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
For the Opponents (Mexico / Documentary / 15 mins / Spanish w/English subtitles)
In the tough neighborhood of Tepito, a young boy chases the great Mexican dream: to become a boxing champion.
Director: Federico Luis
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