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Show C-8 The Park Record Continued from C-7 Lab fellows announced recipient of the Ousmane Sembene Short Film Development Award. Her most recent short film, “Farewell Meu Amor,” stars Tony Award-nominee Sahr Ngauja. Her feature screenplay “Farewell Amor” has been supported by the 2018 Jerome Foundation Grant, Tribeca All Access Fellowship, IFP/No Borders Fellowship, 2018 Cine Qua Non Lab Fellowship, and Joan Darling’s Directors Workshop with mentorship from Keith Gordon. • “Goliath” (U.S.A.) / Anthony Onah (writer/director): After a brilliant African American scientist discovers a leading pesticide may be harmful, paranoia and rage threaten to consume him as he battles its manufacturer, the most powerful chemical company in the world. Based on a true story. This project is the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Anthony Onah is a Nigerian American filmmaker who grew up in the Philippines, England, Nigeria, Togo, and the U.S. His debut feature, “The Price,” premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival in the Narrative Feature Competition, and was released in theaters in November 2017. Onah graduated from Harvard, where he studied biochemistry and neuroscience, then earned an MFA in film directing from UCLA. He was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s list of “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015, and is an alum of the Sundance Institute Catalyst Forum. NEW YEARS EVE RETRO BASH HOSTED BY ACTOR CHRIS EVANS Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, December 22-25, 2018 • “Pretty Red Dress” (United Kingdom) / Dionne Edwards (writer/director): South London, present day. Travis, a black man newly released from prison, returns to a turbulent home life with his longtime girlfriend Candice and their androgynous daughter Kenisha. The family’s precarious balance is sent spinning when they discover him cross-dressing, calling all of their relationships into question. Dionne Edwards is a screenwriter and director. Her short film “We Love Moses” screened at over 50 festivals worldwide, including the London Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, and has won multiple awards, including Short Film of the Year at the Critics’ Circle Film Awards in 2018. This year, Edwards shadowed director Reinaldo Marcus Green (“Monsters and Men”) on the third season of the Netflix series “Top Boy.” She also directed “That Girl,” a 30-minute drama in Channel 4’s ‘On the Edge’ series. • “Story Ave” (U.S.A.) / Aristotle Torres (co-writer/director) and Bonsu Thompson (co-writer): After running away from his rough home life, a teenage graffiti artist holds up an unsuspecting old man in a robbery gone right that changes both of their lives forever. Aristotle Torres is a writer, director, and producer from the Bronx, NY. Torres founded By Any Means, a multi-media artist collective, and directed content for NaS, KanYe West, The Roots and Ludacris, among others. He produced the feature “Are We Not Cats,” which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and won the audience award at Sitges 2016. Torres’ short film “Story Ave” screened at several regional festivals across the U.S. and will have its international premiere at Festival Sayulita in Mexico City in 2019. He recently wrote and directed his third short film, “The Chair,” a Mandarin thriller shot on location in Taiwan. Bonsu Thompson is a writer, producer, and Brooklynite. He co-wrote the short film “Story Ave,” has created digital documentaries (BET.com’s Prelude,) and has helped lead media entities in roles including Editor-in-Chief of The Source, Creative Consultant for MTV2, and Music Editor for XXL magazine. • “This Land is Your Land” (U.S.A.) / Adrienne Rush (writer): A young aspiring artist tracks down her favorite painter, now a recluse living in rural Michigan, in hopes of becoming his assistant and finding her voice. While slowly gaining his trust and helping to care for his two young daughters, she clashes with a local militia, sparking a violent rupture that threatens her new world and everyone in it. Hailing from Virginia, Adrienne Rush was raised under a strict “no television allowed” policy. Consequently, she spent most of her college years in a room with an HBO subscription and went on to receive her MFA cycle Re PARK CITY U tah in Screenwriting from FSU’s College of Motion Picture Arts. Rush has been the recipient of a Humanitas Prize and recently contributed to a forthcoming series for Amazon Studios created by Barry Jenkins. • “A Thousand and One Nights” (U.S.A.) / A.V. Rockwell (writer/director): An orphan with a mysterious past and the free-spirited hairdresser who takes him in embark on a search for identity and stability in a rapidly changing New York City. A.V. Rockwell is an award-winning filmmaker from Queens, New York. Her previous short films include “The Gospel,” “B.L.B.” and “KIDS.” Rockwell has received fellowships from Tribeca Film Institute, the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, and the Sundance Institute. Her latest short film “Feathers” was recently acquired for distribution by Fox Searchlight and will screen at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. • “Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces)” (South Africa) / Chantel Clark (writer/director): In the late 18th century, in the Dutch Cape Colony, the brilliant and rebellious daughter of an exiled Imam hopes to escape her father’s shadow when she is enlisted by a freed slave to teach a mysterious Dutch officer’s children. At his remote estate, the dark secrets underlying the power of the colonial occupation begin to unravel. Chantel Clark is a South African director and screenwriter based in New York City. A recent MFA graduate of the Film Program at Columbia University, her thesis film “Our Albertinia” was awarded a 2018 National Board of Review Student Grant, as well as the first Columbia University/Big Sky Edit Visionary Award. She is also the recipient of a Katharina Otto-Bernstein Thesis Film Fund Grant and was selected for inclusion in the ASCAP Foundation’s 2018 Film Scoring program in collaboration with Columbia University. “Wit Gesigte (Pale Faces)” will be her feature directorial debut. • “Yurt (Dormitory)” (Turkey) / Nehir Tuna (writer/director): Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father’s behest, eleven-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings. Nehir Tuna is a Turkish screenwriter and director. He has written and directed seven short films, including “The Shoes,” a prequel to his forthcoming feature, “Yurt (Dormitory).” “Yurt (Domitory) has been supported by Nipkow Programm in Berlin and !f Sundance Screenwriters Lab. 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