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Goren Sarriegui-Simon

La  bota

In both La Bota and Los Dados, I use pieces from an antique Latin board game collected in Venezuela. The animations are loosely based on folkloric stories like "El Silbon" and esoteric imagery of devilish possession in Venezuela.

The   Prayer

My second piece, The Prayer, is based on my father's album La Bikina. It features his track The Prayer, which was sung by a famous Afro-Cuban Yoruban singer named Milton Cardona. I felt this was a perfect track to overlay my animated painting of a classic colonial town in Venezuela.

Mark  Figueroa

Fvck  the  system

A dance film that features an entirely BIPOC team of dancers as well as production, direction, and choreography, FVCK THE SYSTEM highlights the tension, frustration, and the fight for freedom within the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Natasha Casino

Hourglass

HOURGLASS is a story about memories and their power to heal. It is also about grief and remembering our loved ones who have moved on to the next life. It stars an all POC cast and crew. Being Latina/Filipina, growing up I never saw movies or shows with people who looked like me and hardly if any, with interracial couples so with my first short I really wanted to have that representation.

Naythan   Ramos

Ya Sabia

This piece highlights the questions and culturally-infused force of believing in a higher power, of believing in an all-knowing God without question and with retaliation for asking questions that may go against the beliefs of others. Growing up Catholic, I felt that I have never had the opportunity to explore other religions without retaliation from family members, and the lack of questioning whether or not being Catholic will indicate the morality of the individual has always amazed me. Here, I hope to offer a space in which questioning one's beliefs may be a form of reflection that can heal, rather than isolate. 

Two sisters, after a year of forced separation, have a conversation that should have happened long ago. Questioning God and each other, the present is uncertain while the future is permeated with past guilt.