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MELISSA PARRY S.A.G.E.

MELISSA PARRY S.A.G.E.MELISSA PARRY S.A.G.E.MELISSA PARRY S.A.G.E.
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5 in 5 IN BLOOM Short Film Anthology

Paramount+ and Staying Alive Foundation



A collection of short films from around the world telling unexpected, unheard stories exploring the imbalance of gender complexities to evoke divergent thinking. The content supports UN Sustainable Development Goal no.5 : to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.



These 5 short films are directed by emerging female filmmakers from Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and the U.S. in collaboration with Paramount+  Staying Alive Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation

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Maré (2024)

5 in 5 IN BLOOM Short Film Anthology 


Directed by Giuliana Monteiro

9 min


A mother on the edge of her sanity seeks solace from a tumultuous life situation.


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Period (2024)

5 in 5 IN BLOOM Short Film Anthology 


Directed by Nicole Sweeny

10 min


Like many of her classmates at her underserved school, Fay cannot afford menstrual products, so she sets out on a crusade to get them for free.

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What Did You Dream? (2019)

Directed by Karabo Lediga

20min


It’s the summer school holidays in 1990 South Africa, and 11-year-old Boipelo is back at her grandmother's four-roomed house in the Pretoria township, Atteridgeville. It’s a point of uncertainty for a country on the brink of democracy, but also for Boipelo, who will be attending a multiracial school soon.


Awards

 Best African Short Film, Durban International Film Festival 2021

Best International Short, Palm Springs International Short Fest 2020  


Official Selection

International Competition, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France 2020

Official Selection to Festivals Seattle International Film Festival 2021

Film O’Clock International Festival 2021 Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival USA 2020

Film Africa, Baobab Award Shorts programme, United Kingdom 2020

18º Bogotá Short Film Festival / Festival de Cortos de Bogotá, chiquiSHORTS, Colombia 2020 

IMDB

SA/X (2004)

Directed by Gilli Apter
20 min


SA/X is a comic mock-documentary, set in 2004 Johannesburg, following the journey of Kim Smart; a fair- skinned African girl who dares to look outside of her burglar-proof suburban world. What she finds is a city both tattered and triumphant and a generation come-of-age in a post-apartheid reality. SA/X profiles a truly contemporary slice of urban youth culture. The film inter-cuts an absorbing, simple narrative with (staged) documentary-style interview clips of random South African 20-somethings exploring their concerns and values. The interviews bring a universal element to the story, as Kim breaks free from her controlling and prejudiced family and boyfriend, makes friends with a multiracial punk band, and ventures into a part of the city long considered to be a no-go zone by most whites. Ten years on, amid a landscape rife with urban and social blight, this is the story of a liberated South Africa and Kim Smart as they make their ambling way down the continuing road to freedom.


Awards

Winner of Silver Leopard of Tomorrow Award, Locarno Leopards of Tomorrow Festival, Switzerland 2005

Short Film in Competition (Finalist), Cape Town World Cinema Festival, South Africa 2004


 Official Selection

Silhouette Film Festival, France 2007

Ongeriewe, Rome Film Festival, Italy 2007

The ReelWorld Film Festival, Canada 2006

Munich International Festival of Film Schools 2005

London Short Ends Festival 2005

 Tous Les Cinemas du Monde, Cannes Film Festival, France 2005

 Durban International Film Festival, South Africa 2005

Apollo Film Festival, South Africa 2005 

IMDB

Box (2004)

Directed by Gilli Apter

15 min


 Official Selection

 Tous Les Cinemas du Monde, Cannes Film Festival, France 2005

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