Opening Night: “MIXED” with “SWEET REFUGE” and “LUKE AND EMMA AND A GAS STATION ON FRANKLIN AVENUE”
- 82 mins
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Sweet Refuge
Directed by: Maryam Mir | 12 mins
A passionate baklava baker encounters a savvy ladoo maker on the streets of Brooklyn.
Luke and Emma and a Gas Station on Franklin Avenue
Directed by: Levi Wilson | 13 mins
A coming-of-age story set in 1980’s rural America where a mixed Asian boy navigates his way through love in a white world.
Mixed
Directed by: Caty Borum Chattoo, Leena Jayaswal | 57 mins
Fifty years after the landmark Loving v. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court case ended legal persecution of interracial marriage in America, two mothers – one brown, one white – set off on a journey to explore what it means to be a bi-racial child living in a mixed-race family in a fraught moment in American life, the perspectives of their own families and others, and America’s deep cultural ambivalence about its rapidly-changing mixed-race reality. In the shadows of Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter, the historic Obama presidency and the Trump era, MIXED offers a new lens into race and the lives of the first generation of mixed-race kids and families to be counted in the U.S. Census.
