidewalk, coffee cup in hand, surrounded by vibrant paintings, Maria Torres is a regular fixture in her uptown Manhattan neighborhood. But behind her engaging artwork are unexpected layers of trauma, survival, and healing. Maria’s unique story, told with simple honesty, brings a deeper meaning to the colorful images she creates, allowing us to see them in a whole new way.

Maria Torres: Neighborhood Artist

What if making art could save your life? For this Peruvian-born New Yorker, painting helps heal physical and emotional traume.

At age two Georgina Sappier-Richardson was removed from her home and Passamaquoddy community in downeast Maine by child protection services. She would never see her parents again. Terror and abuse followed over 16 years in four different foster homes. Dear Georgina follows this Passamaquoddy elder from Motahkomikuk as she tries to fill in the blurry outlines of her identity. Now a grandmother Georgina is still attempting to re-integrate herself into the community she barely knew. She remembers, “When I was 30 years old and I went back to the reservation this Indian lady told me, ‘You look exactly like your mother as a young person.’ So that made me feel special, made me feel real.” This propels Georgina’s lifelong mission to find herself. Despite her gregarious personality and infectious laugh, Georgina still struggles with the trauma from her youth and finds herself stuck straddling two different worlds.&nbsp;In the end, Georgina returns to her foster community in northern Maine, determined to reclaim some fragment of her lost childhood. She makes an incredible discovery, but will it help heal decades old wounds? Dear Georgina is a follow-up to the Emmy® award-winning Dawnland (2018), in which Georgina told a portion of her harrowing story of surviving foster care. Georgina is just one of many thousands of Indigenous children with similar stories.&nbsp;Note: Adult situations

Dear Georgina

A Passamaquoddy elder journeys into an unclear past to better understand herself and her cultural heritage.

In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut. Until suddenly he wasn’t. “Almost Famous” is a Breakwater Studios x New York Times Op-Docs series of films featuring people who nearly made history — and were happy anyway. This film has additional support from Willis &amp; Connelly, P.C. and is highlighted as part of our Black Lives Matter component.

The Lost Astronaut

In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut. Until suddenly he wasn’t.

Two sisters try to find a time and place to twerk in a newly gentrified neighborhood.Note: Adult language, Drug and/or alcohol use, Other

A Time and Place to Twerk

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