Celestial Media

Award-Winner: Best Documentary Short 2020 Roxbury International Film Festival

Charles Coe: Man of Letters Trailer: https://vimeo.com/181266108

9 Minutes. Color, High Definition © 2016 Available for festival, institutional, broadcast and private screenings.

A profile of Writer and Musician Charles Coe, author of two books of poetry: “All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents” and “Picnic on the Moon,” both published by Leapfrog Press. His poetry has appeared in a number of literary reviews and anthologies, including Poesis, The Mom Egg, Solstice Literary Review, and Urban Nature. His novella, "Spin Cycles," was published in November, 2014 by Gemma Media. Charles is co-chair of the Boston Chapter of the National Writers Union, a labor union for freelance writers. He is currently an artist fellow at the St. Botolph Club of Boston. Directed, filmed and edited by Roberto Mighty.

“Peach Pie”, narrative short film by writer/director Roberto Mighty. Color, HD. 18 minutes, 22 seconds

Official Selection at California International Shorts Festival in North Hollywood, CA, June 2016.

Official Selection at 15th Annual Urban Mediamakers Film Festival in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, GA, October 6-11, 2016.

TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/147959736

WEBSITE: www.peachpiefilm.com

Peach Pie follows one afternoon in the life of a 7 year old boy and his mother, whose untreated OCD impacts their lives. Still in mourning after their soldier Father/Husband is killed in action, they struggle to cope day to day. An intervention by a well meaning neighbor who may have a hidden agenda leads to an emotional moment. 

Written, directed, filmed and edited by Roberto Mighty; Starring Robin JaVonne Smith; Introducing Jalon; Featuring Kathryn Howell; with Johnny Quinones, Shawn Read and Jacoby. Story based on a poem by Charles Coe.  

Director’s Statement

“Untreated mental illnesses affect millions of Americans, especially the poor; veterans and their families; and people of color. Mental Health America recently reported that 57% of adults with a mental illness received no treatment. Through my volunteer work in a prison, a homeless shelter and directing a film at a domestic violence shelter, I have been appalled at the lack of access to mental health care in our wealthy country. I made Peach Pie to illustrate how a small family can be affected by untreated mental illness, and to spark conversations and action around this issue, especially how it affects children.”

Jesseca Ferguson: Cabinet of Curiosity

Directed, filmed and edited by Roberto Mighty. ©2016. 12 minutes, color, HD. A biographical profile of renowned artist and photographer Jesseca Ferguson. 

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/181109259 

Available for festival, institutional, broadcast and private screenings.  A biographical profile of renowned artist and photographer Jesseca Ferguson.  Jesseca Ferguson works with pinhole photography, 19th century photo processes and collage. Her pinhole photographs and collaged “photo objects” have been included in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Jesseca lives and works in Boston, MA, and teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. MFA, Tufts University; BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; AB (magna cum laude), Harvard University.

“The students were super responsive to the screening!! They were really fascinated by the way Jesseca spoke about her collections, how the objects found her, how they speak to one another and, ultimately, how the objects provided a launchpad to memory and biographical insight. It was a beautiful segue into the conversation and I think it really got them thinking about how they might reconsider their objects.” - Kristen Mallia, Professor of Graphic Design, Boston University

 Chinese Lessons

“Two men. One World.”

Color, 28 minutes. Stereo. ©1997, 2006 Roberto Mighty

"Chinese Lessons," a critically acclaimed half-hour color documentary, is based on the growing friendship between two family men, both lovers of poetry, from opposite ends of the earth. One is African-American. The other is Chinese. One is just starting a family. The other is a grandfather. Two men. One world.

Feibai Wang is China's leading translator of world poetry. This film traces his odyssey from a boyhood in exile to imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution to his triumphant winning of the China Book Prize and visit to America.

Share his lifelong love affair with great poets of the world, including Emily Dickinson, Wang Wei, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Li Ho, Antonio Machado, Li Po, Paul Valery, John Greenleaf Whittier, Li Qingzhao, William Butler Yeats, Federico Garcia Lorca, Anna Akhmatova and Edgar Allen Poe.

Produced in cooperation with Zhejiang Province Television. With assistance from Harvard University, the Emily Dickinson Homestead, the Frost Library at Amherst College and the Whittier Birthplace. Filmed on location at Walden Pond, The Emily Dickinson Homestead and West Lake in Hangzhou, China.