Reel Sisters Virtual Showcase 2024 at – Brooklyn, OH

Don’t miss this upcoming event in Brooklyn, OH Happening on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at . Doors open at 1:00 PM.

Reel Sisters is proud to present our selection of fine virtual films that you can enjoy from your living room or couch! Each section is $5 and no extra charge for film lovers who purchased All Access Passes!

The collection will be available from Oct. 5 through Oct. 31, 2024 (11:59 pm EST)!

Invite friends over and have a watch party!

VIRTUAL PROGRAM 1

Melanie & Kyles
Producer: Robiii World, Tiara West, Marlena Robinson Director: Tiara West   
Writers: Tiara West, Ashani Roberts
narrative, 7 min.
Amidst the captivating world of poetry, Melanie and Kyle’s love flourishes. They explore the depth of their emotions through verses that intertwine their souls, revealing a timeless bond of passion, trust, and poetic beauty that transcends their mortal existence.

A Dios
Producers: Christine Rodriguez, Jen Viens Director/Writer: Christine Rodriguez
narrative, 17 min.
A former jazz diva, forgotten by time, is spending the last years of her life in a seniors’ residence with an orderly as her only friend. Unfortunately, she fails to keep her diva ways in check and risks losing the only person she cares about, with time running out to make amends… A short film in English and Kreyol, set in Montreal (Tio’tia:ke), Canada. Available with English or French subtitles.

Hedgehog
Exec. Producers: Rakie Ayola, Adam Smethurst
Director/Writer: Adam Smethurst
narrative, 17 min.
Poised between adolescence and adulthood and living with the challenges of NF1, Josie’s only connection with the world is a love of Shakespeare. When new girl Ash shows up at drama class, Josie seizes the chance to change her story.

Breathe
Producers: Jamie Burton-Oare, Shannon E Riggs
Director/Writer: Jamie Burton-Oare
narrative, 16 min.
For Eric, it is a normal day in his life/neighborhood. For the world, it’s the day Eric faces the reality of taking his last breath. 

VIRTUAL PROGRAM 2 – Misfits, Genuises & Dreamers

Hogtown
Producer: Ania Jamila Director/Writer: Josiane Blanc
narrative, 21 min.
Forced to leave her hometown temporarily, Manuela finds it difficult to adapt to her new surroundings. She has only one thing on her mind: moving back to Toronto. However, an unexpected encounter turns Manuela’s life upside down, calling into question everything she’s known up to now.

Gods of the Universe
Producers: Cathy SitaRam, Charles Mawungwa
Director/Writer: Cathy SitaRam
narrative, 20 min.
Advanced beings must train star children to guide humanity to the next stage of evolution before a catastrophic event destroys Earth, but their methods differ and time is running out.

Melikhaya
Producers: Palesa Shangase, Katie Taylor Directors: Liziwe Damba, Mallory Myers
Writer: Liziwe Damba
narrative, 15 min.
Born into a culture that values male leadership above all, Melikhaya finds it difficult to find her place as a strong African woman. When her brother makes choices that impact the entire community, she is forced to make a tough decision.

The Thoughts of Our Ancestors
Producers: Seren Şahin, Kokutekeleza Musebeni
Director: Kokutekeleza Musebeni
Writers: Lara Milena Brose, Beatrix Rinke, Kokutekeleza Elena Musebeni
narrative, 30 min.
In the afrofuturistic documentary THE THOUGHTS OF OUR ANCESTORS, Arazay is confronted with the documentary reality of a black child in her dreams. The year is 1996 and the child’s name is Koku. Arazay lives in a fictional future in the year 2230, free of wars, hierarchies and scarcity of resources. She is watering her plants when the first memory hits her and she faints. It is Koku who begins to tell her documentary story of growing up in Germany as a black girl and the looks she was confronted with in her early childhood.

VIRTUAL PROGRAM 3 – The Narrows
Producer/Director/Writer: Stephanie Allison Daye
documentary, 87 min.
A harrowing account of Canada’s worst case of environmental racism- the displacement and destruction of the people of Africville. In this account, the people of Africville tell their own stories while the producers record the fall-out from a 30 year old case that has reached the ears of not only the present Mayor but all the way up to certain VIPs of the Canadian Parliament.

VIRTUAL PROGRAM 4 – Pregnanacy & Birth

Ya Hanouni
Directors: Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib
Writers: Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib
narrative, 2:38 min.
While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?

