First Look 2020 - Documentary

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Documentary Films:

Breach of Trust (24:46)


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Survivors of sexual misconduct in USC's Student Health Center discuss institutional cover-ups and their fight for accountability and change.
Director
Mishal Mahmud
Cinematographer
Ariel Cantrell
Editor
Kara Fein and Kelsy Lua
Sound
Joshua Ciccel
Composer
Anthony Sabatino
Cast: Amanda Davis, Cindy Gilbert, Dr. Ariela Gross, Matt Hamilton, Brennan Heil, Dr. Jane Junn, Dr. Dana Loew, Kay Zhang, Karen Ayvazian, Deja Bowen, Allyse Gibson, Joseé Gourdine, Katrina Lee, Jessica Otse Idaewor and Annie Faley.

Breaking and Entering: Women of the LAPD (20:25)


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Breaking and Entering profiles three groundbreaking women as they change the culture of law enforcement in Los Angeles.
Director
Eleanor Blake
Producer
Lida Nasseri, Weston Porter
Cinematographer
Shelby Adair
Editor
Jiaxuan Cai, Kittsie Klaes
Sound
Ming Anne Geng, Alysha Bermudez
Composer
Robert Treves
Cast: Alma Burke, Jennifer Grasso, Helen Kidder.

Dream With One Eye Open (23:05)


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"Dream With One Eye Open" is an impressionistic portrait of an autistic girl who creates an artistic world populated with one-eyed characters through whom she expresses her joys and her tears.
Director
Even Wu
Producer
Ruoyu Ren, Alexa Velasquez
Cinematographer
Hark Xu
Editor
Lai Jiang, Marjan Koffa
Sound
Jiashu Li, Colin Ren
Composer
Yifan Lin
Cast: Jia Wang Johnson as Sylvia, Eula Li Johnson as Alina & Gena Wang as Katherine.

DRIVEN (18:24)


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In a world of adrenaline and speed, a quadriplegic race car driver pushes to keep his dream of racing alive.
Director
Cody Wilson
Producer
Alexandra Roberson, Tiffany Gist
Cinematographer
Melanie Grams
Sound
Martin Hilligoss, Laria Martinez-DeLeon
Composer
Federico Torri
Cast: Mario Bonfante, Jr., Chris Tripp, and Adriana Tripp.

God Bless the Cook (20:25)


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Chef Roslyn Spence trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, but her biggest critic remains her mother, a 94-year-old self-taught cook for Hollywood's biggest stars.
Director
Zoe Malhotra, Annalise Pasztor
Producer
Soraya Simi, Angela Webb-Pigg
Cinematographer
Kathryn Boyd-Batstone
Editor
Melanie Lim, Elisa-Sophia Fioretti
Sound
Jack Barnes, Dashiel King
Composer
Kara Ford, Jonathan Zuniga, Sonia Coronado Cuesta
Cast: Edith Bell and Roslyn Spence.

LETTERS: The Art of Grieving (20:00)


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LETTERS is an epistolary documentary about the powerful transformations of grief into art.
Producer
Michael D. Notrica
Cinematographer
Baihui "Becky" Chen
Composer
Mark Garbett
Cast: Joan Schulze, Alexis Roberts Keiner, and Natalie Ki Treadwell.

The Dope Years: The Story of Latasha Harlins (19:37)


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A personal retelling of the life and death of Latasha Harlins, the forgotten spark igniting the Los Angeles uprising of 1992, popularly known as the LA riots.
Director
Allison A. Waite
Writer
Allison A. Waite, Menu´Ette Silver
Producer
Menu'Ette Silver, Andres Correa
Cinematographer
Kevin Caulfield
Editor
Fatima AlFulaij, Irakli Jgenti
Sound
Jalise Beamon
Composer
August K. Burton, Lawford Campbell II
Cast: Ebony Fay ; Shinese Harlins ; Ruth Harlins ; Naoimi McSwain ; Tybie O'Bard ; Reenactment cast: Iyanna Halley (Latasha Harlins) ; Simone Baker (Tybie O'Bard) ; Crystal Lee (Soon Ja Du) ; Deborah Marcano (Mary) ; Thyais Walsh (Ruth Harlins) ; Caleb Joshua (Marc) ; Samuel Evans (Derrick) ; Nia Miranda (Angela) ; Destin Flood , D'Trien Flood (neighborhood twins)

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