All 2023 Festival Events - Page 14 of 15
Fire Through Dry Grass
Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets aren’t typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their pandemic experiences, their rhymes underscoring the danger they feel in the face of institutional neglect.
- Audio description in-person & online
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
The Space Race
dir. by Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
Uncovers the little-known stories of the first black pilots, engineers and scientists to become astronauts. Simultaneously championed and exploited as political pawns, some made it to space, while others were erased from history.
- Audio description in-person & online
- Closed captions online
Progeny
- Short Films
- Suzanne Roberts Theatre
Parenthood’s trials, tribulations, errors and successes.
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
Girl
Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama's thirst for life and her need to grow and develop, challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.
- Audio description in-person & online
Disability Justice Panel | Spotlight on unseen
Co-presented by Firelight Media
with Set Hernandez, Pedro, Thomas Reid, and Qudsiya Naqui, moderated by Keisha Zollar
- American Sign Language interpretation in-person
Interpersonal
- Short Films
- Virtual
All That's Left (dir. by Simone Holland)
Companion (dir. by LaTajh Weaver)
An Endoscopy (dir. by Zardosht Afshari)
The Difference Between Us (dir. by Imran Siddiquee)
- Audio description in-person & online
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
dir. by Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster
Through intimate vérité, archival footage and visually innovative treatments of her poetry, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project pushes the boundaries of biographical documentaries by traveling through time and space to reveal the enduring influence of one of America’s greatest living artists and social commentators.
- Audio description in-person & online
- Open captions in-person
Post Festival Meditation & Integration
Join Shesheena and Kate for an inspired reflection and integration session on the last day of the festival.
Matrilineage
- Short Films
- Suzanne Roberts Theatre
A Bear Named Jesus (dir. by Terril Calder (Métis)
Amina (dir. by Shanrica Evans)
Wetlands of Our Mother's Tongues in Concrete (dir. by Jordan Deal)
Into The Violet Belly (dir. by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi in collaboration with Thuyen Hoa)
Filho (Son) (dir. by Tomas Ponsteen)
- Closed captions online
- Trigger warning: Flashing lights