Documentary Shorts
Saturday, January 21
3 - 5 pm
Wall Street Theater
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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Mary Anne
Director: Jillian Noyes
A look into the work and philosophy of a jeweler living on the Connecticut shoreline.
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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.
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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.
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Toxic Faucets
Director: Hannah Gearan
After toxic chemicals are discovered in the drinking water of Durham, Connecticut.