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Premiere of FOUND & NATIONAL SHORT FILMS OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

  • Columbia Theatre 1231 Vandercook Way Longview, WA, 98632 United States (map)

Join us for the Longview premiere event of “Found” a short film supported by and featuring the Columbia Theatre. The evening also features shorts by filmmakers whose work has been seen on Netflix, HBO, PBS and festivals worldwide.

*Some films contain adult language and topics, Parental discretion is advised

 
 

FOUND

Tabitha is stuck between two worlds. When the Artistic Director of her theatre company tokenizes her for his Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiative, she faces her reality of living in two skins.

 

Reena Dutt (director) is a city girl with a country soul who believes in creating with a conscience, on and off the stage and screen. She is dedicated to new and reimagined texts that catapult polarizing conversations through unexpected stories with the bodies, voices and life experiences of the underheard. Her short films as director, FOUND and RECLAMATION, are traveling the festival circuit, and her film TOO MANY BODIES which was supported by NoRAnow.org and Survivors Empowered is being rereleased as an evergreen re-edit advocating for gun reform. As a producer, her films have been screened  at over 80 festivals worldwide including Sundance, LAFF, Outfest, Frameline, Cucalorous, NBCUniversal, BET, PBS/Latino and HBO. She is also a seasoned director with plays opening in Oregon, New York, California and Indiana during the 22/23 season. www.ReenaDutt.com



BORN WITH IT

On his first day of school in a small Japanese town, a half Japanese half-black boy tries to prove to his new classmates that his dark skin is not a disease.

Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr. (director)  is an award-winning writer-director born and raised in Houston, Texas.  He started his career in Japan where he developed a passion for telling authentic, sensitive human-centered stories. His films have screened and won awards at over 50 film festivals internationally including Cannes, Toronto, Palm Springs, the NBC Short Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and more.  And as a commercial director, his work has garnered 6 Addy Awards.  He has helmed commercials for brands such as Mitsubishi, Phillips 66, and Tenaris. He received his B.A. in Film Studies from Stanford University and completed his Masters of Fine Arts in Film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.  He is represented for Film and Television by CAA and Neda Niroumand.



TALK BLACK

A timid engineer develops wild and expressive split personality to help her stand up to the boy’s club of work.

Destiny Macon (director) Writer and filmmaker. Received her B.S. at the University of South Carolina and completed the Professional Screenwriting Program at the University of California in Los Angeles. She has created several films and consulted numerous writers on their own work.







ZOMBIES LIKE TO WATCH

 

Lucy brings Brian home after a great first date, but Brian doesn't know that Lucy has a very particular kink. She likes to have her caged zombie watch her have sex with other partners.

 

Rollyn Stafford (director) works primarily as a director, actor and stand-in in Portland, Oregon. Credits include 'Grimm', Chuck Palahniuk's 'Romance', '1 Dead Dog', 'Road to Bob', 'Nicole, Her Ex, & the Killer', and 'Exorcist: The Fallen'. When not making movies, Rollyn works Events at the Portland Art Museum and follows Bob Dylan on tour.  Website: rollynstafford.com

 




AUTO CORRECT




An apologetic, self-doubting actress of color strives for visibility with a harried, big-shot white director who just wants to enjoy her lunch.


 Anu Bhatt (Co-Director) is an actor, classical dancer and polyglot who hops between San Diego and LA. She writes and creates work around South Asian-American identity, mental health and the balancing act of growing up American in an immigrant household. Anu’s autobiographical one-woman show Hollow/Wave navigates the aftermath of childhood sexual trauma through the medium of Indian classical dance. It premiered in Chicago in 2018 and later off-Broadway at the United Solo Theatre Festival in 2019. Anu received her B.A. in Linguistics from U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. in Acting from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. AutoCorrect is her first solo work for the screen. Her name, Anupama, means 'incomparable'.

Priyanka Shetty (Co-Director) is an award-winning actor, director, and playwright based in Philadelphia, PA. Her critically acclaimed one-woman show THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM has been performed at numerous venues across the country including The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and will be staged at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Assembly Festival. Priyanka recently made her Off-Broadway debut with her second solo play #CHARLOTTESVILLE at the Drama Desk award-winning 59E59 Theaters’ “East to Edinburgh” Festival. She was also handpicked for the prestigious Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2021, where she worked on THE WALL, the final play in her triptych of solos. Priyanka earned a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Virginia and has served on the faculty of the University of Virginia’s Department of Drama. www.priyankashetty.com. IG: @priyankashettyactor





A CURE FOR ALL THINGS

 

A young woman finds a mysterious vial amongst her late mother’s things, transforming her into their ancestors and descendants.

 

Katherine Chou (director) is a Taiwanese American writer and filmmaker. She first began making movies with friends in the suburbs of Los Angeles, before traveling the world for new perspectives to inspire her storytelling. Over the years, she’s backpacked solo across Europe and Asia, learned to play sanshin at the foot of Shuri Castle, and punched a deer in self-defense. Along the way, she’s come to tell strange, surreal stories rooted in themes of identity and personhood. A graduate of L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, she has developed her craft working alongside filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, George Tillman Jr., and Denise Di Novi, on films including Dunkirk and The Hate U Give. In 2019, she was invited to attend Bucheon International Film Festival’s Fantastic Film School in South Korea. Her film, A Cure for All Things, was produced through Visual Communications’ Armed With a Camera Fellowship and named a finalist in the Telling Our Stories Contest presented by STARZ, The Wrap, and Women in Film. She also produces theatre with Artists at Play. 

Earlier Event: February 6
Community Concert Assoc. Judy Carmichael
Later Event: February 11
Stage Door: Kathryn Rose