✨We’re still basking in the glow from this sold-out screening & celebration hosted by ECMAA @mayslesdocumentarycenter ✨ Thank You for welcoming The Cat Man Eshete 🐈⬛ into this loving community and extended family❤️
🙏🏽🙏🏽 @haney_b and @lebanosgm for organizing this so perfectly. Performances by @azeb____ 📙 @nappysuperman@misskayakulu 🎶 beautiful art by @yeab_art and food generously provided by @awazeethiopiancuisine 🥘🇪🇹
“By gathering in community, we aim to support an elder who has survived war, displacement, and homelessness, and to confront the systems that leave so many behind. As global displacement rises, and as Ethiopian stories of resilience often go untold, this event invites us to show up for one another, strengthen our mutual-aid networks, and reaffirm that dignity and belonging are built through collective care.” Ethiopian Community Mutual Aid Association💚💛❤️
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My Infamous Life by Albert “Prodigy” Johnson (with Laura Checkoway) is a raw, first-person memoir of a life shaped by Hip Hop, illness, trauma, and survival. Prodigy pulls back the curtain on the illusion of the industry, exposing a world often sold as the only way out and the heavy costs that come with it. Moving between Queensbridge and the world stage, the book confronts the intoxicating pull of money, the meaning of loyalty, and the realities behind fame. It preserves Prodigy’s voice as lived testimony, capturing Hip Hop not as mythology, but as memory, warning, and record.
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We are honored to announce The Cat Man Eshete (@the.cat.man.eshete ), directed by Laura Checkoway, as the Best Documentary Short winner at the 2nd Annual KITFO Film Festival.
The film follows Eshete, an Ethiopian refugee who escaped civil war and now cares for a colony of stray cats in Brooklyn — a story of displacement, community, and survival.
Director Laura Checkoway, Academy Award® nominee for Edith+Eddie, continues her commitment to heartfelt, character-driven storytelling.
Congratulations to the filmmakers, cast, and crew.
Thank you to our sponsors for making this year’s festival possible.
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Harvest time in Ethiopia 🌾🏆THE CAT MAN ESHETE wins Best Documentary Short at KITFO Film Festival in LA! 💖🇪🇹
@kitfofilmfestival@kitfo.tv is dedicated to celebrating Ethiopian and Eritrean cinema & storytelling. We are so honored to receive this award!
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🇪🇹 To mark World Refugee Day, this documentary highlights the heartwarming story of an Ethiopian refugee @the.cat.man.eshete who creates a makeshift home for displaced cats in New York City. Link in bio 🔗 for the full story.
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Displaced by war in #Ethiopia over four decades ago, Eshete found himself on the streets of #NewYorkCity.
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Follow his story as he finds his calling in caring for the City’s stray #cats.
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On the streets of New York City, an Ethiopian refugee shares his space with some unlikely companions – Winston Churchill, Princess Diana and Oprah.
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Tap the link in our bio to watch The Cat Man Eshete by @laurachecks .
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🎈🫀 Brooklyn Premiere June 4th 🫀🎈
Thank You @brooklynfilmfestival for such a beautiful screening in the borough where our film was made ✨💝🐈
📸 Vanessa Lopera @nitidastudios
Check out an exclusive look at #TheCatManEshete trailer from Academy Award nominee Laura Checkoway. It will be making its Brooklyn premiere at Brooklyn Film Festival on June 4, and then it will also make its worldwide broadcast premiere ahead of World Refugee Day on Al Jazeera English’s award winning series “Witness” on June 16, and begins streaming globally there as well including in the U.S. and Canada.
ALT SHIFT LIFE won a Brand Entertainment Webby Award 🏆✨ The film from our partnership with Tribeca Studios and ServiceNow is directed by Laura Checkoway and celebrates extraordinary individuals who refused to let their circumstances define them- and instead chose to shift into something greater.
Thank you Sai Varsha, Scott and DeVonn for sharing your story with us.
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‘My name is Eshete from Gondar Ethiopia to the Sahara desert in the Sudan to NYC USA, I’m a refugee and cat lover…’
See THE CAT MAN ESHETE at Salem Film Festival on March 30th in the shorts block ‘Companions’ 🐈 Thank you so much for your selection @_salemfilmfest
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