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Skin for Skin

Skin for Skin is a dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning set during the early days of the fur trade. In 1823, the Governor of the largest fur-trading company in the world travels across his Dominion, extracting ever-greater riches from the winter bounty of animal furs. In his brutal world of profit and loss, animals are slaughtered to the brink of extinction until the balance of power shifts, and the forces of nature exact their own terrible price. With nods to Melville and Coleridge, directors Carol Beecher & Kevin Kurytnik have created a visually stunning contemporary myth about the cost of arrogance and greed.

Skin for Skin

7.0 2017
Jokinen

Moving somewhere between historical research, a detective story and an arts and crafts club, the film is based on documentary research. However, it is unconventional, both in terms of form and narrative structure. Jokinen is constructed from newspaper and book quotes as well as the artist’s own narration. Since the piece directly cites texts from the 1930s, it uses some language that is offensive from today’s perspective. By exposing a story from the 1930s, the artist asks whether there are any similarities in the present and the past.

Jokinen

7.0 2017
Survive DC

Imagine yourself in a real-life zombie apocalypse. People you once called friend or ally now mercilessly hunt you down in the street. Survive DC follows four teams as they participate in a one-of-a-kind footrace through the streets of our nation's capitol. They run, hide, strategize, and con their way through the 15-mile, five-hour game, trying to avoid being infected by other players. Some participants come dressed as superheroes, villains, and zombies and have trained all year for the event. The race is free of charge, totally open-source, and very illegal.

Survive DC

NR 2017
The Monster Within

Since 2012, The Harlem Veteran Project has dedicated their time to recording and preserving the stories of American Veterans. Through this process the students have learned the long term impact of war on individuals and the community. In 2016, the Harlem Veteran Project students took an extended look into the impact war had on veterans, Jim Thew and Alex Feggestad. During this journey the students learned the reality of war and Jim and Alex experienced the power of healing through oral history.

The Monster Within

NR 2017
One Education, Two Systems

In late 2015, a group of high school students arranged a four-day exchange program between an international school and a local school in Hong Kong. The exchange was filmed by a team of students from both schools and developed into a 40-minute documentary titled, “One Education, Two Systems”. The aim of the project was to develop mutual understanding and appreciation between students at international schools and traditional local schools in Hong Kong and help bridge the divide in the education system. At the same time, the documentary also seeks to spark discussion on education-related topics, various disparities and other differences between the two systems (teaching styles, mental health, learning attitude, general atmosphere and competitiveness).

One Education, Two Systems

NR 2017
Inside a Gang Initiation with the Silent Murder Crips

"For JT, a young prospect making his way into a local branch of the Crips in Brooklyn, joining the gang is about family: Getting close to a group of men that care about him, and are willing to back him up if he ever finds himself in trouble. "But getting initiated isn't easy. We followed JT through the process of getting made to see what drew him to the gang, and to hear why he's willing to be "squared in"—suffering a brutal beating at the hands of his best friends."

Inside a Gang Initiation with the Silent Murder Crips

NR 2017
Teaching the Nightingale

Teruko, a Japanese woman in her mid-thirties, is struggling with a secret dilemma, but she cannot tell anyone, not even Larry, an openly and happily gay Australian who she thinks of as her best friend. When she meets Larry for lunch one day in an upscale Tokyo coffee shop, she is reaching a crisis point. As Larry begins to sense that Teruko is holding something back, we see what happened to her the previous weekend when she went hiking in the mountains. The two days she spent in the mountains led Teruko to a turning point in another significant relationship and a decision to move on, but now she feels trapped and hopeless. In a moment of weakness she asks Larry to do something for her that will bring their friendship to a turning point.

Teaching the Nightingale

NR 2017
El Ganador

In the Mexican town of Oaxaca, Adalberto's wife, Rosario, slams the door on their twenty-year marriage and leaves to live with her sister in Australia. The day of her departure, her nearly-blind old uncle - in a hospice for the dying - wins the lottery. Misogynist Adalberto puts on a wig and a dress and 'becomes' Rosario in hopes of inheriting the money. But the uncle's notary finds another niece and the newly-minted 'Rosario' must prove herself the more deserving heir. Ambition gets sidetracked as Adalberto attempts to win the contest by caring for an abandoned child and ends up playing grandmother to a six-year-old version of himself.

El Ganador

5.0 2017