Explore loss, memory, and growth though the lens of award-winning directors and writers from across the globe.

Through a raw love letter to their children, two young parents reframe their experience of homelessness in WHAT YOU'LL REMEMBER, an achingly beautiful short portrait about home, family and security. Director Biography Erika Cohn is a Peabody, Emmy and DGA Award-winning filmmaker who Variety recognized as one of 2017’s top documentary filmmakers to watch and was featured in DOC NYC’s 2019 “40 Under 40.” Her current release is the New York Times Critic's Pick BELLY OF THE BEAST, a powerful expose´ of human rights abuses in women’s prisons. Most recently, Erika directed/produced THE JUDGE, a Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated film about the first woman judge appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a courts, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS’ 2018 Independent Lens series. She co-directed/produced, IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST, an Emmy award-winning, feature documentary about young Pacific Islander men pursuing their dreams of playing professional football, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS’ 2016 Independent Lens series.&nbsp; Erika grew up attending the Sundance Film Festival as a native Utahn, where she first began her career. She studied at Chapman University (California) and Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and has degrees in Film Production, Middle East Studies, and Acting Performance. In 2013, Erika founded Idle Wild Films, Inc., which has released three feature documentaries and produced numerous branded content and commercial spots, including Gatorade’s “Win from Within” series, for which she received a 2016 Webby award nomination. Erika is represented by APA.&nbsp;

What You'll Remember

Through a raw love letter to their children, two young parents reframe their experience of homelessness in WHAT YOU'LL REMEMBER, an achingly beautiful short portrait about home, family and security.

SOLDIER focuses on Daniel Krug: a heroic firefighter, father of five, SWAT trainer and armored combat enthusiast. Daniel is also a former sniper, with ten years of combat, security, rescue and recovery experience in Iraq. And over the past decade, he's lost 11 of his close military friends - and almost lost himself - to PTSD. Director's Bio: Justin Zimmerman, MFA in Film, is a nationally recognized writer, director and professor. His narrative and documentary work has appeared in almost 200 film festivals across the globe and has been broadcast on national public television, where he won two international television awards. He's also been the recipient of multiple grants and fellowships, he contributed a story to the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel Love Is Love, and his script and comic work has been optioned on multiple occasions. You can see more of Zimmerman's personal work at his website: www.brickerdown.com.

Soldier

SOLDIER focuses on Daniel Krug: a heroic firefighter, father of five, SWAT trainer and armored combat enthusiast. Daniel is also a former sniper, with ten years of combat, security, rescue and recovery experience in Iraq. And over the past decade, he's lost 11 of his close military friends - and almost lost himself - to PTSD.

A Native botanist, grieving the death of a beloved aunt, travels alone to northern Mexico, where she is nourished by images of the last trip they took together traversing the Colorado River. Director Bio: Emilie Upczak is an independent filmmaker, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, and the Interim Faculty Director of the Brakhage Center for Media Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Emilie holds a BA in Comparative Religious Studies also from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MFA in Film from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a Rotterdam Producers Lab alumni and an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant recipient.&nbsp; Emilie spent ten years developing her practice while living in Trinidad and Tobago, where she also worked as the Creative Director for the trinidad+tobago film festival spearheading the Caribbean Film Database and Caribbean Film Mart. Emilie’s video installations have been exhibited at PG Contemporary in Houston, AIR Gallery in Brooklyn and the Festival International Signes de Nuit in France. Her short films have played at a number of Caribbean and African Diasporic Film Festivals as well as at Clermont Ferrand and MIPTV markets. Emilie’s debut narrative feature, set in Port of Spain, Moving Parts, is available through Indiepix on Amazon.&nbsp; Emilie recently completed the narrative short, Silt, a proof of concept for a narrative feature film, to be set on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, and she is working with the University of Colorado Archives on a new project surrounding the life and work of Ann Roy, an American poet, mystic and feminist activist.

Silt

21 days after the death of his mother, Jin and his father navigate loss, grief, and their new lives without her. Director Bio: Mun Chee is a Singapore-born director and cinematographer, known for Where the Road Meets the Sun (2011) and 9:30 (2004). 9:30 was screened at Deauville, Edinburgh, won Special Jury Award at SXSW, and also won a DGA Award. Mun Chee's works often center on human emotions and their irrationality.

21 Days

21 days after the death of his mother, Jin and his father navigate loss, grief, and their new lives without her.

