Birthday Blues

  • Short Film Competition

Year: 2024

Length: 10 mins

Country: United States

Language: English

Premiere: World Premiere

Directed by: Zinha Morgan-Bennett

Produced by: Amani Jiu

Starring: Tristão Darius Azor (Tony), Satchel Eden Bell (Joy), Kai Naima Williams

SEE THE FILM

Thursday Feb 20, 6:00 PM-8:45 PM – Thursday Evening Shorts + QA

Thursday Feb 20, 1:00 PM-3:05 PM – Thursday Matinee Made in NYC Shorts

Tony has just turned 26 and is feeling blue … that is until he follows his mysterious neighbors through a mystical closet and onto a dance floor where you never have to grow up.

About the Director

Zinha Morgan-Bennett is a writer/director, a film programmer, and author. Through her narratives, Zinha questions our understandings of apocalypse, kinship, and lives lived in the margins of society. After winning the prestigious Marshall Scholarship in 2020, Zinha trained as a director at Goldsmiths University of London and she’s currently developing a number of immersive film and narrative short film projects.

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