Ava Benjamin Shorr
History
Ava Benjamin Shorr is an American cinematographer based in Los Angeles, California. She was raised by a Mormon mother and a Jewish father in Portland, Oregon.
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As children, Miles and Rocky hunted a monster they thought they saw in the woods. Twenty years later, they're still searching.
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Charlie and Hannah can't say it out loud, but they both know their relationship is coming to an end. As a last ditch effort, the two head south with Hannah's cat, along the dusty coast of Baja California. There they discover not only a new world, but that the troubles between them can't remain dormant for much longer.
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A wild night of drugs and drugged up driving ends in tragedy for three teenage girls that happen to be marionettes.
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In 1986, ten-year-old Tate Millikin is forced to spend a lonely summer witnessing the breakup of his parents' marriage. Tate eventually befriends his new next-door neighbors - recently retired English professor, Edward Bryant and his transgender daughter, Gossamer. Despite his father’s knee-jerk transphobia and his mother’s misplaced protectiveness, Tate forms a deep friendship with fellow misfit Gossamer, that changes his and their familys life.
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An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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A cruise ship vacation for conspiracy theorists takes a turn for the surreal when their most outlandish theories come true on board.
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In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.
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A troubled woman reconnects with her sister following a close encounter with extraterrestrial forces.
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Las Gitanas follows a group of hustlers as they dance their way through a night in Los Angeles, seducing lonely targets to expose their weaknesses and their wallets. It explores chance interactions amongst disparate souls and the common pulse that binds them.
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A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.
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A case of mistaken identity leads a young slacker to self-destruction after being subliminally hypnotized by a mysterious underground organization.
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Ava Benjamin Schorr and Bianca Cline are cinematographers who also happen to be trans women. The film explores who they are beyond their trans identity, what it means to be a female cinematographer and last but certainly not least, what it means to be a woman in this moment in time.