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      • FoodFood has often served as a focalpoint of culture and community in film. Families warmly meet around the dinner table while lovers indulge in opulent feasts. Home cooked meals can evoke comfort, tradition, and sociality but its very absence can point to its commodification and politicization. The richness of food and drink on film asks us to think more closely about its primacy. It asks us to question how lives are shaped by its ubiquity, otherwise taken for granted.
      • Coming of AgeComing of Age stories focus on characters’ seminal shifts and changes. These narratives take place within transitional periods where further realisation of self isn’t necessarily restricted to age. Definitions of maturity vary depending on the nature of change, but we can expect to explore the awkwardness, confusion, and discomfort that is inherent in seeking (or being thrust into) growth.
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    • 2021
      • Into the Digital AgeAs we go Into the Digital Age this edition, we will be focusing on the coexistence of humanity and digital technology. Is this relationship conflict oriented, harmonious, or somewhere between the two? This coexistence can be analyzed through historical evolution, science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI), the impacts of neoliberalism, utopias, dystopias, current realities, and imagined futures.
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Category: Small Town Stories

Small Town Stories are concerned with the intricately woven relationships of communities. These narratives focus on generations, outsiders, class division, and a general sense of closeness. This closeness is produced by literal proximity and a lack of anonymity, creating dynamics that open up a Pandora’s box of intimate relationships, mysteries, gossip, folklore, and history. The landscape is often infused with dichotomies — expressing a sense of entrapment and detachment, feelings of safety and nostalgia, and clashing traditions, customs, or ways of life. They can be coming-of-age stories centered around how to attain and understand individual identity in an environment that doesn’t necessarily nurture change. They can be about the ties, beliefs, rivalries, nostalgic returns, and fantasies or fruitions of leaving. They are interpersonal, spatial, wholesome, and sinister.

Small Town Stories

Binding to al-Ard (The Land)

1 Sep 202124 Feb 2022
 “Security? I wish it was that simple. People need the land. The land needs water. Water needs a connection. The connection needs a mansion. The mansion needs a road. The…
Small Town Stories

I see I: Roots Time

1 Sep 20211 Sep 2021
Often I have heard, “Myers dat name soun familiar... A yuh related tuh—?” and, “Yuh nuh wa fi guh dung tuh dat part of Jamaica. Di Myers name a luk…
Small Town Stories

Vanities Spawned by Fear: Wake in Fright

1 Sep 202131 Aug 2021
I hate to admit it, but my favorite onscreen characters have long leaned towards the stoic, the macho. Kenshiro from First of the North Star (written by Buronson, art by…
Small Town Stories

Only Dogs go to Heaven

1 Sep 202130 Aug 2021
In the small town of La Boca, Chile, where there seems to be nothing but a handful of residences by the seaside, one of the houses stands out from the…
Small Town Stories

When Lady Bird Flies Out of Her Cage

1 Sep 202131 Aug 2021
Cinema has a sneaky way of getting under our skin. It stirs our emotions, ideas, and even our aspirations through the act of portraying someone’s story. As we intimately watch…
Small Town Stories

Logan: A Western Comic Book Drama

1 Sep 202131 Aug 2021
Superhero movies are extremely popular nowadays, as fans enjoy seeing their favorite comic book characters on the big screen. From Marvel to DC, we’ve come so far in bringing these…
Small Town Stories

Hope Shines Brightest Beneath the Lights

1 Sep 20211 Sep 2021
Watching the climactic championship football game which closes out 2004’s Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg), I found myself sucked into the outcome of this battle. The Odessa Permian Panthers, our…
Small Town Stories

A Story about a Place: The Humane Beauty of True Stories

1 Sep 202131 Aug 2021
“I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The…

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