JESSZILLA: Screening Saturday, May 20, 4:30PM at Keeler Tavern Museum 152 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06896 a part of RIFF2023, Ridgefield Independent Film Festival’s eighth Edition
Ticket Link: https://www.squadup.com/events/jeszilla
SUMMARY:
Jesselyn Silva, a 15-yr-previous lady from New Jersey, is a 3x nationwide boxing champion. She has her sights set on changing into the very best in boxing. Jess’s father, Pedro, navigates what it means to help his daughter’s goals in a particularly harmful sport. However when she will get an unthinkable prognosis, her relationship with preventing takes on a complete new which means.
EMILY SHESKIN – DIRECTOR
Emily Sheskin is a director and editor who has labored on award-profitable documentaries, TV specials and promoting campaigns. Her work has been featured in quite a few publications reminiscent of (however not restricted to) The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, and IFP.
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Background:
Ridgefield Independent Film Festival was based in 2015 by native playwright and filmmaker, Joanne Hudson and offered its first iteration in May of 2016 at ten venues all through Ridgefield, CT; screening 72 movies from 26 international locations. Since then the pageant has attracted the likes of celebrities Allison Williams, James Naughton, Barry Levinson and Paul Dano, in addition to gifted native and worldwide filmmakers. This extremely curated pageant makes an attempt to carry movies, filmmakers, and neighborhood collectively in Ridgefield Connecticut to share all it has to supply with the identical unbiased spirit by which it started: within the hopes of constructing the world a extra compassionate place by means of the sharing of tales by means of cinema.
