The Block Director Mimi Chakarova, Producers Julias Canada & Wellington Jackson, Illustrator Lola Noguer, Young Love (aka Zeine Gamal, Lulu Hawari & Laith), Composer Gavin Templeton, Star “Spot,” and the film’s youngest Sound Person Mira, accept the SDFF 2023 Audience Award for Best Documentary Short. The Block is a mixed media film that examines what it’s like to live on the longest block of one of the most progressive cities in America.
