Seth Fishman: The Real Thing (United States / Documentary / 7 mins)
The vibrant artwork and brief life of 1970’s artist Seth Fishman is brought to vivid life by his younger brother.
Director / Writer: Michael Fishman
Producers: Herbert Fishman, Michael Fishman
Contact: Michael Fishman, mfishman4@gmail.com
Website: sethfishman.com
I’ve Never Seen A Straight Banana (Australia / Documentary / 10 mins)
In the twilight of vaudeville, Effie Fellows scandalized and delighted audiences as a “boy impersonator” refusing to be contained by her era. Fifty years after her death, Geoffoire, the young man who once shared her family home, is finally ready to follow her lead. Key Cast: Geoffoire Piantar, Effie Fellows
Director / Writer: Marco Noé
Producers Chad Murray, Marco Noé
Contact: Marco Noé, marco@noeko.film
Stitching Memory (Broward / Documentary / 12 minutes)
Stitching Memory is an intimate documentary portrait of Israeli American artist Yochi Y. Avin, whose deeply personal work transforms family photographs, handwritten letters, translucent silk, and thread into meditations on memory, belonging, loss, and healing.
Raised on an Israeli kibbutz and separated from much of her family during childhood, Yochi learned at an early age what it meant to live with distance and long for connection. Decades later, she returns to fragments of her family history through her art, layering archival photographs with delicate fabric, embroidered words, and gold thread.
Yochi does not attempt to reconstruct the past exactly as it happened. Instead, she honors what remains: a gesture, a face, a letter, an absence, or an emotion that continues to live beyond the original moment. In her hands, stitching becomes a language. Each sewn line retraces a relationship, while every repaired photograph acknowledges that memory may be fragile, incomplete, and still worthy of preservation.
Through personal reflections, archival materials, and immersive observations of her creative process, the film reveals how art allows Yochi to hold what time and separation have placed beyond her reach.
At its heart, Stitching Memory is a meditation on family, resilience, and the human need to remain connected to those who shaped us. The film invites viewers to consider their own photographs not simply as records of the past, but as vessels carrying identity, longing, and love across generations. Key Cast: Yochi Y. Avin
Director / Writer / Producer: Taimy Alvarez
Contact: Taimy Alvarez, taimyalvarez04@gmail.com
Website: www.taimyalvarez.com/beyondthebrush
ART ACROSS THE TRACKS: Voices from FAT Village
(Fort Lauderdale, Florida / Documentary / 22 min)
Art Across the Tracks is a documentary built on present-day interviews with artists who created work on the edges of downtown Fort Lauderdale. Using raw cinematography and archival footage, with no voice-over narration, the film weaves their stories together while exploring the role art has played in transforming the neighborhood.
Director / Producer: Fer Verano
Contact: fverano@icloud.com / (305) 930-5786
Social Media: Instagram @ferwindmill
Support: Made possible with support from the Broward County Cultural Division. Additional support provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: Helen and Frank Stoykov Charitable Endowment Fund; Mary and Alex Mackenzie Community Impact Fund.
The Solanges: Angels of the Sun (United States, Haiti / Documentary / 10 minutes)
The Solanges: Angels of the Sun is a reflexive and visually poetic documentary following Dr. Solanges Vivens, a pioneering Haitian-American entrepreneur, on a deeply personal quest to uncover the legacy of Saint Solange, a 9th-century French martyr whose defiance still resonates today.
The film tells the story of Saint Solange, a young peasant who refused to submit to a nobleman’s advances, choosing faith and autonomy over oppression— an act of resistance that led to her martyrdom, but cemented her as a symbol of resilience and defiance. Though often overlooked, her story carries profound
feminist significance, speaking to enduring struggles for faith, identity, and women’s rights. Dr. Vivens— a trailblazing healthcare leader who overcame immense adversity to build an empire— sees herself reflected in Saint Solange. Though separated by centuries, both women embody defiance, faith, and unwavering strength, making their connection a testament to the power of legacy and spiritual inheritance. Key Cast: Solanges Vivens
Director: Nina Nabel
Writer: MIchael Adel
Producer: Joseph Vivens, Shorouk El Attar
Contact: Joseph Vivens, admin@vivensmedia.com
Website: https://www.vivensmedia.com/films/the-solanges
A Most Remarkable STORY (United States / Documentary / 20 min)
This short documentary chronicles the life of an extraordinary astronaut, physician, artist, and futurist. From a challenging and abusive childhood through a circuitous path emerges a gentle genius, father, and philosopher who gives the world and the viewers so many gifts. A story of perseverance, strength, kindness and success in the heavens that teaches us so much about life here on earth. Key Cast: Story Musgrave
Directors: Eric Ferenc Bernstein, Glenn R. Schuster
Producers: Eric Ferenc Bernstein, Glenn R. Schuster, Lucy Noland, Daniel Yahalomi
Contact Eric Bernstein, dermguy@dermguy.com
Website amostremarkablestory.com