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A PELOTON OF ONE BASTARDS’ ROAD BULLIED

USA / 99 MINS USA / 98 MINS USA / 67 MINS

A Peloton of One follows a Survivor of Childhood Like many Combat Veterans, transitioning back Bullied tracks the causes and consequences of Sexual Abuse, Dave Ohlmuller, as he conducts to civilian life was very difficult for Jon Hancock. bullying, along with programs and solutions a solo bicycle ride from Chicago to New York to After years of struggling, Jon decided to take that have had an impact on mitigating bullying raise awareness of this scourge. Along this 700- an epic journey across the country - on foot. in schools. Through interviews with family mile journey, Dave meets other Survivors abused Walking nearly 6,000 miles alone, Jon confronts members, victims of bullying, and an array by coaches, teachers, family members, and like the demons that had overtaken his life. Visiting of the most notable experts on bullying in Dave himself, Catholic priests. Through these his fellow 2/4 Marines - a unit known as the America today, Bullied takes the audience on an interactions and common stories, Dave tries to find a way to connect and heal, mile by mile, as The Magnificent Bastards - and families of their unflinching journey into the lives of those who he heads east towards his hometown. Dave also fallen along the way, Jon finds a mission greater suffer bullying, while focusing on how bullying meets high-profile advocates like Senator Joe than his own redemption. With remarkable can be reduced around the world. Vitale of New Jersey, Kathryn Robb of New York, honesty, insight and humor, Jon’s journey gives and Marci Hamilton of Pennsylvania, who each a uniquely positive approach to the post-war scored major victories in 2019 by reforming topic. It’s about changing the ways one relates their states’ long-standing Statute of Limitations to traumatic memories. It’s about beginning the laws that favored the abusers. Dave Ohlmuller healing process. begins this trek as a lone Survivor. Today, he realizes he is part of a movement bigger than just the sum of its victims. Co-Produced by Greenwich filmmaker and fellow Survivor, Joe Capozzi, this film aims to inspire others to tell their stories and to educate the masses on the personal and legal obstacles victims often face alone during their long road to recovery.

Director(s): Brian Morrison Director(s): Thomas Keith Producer(s): Brian Morrison Producer(s): Thomas Keith Director(s): Steven E. Mallorca, Screenwriter(s): Mark Stafford Editor(s): Thomas Keith John Bernardo Editor(s): Brian Morrison Dir. of Photography: Producer(s): Joe Capozzi, John Bernardo Dir. of Photography: Brian Morrison James Bustamante, Ray Wolf Editor(s): Steven E. Mallorca Key Subject(s): Jon Hancock, Brian Key Subject(s): Jennifer Pozner, Dir. of Photography: Steven E. Mallorca Britton, Dustin Kieschnick, Seth Bai Kirk Smalley, Carol Todd, Ron Avi Astor Key Subject(s): Dave Ohlmuller, Roseanna Powers, Dianne Layfield, Joe Capozzi Chris Macintosh, Taylor Wiley

