Amy Sewell

Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes humorous perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to "ladies and gentlemen," on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition.

A sensory meditation on the inexplicable ways grief moves through us as we move through it. Younger and Older are adult siblings who have just lost their mother to terminal illness. Younger has sunk into a grief where she intrusively relives the last perfect day the three of them had together: on the beach, with the rushing of the sea underscoring impermanence. When Older has to leave Younger alone for the first time since the memorial, Younger's surreal, sensory grief threatens to drown her. She must turn into the swell and face it, accepting the help and love of her family - both here and gone - to resurface.

Project 2024, created by COSMOgirl! and The White House Project aims to get more young women involved in politics so that we could see a day when just as many women as men run for the highest office in the country. Five years later this film puts a new face on political leadership by introducing seven possible contenders coming down the political pipeline, taking a (sometimes whimsical) look at possible female leaders of the future while revealing inequalities that still exist today.