September 17th - 18th, 2021 Film Festival

InFocus: Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Shorts II - Generational Echoes + Filmmaker Q&A

Expired September 19, 2021 6:59 AM
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7 films + livestream in package
Spoon
In the city, a business man walks to work on a Monday morning when he's interrupted by a junkie-like kid who asks him: Do you want some soup?
Rocket
Pedro Henrique Chaves is a filmmaker from Brazil, who has an acting background and has written and directed 5 short films that have been screened internationally. With his short "Look Around"- 2017 Pedro won an Honorable Mention "First time as Director" at the LA Film Awards. In 2019, Pedro directed a documentary ( It's up to you ) in Thailand, and his most recent movie (Rocket,2020) he wrote and directed at the age of 17, and the short premiered at the New York Latino Film Festival. Pedro won Best Student Director at the Prague International Indie Film Festival with Rocket.
Split Ends
A Cuban-American girl uses a school assignment to ask her dad about his upbringing.
Lily <3
Lily (5) , prepares a party for her father while in the care of her cousin Teo, with whom she expresses the absence of the father figure as well as her own individuality as a small woman.
Imaginary Portrait
Through the creation of a family portrait, a mentally imbalanced young artist connects with her dead mother to exact revenge on her ghoulish father and abusive grandfather.
Yoruga
A lonely old man pays a visit to Yoruga, one of the last animals on Earth.
Huella
When the death of her grandmother unleashes a generational curse, a disenchanted flamenco dancer resigned to a desk job is forced to experience the five stages of grief through a visit from her female ancestors, pushing her to finally break the cycle.
Filmmaker Q&A | Latinx & Hispanic Cinema Shorts II - Generational Echoes
External livestream

A collection of stories centering the relationships between generations and the effects that they have on one another on both a personal and societal level. The stories here include that of an absurdist conversation about soup in the middle of the street between an older and younger man, a father and son each growing up with the same playground landmark, a girl trying to learn more about her family history from her reluctant father, a five-year-old grappling with her father’s absence from her upcoming birthday party, an artist seeking her mother’s help from beyond the grave to deal with two generations of harmful men, a meeting that takes place in the projected future of a generation in whose world few animals remain, and a dancer who draws on the power of her ancestors to break a generational curse.

A Cuban-American girl uses a school assignment to ask her dad about his upbringing.

  • Runtime
    6 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    María Alvarez
  • Screenwriter
    María Alvarez
  • Producer
    María Alvarez
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