FILMADELPHIA SHORTS PROGRAM
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with various participating filmmakers.
SCREENING INCLUDES:
TRIPPING
AMELIA XANTHE BOSCOV | 11 MIN
A pregnant high schooler is forced to go on a road trip with her flirty-butch lesbian mom to get an abortion at the nearest women’s health clinic.
NOTHING LEFT UNDONE: THE ART OF G
MATTHEW OBER | 19 MIN
As Philadelphia artist G Kellum prepares for an upcoming gallery exhibition, he reflects on his artistic origins, life philosophy, and complicated relationship with success.
UNTITLED FLOATING MOM SHORT
AIDAN GUYNES | 10 MIN
A girl finds her mom floating one day. At the same time, the girl grapples with an unusually optimistic doctor’s visit.
THE HERP
FERN POPPY | 7 MIN
Everything changes when a young woman receives a distressing diagnosis…
STREET OF DREAMS
ALEXANDER PAUL BISCARDI | 18 MIN
Three city kids go to a party in the deep suburbs, where alcohol and gambling will make it difficult to return home.
THE WORLD TAKES
TOMMY BUTLER | 10 MIN
The power is out, the heat is off, and the family car is on the back of a tow truck when Joop, at 11 years old, discovers the cost of living.
THE BIG IDEA: BIRTH WITHOUT BIAS
SARAH KLEIN, TOM MASON | 25 MIN
Motivated by her own harrowing birth experience, journalist Kimberly Seals Allers is disrupting the hospital system to transform Black maternal health outcomes in the U.S.