"India became a place I learned to love and alternately hate: it’s a hard and sometimes deadly place to travel as a single woman, the heat can be unbearable, the monsoons impassable, the schism between rich and poor unconscionable, but amidst the chaos, color and cacophony we were shown immeasurable kindness, compassion and deeply felt love of the visual in all forms." 

"Once upon a time, in West End Atlanta, time stood still and four indigos gleamed. Cloaks of shimmer adorned their skin and tresses. On this night, leaving the family hosting them, they embarked on numinous travel for their next departure into cosmic."

In Passing 66, Coffee returns to her stop-motion roots while playing with the romanticization of hitch-hiking and the experience of a lone girl through such a journey.

Molly Coffee is an Atlanta filmmaker and set designer who began her filmmaking career working by day full time in the art department for The Carbonaro Effect and The Walking Dead. She lends her talent to a variety of media including Stan Against Evil, Atlanta, Steel Country, V/H/S Viral, and stage and puppetry shows. Coffee is an Atlanta Film Society Filmmaker-in-Residence, a member of the international female directors group “Film Fatales”, the owner of independent production company Zombie Cat Productions, and a contributor to the weekly podcast Atlanta Film Chat. 

Varanasi is a fairytale, a journey into subconscious, towards an emotional metamorphoses, leaving the viewer filled with a sense of wonderment. Through the character's journey, ambient narrative operating in broad strokes of symbolic imagery and tone, and cyclical movement through the film, Zhuravlov takes viewers on an emotional quest through dreams and memories. Universal themes and imagery both entice, intrigue and create emotional resonance in the viewer to spark their own imagination.

Combining narrative/symbolic elements of Dante's Il Paradiso and Jack and the Beanstalk, Il Gambo is a multimedia film composed of photographic elements, oil painting textured with mastic, puppetry and 2d animation. It celebrates vertical movement, the joys of journeying to new places and the sweet satisfaction of the perfect souvenir.

Colin Wheeler is a freelance animator and designer. Past projects include commercials for Nickelodeon, Toys-R-Us, and Home Depot. Wheeler and his partner are involved in designing for a variety of short films including Southern Fried Queer Pride and the Xperimental Puppetry Theatre. Specializing in experimental animation, they make puppets and stop animation focused upon embracing haptic qualities and Brechtian aesthetics in their spare time. His multimedia film combines photographic elements, oil painting textured with mastic, puppetry and 2D animation as it celebrates vertical movement, the joys of journeying to new places and the sweet satisfaction of the perfect souvenir.

Next Stop provides travelers a sense of wonder about what lies ahead as they venture out on a world tour; taking them upwards and onwards to different exotic lands. Influenced by the luxurious lifestyles of travelers during the Golden Age of Flight in the 1950s and 60s, destinations are nondescript, allowing viewers to focus more on the experience versus a specific global landmark.

Christina Maloney is a motion artist and Motion Media Professor with the Savannah College of Art and Design based in Atlanta. With over a decade of experience in both film production, design and motion, Maloney has worked on numerous feature film and television projects as art department crew, in post-production on short films within the festival circuit, and with an Atlanta based motion studio working on commercials and motion graphics for broadcast and out of home experiences. Currently in her 3rd year of professorship at SCAD, Maloney shares her passion and knowledge guiding undergraduate and graduate students in finding their own creative career paths. Her film awakens a sense of wonder about what lies ahead when venturing on a world tour, focusing on nondescript locations to showcase a collective experience versus the specific.

I <3 ATL is an abstract travelogue exploring the city of Atlanta, celebrating the diverse and dynamic energy of the city through avant-garde and experimental techniques. The result is a visually engaging “city symphony” that celebrates Atlanta’s diverse and dynamic energy.

Katherine Balsley is a filmmaker, video artist and animator whose work invokes experimental and abstract techniques and, most recently, documentary and narrative. Balsley’s work has been screened in the Museum of the Moving Image, the Anthology Film Archives, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Her shorts have accumulated awards around the globe including Best Experimental from the Athens International Film and Video Festival and a Director's Prize from the Black Maria Film Festival. A recent transplant from Milwaukee, Balsley teaches film studies and production at Georgia Gwinnett College.

Fragment(s) aims to intrigue a passing viewer into exploring the fleeting imagery of ever changing locations and subjects, to reaffirm them of the possibilities of a foreign place and to excite them or invoke a sense of mystery and curiosity. It reveals a beautiful or abstract image of life in Vietnam but does not linger long enough for the viewer to relish in it.