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The NYU Second Year Showcase is a celebration of the biggest event in our Graduate Film calendar; a screening of a year’s worth of work by 24 young writers and directors. Students travelled to 5 different countries and 7 different states to make these films, directing their own as well as crewing for one another. Here are the stories:
Filmmakers to be Featured at the 2022 2nd Year Showcase
Ifeyinwa Arinze’s AUGUST VISITOR: When her widowed mother has a male friend over for dinner, an observant Nigerian American teenager acts out, which leads her to a deeper perception of her mother.
Gabriela Azevedo’s La Noticia: A mother’s fears about her daughter’s future threaten to ruin a relaxing day off in the woods.
Sara Balghonaim’s Me & Aydarous: A gutsy young woman sneaks off for a date only to butt heads with her chaperoning chauffeur.
Sophia Bennett Holmes’ Synchronicity Story: When an aimless teenage girl becomes obsessed with a neighborhood boy, she starts seeing signs of him everywhere and believes it’s her mission to follow the clues the universe is sending her.
Andy Brame’s SCHRODINGER: A stern college professor, mourning his beloved, wants to kill himself and join wife in the great beyond. His plans are interrupted by his wife’s weed dealer, a young stoner, who becomes convinced fate has sent him to save the prof!
Kaitlyn Busbee’s Layaway: Stevie and Tommy do what they need to get by, but when things go awry, Stevie is forced to confront what really matters.
Marina Charriton’s 9th of Autumn: A fish in a Parisian canal interweaves the fates of a young urbanist and a fisherwoman.
Chheangkea’s Skin Can Breathe: A Cambodian-American teenager finds home inside the water of his high school pool.
Nicole Cone’s Alexandra McGee: A hardworking Miami teen is pushed to her moral limits when she realizes her Geometry grade could jeopardize her GPA.
Cade Featherstone’s Don’t You Dare Film Me Now: A woman and a drone wait for each other to die.
Angalis Field’s THE DALLES: Cam is used to seeing the same familiar customers when he works shifts at his family’s cherry stand, but after a handsome cyclist passes through and asks for directions to a local cruising site, Cam decides to go search for him.
Manya Glassman’s Acquiescence: Lily navigates the blurry lines of consent and guilt as she deals with her boyfriend's persistent and threatening advances. Her relationship to her own body and her identity as a dancer are caught in the crossfire.
Hanna Gray Organschi’s Merci, Poppy: Poppy wants a promotion.
Xavier Griffiths’ B-Box: Two roommates engaged in a bizarre high stakes game try to keep things under control when one of them invites a woman over to their apartment.
Casiano Hamer’s Gift of the Magi: A younger brother's journey of discovering the truth behind Three Kings Day and his magical connection to his estranged big brother.
David Kramer’s Wäge dir / Because of you: At his deceased father’s house, Markus unexpectedly encounters his estranged sister who he blames for their father’s recent suicide and things get out of hand as anger and grief slowly get the better of him.
Anndi Liggett’s Jelly: After the mysterious death of a neighbor, precocious 8-year-old Jelly Johnson sets out to “solve the case” while coming to terms with a much more personal tragedy.
Karen Madar: Skin Can Breathe by Chheangkea; Synchronicity Story by Sophia Bennett Holmes; Story by Andy Brame; Don't You Dare Film Me Now by Cade Featherstone.
Jason Adam Maselle’s Your Father’s Child: Grief-stricken Adam tracks down the man responsible for his father’s death.
Maryam Mir’s Sweet Refuge: A Syrian baker spends his first Eid in the US attempting to sell the sweet he has spent his lifetime perfecting: walnut baklava.
Victor Pigasse’s A Clean Break: A lonely introverted thief breaks into people's houses until, one day, he makes an unexpected encounter.
Morgan Simonson’s Holy Herb: A monk has an interesting conversation with someone on high.
Watch the trailer here and reserve your tickets for May 7th and May 8th.