BALAY KREATIVE’s Kreative Growth Grantee Showcase 2022

Featuring artist Nathan Aurellano

Location: CAST Lobby (black box theater)

447 Minna Street, San Francisco

Free and open to the public

COVID Safety: Out of care for the artists and medically vulnerable guests, masks are required

Floating depicts three stories of characters in their twenties exploring existentialism, masculinity, and culture through their conversations with one another.

In Dreams, a heartbroken Bonnie describes a dream about her ex while her friend Juan, an insomniac, struggles to overcome his own existential anxieties. How to be a Man portrays two men, Sadiq and Matt as they struggle to be honest and vulnerable with one another. The last story Mahal, follows Pablo and April, a couple who wander through the streets of the South of Market area discussing their past lives and the love that binds them together through generations.

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About the Artist

Nathan Aurellano

I have created many short films in college and in post-grad. Many of my college films were intimate vignettes that had a sharp visual component, however lacked the voice that I developed through my short films in Post-Grad. I had the good fortune of working with BAVC in 2020 to create a short film, White Friends- that allowed me the artistic expression to gather my thoughts on my relationships and identity as a minority growing up in a small white town. Afterwards, KSW selected my film as part of their APAture showcase, in which I was able to connect with other Asian American artists who felt my film was emotionally resonant to their experiences. Since then I have shot a few comedy skits with my friends, but have been intensely studying films, writing screenplays, and have fully immersed myself into my creative process in order to develop my voice as a Filipino-American filmmaker."