SPECIAL SCREENING
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12
7:00 PM
THE SOUND OF VIOLET
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thursday, october 13
7:00 PM
ANOTHER ORANGE
NW Coast Premiere | Short Narrative | In Competition Hosted by SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Rated: PG: 17 Country: Dominican Republic Director: Johnattan Báez Genre: Drama, Crime Year: 2022 Running Time: 10 min. Spanish w/ English subtitles Stars: Vicente Santos, Cheddy García, Johnnié Mercedes Synopsis: In a Santo Domingo neighborhood, a man is about to commit an unforgivable crime. Multiple events will collide. A middle-aged woman walks back home after grocery shopping, a fruit seller chants Christian words as he rides his loaded tricycle, and the suspect drives desperately in the direction of his target. |

HEAVIER THAN WATER
NW Coast Premiere | Feature Narrative| Official Selection
Hosted by SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Rated: PG: 13
Country: Dominican Republic
Director: Amauris Pérez Alcequiez
Year: 2021
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 85 minutes
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Stars: Frank Perozo Balbuena, Hony Estrella, Micky Montilla, Axel Mansilla, Laura Díaz
Synopsis: Nicolás has been in the cannabis business since he was a teenager. He has managed to create an underworld around him in which he seems to be in control of everything, but it is time to remove his brother from the business if he wants it to progress in a society that is increasingly hostile to people like them. Getting him a job at his former partner's restaurant seems like the best alternative. But her refusal to allow any of them to be close to her family and daughter, her brother's rebellion to follow the path that he wants to trace for him and a small mistake from his close past will put him in a situation that he never imagined. Without knowing it, he will gradually collapse everything he has built and take both families behind him.
NW Coast Premiere | Feature Narrative| Official Selection
Hosted by SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Rated: PG: 13
Country: Dominican Republic
Director: Amauris Pérez Alcequiez
Year: 2021
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 85 minutes
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Stars: Frank Perozo Balbuena, Hony Estrella, Micky Montilla, Axel Mansilla, Laura Díaz
Synopsis: Nicolás has been in the cannabis business since he was a teenager. He has managed to create an underworld around him in which he seems to be in control of everything, but it is time to remove his brother from the business if he wants it to progress in a society that is increasingly hostile to people like them. Getting him a job at his former partner's restaurant seems like the best alternative. But her refusal to allow any of them to be close to her family and daughter, her brother's rebellion to follow the path that he wants to trace for him and a small mistake from his close past will put him in a situation that he never imagined. Without knowing it, he will gradually collapse everything he has built and take both families behind him.
friday, october 14
7:00 PM
Doors Open at 6:00 PM
COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
Master of Ceremony
Paula lamas
Paula Lamas, who is originally from Venezuela, is the female anchor at Noticias Univision Seattle. During his journalistic career in the United States, she has worked with prestigious television channels, including CNN Latino Miami, CNN in Spanish and Fox Business News. Internationally, Paula has been a news correspondent for NTN24, RCN Colombia and Noticiero Venevision.
Paula Lamas has been nominated to several EMMY.
Additionally, she is the creator and presenter of the bilingual podcast and radio show “Power Moment with Paula Lamas” .
Paula Lamas has been nominated to several EMMY.
Additionally, she is the creator and presenter of the bilingual podcast and radio show “Power Moment with Paula Lamas” .
WHEN SPIRITS DANCE (USA) | OAXACALIFORNIA: EL REGRESO (Mexico, USA)

WHEN SPIRITS DANCE
NW Coast Premiere | Short Documentary | Official Selection
Sponsored by CINE SEATTLE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Rated: G
Country: USA
Director: Faviola Leyva
Year: 2022
Genre: Documentary, Educational, Art
Running Time: 12 min.
English
Stars: Christopher Sandoval
Synopsis: For performing arts teacher Christopher Sandoval (Rio Grande Valley 2014), teaching Day of the Dead is not only about cultural identity, but also an opportunity to foster civic engagement in his students. “We’re here,” he says, “to open minds in our classroom through culturally responsive teaching, so our children could walk out being more successful and more responsible citizens of this country and of their community.
NW Coast Premiere | Short Documentary | Official Selection
Sponsored by CINE SEATTLE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Rated: G
Country: USA
Director: Faviola Leyva
Year: 2022
Genre: Documentary, Educational, Art
Running Time: 12 min.
English
Stars: Christopher Sandoval
Synopsis: For performing arts teacher Christopher Sandoval (Rio Grande Valley 2014), teaching Day of the Dead is not only about cultural identity, but also an opportunity to foster civic engagement in his students. “We’re here,” he says, “to open minds in our classroom through culturally responsive teaching, so our children could walk out being more successful and more responsible citizens of this country and of their community.
Trisha Ziff is a UK curator of photography and documentary filmmaker whose films, focus on the photographic image. A Guggenheim scholar, her exhibitions have been seen at major international museums including: Victoria & Albert Museum, London; California Museum of Photography, international Center for Photography New York and Centro de la Imagen Mexico City. She has directed Chevolution, the Mexican Suitcase (La Maleta Mexicana), and Oaxacalifornia: The Return.
OAXACALIFORNIA: THE RETURN
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Every youth attending will receive a free, high-quality soccer ball courtesy of RAVE Foundation and Seattle Sounders FC.

Director Trisha Ziff will attend.
NW Coast Premiere | Feature Documentary| In Competition
Sponsored by MEXAN (CONSULATE OF MEXICO IN SEATTLE), SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, RAVE FOUNDATION, DELTA AIR LINES/AEROMEXICO & WAGRO FOUNDATION.
Rated: PG: 13
Country: Mexico, USA
Director: Trisha Ziff
Year: 2021
Genre: Immigration, Family
Running Time: 84 min.
English & Spanish w/ English subtitles
Synopsis: Twenty-five years ago we met the Mejía family, from Mexico living in the United States, as they traveled to Mexico with their American children. This film finds us in the present, meeting the new generation of Mejías as they make the trip once again. What remains the same, did their dreams come true? Oaxacalifornia: The Return explores notions of family and home, and how fast identity and cultural alliances can shift in a single generation.
NW Coast Premiere | Feature Documentary| In Competition
Sponsored by MEXAN (CONSULATE OF MEXICO IN SEATTLE), SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, RAVE FOUNDATION, DELTA AIR LINES/AEROMEXICO & WAGRO FOUNDATION.
Rated: PG: 13
Country: Mexico, USA
Director: Trisha Ziff
Year: 2021
Genre: Immigration, Family
Running Time: 84 min.
English & Spanish w/ English subtitles
Synopsis: Twenty-five years ago we met the Mejía family, from Mexico living in the United States, as they traveled to Mexico with their American children. This film finds us in the present, meeting the new generation of Mejías as they make the trip once again. What remains the same, did their dreams come true? Oaxacalifornia: The Return explores notions of family and home, and how fast identity and cultural alliances can shift in a single generation.
Shoreline Community College Theater | 16101 Greenwood Ave N Main Auditorium, Shoreline, WA 98133