DISSONANCE
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A group of young queers navigate bars, friendships, abandoned warehouses, and a room where dreams are recorded on VHS tapes.
Featuring: WELSEY HAN, DIA DYNASTY, ZO TIPP, AMANDA REYES, and MORGAN SULLIVAN
Director: KIM GARCIA
Producer: ELIZABETH BALLA
Cinematographer: KRISTEN MELOCHE
Editor/Colorist: GRACE NOVAK
Festivals:
NEWFEST: NEW YORK’S LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL, 2020
SEATTLE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL, 2020
FRINGE! QUEER FILM & ARTS FEST, 2020
DISSONANCE
SILENT ROAR in post-production
A Bronx teen mourns the disappearance of her best friend, and finds new connection with a teen skater.
Featuring: CHARLIZE GARCIA, FRANKIE MARTINEZ
Director: KIM GARCIA
Producer: ELIZABETH BALLA
Cinematographer: CLARIBEL TEJEDA
SILENT ROAR
THE MULTIVRS IS ILLUMINATED - documentary in progress
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After the impact of the Ghostship Fire and ongoing tension from gentrification in the Bay Area, in 2017, Shawna Shawnté, Jade Ariana, Titania Kumeh and Sharmi Basu organized The Universe is Lit, a Black and Brown DIY Queer Music and Arts Fest. Without city funding support, they created a 4 day event, free to black and brown queer communities in the Bay Area.
The festival returned in 2018, renamed The Multivrs is Illuminated, and now with Shawna and Jade as the main organizers. Black, Brown, Indigenous, Trans and Queer communities from around the world traveled to participate and perform at the festival. Both Shawna and Jade faced dwindling art spaces to host the festival, due to the affects of the city shutting down DIY art spaces as a response to the Ghostship Fire.
In 2020, Shawna continued to plan to organize the festival again in the Bay Area. The Covid Pandemic altered the world and especially the US. Shawna, with the support of new organizer, Juicebox, planned a virtual Multivrs Is Illuminated Festival. With Black and Indigenous POC artists from around the world, the festival lasted 3 days virtually.