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DRIVEN TO THE EUPHORIA FOR WALTER AND JOSIAH ABSTRACTION OF BEING USA / 84 MINS In honor of The Strassler Center for Holocaust USA / 66 MINS and Genocide Studies Program at Clark University, and generously underwritten by Driven to Abstraction unravels a mutating tale The Simon and Eve Colin Foundation. Montana has the highest suicide rate in the of self-delusion, greed, and fraud - the $80 U.S., and on Native American reservations that million forgery scandal that rocked the art HUNGARY / 83 MINS rate is 22% higher still. The Flathead Indian world and brought down Knoedler, New York Hungarian with English subtitles Reservation was shaken to the core by 22 City’s most venerable gallery. Was the gallery’s Native suicides in a single year - including Éva Fahidi was 20 years old when she returned esteemed director the victim of a con artist two beloved members of the local high school to Hungary from Auschwitz Birkenau. She was all who showed up with an endless treasure trove basketball team. ‘For Walter And Josiah’ follows alone, 49 members of her family were murdered, of previously unseen abstract expressionist the team’s surviving members during their including her mother, her father and her little masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect most recent basketball season, as they attempt sister. 70 years later, aged 90, Éva is asked to they were fakes, yet continue to sell them for to honor their fallen brothers while coping with participate in a dance-theatre performance about millions of dollars for fifteen years? Whatever staggering grief and the daunting challenges of her life. Director Réka Szabo imagines a duet the truth, two women from very different everyday life on the reservation. The documentary between Éva and the internationally acclaimed worlds crossed paths in what would become examines the historical trauma and other factors dancer, Emese, juxtaposing these two women on the greatest hoax ever of Modern American Art. contributing to the Indigenous suicide epidemic, stage, young and old, to see how their bodies while exploring the impact of cultural resurgence and their stories can intertwine. Éva agrees as an alternative to escaping the reservation. ‘For immediately. Three women— three months—a Walter and Josiah’ is a story of heartbreak, pain, story of crossing boundaries. Whilst key redemption, and hope in a community pushed to moments of Éva’s life are distilled into theater extremes - looking for the inspiration to push back. scenes, a powerful relationship forms between the three women.

Director(s): Daria Price Director(s): Réka Szabó Director(s): Jamie Elias Producer(s): Daria Price Producer(s): Sára László, Marcell Gerő, Producer(s): Trent Cooper, Benjamin Editor(s): Daria Price Réka Szabó Blank, Jamie Elias, Addison Neville, Directors of Photography: Editor(s): Sylvie Gadmer, Péter Sass Kurt Anderson Peter Sova, Daria Price Dir. of Photography: Claudia Kovács Editor(s): Stephanie Yang, Jamie Elias Key Subject(s): Patricia Cohen, Key Subject(s): Éva Fahidi, Dir. of Photography: Addison Neville Michael Shnayerson, Eileen Kinsella, Emese Cuhorka, Réka Szabó Laura Gilbert, Luke Nikas, Martha Parrish, James Kelly

Greenwich International Film Festival | 21 DOCUMENTARY FILMS

THE HOY BOYS MEDICATING NORMAL MUSIC GOT ME HERE

USA / 72 MINS USA / 76 MINS USA / 89 MINS English with occasional subtitles for clarity

