KIM’S VIDEO

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Boston Underground Film Festival, the Boston Asian American Film Festival and the Independent Film Festival Boston. Directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, documentary, English, Korean and Italian with English subtitles, United States,  85 minutes, 2023. For two decades, New York City cinephiles had access to a treasure trove of rare and...

POSTPONED to 2/1/24 Israelism

Bright Family Screening Room

This screening has been postponed to Thursday, February 1st 2024. Please see the official announcement from Emerson College HERE. Co-presented with If Not Now Boston, Boston Workers Circle: Center for Jewish Culture & Social Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston and the Boston Palestine Film Festival Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen, documentary, English, United...

CHASING CHASING AMY

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with Wicked Queer: the Boston LGBT Film Festival and the Boston Underground Film Festival Directed by Sav Rodgers, documentary, English, United States, 95 minutes, 2023. In 'Chasing Chasing Amy', filmmaker Sav Rodgers goes on a journey of self-discovery while making a documentary on the development and creation of Kevin Smith's controversial LGBTQ+ film, Chasing...

Lakota Nation vs the United States

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Independent Film Festival Boston, the Roxbury International Film Festival and Globedocs.  Directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, documentary, English, United States, 118 minutes, 2023. Lakota Nation vs. the United States chronicles the Lakota Indians' century-long quest to reclaim the Black Hills, sacred land that was stolen in violation of treaty...

PLAYLAND

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with Wicked Queer: the Boston LGBT Film Festival, Globedocs and the Boston Underground Film Festival. Directed by Georden West, drama/fantasy/documentary, English, United States, 72 minutes, 2023. “With an eclectic ensemble of queer performers, including drag icon Lady Bunny and Pose’s Danielle Cooper, Playland is transdisciplinary in every sense of the word: music, dance, archival...

SHORTCOMINGS

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Boston Asian American Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston and Wicked Queer: the Boston LGBT Film Festival. Directed by Randall Park, comedy/drama/romance, English, United States, 92 minutes, 2023. Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a local Asian American film festival. When he's...

SALTBURN

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Boston Women’s Film Festival and the Boston Underground Film Festival Directed by Emerald Fennell, drama/thriller, English, United States and United Kingdom, 131 minutes, 2023 Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to...

ISRAELISM

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Boston Palestine Film Festival, If Not Now, Kavod, Boston Workers Circle, and Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, Emerson Faculty for Justice in Palestine and Emerson Students for Justice in Palestine Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen, documentary, English, United States, 84 minutes, 2023 When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally...

SO UNREAL

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Boston SciFi Film Festival, the Salem Film Festival, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, and the Boston Underground Film Festival Directed by Amanda Kramer, documentary/sci-fi, English, United States, 101 minutes, 2023 A documentary that is both a history and philosophical exploration of cyberspace cinema, from 1981 to 2001 (The Matrix, Tron, Tetsuo, eXisTenz,...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Boston Women’s Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, GlobeDocs and the Salem Film Festival Directed by Nicole Newnham, documentary, English, United States, 118 minutes, 2023 Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked...

UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Boston Underground Film Festival, Wicked Queer: the Boston LGBT Film Festival, Cinefest Latino, and the Boston SciFi Film Festival Directed by Juan Felipe Zuleta, comedy/drama/sci-fi, English, United States, 100 minutes, 2022 Peter is a misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world in his shabby New York City apartment. But an unexpected visit from...

BAD PRESS

Bright Family Screening Room

Co-presented with the Roxbury International Film Festival, the Salem Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, the Boston Women’s Film Festival, Harvard University Native American Program, United American Indians of New England and North American Indian Center of Boston Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler, documentary, English, United States, 98 minutes, 2023 When the...