Short Documentaries

A short documentary about the fight to end shackling in the United States. Watch: https://www.pbs.org/video/winn-fsghev/

Support: If/Then Finish Line Grant, Perspective Fund, PBS’ Reel South

Awards:

2022 Reel South Atlanta Film Festival Winner

2022 Justice on Trial Film Festival Best Short

More information: endprisonbirth.com

'We Are Blood' is a short documentary by Erica Tanamachi and Molly McKissick that takes us on a rare intimate journey inside a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. We begin to understand the plight of a diminishing people through the eyes of a preschool teacher who brings the spirit of play to children enduring the biggest refugee crisis of our time. We get to know Noor Kaida, a bright young Rohingya woman who describes her life in a 'birdcage' while she smiles in the hope of being seen. We see how the children are a wonder and a beacon of hope contrasted sharply to the suffocation of a world without possibility.

9 min, 16mm, color, 2005

Credits: Director | Producer | Cinematographer | Editor

Living Poets is a poetic short film about poets that took over the 16th and Mission Bart station in San Francisco every Thursday night.

Screenings:

SF International Shorts, 2006

Sonoma Valley Film Festival, 2006

Silver Lake Independent Film Festival, 2006

Mad Cat Women’s International Film Festival, 2005

Awards:

Best Short Documentary, Sonoma Valley Film Festival, 2006

Best Short Documentary, Silver Lake Film Festival, 2006

Best Documentary, Documentary Film Institute Award, 2006