Youth Filmmakers Showcase offers a unique glimpse at the world through BC teens' eyes, starting April 14 at 2021 Reel 2 Real
Short films tackle topics from pandemic isolation to homophobia
“And I Yearn”
“Domenica”
Reel 2 Real Film Festival for Youth streams the Youth Filmmakers Showcase from April 14 to 23
OVER THE COURSE of as little as two minutes, teens from across BC have said volumes about not just COVID isolation but other burning issues of the here and now—from homophobia to immigrant identity.
At the Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, the annual Youth Filmmakers Showcase gathers the best of teen filmmaking from across the province. And as this year’s collection of standouts prove, this has been quite a year".
Streaming online on the 2021 roster, Yunmin Lee’s “And I Yearn” plumbs the big and small losses, from social gatherings to subtler fallout, from a year of lockdown; “kʷənáŋət néʔ” explores the year through Indigenous creative forms; and Zed Davidson’s “My Family” looks at the effects of the pandemic on his own clan.
Elsewhere, “All Roads led to Romi” looks at the experience of being queer and Korean in a small Okanagan community; “Revolutionary Love” documents the stand youth in Vernon took after an incident last July, when the rainbow crosswalk in Coldstream, BC was targeted by vandals; and “Domenica” looks at personal grief.
There is more, much more, none of it longer than seven minutes, some projects expressing themselves through animation, others through live action.
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