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Artist Prentiss Haney has a special feeling for “Ohio Shorts.”
In 2009, as a 17-year-old high-school student in Dayton, Haney made an experimental film selected for inclusion in that year’s edition of “Ohio Shorts,” the Wexner Center for the Arts’ long-running festival of short films created by filmmakers of all ages residing in the Buckeye State.
Haney remembers the screening as something of a breakthrough.
“I had never been to a film festival before; I had never had my films shown in a festival,” said Haney, now a 28-year-old resident of Cincinnati, who points to the validation of having his work shown in the company of other Ohio filmmakers.
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The documentary will air online as part of Ohio Shorts on Saturday, April 17
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Barento Taha first had the idea for “Risk Factor,” a short film that takes a long look into the Black infant mortality crisis, when he was studying computational neuroscience and pre-med at Ohio State University in 2016. At the time, Taha, who was born in Canada to parents who emigrated from Ethiopia and later moved with his family to the Northern Lights neighborhood of Columbus at age 3, felt disillusioned studying medicine, compelled by something inside to explore the world of documentary filmmaking.
“It just felt like a good idea,” said Taha, who completed his undergraduate degree in neuroscience and is currently wrapping his master’s in epidemiology at OSU with plans to attend the University of Southern California later this year, where he’s been accepted into the MFA directing program at the School of Cinematic Arts. “Th