Filmmakers Alliance returns to THE VIADUCT to host VisionFest: FA at the Viaduct in conjunction with the California State Parks Department OUTDOORS under the LA State Historic Park Viaduct (at the north end of the Los Angeles State Historic Park) on OCTOBER 21ST!
VisionFest screens the best short films by the best indie filmmakers in Los Angeles. This year, we are celebrating EMERGING FEMALE FILMMAKERS!.....
...as well as the 25th Anniversary of FILMMAKERS ALLIANCE!!
With a special live performances by DISANTI and special guest CONWAY!
There will be a reception before the screening with great music as mentioned above, amazing food and drink, and a fun photo booth. ALL filmmakers will be in attendance and available for a brief discussion after the screening of each film.
Priscilla González Sainz is a writer and filmmaker who specializes in non-fiction media. She began her career in the Motion Picture Industry working with artist development programs at the Writer’s Guild of America, West, Sundance Institute and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). Priscilla earned her MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University, where she started the Latin American cinema screening series “Espejos.” Her films have screened at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, and more. Priscilla is a first-generation Mexican-American who likes to explore themes of displacement, disempowerment, and identity in her work.
Sontenish Myers is an award winning writer-director based in Harlem, NY and a thesis student at NYU's Grad Film program. In her work, racial identity, womanhood, power dynamics, and the heroic journey are often explored, and Sontenish intends to do so across genres.
Her most recent short film, Cross My Heart has screened all over the world, including East End Film Festival in the UK, Seattle International Film Festival, LA Film Festival, Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, BlackStar Film Festival, and Hollyshorts. It was also included in Refinery29's list of The Most Exciting Woman-Directed Films At 2018's Palm Springs Shortfest, where she was awarded the Alexis Award for Best Emerging Student Filmmaker.
She was recently accepted as a 2018-2019 IFP Marcie Bloom Fellow in Film.
Adria Tennor began her career as an actress and works regularly in television and film. She made her writing debut as a stand up comic, then spun her comedy into a one-woman show, StripSearch, based on her studies in pole dancing which played to rave reviews in Los Angeles. Her on-screen writing/directorial debut, Cracked, garnered awards and laurels around the country, while her first feature script, Never Been Born has been a finalist in multiple competitions and won her a CineStory Fellowship. Thus far, Pie has played in four different countries, won three audience awards, and a nod from the Rhode Island International Film Festival for Best Editing. Adria also owns and operates four restaurants in Los Angeles with her husband and partner, Claudio Blotta. Her ambition is to create more stories for and about women and to foster opportunities for a diverse point of view in theater, film and television.
Emily Ann Hoffman is an award winning animator, filmmaker, and artist. She has written and directed three short films thus far, Nevada (Sundance 2018), Ok, Call Me Back (Slamdance 2018), and The Emily & Ariel Show (LA Film Festival 2016). She spent 2017 as a Sundance Ignite Fellow and recently emerged from an Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Jacob Burns Film Center. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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