At 7:30 PM on Wednesday, May 1, join us for Shorts Program 2: “Sincerely, Yours.” The title is inspired by our poster illustration this year from Susan Johnson’s coming of age film on Netflix, “All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”. For this shorts block, we screen a series of personable films that touch on family, origins, and life choices (varying in length, with a total of 110 minutes shown together). Come early for our post-production panel pre-show at 7 PM.
7:30 PM, Wednesday, May 1 | Music Box Theatre | Tickets (goes LIVE on 4/1/24)
Eat Flowers – directed by River Finlay (15 min)
When photographer and writer Cig Harvey discovers her best friend is diagnosed with Leukemia, she sets out to fill her world with color and light. “Eat Flowers” is film about living.
Video Funeral – Linh Tran (20.35 min)
Lam, a Vietnamese international student, welcomes her younger sister, Phuong, to her Chicago apartment. Phuong brings a DVD of their father’s funeral, which Lam could not attend.
Thank you, Neck – directed by Marion Forbes (21.30 min)
‘Thank You, Neck’ is a coming of age drama that follows the journey of a young designer Sophie after she receives a cancer diagnosis.
A Land Memory – T.J. Blanco (7.29 min)
A Land Memory asks after the response-ability of the living to the dead and the land they lay inside. The story revolves around the lives and deaths of farmworkers in Colombia, the state-sanctioned murder of Lenca land defender–Berta Cáceres– and the filmmaker’s own relation to their birth-land of Honduras.
Except – Krista Kane (10.10 min)
“Except” is a love story about loneliness, labor, and hot summer sausage.
The Pieces – Autumn Thompson (23.57 min)
A young woman is set out on a journey, curious and confused about her identity, when DNA
results don’t match what she has known her whole life.
Layaway – Kaitlyn Busbee (12.57 min)
Left by their mother to fend for themselves, two siblings in Iowa learn to live by their own code, until a choice becomes a secret that tests their trust in each other.