Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Alien Country
Featuring a moderated Q&A with the film’s Producer and Co-Writer, Renny Grames, and Director and Co-Writer, Boston McConnaughey. Reeling from the news of an unexpected pregnancy, Jimmy and Everly accidentally release an alien invasion in their town. Determined to set things right, they team up with an extraterrestrial stranger to stop the invasion; but when […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Belly of the Beast
Featuring a Q&A moderated by Host and Lead Programmer of Black, Bold & Brilliant, Aja Washington, and the film’s director, Erika Cohn. The pastoral farmlands surrounding the Central California Women’s Facility, the world’s largest women’s prison, help conceal the reproductive and human rights violations transpiring inside its walls. A courageous young woman who was involuntarily […]
A Song Film by Kishi Bashi: Omoiyari
Featuring a Q&A moderated by Artist Foundry Manager, Amanda Madden, and the film’s directors, Kishi Bashi and Justin Taylor Smith. Violinist and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to be a minority in America today. When a media interview links the muslim […]
