World premiere of four short films produced in BlackStar’s Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab. Co-presented by Expressway Cinema Rentals, Leeway Foundation, Xfinity, and All Ages Productions.

In the early 1960s, a budding soul music label brings in a savvy group of local teenage musicians to offer feedback and inspiration to its early signees.

Big Three

After successfully building a time machine that uses love to help heal and replace harmful childhood memories, a teenage scientist/influencer puts his new invention to the test to challenge intergenerational trauma.

The Love Machine

Luis, a recent immigrant who sells "hold music" and Jamilah, a gourmet chef stuck working in a cubicle, fall in love under unlikely circumstances that involve absolutely terrible music, a lot of blood, and edible flowers.

Tonight, We Eat Flowers

OURIKA!, a glamorous surreal sci-fi short film, deconstructs the old tale of Ourika, a Senegalese girl who was enslaved by a French aristocrat. She must see her true self to be set free.

OURIKA!

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