Working class twin brothers Tom and Frank Hoy One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric In a snowboarding accident, Forrest, age 18, suffers a hustled up copyboy jobs in 1953 and eventually medication, including antidepressants, ADHD traumatic brain injury that leaves him trapped inside become White House News Photographers for drugs, and/or anti-anxiety medications. While himself, unable to speak or walk for nearly two years. two major DC papers. Frank shot pictures for The these drugs can provide effective short-term relief Desperate to connect with her son, Forrest’s mother Washington Post, and Tom did the same for The for emotional distress, pharmaceutical companies contacts Tom Sweitzer, a music therapist with a troubled Evening Star. They were affectionately known as have hidden dangerous side effects and long-term childhood whose own life was “saved” by music. For “The Hoy Boys.” They were never famous, but their harm from both doctors and patients. Combining months, Forrest doesn’t acknowledge Tom. Gradually, story is the story of American journalism when it cinema verité and investigative journalism, Forrest starts responding to the music, starting with mattered most, and ‘The Hoy Boys’ provides a lens Medicating Normal follows the stories of five a little movement of his finger or smile. Tom uses a through which we view the chaos of the current diverse Americans who were harmed by music therapy method to teach Forrest to breathe, then hum, and find his “pitch.”After many months, the hums media landscape. Tom and Frank Hoy stumbled prescribed medications they took to feel better. turn into Forrest’s first words, “Good Morning.” Soon, into a golden era for photojournalism and ‘The The film exposes a larger story of medicine he’s singing entire songs and speaking in sentences. Hoy Boys’ introduces audiences to the once great infiltrated by pharmaceutical companies seeking Forrest’s finally getting his voice and life back when he’s The Evening Star newspaper (1862 - 1981). It was to expand markets. faced with one medical setback after another. A serious the leading paper in DC in the 1950s and one of infection requires surgeons to remove the prosthetic the top newspapers in the country. The Evening Star implant that is protecting his brain, where a large part is brought to life by alumni Carl Bernstein, John of his skull was removed after his accident. Without Hoge, Rupert Welch, Jack Sherwood, Arnold Taylor any protection for his brain and others. Tom and Frank’s iconic photographs from atmospheric pressure, graced the pages of Forrest’s ability to survive is competing Washington uncertain. A groundbreaking DC newspapers in the surgery is Forrest’s last hope. 1950s and 60s, and as we This is a story about the power rediscover their images, we of music to heal and transform gain a fresh perspective on lives, often in miraculous ways. the past and new insights Susan Koch Lynn Cunningham, Director(s): into our collective future. Director(s): J. Wendy Thompson- Wendy Ractliffe Producer(s): Dave Simonds Marquez, Gary Mather & Christina Director(s): Lynn Cunningham, Betsy Shiverick, Producer(s): Co Mather, Lysa Burke Hutton, Teresa Producer(s): Wendy Ractliffe, Muffie Meyer Paul Shiverick, Andrew Herwitz Wheeler, Zak Kilberg, Irwin Winkler David Dawkins Bernadine Colish, Editor(s): Susan Koch Editor(s): Joan Churchill Screenwriter(s): Dave Simonds Dir. of Photography: Georgia Koch Brianna Cope, Editor(s): Dave Simonds Key Subject(s): Neil Barrett Dir. of Photography: David Cope, Shalamar Fairweather, Dir. of Photography: Carl Bernstein, Warren Forrest Allen, Key Subject(s): Angie Peacock, Rebecka Green, Key Subject(s): Hoge, Doug Anderson, Horace Ballard, Tom Sweitzer, Rae Stone, Kent Allen, Tabita Green, Todd Green Frank Van Riper Austin Allen, Tolliver

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VIRAL: ANTISEMITISM WOMEN OF EARTH IN FOUR MUTATIONS

USA / 83 MINS USA, BRAZIL / 71 MINS English, French, and Hungarian with English subtitles Portuguese with English subtitles

Antisemitism in the US and Europe is spreading. It Mayara grew up in Sao Paulo, the largest city mutates and evolves and is seemingly unstoppable. in Brazil and Latin America. She was a teenager It appears as vandalism, social media abuse, surrounded by millions of people, technology, assault and murder. Director Andrew Goldberg and everything the modern world can offer but examines its rise, traveling through four countries she still felt empty. In search of someone who to follow antisemites and their victims, along with could answer her questions, she went back to experts, politicians and locals. the roots of Brazil, to indigenous quilombolas and rural communities. On this journey, she met women who showed her how the wisdom of the past can heal the future. They are traditional midwives, healers, and community leaders. They are keepers of an ancient knowledge that we can’t afford to lose. She calls them Women of Earth.

Director(s): Andrew Goldberg Director(s): Mayara Boaretto, Producer(s): Diana Robinson, Isadora Carneiro, Katia Lund Andrew Goldberg Producer(s): Kirk Bowman, Jon Wilcox Screenwriter(s): Andrew Goldberg Editor(s): Eduardo Gripa Editor(s): Diana Robinson Dir. of Photography: Isadora Carneiro Dir. of Photography: Robert Hanna Key Subject(s): Mayara Boaretto, Key Subject(s): Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Zefa da Guia, Mama Zézé, Dona d’Ajuda Farid Zakaria, George Will, Deborah Lipstadt, Julianna Margulies

Greenwich International Film Festival | 23 NARRATIVE FILMS

ANOTHER YEAR THE BELLMEN THE BLACK EMPEROR TOGETHER OF BROADWAY

USA / DRAMA, COMEDY / 97 MINS USA / COMEDY / 95 MINS USA / DRAMA / 95 MINS English, Spanish. Occasional subtitles

