Documentary Projects:
A Face for a Thousand Heroes
Directed & Produced by:
Maya Pen
Synopsis:
This interdisciplinary project transforms personal disability narratives into mythical landscapes, reimagining the origins of our “broken” bodies beyond internalized colonial influence. Told through short episodes, handmade artifacts, and written tales, the work will be presented as an immersive exhibition, and ultimately archived and released on its own immersive site.
Becoming, Becoming
Directed & Produced by:
Patrick G. Lee
Logline:
Becoming, Becoming follows two openly trans best friends in Seoul, Korea, as they explore gender, seek belonging, and manifest their future as part of a chosen family of nightlife performers.
Disposable Humanity
Directed by:
Cameron S. Mitchell
Produced by:
Cameron S. Mitchell and David T. Mitchell
Executive Produced by:
Steve Way and Nic Novicki
Logline:
The Mitchell family investigates the history and memory of the Nazi Aktion T4 program which targeted disabled people and catalyzed the Holocaust.
Website:
Dreamin’ Cats (working title)
Directed & Produced by:
Seon Shim
Logline:
Dreamin’ Cats traces the lives of autistic and developmentally disabled artists in Seoul, linked less by direct contact than by the same subway lines, art spaces, and a quiet current of han, as they navigate precarity and imagine livable futures within an ableist city.
Website:
www.thecatthatlivesinyourdreams.com
Study and Struggle
Directed by:
Jules Rosskam
Produced by:
Julianna Brannum
Logline:
Beginning in coastal Connecticut and moving west across the United States, Study and Struggle explores how land, learning, and power became intertwined in the making of modern universities.
Website:
www.julesrosskam.com/study-and-struggle
The House of Our Memory
Directed & Produced by:
Alan Domínguez
Logline:
In the landscapes of northern New Mexico, a Vietnam veteran and artist reckons with the trauma of war while his filmmaker son returns to the sites of childhood clergy abuse. Through Super 8 home movies, art, and intimate acts of remembrance, The House of Our Memory becomes a lyrical exploration of masculinity, intergenerational trauma, and the search for healing.