From a trailhead just off a coastal highway in Humboldt County, a 30-minute hike takes you through a dark, verdant forest, which abruptly gives way to a clearing where hundreds of felled trees lie strewn across the ground among stumps and broken branches. On the other end of the clearing is a wall of trees, one of which has a plywood platform no bigger than a coffee table secured by ropes in the upper reaches of a towering redwood. It is here that a small loose-knit group of tree-sitters, collectively known as the Redwood Forest Defenders, have made their stand to protect the remaining 18.5 acres of an original 100-acre timber tract of fir, pine and redwood from the Green Diamond Resource Company (Green Diamond).&nbsp; Unfolding with observational scenes that parallel the rhythms of life in the forest, the film follows Lupine (they/them), one of two full-time activists anchoring the campaign, as they tread lightly on a trail, fill water bottles from a creek, quietly ascend to a tree-top platform, all accompanied by the soft background symphony of birds and wind. This routine is interrupted by the staccato sounds of heavy metal machinery that announces the logging company collecting felled timber. Perched in a tree-sit 100 feet above ground, Lupine is forced to watch this extraction play out below through the branches. With the continual threat of logging in the timber tract, Lupine leads a small group on a night mission to raise more tree-sitting platforms as well as traverse lines, a kind of rope bridge between tree-sits. These interconnected tree-sits serve to protect a greater area because the timber company is unsure how a tree may fall if cut while tied by lines and is therefore a potential danger to loggers and activists alike.&nbsp; As the summer months recede into fall, Green Diamond continues to haul out trees from the clearcut near the tree-sits. The arrival of winter brings cold and rain, but also questions about the campaign’s longevity and the personal sacrifices required in keeping watch over the forest in time measured, not by days, but by years.&nbsp; Directors' Bios: Derek Knowles is an independent documentary filmmaker and a freelance cinematographer for outlets like The New York Times, PBS Frontline, and The Washington Post. His film work has been featured on PBS, The New Yorker, the NY Times, The Atlantic, and as a Vimeo Staff Pick. His most recent film, Last Days at Paradise High, tells the story of high school seniors coming of age after the most destructive fire in American history. The film received support from the Berkeley Film Foundation, screened at festivals like San Francisco International and DocLands, and was published on The New Yorker. It will be broadcast on KQED later in summer 2021. His work has also received support from the Tribeca Film Institute, Kartemquin Films, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Derek graduated from Stanford University in 2011 and continues to work with his professor, Clayborne Carson, who heads the university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Institute. Lawrence Lerew is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker with a passion for character driven narratives that strive for emotional truth, cinematic beauty and cultural relevance. He is best known for the Oscar Short Listed film The Waiting Room (2012) about Oakland’s public hospital, as well as the The Force, which examined Oakland’s police department’s efforts to make reforms and premiered at Sundance in 2017. Some of his earlier credits include editing Wounded Knee (Sundance, 2009) which revisited the American Indian Movement’s 1973 take over of sacred land and subsequent armed stand-off with the government, and the Oscar-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009) that retraced the story of Daniel Ellsberg’s release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. In 2013 he edited The Kill Team which was awarded Best Documentary Feature at The Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. As an independent filmmaker Lawrence enjoys a close relationship with PBS who have aired all his feature documentaries. He has been granted a fellowship from The Sundance Institute and serves as a ITVS mentor for young filmmakers. He recently served as a consulting editor on Elizabeth Lo’s Stray, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures.&nbsp;

Sentinels

An immersion into the world of young environmental activists who undertake a homespun tree-sitting campaign to stop one of the largest logging companies in the western United States from clear cutting a redwood forest in Northern California.

A Holocaust survivor writes, after the war, a thank-you letter to a pig that saved his life. After his testimony in a classroom, a young student dreams a tragic version of his story. Beyond her personal vision, the film also explores the themes of collective trauma, vengeance, human evil and compassion.&nbsp;

Letter to a Pig

A traumatic memory from Holocaust survivor takes a young schoolgirl on an inner journey.

An exploration of the history and modern day importance of postcards. Director Bio: Ashley Seering recently graduated from Loyola Marymount University with an MFA in Film and Television Production. She is the owner of Night Owl Productions and a Mass Communication professor at Sam Houston State University.

Postcards

An exploration of the history and modern day importance of postcards.

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