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16 min
Directors: Matteo Servente, Molly J. Wexler
Producers: Joseph Carr, Asima Farooq, Molly J. Wexler
Editor: Laura Jean Hocking
Cinematographer: Ryan Earl Parker
The Little Tea Shop restaurant, founded by two women in 1918, encourages relationships that in turn create connections and opportunities. The atmosphere there created a perfect place for Suhair Lauck, a Palestinian immigrant, to take over the shop in 1982.
DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM
14 min
Directors: Connie Tais
Former Grumman engineers narrate the challenges and successes of being part of the historic construction of the Lunar Module for the Apollo program.
DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM
11 min
Directors: Khawla Al Hammouri, Louis Sayad DeCaprio
Producers: Liz Charky, Nagham Osman
Editors: Hany Hawasly, Aymann Ismail, Jesse Malings
Cinematographers: Shamel Beno, Louis Sayad DeCaprio
Six Syrian refugee women, living in Jordan, recount their stories of survival – from displacement, child-marriage, and trauma, to their resilience and hope to rebuild a better future for their children.
DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM
16 min
Directors: Marsha Gordon, Louis Cherry
Editor: Kevin Wells
Cinematographers: Louis Cherry, Kevin Wells, Bruce DeBoer
A documentary about one of the most important American paintings that nobody has ever heard of: Artist Vernon Pratt’s 1,450 square foot systematic abstraction painting, “All the Possibilities of Filling Sixteenths (65,536)”, which was completed in 1982 but only recently exhibited posthumously.
DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM
10 min
Director: Jennifer Callahan
Producer: Jennifer Callahan
Editor: Hélène Attali
Cinematographer: Gordon Chou
Legal arguments were Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s daily currency, for which she is renowned, but what about her everyday life? In this short film she examines her handbags, revealing a corner of the mind that argued and won way-paving, historic cases. Jennifer Callahan is a filmmaker chronicling stories which go against the grain; her first feature, The Bungalows of Rockaway, illustrates 100 years of the comedies and dramas of New York City’s largest beach community and foregrounds urbanism, architectural history, and race/ethnicity.
DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM
8 min
Director: Jane Musky
Producers: Jane Musky, Robert Morrison
Editor: Robert Morrison
Cinematographer: Joshua Echevarria
Nine is the story of a brave group of powerful young women who came together to petition for the inclusion of Woman’s Crew as a varsity sport at Boston University in the mid-1970’s. They went on to become national champions.
DOC FEST SHORTS PROGRAM
11 min
Director: Helen Herbert
Producer: Helen Herbert
Editor: Helen Herbert
Cinematographer: Helen Herbert
Sarah Hackett is a feisty nonagenarian who moves through the world with spirit, determination, and a strong desire to help others, despite devastating personal loss. This film celebrates growing old while still looking toward the future.
