HIS HOUSE
About the event
Parallel Lens launches next year as a film series pairing Austin-based filmmakers with filmmakers from around the world. Its central focus: how filmmakers from different worlds can be in conversation with each other when presented side by side. Tonight is our jumping-off point, a preview of what that conversation can sound like. Remi Weekes, a Black British director, gives us His House, following a South Sudanese couple granted asylum in England whose new home won't let their past stay buried. J. Manzo, a Mexican filmmaker, gives us The Evangelist, following a Mexican man fleeing a lynching who is sheltered by a woman convinced he is the literal answer to her prayers. Both films land on the same unsettling question: what does it cost to be someone's rescue? The screening concludes with a Q&A between Nigerian-born filmmaker Chinwe Okorie and J. Manzo on how their backgrounds shape their lens on horror. Chinwe heads into production on her latest short film, Help Is on the Way. This project is supported in part by an Austin Live Music Fund Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.
