Award-Winning Film 'Deciding Vote' Featured at Short Cuts Film Fest

The Darien Arts Center is thrilled to host the return screening of the Short Cuts Film Festival, a collection of award-winning short narrative and documentary films curated from the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, this Friday, February 2 at 7 pm. Limited tickets are available at darienarts.org.

takes place 50 years ago, when assemblyman George Michaels cast a single vote on New York's abortion bill that changed the course of American history but destroyed his political career in the process. The short documentary by Jeremy Workman and Robert J. Lyons, is just one of the 4 award-winning short films being shown at the one-night Film Festival.

The screening, a JIB Productions event, will take place in the DAC Weatherstone Studio and will be followed by a live, in-person conversation between Jacob Krupnick, director of one of the featured films, and Nancy Diamond, producer and host of Short Cuts. Jacob Krupnick is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York, focused on creating stories from unexpected points of view; using dance and movement to expand the idea of what an adventure, a love story or a social commentary looks like. His featured film, Then Comes the Body follows what happens when a video of kids dancing in the rain goes viral. The video brings global attention to an unlikely ballet school outside Lagos, Nigeria, resulting in them now preparing for the world stage.
The Short Cuts screening provides a can’t-miss opportunity to see award-winning, thought-provoking and buzzworthy films from Darien.

The two other short documentary films to be shown include:
Team Dream, winner of TIDE Film Festival Best Documentary Award (Martha’s Vineyard) and directed by Luchina Fisher. Team Dream follows friends and competitive swimmers Ann and Madeline on their journey to the National Senior Games, where nothing - not age, race or history - will stand in their way.

In Her Element by Idil Ibrahim follows the journey of Daisha McBride, an up-and-coming hip hop artist in Nashville, Tennessee, as she gets the chance of a lifetime to break boundaries in the global epicenter of country music - and seizes the opportunity.

JIB Productions, a Westport-based not-for-profit arts organization, produces Short Cuts, its annual film series and is also known throughout Fairfield County for its flagship lunchtime theater series Play With Your Food.

The DAC Weatherstone Studio is located at 2 Renshaw Road , behind the Town Hall in Darien. Tickets for the Short Cuts Film Festival screening are $25 for adults and $15 for students at darienarts.org. For questions, call (203) 655-8683.