The Emancipation Dilemma: Raised to Soar, Expected to Settle
Creator: Samuel Carlos
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About this submission
I chose to tell Ice Cream, Ice Queen because I’m drawn to the fragile in-between state of queer migrant life, where belonging is partial, language slips, and intimacy can feel both desired and precarious. This film follows two women whose cross-cultural connection is tender yet complicated, shaped by a queer curiosity and a fear of being too close. As a queer migrant filmmaker, this film showcases my commitment to letting more underrepresented voices be heard, as well as my artistic approach to slow cinema, using unhurried dialogue to let subtle emotions breathe.
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Jeremy Chi
Creator
Born in China and shaped by a life lived across New Zealand and the United States, Jeremy Chi is a New York-based filmmaker whose work centers on stories of the “in-between.” His cinematic language is rooted in a nomadic queer identity, mapping the invisible emotional borders of migration, memory, and human connection.
A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Film & Television, his short film Ice Cream, Ice Queen earned an Honorable Mention at the Oscar-qualifying Urbanworld Film Festival and screened at major queer showcases in Amsterdam, Vancouver, Seoul, Beijing, and Mumbai. His upcoming project, Just Another Long Weekend—a deeply personal exploration of urban queer migrant life—was recently selected as a finalist for the NEXTSHOT Talent Lab by Hong Kong’s Sil-Metropole and Emperor Motion Pictures.