Shadow Kitchen is excited to host a program of three very special films where local locations and communities take center stage, including the Los Angeles premiere of PASSERSBY. Filmmakers and crew in attendance!

Thursday, 7/13
Doors: 7PM Doors, Show: 7:30PM
$5

Mask wearing is highly recommended indoors. N/95, KN/95, surgical masks suggested and provided.

PASSERSBY (dir. Sue Ding + Sarah Garrahan / 2023, 27 minutes)
**Co-directors Sue Ding and Sarah Garrahan in attendance**

An observational journey through the lives of six strangers, PASSERSBY celebrates the vibrant panorama of Los Angeles communities and the often overlooked intersections between them. The film is an ode to the everyday, the unexpected, and the ways we navigate our lives in both loneliness and community. Together with our characters, we embark on an intimate journey through the urban landscape and the delights of the quotidian.

CHARLIE’S LOT (dir. Tom Carroll / 2020, 11 minutes)
**Cinematographer and Editor Colin Weatherby in attendance**

Charlie's antique car-collecting habit has become a problem. The neighbors are angry and his wife is sick of it. But Charlie is also an anonymous crusader in the fight to save the soul of his city. How does a society discern between a hoarder and a preservationist? With Charlie, it all depends whether you live next door.

WASHES (dir. Norbert Shieh / 2010, 8:30 minutes)
**Director Norbert Shieh in attendance**

The film explores the relationship of Los Angeles and cars through the documentation of six different carwash locations. Filmed in a mixed media of 16mm film and HD video, each site is a recording from a fixed camera placed behind the windshield as water cascades. The mechanisms of the camera transform an everyday experience into flickering lights and shadows.

Enjoy these wonderful films, followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and crew in attendance on Thursday, July 13th, 7PM Doors, 7:30PM Show.

BIOS:

Sue Ding (she/her) (director/producer, Passersby) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores race, gender, and diaspora through the lens of visual culture and everyday life. Sue’s films can be found on platforms including PBS, The New York Times, and Netflix, and have screened at festivals and venues including SXSW, DOC NYC, and Miami Art Basel. She also directed and produced the Emmy award-winning documentary Artbound: Light and Space. Sue’s work spans film, installation, and emerging media. She curates XR projects for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and is an alum of MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and a Senior Civic Media Fellow at USC.

Sarah Garrahan (she/her) (director/producer/editor, Passersby) is a documentary artist based in Los Angeles, CA (occupied Tongva land). Her work explores the everyday, experiential knowing, and cultural poetics. She co-produced and was an additional editor on the hybrid documentary The Infiltrators by Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and was awarded the NEXT Audience and Innovator Awards. She edited the Emmy-nominated feature documentary Building the American Dream by Chelsea Hernandez, which was broadcast nationally on PBS. She edited the feature documentary Silent Beauty by Jasmin López, which premiered at Hot Docs Film Festival in 2022. She holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. She is a former Flaherty Fellow (2013) and Felsman Fellow (2015).

Norbert Shieh (director, Washes) is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker and cinematographer based in Los Angeles whose work explores the subtleties of the everyday. He has been named as one of “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine, and is an inaugural Sundance / The Asian American Foundation Collab Scholar. His work has been supported by Creative Capital, Center of Asian American Media (CAAM), Bay Area Video Coalition, True/False Fest, and Visual Communications. His films and collaborations as a DP have screened in venues, including Sundance, Blackstar, AFI Fest, Ann Arbor, Jihlava IFF, Tallgrass, among others. He is currently working on his first feature length documentary, PRESERVES.

Colin Weatherby (cinematographer/editor, Charlie's Lot) is a non-fiction film producer, editor, and cinematographer based in Los Angeles. He has worked as a journalist and teacher around the world for more than a decade and he founded the LA chapter of the Video Consortium, a collective of non-fiction filmmakers and artists.