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SHORTS PROGRAM 2 INCLUDES BLUE VEIL, CHICO VIRTUAL, DEATH & DEATHABILITY (A PERIOD PIECE), DESERT LIGHTS, ÉCHALE GANAS: THE VILLA'S TACOS STORY, PUZZLED AND ROAD TO DELICIAS

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Blue Veil

Directed by Shireen Alihaji

United States | 6 minutes | 2022

After Amina discovers her mother's record collection, music begins to unlock memories. Through sampling, Amina remembers who she is. At the intersection of music and memory, this hybrid film blurs the lines between surveillance and archival repair. It is indiscernible to know who is being watched, but in a world with watchful eyes, Amina chooses how she sees herself.
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Shireen Alihaji is a Latinx, Iranian, Muslim, Disabled filmmaker born and raised in L.A. Her revolving identities inspire her to create space through film technologies for intersections to exist and expand. Alihaji's work interrogates a connection between memory and healing. Her films use memory to create a counter/contra gaze that un-censors the imagination, de-internalizes surveillance, and mirrors infinite self-reflection.

Alihaji's short film "Blue Veil" is a proof of concept for her first feature film. The feature length screenplay for Blue Veil was placed on the Inaugural Cannes List, Black List X Muslim List, Respectability Lab, Athena Writers Lab, Women in Film Mentoring Program, The Gotham's Owning It Challenges, and published in the The Blue Print for Muslim Inclusion (Pillars Fund, Riz Ahmed / Left Handed Films, USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative). It was one of the ten scripts considered for the Cassian Elwes x Sundance Fellowship.

Type of Film Short
Country of Origin United States
Year Film Was Completed 2022
Runtime 6 minutes
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Social media Handles @shireenalihaji
Director Shireen Alihaji
Written by Shireen Alihaji
Cinematography Jaime Ballesteros, Ernesto Calixto, Shireen Alihaji
Edited by Shireen Alihaji
Music by Estevan Carlos Benson, Bernabé Bolaños, Shireen Alihaji
Sound Design Estevan Carlos Benson
Main Cast Marina Ochoa, Etzel Ochoa, Kari Ramírez, Carlos Ortez, Ismael Salazar-Lopez

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