Await
Producers: Raúl Abner Samrah, Samara Pérez Santiago
Director/Writer: Samara Pérez Santiago
narrative, 14 min.
Lili was convinced by her doctor, boyfriend and parents to have a baby she did not plan or want. As she awaits in her birthing pool (her parent’s bathtub), Lili calls her loved ones and figures out that they will all be absent for absurd reasons.

Renacer
Producers: Kelsey McGee, Bobbie Green, Ximena Davis
Director/Writer: Jenniffer J Gonzalez Martinez
narrative, 19 min.
Renacer ignites a fiery exploration of women’s raw truths, casting a spotlight on the electrifying journey of Valeria, a Puerto Rican migrant who boldly embraces her right to choose with an abortion, only to collide head-on with the searing stigma society thrusts upon women who dare to own their bodies. 

VIRTUAL PROGRAM 5

Hair
Producer: Amy E. Powell Directors: Wendy Mateo, Lorena Diaz
Writers: Wendy Mateo, Lorena Diaz
comedy, 6 min. 
In Mari’s salon, it’s just another day where they spill the tea about life. But today Christina comes in late and through her hair mishaps they rally around her when the truth is revealed.

Petting Zoo
Producer: Alexus L. Addison Director: Malcolm Lott
Writer: Sherryle Kiser- Jackson
narrative, 15 min.
Petting Zoo is about a young African-American professional named Rochelle, who is adjusting to her new role as Assistant Director while navigating a manager who creates a hostile work environment through micromanagement and microaggressions regarding the appearance of her natural hair. 

Have I Swallowed Your Dreams
Producer/Director/Writer: Clara Chan
narrative, 6 min.
A poetic conversation between an immigrant daughter and her mother about sacrifices and dreams.

Dragonfly
Producers: Julia Morizawa, James Babbin, Brian Sturges
Director/Writer: Julia Morizawa
animation, 13 min.
A young girl learns of her mother’s survival of the Tokyo Firebombing on March 9-10, 1945 through the eyes of her brother’s spirit.

KULTUR
Producers: Yety Akinola, Maya Gwynn, Alia Bennett
Director: Asari Aibangbee Writers: Asari Aibangbee, Natalie Miles
narrative, 19 min.
A well respected white therapist suggests a social media therapy app, called KULTUR, for two of her patients, both young and Black. One Trans/non-binary, the other Cisgender femme.

VIRTUAL PROGRAM 6

WELL
Producers: Toni Cunningham, Eden Sabolboro, Paige Wood
Directors: Toni Cunningham, Eden Sabolboro
Writer: Toni Cunningham
narrative, 12 min.
WELL depicts the story of one Black American family through 50 years as they fight to stay healthy through three different crises. Through the Tuskegee Experiment, the Flint Water Crisis, and now Covid-19, the family has survived amidst endless obstacles to their health. After losing a loved one to Covid-19, they must reckon with the harm and distrust that has permeated their family for decades.

FIR
Producers: Adéla Konečná, Barbora Smotlachová
Director/Writer: Xueni Yang
narrative, 21 min.
In a suburb of Prague, a lonely girl encounters a lost foreign young man. Despite the age difference, she finds a missing sense of belonging through their shared doubts about home.

The Golden Boy
Producer: Earleatha Oppon
Director/Writer: Elizabeth Peace
narrative, 15 min.
A family drama, about a non-verbal autistic six-year-old boy who with the help of his older sister, proves that his high support needs can’t stop his potential.

From Yard – “Same School”
Producers: Phaedra Benford, Norman Hamilton, Andrea Hamilton, Patrick A. Aitcheson, David Heron, David Walcott
Director: Leland Benford
Writers: Noel E. Dunn, Maya Hall, David G. Heron
narrative, 11:45 min.
A Jamaican immigrant now working in New York as a parole officer is forced to make the tough decision to take in one of his parolees despite them both growing up in the same city of Kingston.

Skate
Producer: Remi R.M Moses Director: Kasey-Anais Blondell
Writer: Kasey-Anais Blondell
narrative, 11 min.
Thea, a lonely 19-year-old girl, struggles to learn how to skateboard on her own. When Thea meets a welcoming community of skater girls at a house party, she is empowered to deal with her social anxiety through skateboarding.

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