CalArts Filmmakers Screen at Festivals Across North America and Europe

Alums and faculty from the School of Film/Video are screening their films at film festivals around the globe throughout the fall. More than 18 CalArtians’ works have been selected for the festival lineups (listed chronologically below), taking place across Canada, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

Toronto International Film Festival

Sept. 7-17
Multiple venues in Toronto

• We Don’t Talk Like We Used To by Joshua Gen Solondz (Film/Video MFA 16)
• It follows It passes on by Erica Sheu (Film/Video MFA 22)

Crossroads by San Francisco Cinematheque

Sept. 8-10
Gray Area, 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco

• Last Things by Deborah Stratman (Film/Video MFA 95)
• Heliotrope by School of Theater faculty Janie Geiser 
• untitled, skin film by Sailor DiNucci-Radley (Film/Video BFA 23)
• My Caldera by former School of Film/Video faculty Cauleen Smith 
• A throwing forth by Xiao Zhang (Film/Video MFA 23)
• bigbang by Karissa Hahn (Film/Video BFA 14)

San Sebastián Film Festival

Sept. 22-30
Multiple venues across Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

• Amma Ki Katha by Nehal Vyas (Film/Video MFA 23)

Camden International Film Festival

Sept. 14-25
Multiple venues in Camden, Rockport, and Rockland, Maine

• Curated by Zaina Bseiso (Film/Video MFA 21) 
• Ammi ki Katha by Nehal Vyas (Film/Video MFA 23)
• Let’s Go to the Mines by Advik Beni (Film/Video MFA 23)

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

Sept. 26–Oct. 1
Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bulevardul Dacia nr, 77, Bucuresti, Romania
Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie nr. 2, București, Romania

• Visão do Paraíso (Vision of Paradise) by Leonardo Pirondi (Film/Video BFA 22, MFA 25)

The New York Film Festival 

Sept. 29–Oct. 15
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York

• Allensworth by School of Film/Video faculty James Benning 
• The Far and Near by Justin Jinsoo Kim (Film/Video MFA 21)
• Preceded by Leonardo Pirondi (Film/Video BFA 22, MFA 25)
• When We Encounter the World by Zazie Ray-Trapido (Film/Video MFA 23)
• and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy) by School of Film/Video faculty Charlotte Pryce 
• We Don’t Talk Like We Used To by Joshua Gen Solondz (Film/Video MFA 16)
• Last Things by Deborah Stratman (Film/Video MFA 95)

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BFI London Film Festival

Oct. 4-15
Multiple venues across London, United Kingdom

• The Land is the Living Witness by Xiao Zhang (Film/Video MFA 23)
• Rizoo by Azadeh Navai (Film/Video MFA 15)

Tacoma Film Festival

Oct. 5-12
The Grand Cinema, 606 Fawcett Ave., Tacoma, WA
Blue Mouse Theater, 2611 N. Proctor St., Tacoma, WA

• It follows It passes on by Erica Sheu (Film/Video MFA 22)
• Visão do Paraíso (Vision of Paradise) by Leonardo Pirondi (Film/Video BFA 22, MFA 25)
• Lotus-Eyed girl by Rajee Samarasinghe (Film/Video MFA 16)

AFI Fest

Oct. 25-29
Multiple venues across Los Angeles

• CHUTES by Kenzie Sutton (Film/Video MFA 22)

— Ishika Muchhal