Their work primarily focuses on creating LGBTQIA+ content through their company, JR VISION FILMS. “Spare Change” directed, written, and produced by Jesse RandallĪbout Jesse: Jesse Randall is a writer, director, & producer based in Los Angeles. Watch the NFMLA interview with Fiorella Vescovi Garcia director and writer of “Mal de Amores”: Soon she discovers what she needs to fix in her life. Feeling lost and alone, Nat hooks up with Noel, a woman she meets at the bar, but it doesn’t help. She goes to her friends Bea and Lucia for support, but they’ve had enough of her pity party and call her out on her obsession. Fiorella was also a recipient of the Inside Out RE:Focus Fund, a post-production grant by the Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival.Ībout “Mal de Amores”: Natalia “Nat” Barbieri just discovered that her ex-girlfriend Tara is engaged to a douchey, rich, European playboy. Fiorella has been selected as a participant of the 2022 Hola Mexico Film Festival’s Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today program, sponsored by Warner Bros. Fiorella’s short film script, “Mal de Amores,” is semi-autobiographical and a proof of concept for an LGBTQ+ TV series. In 2020, Fiorella was chosen to join the Women in Film mentee program as a writer/director. Watch the NFMLA interview with Orlando Bedolla director of “Encuerados”:Ībout Fiorella: Fiorella Vescovi Garcia is a Los Angeles-based Latinx writer, director, and actor from Montevideo, Uruguay. The film issues a call to action to destigmatize preconceived notions of Latino machismo, kink and fetishes, while building community and representation for the leather Latino community to thrive. By showcasing the legacy of Leo, “Encuerados” takes a deep dive into the leadership of nine trailblazers, empowered to create representation in leather competitions. He worked as a production coordinator for the Ellen Show and as a creative marketing production manager for Disney+.Ībout “Encuerados”: A chronicle of nine Latino men in the leather scene, primarily focusing on the historical attainment of the first Latino man winning the title of Mr. Orlando Interned at GLAAD, where he wrote and directed a PSA that caught national attention and was featured in the Spanish language national TV show Despierta America. He produced and directed two short documentaries: Preserving LGBT History (a history of the ONE Archives) and Coming Out: The LGBT Cultural Revolution Before Stonewall (about LGBTQ activism in Los Angeles before Stonewall). They hold an MFA in Nonfiction Media from Hunter College.Ībout “A Spell For Queer Home”: A spell to conjure a sense of queer home for the filmmaker, their community and the collective - to know that we are enough, that we were never meant to do this alone, that queer home is possible, radical, and happening.Ībout Orlando: Orlando Bedolla is a filmmaker working to create LGBTQ content. Their work has been exhibited internationally. Their editing work includes narrative, documentary, and experimental films, commercial projects for MTV, Refinery29, Condé Nast, and NBC Universal, and the feature documentary, Roleplay. Their directing work includes award winners such as the TV pilot Mercy Mistress and the documentary projects Home Abyss and Dear Elsa: 10 Letters + 10 Experiments. They are rooted in their commitment to creating films and experiences as portals for breaking binaries, embodied experience, and a way to see and be seen. “A Spell For Queer Home” directed, written and produced by Amanda MaddenĪbout Amanda: Amanda Madden’s work experiments with queer evolutions of intimacy, identity, landscape, and connection. Her script and directing work delves into themes like searching for one’s self-identity, which relates to complex sexuality and mental states of every human being, as well as subcultures such as underground art forms and rural humanities, unresolved love, and loneliness. She aspires to tell untold stories on screen and experiment with bold and visual language. “After Sunset, Dawn Arrives” directed and written by Andy Yi LiĪbout Andy: Andy is a filmmaker born and raised in Sichuan, China. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. All filmmakers are welcome and encouraged to submit their projects for consideration for upcoming NFMLA Festivals, regardless of the schedule for InFocus programming, which celebrates diversity, inclusion and region by spotlighting communities of filmmakers within our filmmaking community as part of our monthly program. NFMLA showcases films by filmmakers of all backgrounds throughout the year, across both our general and InFocus programming.
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