2022

Training for Freedom
directed by Kathy Conkwright
Documentary

Idealistic college students and black activists teachers come together to train for their freedom in a struggle that will define the nation.

YONLU
directed by Hique Montanari
Feature

YONLU is a fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent in five languages, YONLU had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he was also taking part in a forum for potential suicides.

OLEG: The Oleg Vidov Story
directed by Nadia Tass
Feature, Documentary

Based on his soon to be published autobiography, OLEG tells the incredible life story of Oleg Vidov. Born in communist Russia to a teacher, by the age of 25, Oleg had become one of the Soviet Union’s most celebrated actors of his time. However, no amount of fame could save him from the political system that tried to control his life. He married into General Secretary Brezhnev’s inner circle only to wind up blacklisted, threatened with death, and forced to defect to the West. Reinventing himself in Hollywood, his efforts to counter anti-Russian stereotypes were attacked by the same forces that ruined his career decades earlier. Finally, in October 1991, with Oleg’s fears of persecution calmed by rise of perestroika, he returned to Moscow to star in a Danish film. Two months later, on Christmas Day 1991, President Gorbachev resigned from office and the USSR collapsed.

Hopper’s Day
directed by Jingqi Zhang
Animation, Student

A cricket wants to achieve the dream in an abandoned quarry.

Frank & Emmet
directed by Carlos F. Puertolas

Two life-long friends sit together to have a much-needed conversation. Their friendly dialogue takes a turn when they address head-on the one thing they’ve never talked: one of them is a puppet.

Roll It
directed by Nate Chateaux
Music Video

A music video for the song “Roll It” by Handsome Jack where the band’s touring van has broken down and they decide to give it one more ride, as they “roll it” to the junkyard.