Broadcast MyWorld Entries from America
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Americas Curator Cara Mertes' Explains her Shortlist:
The Americas continue infinite variety, but as this collection of short films shows, people across the continents have much in common. Highlighting a range of styles, the snapshots captured by these filmmakers illustrate a full spectrum of life today, from the banalities of daily existence to the profound, but driving all of these stories is a sense of dreams being forsaken and the universal human striving for something better. From a young man coping with intermittent blackouts in Venezuela to an American family struggling to adapt to being homeless, to a woman living in her self-created Hollywood fantasy world to a young woman's poetic riff on getting the best out of San Francisco, people's stories appear like snowflakes--each unique, short-lived, yet leaving a lasting impression.
The Shortlist:
Watch Life after the House (highest scoring film from the Americas)
Watch A World of Silent Dreams
(not all films in broadcast edition)