2020 Leadership Fellows
The Cucalorus Leadership Fellows program recognizes community members who have earned their power and influence. These driven, passionate and visionary women have worked tirelessly to make our world a better...
Nov. 15-19, 2023Downtown Wilmington, NC
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Film List
5 Fish, a Goat Head, and a Bag of Money
Pineapple-Shaped Lamps
A brand-new sketch comedy show featuring a hodgepodge mixture of costumes and props unearthed from the dilapidated remains of the many shuttered theaters in the Cape Fear region. Watch as...
A Bad Idea Gone Wrong
Jason Headley
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
A comedy about two would-be thieves who accidentally arm the alarm system and have to break out of the house they just broke into. When they discover an unexpected housesitter,...
A Beautiful Nightmare
Director: Kevin Lee Maxwell
Short Film
Daniel, a highly accomplished dancer, comes home from college only to find himself entangled in a battle between himself and his concerned father. Screening in the Twisted Deceiver Shorts Block.
A Chair is a Chair
Director: Roxana Barba
Short Film :: Shorties
An invitation turned confession captures the secret and spiritual side of meaningful objects. Using excerpts from letters in the book Amado Señor by Argentinian author Pablo Katchadjian, this short is...
A Galaxy Sits in the Cracks
Director: Amber Love
Short Film
Black communities in Chicago, Detroit, and Durham use Afrofuturism as a tool to inspire young people, organize politically and economically, and reimagine the spaces around them in this captivating experimental...
A Great Lamp
Director: Saad Qureshi
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
Max wheat pastes pictures of their dead grandma, Howie listens to fountain pennies and grants wishes, and Gene lives out of his car in exile from his family, when they...
A Hand to Hold
Directors: Stacey Davis, Ali Clark
Short Film :: Shorties
Told from alternating points of view, this animated short explores the connective thread of hand holding between parent and child. When mother and child release hands – and enjoy the...