The Top Short Films To Stream at NFFTY 2020

This is the first time I’ve covered the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. They pride themselves in being “the world’s largest and most influential festival for emerging filmmakers”, and the films on offer reflect that. Each filmmaker selected has to be in the beginning stages of their career, and there’s an additional emphasis placed on work which is representational in terms of diversity. We’ve distilled their terrific programme down to ten of our favourites which we think highlight what makes this festival so special…

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Supporting Black Lives in Neuroscience (feat. Sade Abiodun) | Top of the NOGN

Join Carla Golden, PhD, and NOGN President, Priyanka Ramesh, for a Neuroscience in Culture episode where we got to have a conversation with the amazing, multi-talented Sade Abiodun about her article from last year discussing the inclusion and representation of marginalized identities in neuroscience. Scientists are talking about how to be anti-racist in STEM. We at Top of the NOGN want to share conversations with our listeners that happen between scientists, often behind closed doors...

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Meet Sade Abiodun, The Director of "Godspeed" | FREE THE WORK

Sade Abiodun is the kind of person who you can talk to for hours as you jot down quotes of her wisdom on post-its throughout the conversation. Her musings on the whys of life, the interconnectedness between different schools of thinking, and the unspoken link between beings are a welcome reprieve from the mundane. Given the fact that she's a budding filmmaker and an incoming PhD student at Princeton, where she'll be studying Neuro-cinematics (the neuroscience of film)...well, that checks out…

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Duke Alum Sade Abiodun Brings Her Short Film to Hayti Heritage Film Festival | Duke Chronicle, Recess

Durham’s Hayti Heritage Film Festival is one of the nation’s longest-running Black film festivals. This year, the lineup includes the breakout work of Duke alumna Sade Abiodun, Trinity ‘18. Her short film “Godspeed” premiered at the San Diego Black Film Festival earlier this month and has been selected for film festivals across the country. But if you ask Abiodun if she considers herself a filmmaker, it might take her a moment to say yes…

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