I Choose You
Abandoned on an Ethiopian church step with serious health complications, filmmaker Dulcinea Harrison traces her origin story from Addis Ababa to Colorado Springs, and in doing so, poses profound questions about what makes a family.
Student Film
Generational Curses
After years of estrangement, incarceration, and broken promises, how does one high schooler employ documentary storytelling and art of filmmaking to carry her family into spaces that can heal and reconcile?
Skinned Knees
Colorado Springs filmmaker Olive Van Eimeren returns to her childhood home of Grand Junction to confront her past and seek reconciliation withan abusive father in this searing coming-of-age story.
Our Time: LONELY HIGHWAY and TWICE EXCEPTIONAL
In his film LONELY HIGHWAY, 18 year old filmmaker Andy Kwiatkowski shares what life was like growing up with autism. In TWICE EXCEPTIONAL, 14-year-old filmmaker Samuel Faux introduces his audience to apraxia of speech which has affected him since he began speaking.
As We Were
On a winter afternoon, Alex must realize the importance of family and her responsibility for her grandfather, remembering that he had done the same for her when she was little.
Surviving
Tea tells the story of her childhood which included a life-threatening illness that necessitated open heart and brain surgeries all before the age of ten. The trauma of these events led to debilitating depression in high school, including forced admission to a psychiatric hospital. Tea’s film SURVIVING intimately recounts these events while revealing her own personal battle to slay the demons that threatened her will to live.
