2021 Filmmaker In Residence
Marc is a man in his 50s who has two lives—his on-screen childhood persona performed on the films his father, a Holocaust survivor, shot of him and one off-screen cloaked in depression. As Marc combs through the 17 cans of film, old photos and film slides, he begins a process of reckoning with his father’s need for control and his undiagnosed PTSD and ultimately, coming to terms about the unconditional love that supports him to this day.
Malena Barrios is a Filmmaker and Video Content Creator based in San Francisco, whose short film The Girl and The City won the best documentary in the St. Francis College Women Film Festival in NYC (2017). She co-directed Me, Japanese, recipient of the Wave-maker Grant sponsored by Miami Cultural Affairs, the Knight Foundation & Andy Warhol Foundation. Co-scriptwriter, researcher and director’s assistant for the documentary The Red Sun in the Sunset, on Japanese immigration in Cuba and that received the Japan Foundation grant (2008). In her free time, she was a volunteer activist for five years in "Proyecto Espiral", a socio-cultural exchange program between Cuba and the US. Currently, she directs and produces Call me Lucky (CML), selected by the Sundance Institute for the story development workshop in Miami (2016) and by Women Make Movies (WMM) Production Assistance program (2018). Member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDC).
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