Dir. Thom Harp
Short Narrative
13mins

Joy, played by Sandra Oh, is not desperate. She is not afraid to be alone. She is not going to let the image of her boyfriend Scott humping her roommate ruin her happiness. Or at least that's what she keeps telling herself as she walks into a coffee shop where name-tagged couples are sitting and flirting in a speed dating session.

Friday, March 24, 2pm (Yellow Rage Shorts)

Dir. Olivia Rosewood
Short Narrative
16mins

Fight Ballet is a comedic short film about two twenty-something women who realize their life's purpose is to become classical ballerinas. Unfortunately, the women are clumsy and awkward, and end up getting kicked out of their ballet school.

Friday, March 24th, 2pm (Yellow Rage Shorts)

Dir. Caryn Waechter
Short Narrative
23mins

Written by Dennis Lee, "God is Good" tells the story of innocence lost--seven-year-old Korean-American Harold Choi's story, unfolding on a beautiful summer day in 1978 before he witnesses his mother's desperate reaction to her husbands infidelities. This film is based on a true story.

Friday, March 24th, 2pm

Dirs. Ann Poochareon, Geraldine Chung, and Vivian Wenli Lin
Documentary
8mins

Hello Kitty is Dead addresses commonly held stereotypes of the "exotic" Asian women by extracting images from mainstream American media. While these narratives attempt to represent us using cliched, one-dimensional characters, we reverse the process and re-examine them and their effect on America's inherently racist system of representation.

Friday, March 24th 2pm

Dir. Bailey Barash
Documentary
21mins

Edna Lewis, the African American granddaughter of freed slaves, grew up on a farm in Freetown, Virginia. This is the story of her life's journey and how it ultimately converged with the quest of a young, gay, white man from Alabama.Young Edna Lewis went from rural Virginia to Depression era New York where she tasted real freedom from racism for the first time, joined the Communist Party and became a renowned chef, serving the glitterati of art, theater, and literature. She wrote of her life and her recipes in several popular cookbooks including The Taste of Country Cooking (Knopf, 2002) which introduced her to foodies across the country. Miss Lewis emphasized the use of fresh, simple ingredients and authentic southern dishes.

Friday, March 24th, 4pm
w/ This Black Soil

Dir. Teresa Konechne
Documentary
58mins

This lyrical and inspiring documentary chronicles the successful struggle of Bayview, Virginia, a small and severely impoverished rural African-American community, to pursue a new vision of prosperity. Catalyzed by the defeat of a state plan to build a maximum-security prison in their backyard, the powerful women leaders and residents created the Bayview Citizens for Social Justice non-profit organization, secured $10 million in grants, purchased the proposed prison site land and are now building a new community from the ground up.Under the leadership of visionary women, this new rural village challenges all conventional ideas of community development and includes not only improved and affordable housing, but a sustainable economic base to earn a living wage, a community center for educating its residents, a daycare center, laundromat, and a community farm, which provides jobs and income for the organization and returns them to their roots, working on the land.

Friday, March 24th, 4pm
w/ Fried Chicken and Sweet Potato Pie

Dir. Jill Maxcy
Mocumentary
11mins

It's a love story really. Filled with drama, suspense, guns, and a bank robbery. Not many mock documentaries pull off the the comic timing needed to be side-splitting. This one does.

Friday, March 24th, 6pm
w/ Left Lane

Dir. Samantha Farinella
Documentary
1hr 43mins

Filmmaker Samantha Farinella follows celebrated spoken word performer Alix Olson on the road. The documentary captures the essence of Olson's performance and activism across the country. Must see. Hilarious!

Friday, March 24th, 6pm
w/ Never Rob a Bank with Someone You Love!

Dir. Monica Nahm
Short Narrative
25mins

Be Very Quiet is a story of Thana, a young man that witnessed the rape and murder of his prostitute mom when he was a child. After spending his youth at a temple in the suburbs, Thana comes back to the city to start a new life until one night he sees a man that resembles the killer in his memory. Obsessed with hatred and haunted by nightmares, Thana encounters a path to avenge his mother's death.

Friday, March 24th, 8pm w/ Seoul Train

Dirs. Lisa Sleeth, Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky
Documentary
54mins

With its riveting footage of a secretive 'underground railroad,' SEOUL TRAIN is the gripping documentary into the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland and China. As the UN stands idly by, the Chinese Government - in direct violation of international laws to which it's a party - systematically arrests and forcibly repatriates hundreds of these refugees each month. Defecting from North Korea is a capital offense, and repatriated refugees face human rights abuses ranging from concentration camps and torture to forced abortion and summary executions. For a lucky few refugees, however, there is hope ... a group of activists has taken it upon themselves to create an Underground Railroad. An ABSOLUTE MUST SEE FILM, say the Girl Fest programmers.

Friday, March 24th, 8pm, FILMMAKER WILL BE PRESENT
w/ Be Very Quiet