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Movie Night!

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Revolution Me Film Festival is hosting a virtual movie night of a bunch of our shorts: Hello, Night In, The Gaze, Enough, and Affliction. It's Saturday, February 20th at 6pm ET with a live Q&A with Christina after. It's a $20 suggested donation and proceeds will go towards Revolution Me Media Labs, a free filmmaking lab the festival has created for underserved high school students.

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"Affliction" Q&A Highlights & Audience Reactions

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Watch the film if you haven't yet: https://www.congestedcat.com/affliction. "Affliction" screened at 10 festivals in 2020, which was bittersweet because we never got to see the film on a big screen with a live audience. But one perk of festivals going virtual this year is that many of our Q&A's were recorded. Here's a recap of some of the great discussions we had with festival moderators.

See links to the full conversations below.

Also, since Christina wasn’t writing festival recaps and sharing audience comments in them the way she normally would, here’s a collection of screenshots of audience reactions we saw throughout the film’s virtual run instead.

"Affliction" Online Premiere

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Our short film “Affliction” premieres online today and is a Daily Shorts Pick by Film Shortage. Written by Kelsey Rauber and Directed by Christina Raia, and shot in August 2019.

Director Statement

The short was originally born out of a weekly writing group between screenwriter Kelsey Rauber, frequent collaborator Ryan Kramer, and myself. We try to meet up every week to either give feedback to each other on new pages of ongoing projects or practice pitches that are either inspired by our own experiences or come out of challenges we give each other in session (like from news stories or a draw of the hat type of exercise featuring genres and settings). This particular piece was a script Kelsey presented that was inspired by frustrations surrounding the lack of self-reflection and tangible progress in 2019 despite consent finally being a topic of discussion in the zeitgeist, as well as a general fascination with menstruation and evolution. I really liked the way it played with a both timely and timeless issue and did so via a high concept conveyed through a small contained encounter. We ended up workshopping it over a few meetups and, eventually, Kelsey and I decided to collaborate on it together with me as director. I'm really eager to discuss the final product with an audience.