A House For My Mother

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Shorts 2: Sense of Place
Theater 3 Sat, Apr 5 11:00 AM
Film Info
Premiere Status:Minnesota Premiere
Release Year:2024
Runtime:16 min
Country/Region:United States
Language:English
Website:Official Website
Cast/Crew
Director:Pilar Timpane
Benjamin Nero
Producer:Pilar Timpane
Ana Hoppert Flores
Benjamin Nero
Screenwriter:John Timpane
Composer:Javier Nero
Filmography:Pilar Timpane is based in Durham
NC and New York City. She was a 2022 ITVS/NEH Humanities Documentary Development Fellow and a Logan
PBS/ReelSouth & AlJazeera Witness) was the winner of the Best Documentary Short Jury Prize at New Or
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
and Hamptons International Film Festival. She is an alumna of the Women in Film Finishing Fund and t
Working Films
and a fellow of the IndieGrits Real Fiction Lab
and the New Orleans Film Society Southern Producers Lab. She was named a 2021 Ella Fountain Pratt Em
she is directing her first feature film.
Dr. Benjamin Nero DMD grew up in Greenwood
Mississippi
just miles from where teenager Emmett Till was beaten to death. Born in 1937
Nero was a high school football star who played in college and was recruited to play professionally.
the award-winning actor.

Description

Rooted in the segregated Mississippi Delta, a pioneering figure barriers as one of the first Black dentists in the nation.