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VALENCIA (THE MOVIES):  CHAPTER 9

Valencia (The Movies), is an epic, wild DIY collaboration between 21 filmmakers, each of who has accepted the challenge of translating one chapter of the award-winning novel Valencia into a 5-minute short film.

Bringing together filmmakers and other media artists, including photographers and video artists, Valencia will retell the cult classic story of one twenty-something queer girl’s romp through 1990s San Francisco, earnestly chasing urban adventure with a down-the-rabbit-hole sense of wonder.

Once completed, the string of films can and will be shown together, as well as each be able to stand alone as short narrative films, creating 21 short films that operate together to tell a sprawling and energized narrative.  

Chapter 9: 

I’ll be directing CHAPTER 9, in which Michelle finds herself, and her lover Iris, in the maelstrom of Iris’s sister’s southern Baptist wedding. Culture clash in the midst of family dysfunction and a near-dog-tragedy come to a head as we witness the complications of judge-y escape artists trying to go home again.  

SILAS HOWARD Bio, (writer, director, and musician), began his career in degeneracy by playing music with the legendary queer punk band Tribe8. He went on to co-create the avant-garde performance space masquerading as a humble cafe, Red Dora's Bearded Lady. Silas co-wrote, directed and starred in the film By Hook or By Crook, a Sundance Film Festival premiere and five-time Best Feature winner, in which trans male people experience drama and speak poetically. Howard’s short documentary, What I Love About Dying, also premiered at Sundance and played film festivals internationally. His music videos, webseries and short films have aired on MTV, LOGO and Showtime. Silas’s writing has been published in various anthologies including Without A Net, LTTR and Live Through This. He is currently in post on a feature film.

Did A fun interview with TELLO check it out below:

http://www.tellofilms.com/content/films/tello-talks-silas-howard-crowdfunding