Speculating about the birth of Rock and Roll and the best curl pattern. This film explores Black queer identity and self acceptance as a pathway to personal utopia. Origin of Hair culls from Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s legacy as a Black queer woman in the 50s claiming power through music and self-love.

East Coast Premiere

In Hot Time is the convergence of black diasporic traditions, rituals, pasts, and reimagining utilizing the symbolic space of the whirlwind…It’s a prayer, It’s the unadultered feeling of spinning-spinning so fast that the world collapses onto itself. It’s that feeling without the sickness.

East Coast Premiere

An inside look into the effort to preserve Philadelphia’s ballroom scene, a Black and Latinx LGBTQ safe-space that has endured for 30 years.

World Premiere

Nominated for Best Short Documentary

Ballet isn’t easy, and 11-year old Aedan knows it. As he prepares for his first solo ballet competition, full of blossoming drive, seasoned ballet professionals reflect on their own transformative journeys with ballet. Together, they process the challenges and rewards of this demanding art form.

World Premiere