A five-part series of 6-10 min episodes premiering daily from March 29 – April 2, 2021 on Instagram @otherlyseries.
FaceTime aims to explore the intimacy and power of family—both biological and chosen. It follows two Taiwanese-American siblings, Farrah and Andy, one living in Los Angeles and the other in New York City, as they navigate their identities and engage meaningfully with their individual communities, while their own sibling relationship evolves. Through self-documented phone footage and recorded FaceTime calls, the project explores these facets of self and examines how and when we choose to show our lives through technology.
This film is part of Otherly, a series of seven short documentaries about belonging, premiering on Instagram Stories.
FaceTime follows Andy and Farrah as they navigate their individual identities, chosen family, and relationship as bi-coastal siblings.
Written and Directed by
Jackie! Zhou
Producer
Akmyrat Tuyliyev
Associate Producer
Aja Quinn Evans
Executive Producer
Opeyemi Olukemi
Director of Photography
Andy
Farrah
Jackie! Zhou
Editor
Jackie! Zhou
Assistant Editor
Sarah Ginsburg
Featuring
Andy
Farrah
Audio Post Production
One Thousand Birds
Executive Producer
Guin Frehling
Sound Design & Mix
Jackie! Zhou
Post Picture
Kettle Media Concepts
Post Production Supervisor
Nigel Kettle
Colorist
Maria Mendoza
Otherly Program Support
Production Coordinator
Clara Hughes
VP of Development, Communications & Government Affairs
Theresa Navarro
Marketing & Communications
Matisse Bustos-Hawkes
Senior Marketing Associate
Mahboob Alam
Digital Content Coordinator
Bree Nieves
VP of Impact and Engagement Strategy
Asad Muhammad
Education Manager
Courtney Cook
Outreach Specialist
Robert Salyer
Senior Associate, Programs & Engagement
Rachel Friedland
Impact Producer Consultant
Domino Sound
VP Finance & Business Affairs
Kristal Choy
Director of Finance & Operations
Betty Cordero
Legal Counsel
Aaron Goldberg
Program Development
John MacFarlane
David Oppenheim
Otherly Lab Mentors and Speakers
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Sisa Bueno
Kimberly Drew
Vicky Du
Adama Delphine Fawundu
Lauren Hutchinson
Alison S.M. Kobayashi
Theresa Loong
Dumeetha Luthra
Sarah Rothberg
Ziv Schneider
Pat Shiu
Saschka Unseld
Otherly Lab Production Assistant
Rand Jitan
Otherly Title Design
Yazmin Monet
Otherly Website Design
Jacob Ford
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About the NFB
For more than 80 years, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has produced, distributed and preserved those stories, which now form a vast audiovisual collection—an important part of our cultural heritage that represents all Canadians.
To tell these stories, the NFB works with filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds, from across the country. It harnesses their creativity to produce relevant and groundbreaking content for curious, engaged and diverse audiences. The NFB also collaborates with industry experts to foster innovation in every aspect of storytelling, from formats to distribution models.
Every year, another 50 or so powerful new animated and documentary films are added to the NFB’s extensive collection of more than 14,000 titles, half of which are available to watch for free on nfb.ca.
Through its mandate, its stature and its productions, the NFB contributes to Canada’s cultural identity and is helping to build the Canada of tomorrow.
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About POV Spark
The interactive arm of the iconic PBS series, POV Spark creates and advances experiential forms of storytelling, programming, and distribution, redefining US public media to be more inclusive of emerging technologies and interactive makers. POV films and projects have won 42 Emmy Awards, 25 George Foster Peabody Awards, 14 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards and the first-ever George Polk Documentary Film Award. POV is a production of American Documentary (AmDoc), a national non-profit media arts organization that strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. AmDoc collaborates with passionate filmmakers to amplify their voices, and to nurture the nonfiction community. Learn more at pbs.org/pov, access POV Spark projects, and follow @povdocs on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.