A group of students from an arts school organize and review pending projects for the production of a short film that represents their final cycle work and, with it, the opportunity to advance to the next grade. The day of filming, already at the house that will be a filming location and while the equipment, props and so on go down, someone watches them from the inside. No one in the group realizes that they are being watched, much less the experience that awaits them. Each member of the team concentrates on their task: some in lighting, others lay cables; some more practice with the camera and others review their parliaments. The youngest of the group have left to study their lines without distraction. It is they who discover a girl from outside the team, with a sweet appearance and old and worn clothes, who runs and takes the stairs to the basement. That little girl is part of a family of INTRUDERS who sneaked in and has been living in the house for a long time. This meeting between students and intruders will lead to a great lesson for everyone.

Intrusos [Intruders]

A group of students from an arts school organize and review pending projects for the production of a short film that represents their final cycle work. The project will lead to a great lesson for everyone involved.

The documentary short Open Dialogues draws upon the diverse coming-out narratives of seven members of Broward County’s LGBTQ community, who took part in on-camera interviews under the direction of award-winning filmmaker Freddy Rodriguez. The 20-minute black-and-white film was produced by the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood to inspire conversation about acceptance and inclusion of the LGBTQ community in Broward.The seven individuals who shared their unique stories for Open Dialogues are Julie Marie Wade, Dan Bassett, Christine Walters, Omar Morales, Gary Keating, Franchesca D’Amore, and Michael Goodman. Each revealed a range of insights and experiences, such as how the acceptance of self is the first step in gaining acceptance from others. Topics include love and relationships, friends and family, threats of violence, religion and spirituality, and Broward County as a relative safe haven for LGBTQ individuals. Open Dialogues features poetry by Wade, reading from her book "When I Was Straight."Open Dialogues was funded by a grant from the Community Foundation of Broward as part of Broward Pride, one of the 10 Issues That Matter most to Broward’s future. Broward Pride seeks to catalyze institutional culture change within organizations to openly welcome and include LGBT residents.

Open Dialogues: Stories From the LGBTQ Community

Through a series of candid testimonials, Open Dialogues reveals the diverse coming-out narratives of seven Broward County residents who share their insights about love and family, threats and safe havens, being intimate in public, and the role of religion in the LGBTQ experience. Directed by Freddy Rodriguez, the film features poetry by Julie Marie Wade from her book "When I Was Straight."

A fairy makes a deal with a goblin, with disastrous results.

Goblin Pact, The

You're paddling a kayak in open ocean 6 miles off the South Florida coast when a sailfish bigger than you peels off with the fishing line at your rear. This is David Gauzens' day to day. A Miami native, David knows glitz—but he shuns it as part of a small, gritty band of kayak fishermen who forsake flashy boats for utilitarian pieces of plastic to pursue their passion. High seas, storms, even capsizing don't deter David from exhaustive encounters with prehistoric fish—and he learns in the process how little he needs to be content.

Flotsam

David Gauzens paddles his kayak miles off the South Florida coast in pursuit of massive sportfish

Latin for the word Blacks, Negros is an experimental social justice film depicting the young black male experience in modern day Miami. The story follows James, 14, as he overcomes a series of traumas in order to make a difference in his neighborhood and rediscover adolescent joy.

Negros

On a summer afternoon in Southwest Florida, a pregnant woman discovers her husband has dark secrets that will come back to haunt both of them.

Miss Florida

On a summer afternoon in Southwest Florida, a pregnant woman discovers her husband has dark secrets that will come back to haunt both of them.

Virtual reality has reached its peak, indistinguishable from reality. A young couple risk it all to be woken from this simulation.

Woke

Architectural and design salvage (exposed brick, reclaimed wood, vintage machines, etc.) has become an interior decorating cliché—its weathered patinas softening the hard edges of IKEA furniture, warming the cool surfaces of Apple laptops, and adding personality and interest to countless food, retail, and domestic spaces. When properly aged and curated, these artifacts can even confer distinction, status, and good taste upon their owners. But what if they were more than just quaint commodities?This film honors working people who've been harassed by sexist bosses, othered by racist tourists, and exploited by an economic system that fetishizes the remnants of blue collar lives even as it undermines the unions that protect them. Salvage uses magic realism to critique the inequities of gender, ethnicity, and class that underpin consumer capitalism.

Salvage

Salvage questions the allure of old objects by reimagining obsolete tools as reliquaries haunted by the souls of disgruntled workers who resent their new jobs.

Florida

SHORTS: Sunshine Celluloid

Virtual View

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