FILM

Aurora Picture Show presents Life Is a Progress, Short Documentaries from Doxita.  Curator Karen Cirillo in attendance. Saturday, April 17, 7PM at Frenetic Theater, 5102 Navigation.

Memories locked away in storage, accepting puberty’s new voice, surviving enslavement, and struggling with a new language and life in the Unites States, the third annual doxita film festival focuses on facing adversity and change. Doxita is a traveling festival of documentary films that are under 40 minutes in length. The program represents a wide variety of documentary – domestic and foreign, super-short and longer format, serious and funny. It is designed to profile the great content and artistic vision that non-fiction short films provide, but that people don’t often get a chance to see.

Karen Cirillo is a documentary programmer and founder of Doxita. She is the owner of Docuphile Media, LLC, which specializes in programming, consulting and producing non-fiction film and video. Cirillo spent four years as Festival Coordinator and Associate Director - Programming at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She is the Shorts Programmer for the True/False Film Festival. She reviews films and festivals for various publications, including DOX Magazine and indieWIRE.

Photo credit: The First Kid to Learn English From Mexico, Peter Jordan.