FRIDAY OCT 18 at Froggy’s
T H E 2 0 2 4 T O P A N G A F I L M F E S T I V A L
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TRAVELS INSIDE FOREIGN HEADS
FRIDAY OCT 18, 11:00-1:00 PM at Froggy’s
RUNTIME: 1:54:34
FRANCE
Director: Antonio AMARAL
They are here, among us, grafted to humans. Everything goes wrong. They have seven days to leave Earth or they will be trapped here forever. Why does one of them keep delaying the moment of departure?
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DRUMMING BODIES DANCING
FRIDAY OCT 18, 1:00-2:00PM at Froggy’s
RUNTIME: 24:31
USA
Director: Susanna Elisabeth Knittel
Close to the coast with the pirogues fishing canoes in Senegal, we are invited to a women’s sabar circle, a joyful exchange of teasing and pleasing audience with liberating moves to the rhythms of the drums. We see a drum lesson with children, drum making and market mingling with the renowned Senegalese Teranga, generosity in action.
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SALMON PEOPLE Preserving a Way of Life
FRIDAY OCT 18, 2-3PM at Froggy's
RUNTIME: 1:04:00
USA
Directors: Beth Basa Pielert, Darrell Hillaire
Inspired by the late Chexanexwh Larry Kinley, a Lummi fisherman and tribal leader who worked to protect wild salmon and promote tribal sovereignty, Scha'nexw Elhtal'nexw Salmon People follows two Lummi families as they fish sockeye, navigating climate change, wildfire smoke and a depleting fishery.
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INTERNATIONAL ECLECTIC SHORTS COMPETITION
FRIDAY OCT 18, 3:00 - 5:00 PM at Froggy’s
1- Luke and Emma and a
Gas Station on Franklin Avenue | Director Levi Wilson2- Not Invincible | Director Tyson Kaup
3- Born of The Ice | Director Stephanie Alton
4- Monte Clerigo | Director Luis Campos
5- I am Kanaka | Director Genevieve Sulway
6- The Teacup | Director ZhiMin Hu
7- The Sprayer | Director Farnoosh Abedi
8- My Friends | Director Merlin Massara
9- Mushroom Disco | Director Shaina Rose, Zeke Reed, Shaina Rose
WE ARE GUARDIANS
A journey of hope in the midst of crisis
FRIDAY OCT 18, 5-7 PM AT FROGGY’S
Directors: Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman, Edivan Guajajara
We Are Guardians Indigenous follows forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and activist Puyr Tembé as they fight to protect their territories from deforestation, an illegal logger who has no choice but to cut the forest down, and a large landowner at the mercy of thousands of invaders and extractive industry.
FRIDAY OCT, 18 7:30-10PM AT FROGGY’S
Followed by a Q&A with Director Diego Vicentini and Producer Marcel Rasquini
SIMÓN
During the protests in Venezuela, Simón (Christian McGaffney) and his companions are arrested and tortured. Forced to flee Venezuela, he becomes an asylum seeker and heads to Miami. Immigration informs him that once he is granted asylum, he will not be able to return to his country. Simón faces both trauma and guilt and must make the decision whether to stay in Miami and start a new life or return home to face tyranny.
Directed, co-produced and edited by Venezuelan filmmaker Diego Vicentini.