DWF Curtain Raiser:
Dance with Films in Los Angeles Opens this June
LOCATION: TCL Chinese Theatre
**Films and Screening Schedule**
Iron Family
West Coast premiere on Sunday night June 12!
The documentary focuses on a young woman with Down syndrome as she rouses her family to perform her original play in a once-thriving rural mining town.
Jazmine Faries, a 32-year old woman with Down syndrome, is obsessed with soap operas, Barbie dolls, and Matthew McConaughey. For the past 5 summers, her family has performed her original stageplays in Iron River, a small former mining town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Family bonds are strengthened and put to the test by the mishaps and chaos of coordinating a production with limited resources. Along the way we see Jazmine’s personal struggle for independence, her yearning for a romantic partner, and how a single spark of creativity can spread joy throughout a community.
FEATURING: Jazmine Faries, Chad Faries, Kate German
Goodbye, Petrushka
World premiere on Sunday night -6/12- following the red carpet.
The quirky comedy follows a young hopelessly romantic female puppeteer on an adventure from NYC to Paris.
A starry-eyed, awkward young woman moves impulsively from NYC to Paris, where she nannies for the family from hell, battles wacky French bureaucrats, embarrasses herself in front of her Parisian crush and navigates a toxic relationship — among other faux pas.
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El Carrito
Screening Monday June 13 2:30 pm
Nelly lives alone with her elderly father. The only way she makes ends meet is by working as a street vendor from dawn to dusk. She has learned not to trust anyone until one day she is forced to take a leap of faith or be resigned in her position forever.
Ubuntu
World premiere Monday, June 13.
The documentary shines a light on the Mamas of Cape Town, a group of heroic women who have never been acknowledged, and whose tenacity allowed them to survive and even triumph over the cruel hand they were dealt. Together, against the odds and all through Apartheid, they transformed their communities and became the backbone upon which South Africa was built.
Ubuntu trailer from Adam Pertofsky on Vimeo.
The vendor after a risky business decision backfires and is stunned to discover how the community responds to her distrust. The film is playing six festivals in New York and Los Angeles in June.
Inside the Beauty Bubble
This film screens Tuesday, June 14.
The documentary short follows “America’s hairstorian” Jeff Hafler as he struggles to keep his Beauty Bubble Salon & Museum in Joshua Tree afloat during a challenging yet remarkable year.
Inside the Beauty Bubble is a short documentary film about a flamboyant and renowned collector of hair artifacts fighting to keep his desert dreams alive. The Beauty Bubble Salon & Museum in Joshua Tree is the magical and kitsch-filled brainchild of Jeff Hafler.
Our film covers a year in the life of Jeff and his roadside attraction as they face a year of lockdowns, protests and massive societal change. It is a film about family, fabulousness and folk art, a film that reminds us it’s sometimes the strong people on the margins that hold a community together
TRAILER | Inside the Beauty Bubble from NDYfilms on Vimeo.
Directed, written and produced by Cheryl Bookout and Cheri Gaulke
Director of Photography Nick Lieberman
Editor Susan Metzger
Animation C. Lily Ericsson
Music Jamie Hafler and Jeff Hafler
Copyright 2021 NDY Films
My Friend Tommy
Makes its world premiere Tuesday, June 14.
The comedic documentary looks at real-life 40-year-old virgin Tommy who has never so much as kissed or dated a woman. He wants to change that.
The film follows a cross-continental quest from Toronto to Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, Miami to discover the adulthood Tommy never had, alongside his “wolfpack” of wild, younger friends.
Sweat of His Cow:
West Coast Premiere is June 15
FUSION SHORTS GRP 3
Sweat of His Cow
A comedy short delivers a romance between an impossibly gorgeous doctor/ lawyer who runs out of gas next to a barn where an impossibly sweaty man is milking a cow.
Out of Tune
West Coast premiere Friday, June 17.
DOWNBEAT GRP 2 FRI JUN 17 @ 5 PM
The dramedy short follows the struggle of a young black woman who has felt stigmatized since childhood by her love of the rock band Journey.
Photo, script, and more by Erika Hamilton!
The Critic
This film’s world premiere is Friday, June 17.
The romantic short film focuses on a reserved and cosmopolitan hotel critic whose latest review assignment turns into an adventure when she meets a charming and mysterious golfer who discovers her true identity and offers her a proposition she cannot refuse.
Covid-19 Ground Zero
West Coast premiere Saturday, June 18.
Covid-19 ground zero ( Official movie trailer )
Covid-19 Ground Zero releases nationwide on in-demand starting June 1
Based on true stories from frontline hospital workers in New York City, the film is a courageous, heart-wrenching account of a dedicated hospital nurse and her boyfriend as they try to make sense of the pandemic that engulfed New York and the nation amid the Black Lives Matter protests. Covid-19 Ground Zero releases nationwide on in-demand starting June 1!
Eternal Spring
West Coast premiere Saturday, June 18.
This extraordinary harmony of incredible comic-book-style animation and documentary that transports the viewer into the brave and heroic world of a group of Falun Gong practitioners.
ETERNAL SPRING (長春) TRAILER from Lofty Sky on Vimeo.
Eternal Spring ( 長春) with its story of survival at all costs & battle for human rights continues to draw powerful comparisons to beloved Oscar nominee Flee.
1-800-Hot-Nite makes its Los Angeles premiere Saturday, June 18.
The dramatic adventure follows a 13-year-old boy who embarks on an urban odyssey with his two best friends after losing his parents in a drug raid. His journey to avoid foster care is packed with men trying to rob him, cops, a python, a fist fight, a first kiss, and phone sex as Tommy and his friends face their future.
Rewilding makes its world premiere Sunday, June 19.
The documentary follows Anthony Dejesus, a 27-year-old budding Black artist, and former Rikers Island inmate, as he leaves New York City for the first time with avid rock climbers and wilderness guides Jesse Spiegel and Vitek Linhart, determined to field test a program to take formerly incarcerated men into the wild.
The list of the films featured in “DANCES WITH FILMS Festival” in Los Angeles is done chronologically so that you can plan which films you want to see!
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