Another Year Together chronicles three different When the charming bell captain at a popular Charles S. Gilpin was the most famous Black man romantic relationships in the same family Arizona resort decides that becoming a manag- in America. In 1920, his portrayal of Brutus Jones during the Holidays in New York City. Jonathan er is the only way to win the girl of his dreams, in Eugene O’Neill’s play, The Emperor Jones, was and Sophie, 30s, on the fence about getting he must navigate a crazy group of guests, allies, hailed as “revelatory.” He became the first African- married. Jonathan’s sister, Julie, 40’s, newly and rivals to earn the promotion and affection American dramatic star in a lead role on Broadway, single and starting anew with her brother’s best he covets. and was named one of its finest actors. Gilpin friend David. Jonathan’s parents, Barbara and immediately became the darling of the theater Eddie, 70’s, married for almost 50 years and on world, receiving accolades and recognition no the precipice of divorce. Between Thanksgiving other Black actor had ever gotten—even being and New Year’s Eve, each couple goes through invited to the White House. But by 1930, while their own evolution as they become face to face O’Neill went on to become a legend, Gilpin was with the realities of what it means to be in love. lost to history.

Director(s): Daniel Hendricks Simon Director(s): Cameron Fife Director/Screenwriter: Arthur Egeli Producer(s): Robert S. Gregory, Producer(s): Jason Adler Producer(s): Arthur Egeli, Heather Egeli, Daniel Hendricks Simon Screenwriter(s): Cameron Fife and Judith Richland Screenwriter(s): Patrick Davin, Editor(s): Sandy Solowitz Screenwriter(s): Ian Bowater Daniel Hendricks Simon Dir. of Photography: Noel Maitland Editor(s): Philip Norden Editor(s): Daniel Hendricks Simon Key Cast: Adam Ray, Josh Zuckerman, Dir. of Photography: Jonathan Mariande Dir. of Photography: Pedro J. Padilla Richard Kind, Willie Garson Key Cast: Shaun Parkes, John Hensley, Key Cast: Alexandra Turshen, Nija Okoro, Liza Weil, Nick Moran, Daniel Hendricks Simon, Marilyn Sokol, Nick Dorr, Eve Annenberg, Alexandra Roger Hendricks Simon, Gregory Lay, Foucard, Heather Egeli, John Clayton, Kiva Dawson, Richard Masur, Lonnie Farmer, Tim Misuradze, Robert S. Gregory, Julia Tokarz Sarah MacDonnell, Daniel Washington

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FAMILY MATTERS HIGH TIDE TEAM MARCO (HEMELRIJKEN)

NETHERLANDS / DRAMA / 92 MINS ARGENTINA / DRAMA / 106 MINS USA / FAMILY, COMEDY, DRAMA / 92 MINS Dutch with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles English, Italian. Occasional subtitles

When Kelly (Jennifer Welts) comes out of jail, Laura has lost control. After she sleeps with Screen time alert! Marco, 11, is obsessed with she returns to her birthplace Hemelrijken. Weisman, the lead contractor building a his electronics and hardly leaves the house. But Although her sister Samantha (Esmée van barbecue shed in the backyard of her beach when his grandmother dies and his grandfather Kampen) can barely make ends meet herself, house, the other two workers on the job cross moves in, Marco’s life is turned upside-down she is ready to help. She takes Kelly home and a boundary, making Laura feel that her space and he’s forced...to go play outside. “Nonno” arranges a job for her at a package delivery has been encroached upon. As Weisman (Grandpa) introduces him to bocce — the world’s company. As an old acquaintance (Maarten disappears, sheltered and privileged Laura oldest game — and to the neighborhood crew of Heijmans) reclaims a large sum of money from must manage the laborers herself. Her old Italian men who play daily at the local court. Kelly, the financial problems pile up and Kelly admonishments fall flat, forcing her to retreat With sport, laughter and love, “Marcolino,” as sees no other solution than to go and deal for behind the pristine glass windows—keeping his grandfather calls him, finds connection to him. When Samantha hears that, she doesn’t watch and being watched simultaneously. other people “in real life” and rounds up a team want to know anything about her. Until things Tensions churn, the workers become more of neighborhood kids to take on his grandfather really go wrong... But family doesn’t abandon unruly, and Laura ignores calls from her and his pals. each other, right? husband while downing bottles of red wine, waiting for Weisman to reappear.

