Program II – evening: total running time – TBD Jaya – Jury’s Stellar Award – Narrative 19 min. by Puja Maewal, Los Angeles, CA. Young Jaya survives gruesome gang life on the unforgiving streets of Mumbai by posing as a boy. When she meets a wealthy businessman who may be the father who abandoned her, she sets out to reclaim her identity. Umbrella House – Director’s Choice Award – Documentary 10 min. by Catalina Santamaria, New York, NY. “Umbrella House” reveals the stories of the squatter community - most of them immigrants - that took over abandoned buildings in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, reconstructed them and made them into homes. They gave new life and vitality to the area, and now the Lower East Side is one of the most attractive neighborhoods in New York City. Gentrification, however, has forced out most of the local people including many of the squatters who helped to transform the neighborhood. Ideas That Are Grand (Así de Grandes son las Ideas) – Jury’s Citation Award – Animation 5 min. by Jose Enrique Rivera Rivera, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sometime in the future an old man, equipped with the benefits of evolution, has survived the extinction of all other living beings. It is a very lonely world for someone unable to die. 'Así de grandes son las ideas' is a collaboration between director/animator Quique Rivera Rivera and multiple Latin Grammy and Grammy Award winner René Pérez Joglar (Calle 13). Counting the Dead – Director’s Choice Award – Documentary 7 min. by Catherine Axley, Menlo Park, CA. Gladys Hansen is an 88-year-old former city librarian who has worked tirelessly for 50 years finding the names of those who died in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. After discovering that San Francisco did not have an official death list, Gladys began combing newspapers, tax records, registries, and reaching out to genealogy societies to create her own. She soon found out that the city had grossly underestimated the number of dead, and in fact, had intentionally downplayed the fatalities and damage from the Earthquake to avoid discouraging future investments in city business. As the Dead List grew and grew, Gladys became the pivot point for hundreds of families who wanted to find out more information on missing relatives. The Ballad of Holland Island House – Jury’s Citation Award - Animation 4 min. by Lynn Tomlinson, Owings Mills, MD. “The Ballad of Holland Island House” tells the true story of the last house on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay, brought to life through fluidly transforming animated clay-on-glass paintings. The house sings of its life and the creatures it has sheltered, and contemplates time and environmental change. Told from the house's point of view, this film is a soulful and haunting view of the impact of sea-level rise. Return to Dak To – Jury’s Citation Award – Documentary 49 min. by Christopher Upham, San Francisco, CA. Director and combat medic Christopher Upham journeys to vibrant contemporary Vietnam with four veteran comrades. They reveal how their Army unit, the 299th Engineers were left at Dak To firebase in 1969, as bait for a North Vietnamese Army force. The veterans confront their feelings of abandonment by leaders and society alike as they reveal their sacrifices, shortcomings and pride of service, amidst shifting bouts of PTSD. Returning to Dak To provides an unexpected closure for these men as they give voice to personal traumas that connect to the universal sufferings of war.