Autumn's Eyes

Director: Paola Mendoza & Gabriel Noble

Screening Times

screening in: Documentary Competition
plays with: Gray Days

1:45 PM, Monday March 13th - Austin Convention Ctr
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1:45 PM, Tuesday March 14th - Paramount
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11:15 AM, Wednesday March 15th - Austin Convention Ctr
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Documentary Feature

    World Premiere

Synopsis:
Autumn's Eyes is a feature documentary seen through the eyes of a 3-year-old girl as she tries to navigate her way through a life of poverty, of her teenage mother's incarceration and foster care. Charming, obedient, and unable to fully comprehend the severity of her environment, Autumn is shielded from her own reality. Caught between the innocence of child and the growing necessity to be an adult, she represents hope to a family of women caught in the cyclical web of abuse, addiction, incarceration and poverty.

Director's Bio:
Paola Mendoza was last seen in On the Outs, the award winning feature which she co-created and received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress from the Method Film Festival. Paola received her Masters in Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and her BA from UCLA. Since Gabriel Noble graduated from UCLA with a BA in Theater, Film, and Television, he has worked as a director and producer of theater, documentary and feature films. Gabriel is the Field Producer for the CNBC show, D-Life, and a cinematographer for both television and feature documentaries.