Oct 11 @ 3:00pm-4:00pm – live discussion streamed to social + website

This panel is comprised of filmmakers presenting work in Buffalo Int’l Film Festival’s Racial Justice in View Shorts Block – a curated program of shorts that includes documentary, experimental, video essays, and everything in between – exploring racism, protest, police brutality and inequality in the United States, Canada and sovereign Indigenous lands. Discussion will focus on the film selections and related topics.

Panelists:

"The Ascendants" Director Ladan Osman + Producer/DP Joe Penney

"Graffica" Director Yogi Data

"Hustle" Director Xavier Cousins

"Ego of a Nation" + "Monologue Harmonic" Writer, Producer and Performer Janet Rogers

"Monologue Harmonic" Director Yuma Dean Hester

"Shoulders Deep" Director John Fiege

Moderators:

Rachael Homewood + Tammy McGovern + Anna Scime