Director(s): Stanley Kolk Director(s): Verónica Chen Director(s): Julio Vincent Gambuto Producer(s): Floor Onrust Producer(s): Esteban Mentasti, Producer(s): Sam Sandweiss Screenwriter(s): Chris Westendorp Hori Mentasti Screenwriter(s): Julio Vincent Editor(s): Moek de Groot Screenwriter(s): Verónica Chen Gambuto, B.R. Uzun Dir. of Photography: Luuk Zonnenberg Editor(s): Leandro Aste Editor(s): Nick Garnham Wright Key Cast: Esmée van Kampen, Jennifer Dir. of Photography: Fernando Lockett Dir. of Photography: Powell Robinson Welts, Maarten Heijmans, Tim Olivier Key Cast: Gloria Carrá, Jorge Sesán, Key Cast: Owen Vaccaro, Anthony Somer, Ayrton Kirchner, Fred Goessens Cristian Salguero, Mariana Chaud, Patellis, Anastasia Ganias-Gellin Hector Bordoni

Greenwich International Film Festival | 25 NARRATIVE FILMS

TIME IS PRECIOUS WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS SPAIN / DRAMA / 93 MINS JAPAN / ROMANCE, HORROR, COMEDY / 89 MINS Spanish with English subtitles Japanese with English subtitles

Miguel, an actor suffering a decline in his profession, A gynophobic photographer discovers for the faces his last voyage caused by an incurable illness. His first time in his life the joys of loving a woman, son Carlos is in a dilemma about whether he should help this one confused about her self-identity and a father who abandoned him years ago. Sandra, Miguel’s self-esteem, by helping her in her perceptions of partner and Carlos’s aunt, tries to rebuild the father-son herself with his photographic retouching skills. relationship and also recuperate her own, almost lost, romantic relationship. Agapito, an invisible friend, appears and accompanies Miguel through tender and dramatic scenes till the end of his days. Miguel’s tragicomic life in Madrid, filled with his weaknesses, fears and ghosts, takes an important turn when he arrives on the island of Ibiza. It is there that that he rediscovers his childhood memories, old friends, a rekindled love and his very being. Throughout this dynamic voyage we find ourselves caught up in the human struggle between debility and nobility and sympathize with these characters who have found out that “time is precious.”

Director(s): Miguel Molina Director(s): Takeshi Kushida Producer(s): Platea Films Producer(s): Shin Nishimura, Screenwriter(s): Miguel Molina, Yousuke Sato Jose Luis de Damas Screenwriter(s): Takeshi Kushida Editor(s): Pototo Diez Editor(s): Atsushi Gaudi Yamamoto Dir. of Photography: Pototo Diez Dir. of Photography: Yu Ohishi Key Cast: Miguel Molina, Saturnino Key Cast: Hideki Nagai, Itsuki Otaki, García, Carlos Pulido, Sandra Blakstad Toshiaki Inomata, Toki Koinuma

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BEST SOCIAL IMPACT FILM 2019 – “Afterward “ 2018 – “Crime + Punishment” 2017 – “City of Ghosts” 2016 – “Hooligan Sparrow” 2015 – “3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets” CARO IN 10 MINUTES

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE USA / DRAMA, FANTASY / 13 MINS 2019 – “Cold Case Hammarskjöld” 2018 – “The Dawn Wall” Caro is sick. Well, she thinks she might be, but 2017 – “Bending the Arc” everyone around her, including her doctor, believes 2016 – “Hooligan Sparrow” that her pain is all in her head. Left unsatisfied by 2015 – “The Russian Woodpecker” her traditional outlets of support, Caro meets a mysterious woman who not only listens to her, but sees her as well. Shot on Super 16mm film, Caro in BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE 10 Minutes evokes the restless, meandering energy 2019 – “Sister Aimee” of the New Wave, but it is very much a snapshot of a 2018 – “Find This Dumb Little B*tch woman today: anxious and alienated by conventional structures of support, and yet undeterred in her and Throw Her Into A River” search for the meaning behind her pain. 2017 – “The Strange Ones” 2016 – “Little Men” 2015 – “Zurich”

