Human Identities
presented by park school of communications
Saturday, October 26, 2019
1:00 PM
SIFF Cinema Uptown 1
ADULT: $13 | YOUTH: $12 | GROUP: $11
We're all on Team Human! In order to help reach a shared understanding of who we are, the untold stories of us must come to light. Get to know your neighbors, from near or far, as we work to make the bonds we all share a little tighter. We all get by with a little help from our friends!
Eve Robitshek - 18, Sophie Paquette - 17
Michigan
An experimental memoir to the girl I thought I was in love with.
Sophie Kim - 15
California
What happens to indigenous spirituality when colonial religions arrive? The words of a Guatemalan priestess of Maximón give insight into this deity and folk saint born of the ancient Maya traditions centuries ago.
Addison Dlott - 21, Unagh Frank - 21, Jakob Markwardt - 21, Audrey Warner - 20, Steven Stewart, 21
New York
Samantha Cohen is a professional underground wrestler who uses wrestling as a form of empowerment and as a temporary release from her daily struggles with depression, anxiety and self-image.
John Li - 16
New Jersey
Liu Hao, the blind pianist, tells the journey and struggles of how he and his mother left their home town in China to search for his chance to pursue his passion and perform in many of America's most prestige music halls.
Jubei Quesnelle - 15, Jayna Creighton-Fox - 14
Canada
Marlene Heavyshield (Glowing in the Dark Woman) is a Blackfoot Elder and survivor of the Canadian Residential School system. She shares her story of overcoming loss and trauma with a courageous heart and deep strength.
Xenia Bernal - 16, Ian Kim - 12, Hank Schoen - 12, India Spencer - 15, Talia Abel - 16, Alejandro Moses de la Vega - 11, Eva Suissa - 16, Michael Zambrano - 17
California
Hand-drawn animation illustrates Holocaust Survivor Erika Jacoby's memories of surviving Auschwitz. Produced in the summer 2018 Righteous Conversations Project Workshop at Harvard-Westlake School.
Brenten Brandenburg - 21, Kaustubh Singh - 20, Jordan Gorman - 21, Derek Wan - 23
California
It's 1970's San Francisco, and Reverend Raymond Broshears has just founded the world's first gay militant vigilante group - The Lavender Panthers