Elsie is a young violinist about to head to college. Unlike she was planning, she gets rejected from her prospected university’s music program. As the rejection settles in, she realizes she’s truly growing up - having to deal with the violin in the process. While working to overcome her burnout, she comes to terms with the fact that she will be leaving the place that she grew up in for the first time ever. With her mother taking notice of Elsie’s downcast attitude, and her older brother back home to visit from college, she must come to the understanding that change doesn’t always have to be a bad thing.
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
In 1971, when discussions about how to integrate their school system break down, the community of Durham, North Carolina agrees to bring in Bill Riddick(Babou Ceesay) to conduct a series of summits(charrettes) to help them move forward with desegregation.
From its visually stunning opening credits, which show women dancing through a forest to musical rhythms that sound almost primal, to its quiet, heartbreaking final frame, Mona Fastvold’s historical rendering of the Shaker religious movement is an experience that will stay with me for a long time.
Treated like a granter of wishes for those earning out of retelling the same tragedy, Marilyn looks like she's caged in different stages of trauma for us to stare at, instead of someone we’ve finally allowed to rest in peace.
Joann Kohng’s Subject to IX tells the heartbreaking truth of the Title IX rules that colleges abide by.
