Q&A with Andrew Nadkarni, Kiana Jackson, Jeremy Workman, Rob Lyons and Meredith Moore moderated by Brandon Harrison
Discover the best of this year’s nonfiction short films. Each year, Cinema Eye Honors spotlights the ten short films on its Shorts List, the organization’s annual list of semi-finalists for its Nonfiction Short Film Honor.
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Program 2 includes:
Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers
Dir. Meredith Moore | 12:23min
An artist and VFX instructor connects with her aging grandmother, Margie, in a documentary short on collecting, artmaking, and obsessiveness as a way to enhance our realities. Margie has been collecting salt and pepper shakers for 73 years -- at 94, her days are spent repeating the same, simple routine. When her granddaughter pays her a visit, the collection, now in the thousands, takes on a new life. The film -- part love letter, part documentary, part experiment -- merges the real, the fantastical, and the world of a computer desktop.
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Dirs. Joe Brewster + Michèle Stephenson | 18:22min
An illuminating look at the influence that hand games played by Black girls has had on the American creative landscape.
Deciding Vote
Dirs. Jeremy Workman + Robert Lyons | 20:06min
Over 50 years ago, New York State assemblyman George Michaels defied his constituents and cast a single tie-breaking vote that legalized abortion in New York and laid the groundwork for Roe v Wade. In the process, it would destroy Michaels' political career.
Between Earth & Sky
Dir. Andrew Nadkarni | 25:32min
Renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni studies "what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself to explore the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her own life.
The Last Repair Shop
Dirs. Kris Bowers + Ben Proudfoot | 39:41min
In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing more than music to the schoolchildren of the recording capital of the world.