37 years old, Yona Rozenkier is an Israeli-French director, born and raised in kibbutz Yehiam, currently living in Tel Aviv. Graduated from the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television in Tel-Aviv. His first feature film The Dive (2018) won 4 awards in Jerusalem International Film Festival (including best feature award), won 2 awards in Locarno (the independent critics award and the junior jury award), and screened in other festivals, among them: Toronto, AFI Fest, Warsaw and Jeonju.

Butterflies

Another Sunday in April. A kibbutz in the North of Israel. A natural phenomenon. A family on an impromptu ride, maybe the last one…

Nurturing Roots is a South Seattle community farming program, focused on educating youth & community members on healthy food choices. Creating community through gardening.

Nurturing Roots

Nurturing Roots is a South Seattle community farming program, focused on educating youth & community members on healthy food choices. Creating community through gardening.

Little Nations Filmmaker Comment

Maria Allred is an award-winning writer/director/producer and founder of the innovative independent production company Allred Films, which specializes in groundbreaking, thought-provoking films and new models of marketing and monetization.

Little Nations

Follow a momentous piece of mail as it travels through the hands and into the worlds of young people from a rich array of cultures that constitute Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

Plants Filmmaker Comment

Randy Caspersen is a filmmaker whose short films and videos, which often deal with themes of queerness and gender, have received international distribution and have played in over seventy-five film festivals on five different continents. His recently completed media projects include award-winning feature-length documentary, Go Penguins!, about a local theatre troupe that helps children and young adults with disabilities play the lead roles in a Broadway-style musical. In addition to recently completing documentary Plants, Pollinators & Prayers about the creation of a local butterfly habitat, He is working on an autobiographical film about his maternal grandmother and a narrative short charting a gay man’s evolution through the point-of-view of a beloved toy.

Plants, Pollinators & Prayers

Inspired by the decline of monarch butterflies in the Midwestern prairie, a gardener, educator, and pastor transform a rural church’s backyard into a sanctuary for pollinating animals, an educational garden for the community, and a sacred space for spiritual contemplation.

United States of America

BLOCK 24: Just Good Vibes

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