NFMLA November Film Festival Set for November 14: Indigenous Cinema Program and the Los Angeles Premiere of Anima
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) hosts its November Monthly Film Festival on November 14 at the South Park Center in downtown Los Angeles, California. The single day of programming has three blocks: the November Shorts program, the annual InFocus: Indigenous Cinema program, and the Los Angeles premiere of the feature film Anima.
November Shorts is an eclectic mix of the month's short narratives, with stories about a street artist navigating an immigration deadline, a tense family dinner, a woman preparing to report to prison with the help of her loved ones, a daughter's complicated grief over her mother, and a family processing the effects of war.
InFocus: Indigenous Cinema, the festival's annual program, presents short films by Indigenous storytellers from around the world, with stories about the preservation of Indigenous traditions, the celebration of transgender community members, connecting to ancestors, navigating a life between two cultures, and a touch of anti-colonial body horror.
The evening concludes with Anima, the narrative directorial debut of writer-director Brian Tetsuro Ivie, which world-premiered earlier this year at SXSW and explores grief, connection and legacy through the relationship between two guarded strangers. The NFMLA project is supported in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The South Park Center, at 1139 S Hill St, Los Angeles, is an ADA-compliant, wheelchair-accessible venue.
Source: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles
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