BEST CT SHORT 2019 – “120 Years” 2018 – “The Hammamis” 2017 – “Blind Sushi”

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT 2019 – “Mack Wrestles” 2018 – “Kayayo” 2017 – “The Rabbit Hunt” 2016 – “Another Kind of Girl” Director(s): Caroline Johnson 2015 – “Santa Cruz del Islote” Producer(s): Caroline Johnson Screenwriter(s): Caroline Johnson BEST NARRATIVE SHORT Editor(s): Mohab Abou-Elalla Dir. of Photography: Spencer Slishman 2019 – “The Animal” Key Cast: Caroline Johnson, Nikita 2018 – “The Peculiar Abilities of Chaudhry, David Alan Madrick, Alexandra Mr. Mahler” Hensley, Candace Elder 2017 – “UnderPressure” 2016 – “Before the Bomb” Greenwich International Film Festival | 27 2015 – “Grounded” BEST CONNECTICUT SHORTS

CONVICTION ELVIS GRETA

USA / DOCUMENTARY / 21 MINS USA / DRAMA, COMEDY / 16 MINS USA / COMEDY / 27 MINS

At 16 years old Jeffrey Deskovic was convicted While grieving for the loss of his basset hound Armed with self-loathing, hopelessness and of the rape and murder of Angela Correa, a named Elvis, Doug gets robbed and looks to his existential dread, 22-year-old Greta tries to find 15-year-old high school classmate. His fight for neighbor for help in finding the last memory of one thing about adulthood that doesn’t suck. freedom sheds light on the shortcomings of the his late best friend. Through perseverance and Despite the support of her family, the vague American justice system and is a testament to courage, Doug must rise to action. impression of a job, and a place of her own, the human spirit. Greta still struggles to get out of bed. Every day. Good thing she lives in New York City, where everything seems twice as hard. Greta’s world looks pretty bleak…until she meets a woman named April.

Director(s): Jia Wertz Director(s): Matt Valade, Connor Rog Director(s): Sparkman Clark Producer(s): New York Film Academy Producer(s): Cathryn Schara Producer(s): Sparkman Clark, Editor(s): Jia Wertz Screenwriter(s): Matt Valade Edgar Velez, Amy Wadford, Julian West Dir. of Photography: Trishna Mahtani Editor(s): Connor Rog Screenwriter(s): Sparkman Clark Key Subject(s): Jeffrey Deskovic, Dir. of Photography: Editor(s): Sparkman Clark Dan Horace E. Anderson Jr. Andrea Van Niekerk Dir. of Photography: Edgar Velez Key Cast: Doug Goldring, Key Cast: Sparkman Clark, Jenn Sapozhnikov, Anthony Misiano, Callan Suozzi-Rearic, Julian West Kam Perez

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MOMMY’S NIGHTMARE MORNING MOURNING THE OLD MAN

USA / DOCUMENTARY / 10 MINS USA / DARK COMEDY / 15 MINS USA / DRAMA, COMEDY / 16 MINS

While my mother filmed my Kindergarten Morning Mourning follows two outrageously Alan, a 70-something widower, lives a dull and Halloween parade, a monster waited for her odd sisters, Pearl and Zelda, as they mourn their quiet life in his house, which he rarely leaves. back at home. mother’s death at Greenwood Cemetery. Rating When his daughter pitches him the idea of the lives of her deceased lady neighbors on the moving into an assisted living community, he level of sexism they experienced in their day, the begins to recognize that he is no longer the girls distract themselves from the grief of their young man that he thought he was. Just as this mother’s passing through morbid humor and happens, a 20-something named Naomi moves satirical commentary. in next door, forcing Alan’s reflection on his age to become even more apparent.

