FREEMAN VINES
Directors: Tim Kirkman, André Robert Lee
USA, 15 min
For decades, 82-year-old Freeman Vines has been hand-carving guitars in hopes of replicating a sound that captivated and still haunts him.

THE LONG VALLEY
Directors: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
USA, 14 min
A documentary about the hopes and dreams of the people of the Salinas Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in California.

OH WHALE
Director: Winslow Crane-Murdoch
USA, 26 min
Following a small Oregon town, an exploding whale, and the man who made the story famous, OH WHALE is about how we don’t get to choose our fate, only what we make of it.

LA ORQUESTA
Directors: Monica Villavicencio, Stephanie Liu
USA, 22 min
A retired music teacher sets out to create a youth orchestra, the first of its kind for undocumented and mixed status families in Georgia.

TESSITURA
Directors: Lydia Cornett, Brit Fryer
USA, 18 min
TESSITURA explores the entangled ways that voice, character, and gender are continuously reformulated in opera.

Q&A with Co-Director Lydia Cornett (TESSITURA) follows