Mass Reality Check college documentary shorts program at SFF 2018

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Manos Abierta En Esta Tierra (Open Hands in this Land)

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Marylys Merida

The land between family and community.

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The Vendors

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Matt Elicone

New England flea market vendors reflect on their role in the subculture. Through interviews, they talk about what they sell and why, along with other various topics. The Vendors encapsulates overall flea market culture, the community, the items for sale, and most importantly, the individual vendors themselves.

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Eastie

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Blake Smith

Eastie is a film about Cucchiello’s Bakery being pushed out of East Boston after 70 years in business. We made the film in hopes of bringing to light the effects that gentrification can have on small businesses such as this one.

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Art of the March

Sep 2018

2018 | Directed by Emily Gordon, Ellie LaCourt, Connor Lewis

After the 2017 Women’s March in Boston, professors from Northeastern University collected over 6,000 protest signs, creating a living archive of the signs. Art of the March highlights the living archive project as well as the role of protest signs and the function of protests in our democracy.

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Project Puffin

Sep 2018

Project Puffin
2018 | Directed by Vanessa Kahn

Take a trip off the coast of Maine and visit the country’s only colony of Atlantic Puffins. Follow these pint-sized seabirds across the island of Eastern Egg Rock, where researchers and interns work to continue to preserve this species in an effort which is forty-four years in the making.

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The Field

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Daymian Mejia

Passion, strength, and dedication in every field.