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Far Out West + Short Selections
July 28, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Far Out West
Feature Documentary
Director: Travis Chandler, Daniel Greenstone
Country of Origin: United States
In the early 1970s, 25 hippies formed the Kerista Commune in the Haight-Ashbury, making love, raising children, and getting rich selling Apple Computers. But if the alternative society they built was fantastically alluring, it was also fragile, and a quarter century after they voted to dissolve their commune, the Keristans are still debating what went wrong.
Preceded by
Butter
Short Narrative
Director: Emma Brennan
Country of Origin: Ireland
Love is in the air on a cold Irish beach along with a little awkwardness and a dish of butter.
Bear and Fred
Short Documentary
Director: Keith Famie
Country of Origin: United States
Michigan student, Hailey Callahan, visits Holocaust survivor Fred Lessing at his home after meeting him at the Holocaust Memorial Center. Fred shares his story of how his boyhood teddy bear was his only family while hiding in Holland and reads an excerpt from a children’s book that was written about him and his bear. This story will be featured in an hour long film, Shoah Ambassadors.
The Audition
Short Narrative
Director: Eric Liberacki
Country of Origin: United States
Tony Mendes is a Latino actor who doesn’t fit the Hollywood stereotype. He has to go to great lengths to get casting directors to look beyond the surface to notice his talent.
Fucking Lonely
Music Video
Director: Kayla Arend
Country of Origin: China
Fucking Lonely is a music video for Hong Kong-based singer-song writer, Yi Tang.