This collection of short films includes the 2021 NOFF Jury Award Winning Short Films from five shorts categories: Animated Short, Experimental Short, Narrative Short, Documentary Short, and Louisiana Short.
The New Orleans Film Festival is one of only 14 film festivals in the country that is Oscar®-qualifying in all three short-form Academy-accredited categories: Narrative Shorts, Documentary Shorts, and Animated Shorts. Jury Award-winning films in these categories automatically qualify for consideration for the Annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
Jury Award winners of Narrative, Documentary, and Animated shorts which are now qualified for Oscar® consideration are Al-Sit, directed by Suzannah Mirghani; You Can’t Stop Spirit, directed by Vashni Korin; and Trona Pinnacles, directed by Mathilde Parquet, respectively.
This Body explores the fraught relationship between African Americans and the medical industry. As Sydney Hall participates in an experimental coronavirus vaccine trial in hopes of protecting her beloved New Orleans community, she and her loved ones confront the history of medical abuse and experimentation on Black bodies.
- Year2021
- Runtime13 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- DirectorZac Manuel
- ProducerLauren Cargo
- CinematographerZac Manuel
- EditorZac Manuel
This collection of short films includes the 2021 NOFF Jury Award Winning Short Films from five shorts categories: Animated Short, Experimental Short, Narrative Short, Documentary Short, and Louisiana Short.
The New Orleans Film Festival is one of only 14 film festivals in the country that is Oscar®-qualifying in all three short-form Academy-accredited categories: Narrative Shorts, Documentary Shorts, and Animated Shorts. Jury Award-winning films in these categories automatically qualify for consideration for the Annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
Jury Award winners of Narrative, Documentary, and Animated shorts which are now qualified for Oscar® consideration are Al-Sit, directed by Suzannah Mirghani; You Can’t Stop Spirit, directed by Vashni Korin; and Trona Pinnacles, directed by Mathilde Parquet, respectively.
This Body explores the fraught relationship between African Americans and the medical industry. As Sydney Hall participates in an experimental coronavirus vaccine trial in hopes of protecting her beloved New Orleans community, she and her loved ones confront the history of medical abuse and experimentation on Black bodies.
- Year2021
- Runtime13 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- DirectorZac Manuel
- ProducerLauren Cargo
- CinematographerZac Manuel
- EditorZac Manuel
