Documentary Shorts

 
 

Saturday, January 21

3 - 5 pm

Wall Street Theater

 
  • #hiplet

    Director: Sonia Machado-Hines

    #Hiplet follows the story of Homer Hans Bryant and Chicago inner-city dancers as they perform a fusion of hip-hop and ballet. While balancing life, education and sometimes barely surviving in Chi-town to make something of their lives.

  • A Single Affliction

    Director: Lauren Stephens

    A silent short film that depicts how Gods word, more specifically Romans 12, helps the church cultivate community for lonely Christians.

  • Beech Leaf Disease in Connecticut

    Director: Kyle Kranich

    Bech leaf disease has been rapidly progressing across Connecticut, infecting millions of beech trees. This is a documentary explaining the symptoms, lifecycle, potential treatments, and predicted outlook for Connecticut Beech Trees in the coming years.

  • Mary Anne

    Director: Jillian Noyes

    A look into the work and philosophy of a jeweler living on the Connecticut shoreline.

  • Rice Connections

    Director: Ee T. Lim.

    This documentary is about an artistic journey of Aida Redza, a muslim female contemporary dancer from Malaysia, and how she created a dance performance site by growing the paddy plot from scratch during the COVID-19 pandemic in late October of 2020. She is famous for creating collaborative multidisciplinary works involving rice. Aida and her co-collaborators participated in the different phases of the paddy’s life-cycle and finally created a dance performance out of this process.

  • Similar Kind: Right Here Right Now

    Director: Shannon Nasution

    Indie-pop band Similar Kind reminisce their adolescent years and see how far they've gone to this day.

  • Toxic Faucets

    Director: Hannah Gearan

    After toxic chemicals are discovered in the drinking water of Durham, Connecticut.