Multi-Screening: Adaptive, What If ..., Behind The Walls, LN3: Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe in Resistance

Adaptive

Jim Ewing is a veteran rock climber and senior rope engineer at Sterling Rope, a prominent rock climbing rope company. On Christmas Day in 2014, Jim fell over 50 feet to the ground in a climbing accident, a near-death experience that led to the subsequent below-the-knee amputation of his left leg. Before walking on a prosthetic, Jim was already climbing again, and before long, he began dreaming about his bucket list...

In 2018, Jim invited a climber missing her left hand, Maureen Beck, to accompany him in attempting the first all-adaptive ascent of the über classic and deeply remote Lotus Flower Tower (5.10+) in Canada's Cirque of the Unclimbables. The route is on the list of North America's 50 classic climbs and the 2,000 foot granite face is coveted by climbers everywhere. In "Adaptive", Jim and Maureen hope to demonstrate that "disabled" climbers are just differently––and equally––abled.

Director Biography - Taylor Zann

Taylor Zann is a freelance cinematographer and outdoor film director from Seattle, WA. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Prior directorial works include "Seele aus Stein" and "In the Arena".

What If ...

This short documentary film shatters the preconceptions of homelessness, explores the ramifications of unstable housing for children, and provides a solution to adverse childhood experiences and future health outcomes through the assistance of the Illumination Foundation who seeks to disrupt the cycle of homelessness in Orange County and Southern California.

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Noah Berlow is a visual storyteller who straddles two worlds—the world of entertainment and the world of serious documentaries that educate, raise consciousness and help bring about change.

Winner of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award at Ithaca College in 2014, Berlow has over 400 titles to his credit directing, producing and editing including feature length documentariesand dramas that have appeared on Netflix, BBC, VH1’s Palladia TV, and BET.

Noah Berlow Documentary Credits• https://vimeo.com/album/4598710• pw=noahberlow

The body of Berlow's work was recognized by the Ithaca College Alumni Association when he was the first person from the Park School of Communications since David Muir of ABC News to be selected to receive the Outstanding Young Alumni Award.Berlow is most proud of his films that educate, raise consciousness and help bring about social change.

In March, 2019, his short film “if...” helped the Illumination Foundation in Orange County, CA, to raise $1M to help the homeless. In another outstanding success, working with HIVOS, Amnesty International, and the Guardian Newspaper, Berlow produced and edited a documentary feature on female genital mutilation (FMG) in Kurdistan entitled Our World: Dropping the Knife – Kurdistan. The film was picked up by BBC Arabic TV and broadcast to an estimated audience of 30 million viewers. The film successfully helped to outlaw FGM in Kurdistan.

Despite being known in L.A. as a go-to filmmaker for music videos and behind the scenes VH1 and Palladia TV documentaries featuring musicians like Sully Erna, Alter Bridge and Slash and directing upcoming stars like LORDE and Drake for a Rolling Stone online interviews, emotionally difficult material is not new to Berlow.

Berlow worked full-time in the Research & Education Department of Steven Spielberg’s SHOAH Visual History Foundation editing testimonies of Holocaust survivors for documentaries and educational shorts. Berlow’s credits at the SHOAH Foundation include editing the Foundation’s Award Winning Documentary, Recollections: Eyewitnesses Remember the Holocaust, which won the BAFTA Award for the Best Learning in the Secondary Education Category in 2007.

He is the Co-Founder and President of his film production company, Immortal Cinema International, Inc., and he is the Co- Founder and Chairman of a non-profit foundation VETERANS IN CINEMA FOUNDATION 501(c)3 ,whose mission is to help veterans find employment in the film and entertainment industry.

Behind The Walls

Portuguese authorities keep no data on ethnicity or race because they find that identifying people by race is discriminatory. Yet, ignoring the data is giving people the right to accept that racism in Portugal does not exist, leaving those in minority communities angered and hopeless because their rights are being taken away. This story will capture the lives of people, and how they really feel about living in their homes. Uncovering their true thoughts fears, and struggles. It will uncover a system and is unjust and corrupt.

Reetu Shah is a filmmaker based in Collegeville Pennsylvania, having graduated from Penn State Film in 2018. Reetu works as a freelance editor and videographer for films and weddings. She directs and edits documentaries and Bollywood music videos in her spare time. Having family ties in the Bollywood music industry, she hopes to captivate people through story-telling and music.

Being born an Indian- American in the 90's, I did not see much of myself in the media around me, and therefore could not relate. Growing up I found myself relating to many minorities around me especially African Americans. Most of my friends were African Americans, I mainly listened to rap and hip-hop, and related to the culture. After getting the opportunity to make a documentary in Portugal about the hidden racism, I had to do everything I could to give them a voice. Knowing the struggles that they have already overcome, I wanted to provide them with a platform so that their struggle could be heard internationally.

It would be a long 2-3 months of researching and building connections to hear their stories and understand how deep these problems were rooted. I had to do much digging in order to obtain the information I was looking for as there have clearly been attempts to hide this information from international community.

With these articles came great activists, journalists, and every day citizens. Their stories are so different yet unite this issue in a bold way. I found some challenges in telling such stories in a seamless way. But after reviewing the footage, I found a way for each story to connect.

LN3: Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe in Resistance

Predatory industry hijacked the US regulatory system in 2019, placing ancient food systems and a fifth of the world’s freshwater in imminent danger. LN3 features indigenous firebrands Winona Laduke, Tara Houska, and poet-hip hop artist ThomasX, as they lead an alliance to take on Big Oil and their enablers at the institutional level, and on the frontlines. This is the battle for Earth.

As a journalist and visual artist, I work on the the frontlines the Environmental movement with the understanding that Human Rights are Ecological Rights. I've covered issues pertaining to sexual violence, labor abuse, land-grabbing and predatory industry. My work has appeared in National Geographic, Marie Claire, Ms Magazine, The Progressive, and TIME. She has been documenting Winona Laduke and the native-led environmental movement since 2015.

The native led alliance to combat predatory industry and curtail climate destruction is stronger than the indigenous, environmental, or women's movement alone. My job as a director is to help my friends tell their story, that's all I do.