Colm Scully is from Cork, Ireland. He is an engineer and poetry film maker, as well as poet. He has been published in Cyphers, Crannóg, Philosophy Now and many other magazines and anthologies His poetry films have been shown in festivals around the world, including The Film and Video Poetry Symposium Pasadena, The International Film and Video Poetry Festival Athens, REEL Poetry Houston, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Dublin International Short Film Festival and Cork Indie Film Festival. His films have won prizes at Rabbits Heart Poetry Film Festival 2018 and MicroMania Film Festival, New York 2021 You can watch them at 
Published
February 7, 2024
He Splits his Time Between Jupiter and Rome
Marshall’s poem is about the esteemed painter, Cy Twombly. This film is centered around Twombly and his love/hate relationship with his work as an artist. The film will explore a tale of two passions and reflect the importance of capturing remaining moments.
Filmmaker Comfort Abiodun is a Houston based creative director with a versatile background in film and media production. Beauty found within reality, people, and culture is often what inspires her work the most.
Poet Marshall Woodward is a MFA candidate at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program where he is an Inprint Fellow and an assistant poetry editor for Gulf Coast. His poetry has recently been featured in Hot Pink, Spectra, FENCE, and b l u s h. The recipient of grants from The Medieval Academy of America and Gulkistan Arts Center in Iceland, he is working on a manuscript about empire and the making of medieval America.
I Bear Witness’
Contemplates the role of memory, water and erasure in Raneem’s relationship to Houston. The poem begs the question: What does it mean to belong to a city?
Filmmaker Julia Barbosa Landois is a multidisciplinary artist who teases profundity and absurdity from the everyday and examines the relationship between the intimate and the public. Her videos, performances, installations, and works on paper have been featured throughout the USA and in Latin America and Europe. She was awarded a 2023 Creation Fund grant from National Performance Network and in 2024 her videos can be seen at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (Riverside Museum), Perez Art Museum, and more.
Poet Raneem Bakir Alia is a Moroccan-Palestinian American poet and writer. Raneem earned her BA in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Houston, and in 2020, was awarded a Mellon Research Scholar Fellowship in which she received a grant to continue her research on revolution, liberation, and a gendered view of identity formation in the Moroccan Liberation Movement. Her writing, informed by her research, explores grief, family, girlhood, and the things we inherit through our matrilineage. She is formerly a poetry and prose editor at Glass Mountain Magazine.
The Case for the Sun, the Wind, and the Oak Trees
This city’s strength is its diversity. Perhaps, because we came from different parts of the globe, Germany, Colombia, and Pakistan, we found an easy commonality. Stereotypes are abandoned when lives intersect, conversations occur, and friendships are forged. In a world of increasing divisions and turmoil, fostering understanding is the only way forward
Filmmaker Michael Brims is a documentary filmmaker & video artist from Germany living in Houston, Texas. He is also an associate professor for Communication, Art & Digital Media Studies at the University of Houston Clear Lake. His documentary work focuses on Latin American musical traditions and as aspects of sustainability.
Poet Saba Husain is a Pakistani-American poet. She is the author of Elegy for My Tongue (Terrapin Books, 2023). Her work appears in literary journals including Cimarron Review, On the Seawall, Puerto del Sol, and Third Coast. Saba is a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee, a finalist for the 2023 Perugia Press Prize, and finalist for the 2021 and 2020 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Saba holds a day job and serves on the board of Mutabilis Press. She earned a B.A in Creative Writing from University of Houston.
Scarring Fields
A meditation on life in Houston, as a queer brown person, that wants to look at fear and trauma as messages from the self and beyond, invitations to understand ourselves more wholly, if only we look at them honestly.
Filmmaker Rafael Elorza is a filmmaker based in Houston, TX. His most recent work, No Me Despido (This is not my farewell) was selected into Admit One an analog showcase.
Poet Chankrisna Tea (she/they) is a Khmer poet from Houston, TX. Her work is invested in exploring the constellation of her history and family, to better grasp her own life and to tell it as best as she can.
Iridescence
In the experimental short film “Iridescence”, the poet Joshua Burton’s desire for self-healing and healing for his mother places him inside of his mother’s closet in 1978, where he attempts to work through colorism, religion and shame.
Filmmaker Abdurrahman Danquah is a Houston-based filmmaker and photographer. Abdurrahman has created films such as Pest Control and Lost in Divine which recently received 2nd place at the MSA Showdown Film Festival for Best Short Film in 2023. He is also the founder and current curator of The Harbor, a seasonal art and poetry showcase show. Abdurrahman earned his BA in Media Production at the University of Houston.
Poet Joshua Burton is a poet and educator from Houston, TX and received his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. His chapbook Fracture Anthology is currently out with Ethel and his debut poetry collection Grace Engine is out with the University of Wisconsin Press.
