Are you going to the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation festival, running September 15-23? We are!
We’re looking forward to the screening of six Heights Middle School Shorts films at this year’s GCUFF festival on Saturday, September 17. The films will be followed by a panel discussion featuring their filmmakers talking about their journeys from ideas to screenplays to finished films.
This free community event will be moderated by Cynthia Booker, Heights High digital media teacher and two-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who dropped into HMSS this summer to give campers a hands-on filming experience. It will run from 1:10-3:10 pm in Theater 3 at Atlas Shaker Square.
The Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation was established in 2012 to celebrate, preserve, promote and advance African American arts, culture, and cinema. This year’s theme of “Afrofuturism: Black to the Future,” will bring a selection of all-new films that span animation, documentary, and genre spectacle, to present exuberant visions of Black creativity, resistance, and freedom.
And our HMSS films and filmmakers, of course!
- Detention, written and directed by Stormy Johnson
- Fish, written and directed by Marisa Corinne Gerdes
- Insanium, written and directed by Michael Hudson
- In the Mirror, written and directed by Chloe Strother
- Mary’s Adventure, written and directed by Evelyn Jamieson
- Missing, written and directed by Laiha Ahmad-Khan