FRIDAY JULY 15 BLOCK ONE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Composition for Understanding Relationships directed by David De La Fuente

Length: 0:05:30

“A Love Letter”

 

Beautiful Violence directed by Joey Medina

Length: 0:12:32

A powerful and gripping story about a white terminally ill businessman who uses racism to force an African American man he never met before to kill him in order for his family receives his life insurance money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Croqueta Nation directed by Guillermo Alfonso

Length: 0:15:56

From Executive Producer Emilio Estefan comes Croqueta Nation. A film that combines Miami’s culinary scene with a restauranteur’s vision to unite a community by breaking a world record. Set in Miami, this feel-good and playful story follows Carlos Gazitua, owner of Sergio’s Cuban Restaurants, as he sets out to make croqueta history. His big plans of making the world’s longest croqueta won’t be easy to achieve, but will they be worth it in the end?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-Hyphenates co-directed by Khaya Fraites & Arianna Flores

Length: 0:08:14

Multi-Hyphenates is a comedy web series about two up-and-coming artists in a current-day post-pandemic, New York City. The carefree, spiritual, painter Celeste, and the mildly uptight, reserved, actor Dionne, explore what it’s really like working and living in New York as two women of color in the entertainment industry. Follow them as they navigate Zoom auditions, social media, living together in a new city, and becoming true Multi-hyphenates themselves on their journey to success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10th Floor directed by Charlie G.

Length: 0:22:51

10th Floor is a short film about a young man, Tyler, whose family was killed during a home invasion. Tyler unable to cope with the death of his family books a hotel room for a night where he will attempt to take his own life. That night he meets Claire, a troubled young runaway who is now an escort. They connect and Tyler must now help Claire escape her dangerous environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dark Essence directed by Mari Assad

Length: 0:11:20

After being shunned by the community, Todd Reid and Jim James are determined to gain more followers for their satanic group, The Dark Essence, and to spread the word of secularism to the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TECATA directed by Mario Thedosio Gallegos

Length: 0:23:25

Presented with an opportunity to escape her stagnant New Mexico town, a young genizaro girl must decide if she wants to break away from her tight-knit family or stay and continue struggling to keep her family afloat as her mother sinks deeper into the grips of heroin addiction.