Feb 16—25, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Shared Stories:
Encore! Shorts
Back by popular demand! Featuring Audience Choice Award Winner shorts from Boston Asian American Film Festival, CineFest Latino Boston and Roxbury International Film Festival.
In partnership with
Shared Stories is a spring film series that seeks to build community, shared conversation, and experiences through cinema. This series aspires to create a shared space to find commonality across experiences, and encourage the exchange of stories and ideas. Presented by ArtsEmerson in collaboration with the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), CineFest Latino Boston and the Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm).
Films
Lili
Directed by: Brian Rios
15 mins | In Spanish | with subtitles
A father and daughter must cross the border in order to find a better life, but the daughter cannot speak.
In Tow
Directed by: Sharon Arteaga
21 mins | In English/Spanish | English & Spanish subtitles
A self-involved teen and her overworked single mom confront their differences as their mobile home is towed away … with them inside of it!
NaiNai and Waipo (Grandma and Grandma)
Directed by: Sean Wang
17 mins | in Mandarin | with subtitles
Nǎi Nai is my grandma. Wài Pó is also my grandma. Together, they are a grandma super team that dances and stretches their sorrows away.
The Old Young Crow
Directed by: Liam LoPinto
12 mins | Farsi, Japanese | With Subtitles
An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.
Savi the Cat
By: Netsie Tjirongo and Bryan Tucker
18 mins
When a devoted Kenyan husband surprises his new Black American wife with an adorable kitten, neither are prepared for the destruction it wields upon their home, their life, and ultimately their marriage.
Ro and The Stardust
Written & Directed by: Eunice Levis
15 mins
Free-spirited teen Ro fulfills her terminally ill grandmother’s dying wish to build a rocket ship that will launch her into outer space.
Info
Venue
Virtual Event
On Demand Streaming
Viewing window: Feb 16 @ 7 pm - Feb 26 @ 12 pm
Dates
Feb 16, 2024 - Feb 25, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Details
1 Hour 38 mins
$10
All Ages
Access
Subtitles Available for certain films
Tickets
Artists
Brian Rios
Brian Ríos is a filmmaker from San Juan, PR. He has a BS in Film/TV from Boston University 10’. Brian has been an Assistant Director in Puerto Rico for the past 12 years. Most recently working on tv series Fantasy Island, Baker and the Beauty, and Startup.
Sharon Arteaga
Sharon Areaga is a writer/director who convinced her mom to buy her a video camera instead of a Quinceañera. A first-generation Mexican-American, from Corpus Christi, Texas, Arteaga’s work playfully incorporates themes of generational, linguistic, and cultural differences between people. Arteaga has been recognized by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) as a Latinx Director to Know. Her short films have won several awards including the 2021 HBO Latinx Short Film Competition, and her film “When You Clean a Stranger’s Home” is now streaming on HBO Max
Sean Wang
Sean is a filmmaker from Fremont, CA, currently living in Los Angeles. He is a Google Creative Lab 5 alum, Young Guns 19 Winner, 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow, 2021 SFFILM Rainin grantee, and 2022 Sundance Institute | Asian American Foundation fellow.
He is currently in development on his first feature film, DÌDI (弟弟), with the Academy-Award nominated producing team of Carlos López Estrada and Kelly Marie Tran.
Liam LoPinto
Liam LoPinto is a filmmaker and animator based out of New York City. He graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ UGFTV program. He also studied at Waseda University in Tokyo. He attended CalArts’ Character Animation program from 2017-2021.
Eunice Levis
Writer and director, Eunice Levis is a first-generation Dominican American from the Bronx, New York. Eunice’s work focuses on genre-bending stories that combine her love of horror, sci-fi, thriller and fantasy through a diasporic lens.
Her work seeks to disrupt and challenge dominant narratives around technology, race, gender, history, and diaspora identity by altering the stories we tell about them.
She is a two-time Sundance Lab Second Rounder, a Stowe Story Lab Fellow, and a Netflix/NALIP Women of Color Short Film Incubator fellow.
Her latest film, RO & THE STARDUST, a space fantasy short was selected for inclusion in the 2021 NALIP Latino Lens Women of Color Short Film Incubator, sponsored by Netflix. The film won Best Narrative Short at the 25th Annual Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, making it an Oscar® qualified Narrative Short Film.
Partners
Shared Stories is a spring film series that seeks to build community, shared conversation, and experiences through cinema. This series aspires to create a shared space to find commonality across experiences, and encourage the exchange of stories and ideas. Presented by ArtsEmerson in collaboration with the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF), CineFest Latino Boston, and the Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm).
New England’s Largest Asian American Film Festival
The Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF) empowers Asian Americans through film by showcasing Asian American experiences and serving as a resource to filmmakers and the Greater Boston Community. BAAFF is a co-production of Asian American Resource Workshop and ArtsEmerson.
The Roxbury International Film Festival (ROXFILM) is the largest festival in New England celebrating people of color around the world. Over nine days, the festival presents narrative and documentary features, shorts, animation, experimental, and youth films. The festival holds workshops, panel discussions, discussions with filmmakers, and networking opportunities. ROXFILM is a competitive festival.
CineFest Latino Boston LLC is an annual film festival conducted in Boston, highlighting stories by and about Latinos. The festival is committed to using the power of film to break stereotypes, bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues affecting the Latinx community in the United States, as well as communities in Latin America and Spain.
