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IF YOU WATCH… Where: Eventive via aspenfilm.org When: Program Two; Streaming through April 11 How Much: $15/single program; $60/Five Program Pass; $150/Full Virtual Pass; $250/VIP Pass; $45/student pass Tickets: aspenfilm.org For his directorial debut, the actor Zach Woods best known for playing uptight neurotics on “The Office” and “Silicon Valley” called in some A-list actors for a two-day pre-pandemic film shoot. The result is “David,” a 12-minute gem playing at the virtual Aspen Shortsfest through Sunday. It stars the comic great Will Ferrell as a therapist, William Jackson Harper of “The Good Place” as his patient in crisis and the young Fred Hechinger (“News of the World”) as the therapist’s live-wire son. The patient and child, both named David, vie for Ferrell’s attention in a winning and bittersweet tragicomedy. ....
IF YOU WATCH… Where: Eventive via aspenfilm.org When: Program One; Streaming Tuesday to Sunday How Much: $15/single program; $60/Five Program Pass; $150/Full Virtual Pass; $250/VIP Pass; $45/student pass Tickets: aspenfilm.org More info: A livestream Q&A with filmmakers from Program One will run Tuesday at 6 p.m. Set and shot in Telluride, the short film “Chuj Boys of Summer” is an intimate portrait of a friendship among young immigrants in Colorado ski country. It stars high school students Yak Alux and Pedro Lucas, each playing a version of himself Yakin and Petu as a young Chuj immigrant working in the resort town. The Chuj are a Mayan people from the mountains in what is now Guatemala. A sizable portion of Chuj immigrants have settled in the mountains of Colorado and in Telluride, where director Max Walker-Silverman estimated the Chuj community numbers about 200. ....
Where: Eventive via aspenfilm.org When: Program Two; Streaming April 6-11 How Much: $15/single program; $60/Five Program Pass; $150/Full Virtual Pass; $250/VIP Pass; $45/student pass Tickets: aspenfilm.org What if the most politically incisive cultural artifact of 2020 turns out to be a 9-minute documentary about cute squirrels and the online communities devoted to them? Once you watch director Jill Morley’s “Squirrel Wars,” which will make its world premiere at the virtual Aspen Shortsfest next week, you may be willing to consider the possibility. If you lived through recent American history, you may find yourself unsurprised by the fact that fan pages for adorable squirrels transformed, in 2020, into bitter political war grounds where actual Nazis emerged. ....
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IF YOU WATCH… Where: Eventive via aspenfilm.org When: Program Nine; Streaming through April 11 How Much: $15/single program; $60/Five Program Pass; $150/Full Virtual Pass; $250/VIP Pass; $45/student pass Tickets: aspenfilm.org More info: A livestream Q&A with filmmakers from Program Nine will run Saturday, April 10 at 3 p.m. So much of what we see about contemporary U.S. immigration is centered on the halls of power in Washington or on the people crossing at the southern border. The eye-opening and inspiring short documentary “Welcome Strangers” instead trains its compassionate focus on a moment you might not have previously thought about. ....