Travel around the state with the NCMA Artist Innovation Mentorship Program in this short film by Two Dots Studio, directed by Aaron Thaddeus. With funding from the Anonymous Trust, this regional outreach program is designed to bring artists from eastern North Carolina communities into after-school residency programs with area youth. NCMA AIM seeks to provide access to materials, create open-ended process-led art, explore the basics of exhibition curation, and connect young people with their peers through art.

Music by Nick Stubblefield, feat. Julian Litwack, guitar, and Sam Quiggins, cello

The Opposite of a Fairy Tale is a new AAFL TV/Film Lab production, scheduled for release in 2016. A psychological drama in which a woman's family slowly imprisons her against her will, the film draws attention to the epidemic of elder abuse, which currently affects at least 1 in 10 American seniors. More at www.TheOppositeOfAFairyTale.com #StopElderAbuse #OppositeFairyTale Special thanks to The Asian Woman's Giving Circle, the New York Asian Women's Center, Elders Share the Arts, Peyton Worley, Henry Street Settlement Senior Companion Program, Ron Bruno and Morningside Retirement Community, Fushimi NYC, Cooley, and The Warwick for their incredible support and generosity. (c) 2016 Jennifer Betit Yen and the Film Lab, Inc.