EMPATHIC FLAVORS 2023

Amidst the turmoil of Los Angeles’ Skid Row, a tireless community leader and her volunteers work to feed the hungry and provide support to the unhoused. Their rhythmic labor is an explosion of active empathy in a seemingly impossible situation. This mesmerizing documentary illuminates the joy and determination of Maxine Sealey and the network surrounding her aid group: Sharing Love With Others.
This film was made in the spirit of Third Cinema wherein the production process and images produced aim to support the subjects of the film financially, representationally, and in-kind.
All donations go directly to Maxine Sealey and Sharing Love With Others.
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MANOS (2019)

is a film about working class women in Uruguay and Argentina. In a dream-like language, woven by hands, ants, and liquidity, it traces manual labor and horizontal mutual aid among working class women. From the sequences of fisherwomen, manicurists, protestors, glove inspectors, clinicians, and mothers, rises a chorus of care, labor, resistance, struggle, trauma, and collective action. Manos presents timezones of labor as a seed to think about ecological phenomenon, gender, and liquidity