Editor of DESDE QUE LLEGASTE, MI CORAZÓN DEJÓ DE PERTENECERME (SINCE YOU ARRIVED, MY HEART STOPPED BELONGING TO ME, directed by Erin Semine Kökdil)
21’ / USA/MEXICO / 2021
SYNOPSIS
A caravan of Central American mothers travel through Mexico in search of their missing children who migrated north towards the United States.
CREDITS
Director: Erin Semine Kökdil
Cinematographer: Chris Filippone
Producer: Erin Semine Kökdil
Editor: Chris Filippone
WITH SUPPORT FROM
Points North Institute (Shortform Editing Residency)
SFFILM (FilmHouse Residency)
SCREENINGS
The New Yorker Documentaries, 2021
Means TV, 2022
Vimeo Staff Pick, 2022
International Documentary Association Awards 2021, Best Short Documentary Nominee
San Francisco International Film Festival, 2021 / Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Short
Mountainfilm, 2021 / Best Short Film
March on Washington Film Festival, 2021 / Grand Prize in the Emerging Documentary Contest
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2021 / Documentary Short Honorable Mention
Drunken Oakland Film Festival, 2021 / Best Documentary
Next Generation Indie Film Awards / Best Documentary Award
Walla Walla Movie Crush, 2021 / Best Short Documentary Nominee
Borders | No Borders, Houston Cinema Arts Society, 2021 / Best Short Documentary
Shorts That Are Not Pants, 2021 / Best Short Documentary
ICARO International Film Festival, 2021 / Honorable Mention
Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, 2022 / Best Short Documentary
AFI Docs, 2021
Double Exposure Film Festival, 2021
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2021
New Orleans Film Festival, 2021
Palm Springs International Shortfest, 2021
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, 2021
OFF CINEMA International Documentary Film Festival, 2021
MIDBO, 2021
Antimatter, 2021
Savannah Film Festival, 2021
Milwaukee Film Festival, 2021
St. Louis International Film Festival, 2021
Indy Shorts International Film Festival, 2021
Woodstock Film Festival, 2021
Crested Butte Film Festival, 2021
Climate Crisis Film Festival, 2021
Video Consortium Bay Area, 2021
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, 2021
Nevada City Film Festival, 2021
Loft Short Film Festival, 2021
Maine International Film Festival, 2021
Centre Film Festival, 2021
Beijing International Short Film Festival, 2021
San Diego Underground Film Festival, 2021
Festival de Cortos de Bogotá - BOGOSHORTS, 2021
Blue Danube Film Festival, 2021
Home Is Distant Shores, 2021
Maryland Film Festival, 2022
Port Townsend Film Festival Women & Film, 2022
Athena Film Festival, 2022
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, 2022
Cinemateca de Bogotá, Que Haiga Paz, 2022
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, 2022
Faito Doc Festival, 2023
LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Film Festival, 2023
Editor of BATAY LA (directed by Malia Bruker)
25’ / USA/HAITI / 2019
SYNOPSIS
In Haiti, “Batay La" (“the struggle”) has been ongoing since before the slave revolution that founded the Caribbean nation. Led by anti-imperialist movement Batay Ouvriye, Haitian workers continue the revolutionary struggle.
CREDITS
Director: Malia Bruker
Cinematographer: Malia Bruker
Producer: Sarah Cruz
Editor: Chris Filippone
SCREENINGS
Santa Cruz Film Festival, 2019