SHORT FILM SATURDAY: Q&A with Director Daniel Fermín Pfeffer

𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗥𝗞, 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗢𝗧𝗬𝗣𝗘𝗦

Breaking stereotypes is what we do at #ShortFilmSaturday, and Mexican American Filmmaker - Daniel Pfeffer did just that for the LatinX and African American communities!

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🇲🇽About the filmmaker
𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗘𝗟 𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗠Í𝗡 𝗣𝗙𝗘𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥 @dannypfeffer957 is an award-winning Mexican-American filmmaker. He earned a BFA from NYU's Tisch School and an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing from Columbia University. His short film, "While I Was Gone," was screened at various festivals and won the Denver Film Festival Domestic Student Award. His first feature, "I'll See You Around," premiered in 2019 at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University and teaches screenwriting and film production for the Performing and Media Arts Department.

📽About Daniel's Films:
𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗔 is a short film about a grandmother who has had to raise her two grandchildren on her own after their parents died. It paints a portrait that debunked stereotypes often seen in the media when representing Latino families from lesser means in New York City.

𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗜 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗡𝗘 brings to light the interior life and turmoil that Lucas, a young African-American, and his mother face as a result of his older brother's drug addiction. The film portrays events that people don't normally associate with Ithaca, an idyllic college town. It is a docudrama about Daniel's close friend Lucas Monroe, the lead in the film (who has had no training as an actor), who came up with the story, which was then written for the screen.

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