Join us at Zoetropolis for the Red Rose Film Festival’s Opening Night Welcome Party, featuring a screening of DEI. Come celebrate the start of festival weekend, connect with filmmakers and fellow film lovers, and enjoy the film as part of the evening.

Admission is $10 per person and includes both the welcome party and DEI screening. Admission is complimentary for Red Rose Film Festival filmmaker and sponsor badge holders. Please present your badge at entry.

Event details
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Welcome Party begins at 5:30 PM
Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse
112 N. Water Street, Lancaster, PA 17603

Film details
Title: DEI
Writer/Director: Jill V. Dae
Starring: Lochlyn Munro and Maeve Garay
Runtime: 20 minutes
Festival content rating: General
2026 Red Rose Film Festival Official Selection

We’re happy to welcome Jill and the team back to Lancaster. Jill directed HONEYWELL, which won Best Short at the 2025 Red Rose Film Festival. DEI also screened at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival.

Synopsis
When Bryan (Lochlyn Munro), a bigoted, hostile man, joins a rally supporting ICE agents raiding a Latino household on Día de los Muertos, he catches the attention of Carla (Maeve Garay), the household’s angry and heartbroken teenage daughter. Taking solace at her family’s ofrenda, Carla curses Bryan, hoping he will learn what it means to be human and feel her pain and sorrow. With energies and spirits awake during Halloweekend, the curse works: Bryan’s soul swaps into the body of the Latina teenager on an important night in the community he so fears.

About the filmmaker
Jill drew inspiration from her work teaching youth filmmaking with the Latino Film Institute in East Los Angeles. The children she taught helped shape the characters and the film’s focus on humanity, family, and belonging.