Film. Video. Photo. Dance.
Mary Trunk is a filmmaker, choreographer and multi-media artist living in Altadena, CA. Her films take seemingly simple subjects—a family’s unraveling, the choices women make as they navigate identities as mothers and artists, how dancers age— and illuminates how each radiates out to bigger questions: how do we make sense of our histories? What paths are available to us? How do we create meaning within our lives? She has been producing and directing documentaries, dance videos, experimental hybrid films and paintings for more than 30 years. Mary is also a film, video and screen dance Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Mt. St. Mary’s University and Art Center College of Design. Her work can be found at www.maandpafilms.com , www.musclememoryproject.com and @marytrunk.
Paul Sanchez has been working in the motion picture industry for over 20 years. Paul has provided his assisting and camera operating talents to over 30 feature films and many television programs. They include Mrs. Doubtfire, The River Wild, Walk the Line, Matrix Reloaded, Sideways, Scandal, Mad Men and How to Get Away With Murder. He has worked as a Camera Operator and a Director of Photography with such Directors as Wim Wenders, James Mangold, Alexander Payne and Sam Raimi. Paul’s producing and editing credits include The Watershed, Plain Art, Lost in Living and The Past is in the Present: At Home with Gunther Schuller.
FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS
2024 Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, New York
2024 Gjon Mili International Video Art Festival, Gjon Mili Museum, Albania
2024 Esto Es Para Esto Film Festival
2024 ALC Video Art Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alicante, Spain
2023 New Film Underground, Los Angeles
2023 Eperimental Superstars, Serbia
2023 ELO(Kuva)KUU, Finland
2023 XPRMTL Film Festival, London
2023 Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film, Mexico
2023 Short Circuit Film Festival
2023 Esto Es Para Esto - Exhibidora de Cine
2023 International Festival of Experimental Film & Video
2022 Justice on Trial Film Festival
2022 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
2022 Film Fest by Rogue Dancer
2022 Bridges International Film Festival
2022 Santa Cruz Film Festival
2022 Red Rose Film Festival
2022 The New Film Underground
2022 Les Instants Video
2022 Body Positive Film Festival
2022 Lane Doc Fest
2022 Fargo Film Festival
2022 Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival
2022 BUEIFF Channel
2022 Maui Film Festival
2022 The Cut Film Series
2022 Third ACTion Film Festival
2022 Paradise Film Festival
2022 Experiments in Cinema
2022 XPRMNTL Anti-Festival
2022 Balkan Can Kino
2022 Esto Es Para Esto Film Festival
2021 Inqrvention
2021 Engauge Experimental Film Festival
2021 Cine@art Festival
2021 Experimental Superstars
2021 Bideodromo
2021 Festival Internacional de Cortometraje UVAQ
2021 Kinesthesia Film Festival
2021 Underneath the Floorboards
2020 Film Fest by Rogue Dancer
2019 UFVA Conference
2018 Fargo Film Festival
2018 Grrl Haus Cinema
2017 40 North Dance Film Festival
2014 Fargo Film Festival