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Pinball

Yosef and Sam waiting in the car at the quarry.

An Iraqi-American college student navigates typical adolescent crossroads and his unconventional family history as an immigrant in suburban Louisville, Kentucky.

Length

90 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

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Naveen Chaubal

Director

Naveen has worked for AJ+, Vice News, Bon Appétit and produced music videos for James Blake and Frank Ocean. His short film Pinball screened at the DGA and the Speed Art Museum among others. It premiered online on NoBudge.com and won Audience Choice. He co-shot and co-produced Tomorrow We Disappear, a feature documentary that chronicles the last days of the Kathputli colony. A community hidden in the alleyways of New Delhi full of magicians, acrobats and puppeteers approach their looming eviction to make way for a modern skyscraper. The film premiered at Tribeca and screened at Hot Docs.

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Bryn Silverman

Producer

Bryn is a writer and producer. She was recently a story producer on Amend (2021), a six-part Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. She post-produced and edited Are you afraid of Monsters?, a DACA PSA, which was honored at the 2018 Webby’s in the category “best film - public service & activism.” She produced the short film Pinball, which screened at the Director’s Guild through Film Independent, the Montana International Film Festival, Tulsa International Film Festival, TIDE Film Festival and the Kansas City Film Festival, among others. She is currently producing a documentary about transracial adoption in Michigan and writing a limited series about Annie Oakley.