INCORRECTIONAL
dir. Christopher Jason Bell, 2018
86 mins. United States.
In English.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 - 7:30 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY w/filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell in person for Q&A (This event is $10.)
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE!

Teenage Saeed (Rayvin Disla, GO DOWN DEATH) and his father Ali (Ali Alwan) live together in New York City but run separate lives. The dysfunctional relationship between the two push them further towards surrogate families -- Saeed with his schoolmates and Ali with his girlfriend and her kid. This tenuous version of stability only lasts so long, though, as both find themselves in conflict due to petty squabbles and love triangles. When the tensions between father and son finally become inescapable the unavoidable eruption occurs, whatever frail union the two had is destroyed. Saeed and Ali, not quite themselves, are led on their own paths to repair what has been ruined.

Christopher Jason Bell is a former critic and active filmmaker. His first feature THE WINDS THAT SCATTER premiered at Northside Festival and went on to play in Madrid, South Korea (winning Best International No Budget Feature Film at the KIXFF), Cambodia, Chile, Argentina, and numerous places in the USA. You can now watch the film on the Kinoscope platform. His latest short film, THE CITY IS LIKE A CHARACTER IN THE FILM, premiered in 2018 and was selected to play in the Eastern Oregon Film Festival and Filmfort. Also in 2018, Spectacle Theater put together a retrospective of his work in Brooklyn, New York. Filmmaking aside, Christopher also hosts the Indie Beat podcast which interviews various people in the art. Notable guests include Jennifer Phang (ADVTANGAGEOUS), Nick Hayes (co-creator of successful political campaign videos including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), and Frank Mosley (actor, filmmaker, and Berlinale Talent Campus alum).