Lucidity - A short visual essay by Steffie van Rhee

Inspired and empowered by the Me Too movement, in 2017 women begin to speak out and share their stories. A young female filmmaker is confronted with her own traumatic experience, and looks for a way to express herself, because, she too, can't stay silent. 

Written, directed, narrated & edited by Steffie van Rhee
Cinematography: Mara Cates Bragar & Steffie van Rhee
Original music: Jazmarae Beebe
Animation: Annelise Capossela
With/Special Thanks: Elizabeth Rohe, Tish Lara, Juul Op den Kamp, Lisa Schmechel, Jen Donohoo & Emily Nemec

Official selection Roxy Underground Film Festival

Women's March Around the World

On January 21st 2017 in the course of 24 hours over 3.7 million people marched all around the world. #girlcrew collective documented this historic day on two continents and in four different cities.

Camera: Juul Op den Kamp (Amsterdam) Steffie van Rhee (D.C.) Tish Lara (New York) Elizabeth Rohe (Phoenix)
Editing: Elizabeth Rohe

A Life Before This - A short documentary by Steffie van Rhee

'Welcome to the club that nobody wants to be a member of'. That was one of the first things that Constance Malcolm heard when she lost her son Ramarley Graham on February 2nd of 2012 when he was shot and killed in their Bronx apartment by a police officer. Ever since she has said the same thing more often than she would have liked to other parents. A Life Before This tells the story of a mother who hangs on to the last bit of hope of getting justice for the son she lost, while getting up every day and fighting against police brutality and gun violence, in the hope that one day she doesn't have to greet new members to the club anymore.

Official selection New York Short Film Festival & NewFilmmakers New York
Special Jury Mention (Documentary) March On Washington Film Festival

www.alifebeforethis.com

Where Memories Live - A short documentary by Juul Op den Kamp

Away from her family in The Netherlands, a filmmaker sets off to explore a range of cultural traditions in New York, as a means of evoking the past in the living present. This journey, subjective as well as ethnographic, examines the force of nostalgia on the experience of modern immigration, cycling through the fall to spring calendar year marked by seven diverse cultural festivities consisting of Thanksgiving, Sinterklaas, Hanukkah, Polish Christmas, Chinese New Year, St Patrick's Day and Holi. Where Memories Live documents the ways in which our internalized childhood roots shape our future in the ever-evolving new world.

The Life and Times of Lottie Dah - A short documentary by Tish Lara

The 1983 hit song “Infatuation” made Laura “Lottie Dah” LaChica a household name in the aging freestyle house music scene in New York City. Now, 30 years later, Lottie finds herself living in low-income housing and uncertain of what lies ahead.  Her driving force is her music and, despite approaching 60, Lottie refuses to give up her dream.   

*Currently in post-production

(Not) Another Fashion Film - A short documentary by Elizabeth Rohe

In New York City, one of the world’s great fashion capitals, where designers are a dime a dozen and fast-fashion is the status quo, who stands up for the future of sustainable fashion? This is (Not) another Fashion Film.    

Official selection Green Mountain Film Festival, New York Film & Television Festival
Audience Favorite Award Ladies Film Night (Tempe Center for the Arts) 
Honorable Mention Animal Film Festival