Unapologetic received CIFF s Groundbreaker Award.
This year’s Cleveland International Film Festival includes a new honor, the Groundbreaker Award, celebrating the work of BIPOC filmmakers. This year’s award goes to Ashley O’Shay, for her film, “Unapologetic.”
The documentary tells the story of Janae and Bella, two Black, queer, women activists in Chicago fighting for police and justice reform in the aftermath of the police shootings of Laquan McDonald and Rekia Boyd.
Two Chicago shootings by police, one off duty and one on duty police officer. O Shay explained what she witnessed in the aftermath of both. Initially I was chronicling the organizing that was happening, specifically around Rekia Boyd because when the film started, it was the fall of 2015. And earlier that year, her killer Dante Servin, had basically deemed any sort of accountability via the court system, she said.
Open Hearts documentary hopes to inspire change in charity while screening at Cleveland International Film Festival
An inside look at the efforts of a local physician and of team of international doctors, as they perform 12 open-heart surgeries in six days in Haiti. Author: Kierra Cotton Updated: 7:23 PM EDT April 19, 2021
CLEVELAND The Cleveland International Film Festival kicked off last week and has been showing both national and local movies and documentaries.
One of the documentaries featured at this year’s festival is
Open Hearts, a documentary about the advancement of pediatric cardiac care in Haiti, led by a local physician, with a message of hope that extends far beyond the average medical mission.
/ Sandusky-born filmmaker Todd Stephens uses his hometown as the backdrop for his fictionalized memoir Swan Song.
The fictionalized memoir centers around an older gay man in Stephen’s hometown of Sandusky exploring how life has changed over the decades.
Just like the first two films in Stephens’ Ohio Trilogy, “Edge of 17” and “Gypsy 83,” “Swan Song” is a coming-of-age story set in Sandusky, except this film trades in youthful revelation for a sense of rediscovery.
“It s based on a man that I grew up sort of idolizing when I was a kid, and his name was Pat Pitsenbarger,” Stephens said.
Around Sandusky he was known as Mr. Pat.
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th Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced its theme:
BRING FILM HOME. The campaign, designed by the team at Type Twenty Seven, celebrates the connections we will form – even while we remain physically apart – when viewing the extraordinary on-screen stories created by our CIFF45 Streams filmmakers.
Brittyn DeWerth, Creative Director and owner of
Type Twenty Seven, stated: “This year we wanted to embody the Cleveland International Film Festival community and reflect how despite a physical distance we are even more connected than ever. By showcasing our homes as theaters, we reinforce the camaraderie that has developed over the decades, forming a neighborhood of