Director(s): Jonathan Napolitano Director(s): Dana Greenfield Director(s): Devin Peluso Producer(s): Brian Bolster, Kayleigh Producer(s): Gabby Bryan, Producer(s): Joseph Kaiser, Napolitano David Bryan, Lauren Flack, Devin Peluso Editor(s): Jonathan Napolitano David Elijah Screenwriter(s): Devin Peluso Dir. of Photography: Jonathan Screenwriter(s): Gabby Bryan Editor(s): Shannon Rose Kelly, Napolitano Editor(s): Chris Plunkett Isaac Kuruvilla Balachandran Key Subject(s): Donna Napolitano, Dir. of Photography: Sam Wolff Dir. of Photography: Jacob Love Jonathan Napolitano, Key Cast: Gabby Bryan, Magdalena Key Cast: Steve Coulter, Kate Pittard, Krystal Napolitano Borlando, Maude Mitchell, Patrick Monaghan, Claudia Troy Robert Kelly, Saiyam Kumar

Greenwich International Film Festival | 29 BEST CONNECTICUT SHORTS

THE OTHER SIDE THIS BODY HAS NO TEXT WAX PAUL NOW

USA, ETHIOPIA / DRAMA / 17 MINS USA / EXPERIMENTAL, DOCUMENTARY / 4 MINS USA / COMEDY, MOCKUMENTARY / 16 MINS

Days before his 18th birthday, Abel (Ethan A study of retroactive catharsis through nature, After a visit to Madame Tussauds Times Square, Herisse, “When They See Us”) finds himself spoken word, and skin. three New Yorkers answer the museum’s call about to age out of his orphanage and leave for ideas on which celebrity to en-waxify next. his younger brother, Kiya, behind. But when a The girls propose Paul Giamatti and start an prospective adopting couple threatens to break online movement to get the actor a statue of their relationship apart, the brothers wrestle his own. The “Wax Paul Now” movement goes with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired viral, featured by Vulture, Forbes, The New York by a true story. Times, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The girls plot to create their own statue and to sneak it inside the museum. But after they are forcibly removed, the girls decide to work out- side Madame Tussauds once and for all. They rent out the souvenir shop directly across the street and open a pop-up wax museum for one night, celebrating an unveiling truly worthy of Paul Giamatti.

Director(s): Josh Leong Director, Producer, Director(s): Val Bodurtha, Producer(s): Sofia Bara, Bemnet Screenwriter, Editor and Director Sophie Mann, Rebecca Shaw Yemesgen, Augustine Hong, of Photography: Sophie Bardos Producer(s): Val Bodurtha, Jonathan Ferguson, Khalil-El Ghoul, Key Cast: Sophie Bardos Sophie Mann, Rebecca Shaw Sounil & Gracie Yu, Daniel & Carolina Screenwriter(s): Val Bodurtha, Bara, Jin & May Leong Sophie Mann, Rebecca Shaw Screenwriter(s): Josh Leong Editor(s): Debbie McMurtrey Editor(s): Josh Leong Dir. of Photography: Wolfgang Held Dir. of Photography: Tom Ingwersen Key Cast: Val Bodurtha, Sophie Mann, Key Cast: Ethan Herisse, Wayna, Rebecca Shaw, Paul Giamatti, Adonai Kelelom Trevor van Uden, Richard Brevard

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Greenwich International Film Festival is proud to support talented filmmakers with awards and cash prizes in three categories. We are grateful to our underwriters who allow us to provide financial support through these special awards. Thank you to all of the filmmakers who entered GIFF’s film competition and participated in our first-ever virtual Festival!

Best Social Impact Film Award Presented by Bill & Ann Bresnan Foundation

Best Connecticut Short Film Award Presented by The Connecticut Office of Film, Television & Digital Media

The JP Morgan Chase Audience Award Presented by JP Morgan Chase *New this year, giving our audience the chance to vote for their favorite film!

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