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2021 FVNMAS Festival - Program 2 - The Ties That Bind

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10 films in package
Christabel
Christabel lies asleep with open eyes and dreaming fearfully of the lady who knelt at the old oak tree.
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Sofí­a Alfaro Q & A
Sofía Alfaro discusses Christabel with Amy Beste (Director of Public Programming for FVNMA) and Frédéric Moffet (Department Chair, FVNMA).
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Everyone Told Me Not to Make This
When faced with trauma and family baggage, I turn to the camera in a vlog and diary confessional style to document my experience, and to tell my story.
Emilie Q & A
Emilie discusses Everyone Told Me Not to Make This with Amy Beste (Director of Public Programming for FVNMA) and Frédéric Moffet (Department Chair, FVNMA).
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Flight Risk
This is a story about three old friends that have gone their separate ways and come back together out of necessity. It is about who is there for you at your ugliest, most desperate and when you feel the least like you deserve it.
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Sophia Pierre Q & A
Sophia Pierre discusses Flight Risk with Amy Beste (Director of Public Programming for FVNMA) and Frédéric Moffet (Department Chair, FVNMA).
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Plastic Confessions
“Plastic Confessions” explores a mother-daughter dynamics during a meandering car ride through the desert.
Emily C Anshen Q & A
Emily C Anshen discusses Plastic Confessions with Amy Beste (Director of Public Programming for FVNMA) and Frédéric Moffet (Department Chair, FVNMA).
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Peach Blossom Spring
A young girl entered the illusory place called Peach Blossom Spring and started her adventure there.
Tiya Yuan Q & A
Tiya Yuan discusses Peach Blossom Spring with Amy Beste (Director of Public Programming for FVNMA) and Frédéric Moffet (Department Chair, FVNMA).
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The Ties That Bind

Various directors, USA, 2021, 65 min

May 11 - 17


Performance, video diaries, and the supernatural combine in this striking collection of shorts, featuring stories of enchantment, trauma, and resilience through the building and severing of bonds.

"Flight Risk" is my most ambitious project to date, other than “Utopia” (a pilot episode that is currently in production) and is a prequel to the “Starseed + Her Psychic Warriors'' comic- and web-series, with events that take place even before the first comic book, which introduces Alice, Wren and Sage to the alien refugee, Starseed. My approach to this short film was to strip my origin story of all its science-fiction/fantastic elements and produce what remained: a series of flashback scenes. The result of this experiment was a down-to-earth drama that proves that at the heart of my maximalist, most outrageous work is very real, gritty humanity. My aspiration with this short film is to challenge genre conventions, blur audience demographics and exhibit strong writing and performances.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    22 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Sophia Pierre
  • Filmmaker
    Sophia Pierre
  • Cast
    Lead: Chloe Broeker, Daphne Nitsuga, Hadar Zusman; Supporting: Martin Davis, Bohdan Havrylyshyn, Ana Ortiz-Monasterio Draa
  • Cinematographer
    Looloo Xiao
  • Production Design
    Mari Xiao
  • Sound Design
    Jakub Laukhuf