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Eighth Annual Festival

Something’s Moving

7:14 min
Documentary
Director: Randy Vasquez
Producer: Jonathan Skurnik

Winner of the Unspoken Truth Award

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Randy Vasquez, Director

Randy Vasquez grew up on the beaches of southern California and in the mountains of North Carolina. He has been an actor in Los Angeles and New York for twenty-seven years. His first documentary, made in 1996 was Concert of the South, which contrasted the original Zapatista movement during the Mexican Revolution with the current one in Chiapas. Testimony: The Maria Guardado Story (2001) was his first feature documentary that traces the journey of a Salvadoran political activist from being kidnapped and tortured by death squads in 1980 to her immigrating to the US in 1983. It won best documentary at the 2002 New York Latino Film Festival. Randy and Maria continue to tour with the film at universities around the country today.

Jonathan Skurnik, Producer

Jonathan Skurnik has produced, directed and shot numerous award-winning documentaries and has recently completed his first two fiction films as writer and director. His three most recent documentaries include: The Elevator Operator, a documentary about a Ukrainian immigrant who runs a manual elevator in Manhattan. It has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, won Best Documentary at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid and had its broadcast premiere on PBS and Ukrainian TV; the award-winning Spit It Out which was broadcast on PBS in 2007; and A Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay which won the prestigious Harry Chapin Award for films about hunger and poverty and was broadcast nationwide on PBS and across Europe in 2002. Jonathan is currently directing Ice Music, an high-definition documentary about an ice music festival in Norway. He is also wrapping up production on the full length version of Something’s Moving and directing She’s A Boy — a documentary about transgender children.