Two young women standing outdoors, one with curly blond hair wearing a black leather jacket and graphic t-shirt, the other with curly dark hair and glasses adjusting her hair, both looking to the side. The top border lists names: Renata Felicitas, Mariana San Martin, Andy Michelle. The bottom part features the title "Xigarro" with doodles and credits for a short film.

Xigarette

What few know about Xanat is that she lives a secret identity under her nerd facade. At her crazy party tonight, she’ll grow out of her BFF rockstar, Lila, and her old elementary school friend, Alejandra.

August 23, 2024
7-8 PM

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Little Theater
Van Dam Street and 47th Avenue

Sebastián Jaiovi

Young man smiling with his arms crossed, wearing a black shirt and a black and orange puppet hand on his left hand, standing against a white wall.

Sebastián Jaiovi is a young filmmaker & writer, nominated for Mexican Academy Award with the animated short film A Plushie’s Dream. He began in animation with parodies of video games at 11, gradually evolving to his characteristic stickmen. With various awards and selections at film festivals with his short films, he creates stories with high social impact.

A hand-drawn cartoon of a girl with long wavy hair and large eyes, blowing smoke from her mouth, is overlaid on a lined notepad with faint lines, with a background of a dimly lit room.
Two young women walking on a sidewalk with a beige wall in the background. One woman is wearing a leather jacket over a black T-shirt, and the other is holding a red lollipop, wearing a white shirt, beige skirt, and a cap. Doodles of clouds, lightning, and other shapes are drawn in white over the photo.
A woman lying on her back with a Siamese cat on her chest in a dimly lit room.
Line drawing of two animated characters on lined paper with a red cup in front of them.
Classroom scene with students, two girls smiling at the camera, visible through a paper cutout of a bear on the glass.
A person looking at a mirror with a sketch of a worried girl with wavy hair drawn on the mirror surface.
Neon outline drawing of two women smiling and looking at their phones, with one woman having curly hair and the other straight hair, set against a dark background.