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Thurs, Sept 10 – Is She Story

September 10 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pm EDT

PART 2

Is She Story

9:00PM-11:30PM | Dundas West Studio

✦  ARRANCA by Liliana M Molina | United States | 2024 | 15min
✦  On Air by Shinade Misha Martin, Shea Best Trinidad and Tobago | 2026 | 15min
✦  Someone Loves You by Victoria Perry, Amanda Mandii | USA | 2025
✦  I’m Karen by Célia Dejoux | Guadeloupe | 2025 | 13min
✦  Moonlighting by Jay Shetty | USA | 2026 | 1h 17min
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Filmmaker Talkback

Every woman has a story to tell—one shaped by love, loss, ambition, caregiving, family, resilience, and the courage to define life on her own terms. The films in Is She Story celebrate the richness and complexity of women’s experiences, offering intimate portraits of characters who navigate expectation, identity, memory, and transformation with honesty and grace.

From daughters and mothers to artists, caregivers, and dreamers, these stories reveal that there is no single way to be a woman. Together, they honour the many paths women walk and the voices that continue to reshape our understanding of family, community, and self. In telling their stories, these films invite us to listen more deeply—and to recognize the strength found in living authentically.

ARRANCA POSTER Liliana Molina

ARRANCA

Directed by Liliana M Molina, USA, 2024

Logline: When her mother’s dementia causes a cherished family heirloom to disappear, a devoted daughter must navigate the growing demands of caregiving while holding onto the memories that bind their family together.

Synopsis: Arranca follows Laura, a busy woman balancing the demands of her own life while caring for her 75-year-old mother, Carmen, who is in the early stages of dementia. Their routine is disrupted when Carmen misplaces a precious emerald ring, a treasured gift from her late husband, Sebastian. As the search for the ring intensifies, Laura is forced to confront the emotional realities of her mother’s condition and the gradual loss of the woman she has always known. Through moments of frustration, tenderness, and resilience, the film explores family, memory, caregiving, and the enduring bonds that persist even as memories begin to fade.

Runtime: 00:15:00

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ON AIR Official Film Poster Shinade Martin

On Air

Directed by Shinade Misha Martin, Shea Best, Trinidad and Tobago, 2026

Logline: A humiliated man hijacks a live radio show to publicly expose the lovers who betrayed him, turning unsuspecting listeners into judges as a quest for justice spirals into a dangerous act of revenge.

Synopsis: When a disgraced man seizes control of a live radio broadcast, he uses the platform to expose an affair that has shattered his life. As he reveals intimate details and confronts the lovers he believes betrayed him, callers from across the community are drawn into the unfolding drama, forced to weigh guilt, truth, and accountability in real time. What begins as a public reckoning quickly descends into chaos as emotions escalate and perspectives collide. Set against the immediacy of live radio, the film explores humiliation, morality, and the fragile line between seeking justice and exacting revenge.

Runtime: 15m

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SomeoneLovesYouFilmPoster4 Victoria Perry

Someone Loves You

Directed by Victoria Perry, Amanda Mandii, USA, 2025

Logline: As a once-celebrated matriarch’s mental health declines, estranged members of a Jamaican-American family must confront silence, stigma, and old wounds in a journey toward understanding and healing.

Synopsis: Winner of Best Short Film at the ESSENCE Film Festival, Someone Loves You is a moving drama that explores mental illness, family, and generational healing within a Jamaican-American household in the Bronx. The film follows estranged relatives brought together by the gradual unraveling of their once-famous matriarch, an artist whose life and legacy have been shaped by schizophrenia. As buried emotions and unresolved conflicts surface, family members are forced to confront the silence and stigma surrounding mental illness. Directed by Amanda Mandii and Victoria Perry, the film offers a compassionate and culturally grounded portrait of love, loss, and reconciliation, featuring the acting debut of Nadine Sutherland.

Runtime: 20m

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I'M KAREN POSTER Célia DEJOUX

I’m Karen

Directed by Célia Dejoux, GUADELOUPE, 2025

Logline: A woman, a rooster and holidays gone wrong.

Synopsis: “Karen can’t stand anything or anyone. Wether it’s a crowing rooster or the noise of the beach, every minor irritation pushes her closer to the edge. Inspired by the « Karen » phenomenon, I’M KAREN is a sharp, darkly comic satire about everyday intolerance and the need for control, seen through the eyes of a woman at war with the world around her”

Runtime: 12m 52s

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Film Poster_Moonlighting Jay Shetty

Moonlighting

Directed by Jay Shetty, USA, 2026

Logline: A feature documentary about four women reclaiming authorship over identity as they navigate culture, profession, desire, and the quiet rebellion of becoming more fully themselves.

Synopsis: Moonlighting is an intimate documentary that follows four women whose lives defy conventional ideas of womanhood. Balancing responsibility with creativity, ambition, spirituality, sensuality, and cultural expectation, each woman navigates the tension between the roles society assigns and the person she chooses to become. Rather than portraying these parallel lives as contradictions, the film celebrates the courage to live authentically and expansively. Through deeply personal stories, Moonlighting explores identity as an evolving act of self-authorship, offering a nuanced portrait of modern womanhood rooted in resilience, healing, and transformation. The film ultimately affirms that embracing one’s full self is a powerful act of freedom.

Runtime: 1hr 16m

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