Cara Feinberg
11 min | 2019 | Boston, MA
Patty Maestranzi's family has run the same two-room lockshop in South Boston for nearly a century. Small shops like hers used to line the neighborhood. Now, her Lockshop is among the last.
A FELLOW AMERICAN
Adrian Atwood
5 min | 209 | Boston, MA
In 2018, a survivor of a shooting spree that took place in Boston in 1968 reflects on his experience and the persistence of gun violence in America.
THE HUSTLE IS REAL
Thomas B Draudt
12 min | 2019 | Boston, MA | East Coast Premiere
“It’s like Thelonious Monk said: Do your own thing. In 15, 20 years, people will catch on.”-Jamison Harvey, aka DJ Prestige. A story about creating your own lane to make money doing what you love and the hustle and grind that goes along with it.
DEAR GEORGINA
Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip
15 min | 2019 | Boston, MA | MA Premiere
A Passamaquoddy elder tries to sharpen the blurry outlines of her identity. Despite age, Georgina’s experience of being removed from her indigenous biological family and placed with Anglo’s still haunts her.
THE GERMAN KING
Adetokumboh M'Cormack
20 min | 2019 | US | MA Premiere
Set in 1914 at the start of World War I, The German King is the unbelievable true story of King Rudolf Douala Manga Bell; a German raised African prince who becomes king after his father’s death. Upon returning home to Cameroon, he sees his people being subjugated and enslaved under Kaiser Wilhelmʼs II oppressive colonial rule. He realizes the only way to put an end to his peoples suffering, is to lead a rebellion against the man he once considered his brother.