Daniel Lafrentz’s THE LONG SHADOW showcases at Oxford Film Festival; part of lineup for 2nd Weekly Film Festival

The Oxford Film Festival’s 2nd Weekly Virtual Film Fest showcases Daniel Lafrentz LGBTQ+ drama THE LONG SHADOW, where a small town sheriff in Louisiana investigates the murder of the woman she loved, which unearths old money corruption in her town.

Travis Beard’s music documentary ROCKABUL, which places viewers in the middle of the underground expat music scene in Afghanistan

Animated/experimental short film collection Fest Forward-Global, which features films from China, Estonia, Germany, Israel, and the USA exploring themes of loneliness and making connections with one another and the spaces we live in.

Daniel Lafrentz’s THE LONG SHADOW and more showcase at Oxford Film Festival

“The importance of curating this weekly mix is to showcase the versatility of our filmmakers and highlight how global cinema unites us,” Executive Director Melanie Addington said. “Whether through a music documentary about fighting a conservative government with art, or Queer cinema from southern filmmakers, to gorgeous animation from Oxford Film Fest alumni like film professor and fest circuit favorite Geoff Marslett, this week’s virtual film festival again allows us to narrowly focus in on these great films and engage much longer detailed conversations about filmmaking.”

TICKETS:

Creating Black Stories in Mississippi

https://www.youtube.com/user/oxfordfilmfest

Live conversation/panel set for May 1 at 12:00PM central time

THE LONG SHADOW/SWEET STEEL

https://watch.eventive.org/2020oxff/play/5e908bf7773343002a2dd364

Live Q&A set for May 6 at 6:00PM central time

ROCKABUL

https://watch.eventive.org/2020oxff/play/5e9dcb7302bda10185e916a8

Live Q&A set for May 8 at 8:00PM central time

Fest Forward Global Short Film Collection

https://watch.eventive.org/2020oxff/play/5e94c2e22091350029382e2d

Live Q&A set for May 2 at 1:00PM central time

OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL 2020 2ND WEEKLY VIRTUAL FILM FEST

Films, events and descriptions

Creating Black Stories in Mississippi

The first of Oxford Film festival’s Mississippi Humanities Council sponsored panel discussions features filmmaker Chris Windfield of 70 YEARS OF BLACKNESS, Je-Monda Roy of GETTING TO THE ROOT, with Mississippi author Kiese Laymon of Heavy as they discuss Creating Black Stories in Mississippi. Ethel Scurlock of University of Mississippi will moderate the conversation.

Daniel Lafrentz's THE LONG SHADOW
THE LONG SHADOW

THE LONG SHADOW

Director: Daniel Lafrentz

Country: USA, Running Time: 95 min    

A young sheriff’s deputy takes on her Louisiana town’s old-money establishment when the woman she loves — an attorney fighting a rail deal that will displace the poor — is found murdered.

Preceded by

SWEET STEEL

Director: Will Goss

Country: USA, Running Time: 4:37 min

A depressed man puts off an important task.

ROCKABUL
ROCKABUL

ROCKABUL

Director: Travis Beard

Country: Afghanistan, Running Time: 90 min

ROCKABUL examines the counter culture campaign that the US government waged in Afghanistan, told through the eyes of a young band in the war torn capital of Kabul, where rock music is forbidden. The band, District Unknown put themselves in the firing line to challenge freedom of expression, youth identity and conflict with culture. A glimpse into the underground expat party scene, at odds with the conservative and fundamentalist society in Kabul, Afghanistan.

ANACRONTE AND THE SORCERERS OF EVIL
HOW AND WHY DON JOSE DISSIPATED
HOW AND WHY DON JOSE DISSIPATED

Fest Forward Global

TRT: 00:59:00

Animated films from China, Estonia, Germany, Israel join those from the USA that explore ideas of loneliness and emotional connection with each other and everything hat surrounds us.

ANACRONTE AND THE SORCERERS OF EVIL

Directors: Raul Koler, Emiliano Sette

Country: USA, Running Time: 14:00

Without any emotion and fulfilling their destiny, they put to test humanity’s happiness in a struggle that, in short, has each of us as winners and losers.

ANGEL’S TRUMPET

Director: Martinus Klemet

Country: Estonia, Running Time: 2:26

The next step in the evolution of hummingbirds.

HOW AND WHY DON JOSE DISSIPATED                              

Director: Moshe Ben-Avraham

Country: Israel, Running Time: 12:58 min

A delighted bee disturbs the tranquility of vacationers on a quiet pastoral island.

IKTAMULI                                                                            

Director: Anne-Christin Plate

Country: Germany, Running Time: 5:30 min

An autobiographic story about the conflict of a mother and her feelings of love, connection, self-pity and denial for her disabled son.

OSIKIRA - BLACK CHAMPAGNE
OSIKIRA – BLACK CHAMPAGNE
THE PHANTOM 52
THE PHANTOM 52
PROPOLIS, PART 7
PROPOLIS, PART 7

OSIKIRA – BLACK CHAMPAGNE

Director: Jeremiah Williams

Country: USA, Running Time: 5 min

Queen Suraya and King Jamari are the leaders of the magical Nemanyo civilization and derive their powers from an ancient lotus flower that was brought to earth by their ancestors thousands of years ago.

THE PHANTOM 52

Director: Geoff Marslett

Country: USA, Running Time: 7:25 min

Loneliness is a trucker who calls out on his CB radio waiting for a reply that never comes; A ghost that haunts the desert highways; and a whale that sings at a frequency no other whale can even hear.

PROPOLIS, PART 7

Director: Patricia Beckmann Wells

Country: USA, Running Time: 3 min

The human race is outnumbered by insects, so what would happen if they bonded together to take over the world? Liz and Beaux are a sister and brother, trapped in a closet as punishment by an alcoholic mother, who want to escape.

UMBILICAL                                                                         

Director: Danski Tang

Countries: China/USA, Running Time: 6:53 min

This piece is an animated documentary exploring how a mother’s abusive relationship with the filmmaker’s father shaped their own experiences in a boarding school in China.

Daniel Lafrentz’s THE LONG SHADOW showcases at Oxford Film Festival; part of lineup for 2nd Weekly Film Festival