Emma Van den Berg
WHY MY MUM LOVES RUSSELL CROWE
Emma Van den Berg • UK/Holland • 20 mins • 2022
Damilola Lemomu
PROMISED LAND
Damilola Lemomu • UK • 20 mins
Weaving together reenactments of oral histories from Black and South Asian post-war immigrants, archival material with a soundscape of poems by Gboyega Odubanjo, Promised Land is a multi-layered film interrogating the concept of Britain as a land paved with gold.
Email: damilolalemomu@gmail.com
Mara Chavez
ISTMO: A NARROWING OF LAND
Mara Chavez • UK/ Mexico • 24 mins
Explores the tensions between our scramble for clean energy and the challenges faced by indigenous communities enclosed by wind turbines in Mexico.
Email: t.chavez@posteo.net
Lydia Shaw
PERIOD DRAMA
Lydia Shaw • UK • 22 mins
Merging talking-head interview and hand-drawn animation, Period Drama is an intimate, illustrative documentary that chronicles the pains, joys, anxieties and frustrations surrounding the word ‘period’.
Email: lydia.shaw13@outlook.com
Emma Morgan Bennett
MAMA, I’M THROUGH
Emma Morgan-Bennett • UK/USA • 20 mins
Mama, I'm Through presents a group of Black women in their 20s who are exploring their potential for motherhood as contextualized by the Black Lives Matter movement. Their words, paired with montaged family and personal archive, create a film that examines the lines between racial violence, resilience, and afrofutures.
Email: emmazinha98@gmail.com
Amber Akaunu
TWO HOMERTONS
Amber Akaunu • UK • 24 mins
Two Homertons is a short documentary that follows the unfolding of a generational cycle between a mother that moved to Homerton, Hackney from Nigeria at the age of 8 and her son’s move to Homerton College, Cambridge decades later.
Faye Watson
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR GRANDPA
Faye Watson • UK • 24 mins
How to Talk to Your Grandpa is an interactive account of Faye’s attempts to truly understand who her Grandpa is; primarily through his unique hobby of stained glass window making.
Email: faye.j.watson@hotmail.co.uk
Cristina Iorgulescu
HOW TO SAY GOODBYE
Cristina Iorgulescu • UK/Romania • 24 mins
How To Say Goodbye offers a close, personal look into the labyrinth of death as filmmaker Cristina Iorgulescu navigates her own complicated relationship with grief. The film explores the spectrum of perceptions surrounding death itself, honouring the beauty of imperfect things and people. Following three unconventional stories centred around loss, it blends the real with the imaginary in a search for the right goodbye.
Email: cristina.iorgulescu98@gmail.com
Jake Goldman
CHALK AND CHEESE
Jake Goldman • UK • 26 mins
Chalk and Cheese takes a cheeky glance at the sometimes-strained, often-hilarious dynamic between the filmmaker’s maternal and paternal grandmothers, while exploring the differing approaches both matriarchs take towards old age and loneliness.
Email: jakegoldman365@gmail.com
Charlotte Weston
ALL HAIL THE KINGS: A DRAG KING HISTORY
Charlotte Weston • UK • 24 mins
Everyone knows about Drag Queens but Drag Kings remain the less known brother of the drag world. Drag King legends Mo.B.Dick and Ken Vegas take you through the drag king explosion of the 90s and give you a glimpse behind the curtain.
Email: charlottew98@hotmail.co.uk
Liane Aviram
BIRDWATCHERS
Liane Aviram • UK • 18 mins
Birdwatchers follows four UK birdwatchers looking to transform the ecology sector by inspiring care and curiosity amongst people and communities who’ve felt unwelcome in the insular world of birding.
Email: lianeaviram0@gmail.com
Cesar Olaya Vargas
FIERY WATERS
Cesar Olaya Vargas • UK / Colombia • 25 mins
Have you ever wonder how queens look like when they have too much exposure to alcohol and local parties?
‘Fiery Waters’ is the story of the party animal feature of the Colombian state. The film traces the role of regional liquor companies in the consolidation of the bartender personality of the Colombian state. This naughty documentary takes a closer look into the connection between regional beauty contests and the political mythologies around local alcoholic beverages. All of this just to give a taste of the political history of a nation that has been built one cup of ‘Aguardiente’ at a time.
Email: cd.olaya10@gmail.com
Kateryna Pavlyuk
STRANGE SIGNS
Kateryna Pavlyuk • UK • 23 mins
Strange Signs sees three Deaf women with migrant backgrounds relate, in their own words and signs, their stories of identity, access and ability in the UK. Weaving their uniquely rich, intersectional experiences, the film offers three distinct accounts of what it means to be a Deaf migrant woman in hearing, British society.
Email: kateryna.pavlyuk73@gmail.com
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