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Somewhere Else Instead

  • Landmark's Albany Twin Theatre 1115 Solano Avenue Albany, CA, 94706 United States (map)

Five short films about finding your place. Stay after the films for a Q&A with filmmakers.

Show starts 7:30pm

$15 (included with Festival Pass) / $12 senior or student with ID / Tickets: https://albanyfilmfest.org/2022-tuesday-october-11

Steve Segal, MISFIT (Animated Short, 5:16) A piece of a jigsaw puzzle gets separated from the other members of his puzzle so he attempts to join other puzzles.

Ray de Mesa, GET FREE (Narrative Short, 8:57) A drag artist faces an unusual request from an enigmatic stranger in exchange for a free dress.

Grace Patterson, I TOO AM A LUCKY MAN (Documentary Short, 5:52) Rick is an educator, a family man, an avid hiker, and a photographer He also has Parkinson's disease. "I'm not Parkinson's,” he says, “but Parkinson's is a part of me." ALBANY FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE

Marilyn Flores, DANCE ON LAND: LISTENING TO PLACE (Documentary Short, 9:41) Shinichi Iova-Koga, artistic director of inkBoat, trains dancers, musicians and actors to connect with the land and sea at the Albany Bulb, an urban wild zone on San Francisco Bay. ALBANY FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE

Zane J. S. Johnson, QUEEN OF THE ANGELS (Narrative Short, 39:57) Fiction and reality meet on a strange night in Los Angeles.

Thanks to the Solano Avenue Association for underwriting this screening.

Earlier Event: October 6
On the Edge
Later Event: October 12
Transformations