Directing

Carlo Nasisse

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Directing

Credits

12 titles

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Behind the camera

Becoming Blair poster
NR

Blair is a transgender young adult living in Texas and transitioning with mixed reactions from his conservative parents.

Becoming Blair

2016

Animal Eye poster
NR

Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

Animal Eye

2025

Lacuna poster
NR

Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, was drained by settlers in the 19th century and transformed into one of the most valuable agricultural lands in the world. This visual essay explores the emptiness of the former lake and the ongoing water crisis. Today, farm machinery, animals and people search for water in the resulting dry valley.

Lacuna

2024

Xa lyu-k'ya | Un Mundo de Cerros poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Xa lyu-k'ya | Un Mundo de Cerros

2026

Endlings poster
NR

During the first human-driven mass extinction, a filmmaker drifts through churches, ancient DNA labs, and ghostly archives, searching for permanence. What lies beyond our replicas of the lost?

Endlings

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No artwork available
NR

Gaspar, a respected community leader, walks a fragile line between protecting his forest and leading his region’s first carbon offset project for the United States. As tradition meets global markets, he must reconcile stewardship with the promises and pressures of a new economy.

World of Mountains

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No artwork available
NR

Gaspar, a respected community leader, walks a fragile line between protecting his forest and leading his region’s first carbon offset project for the United States. As tradition meets global markets, he must reconcile stewardship with the promises and pressures of a new economy.

World of Mountains

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No artwork available
NR

Gaspar, a respected community leader, walks a fragile line between protecting his forest and leading his region’s first carbon offset project for the United States. As tradition meets global markets, he must reconcile stewardship with the promises and pressures of a new economy.

World of Mountains

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Coby and Stephen are in Love poster
NR

Through handmade outfits and dancing, Coby, a 93 year old retired Chinatown nightclub performer, and Stephen, an artist twenty years her junior, find unlikely love, despite dissimilarities in culture and age. As their last performance in Las Vegas approaches, Coby and Stephen prepare a final routine.

Coby and Stephen are in Love

2019

Coby and Stephen are in Love poster
NR

Through handmade outfits and dancing, Coby, a 93 year old retired Chinatown nightclub performer, and Stephen, an artist twenty years her junior, find unlikely love, despite dissimilarities in culture and age. As their last performance in Las Vegas approaches, Coby and Stephen prepare a final routine.

Coby and Stephen are in Love

2019

Addresses poster
NR

In a country with no numerical system for street addresses, a young woman explores the unique system that has taken hold, and the prospect of its rapid disappearance.

Addresses

2023

East Side poster
NR

Pet rams, streetside accordionists: East Austin is certainly not lacking in character. But as Texas’s capital city gentrifies, the neighborhood’s spirit fades. This melancholy documentary is the second film by Indie Grits alum Carlo Nasisse to screen in the festival— Coby & Stephen Are in Love appears in On Love & Other Connections.

East Side

2018