Plays in Shorts Program: Vanishing Point
Saturday, June 13
5:45 PM - 7:15 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

for all screenings

Endlings

Film Languages

Spanish, English

Director

María Luisa Santos

Producer

Carlo Nasisse

Co-Producer

Pamela Martinez

ENDLINGS is a meditation on impermanence, extinction, and the ache of environmental loss. Guided by the filmmaker’s narration, it weaves together science, religion, and art in an inquiry into how we reckon with the disappearance of life. Moving associatively—from a CGI frog to a ctenophore drifting through the deep ocean, from an Ash Wednesday ritual to a laboratory reviving ancient DNA—the film traces the fragile boundaries between memory, preservation, and erasure. Through encounters with a scientist, a painter of endangered birds, and archival images of vanished species, ENDLINGS asks what, if anything, endures when we attempt to recreate what has been lost.

Director, Endlings

María Luisa Santos is a Costa Rican director and editor. Her work has been featured by The New Yorker, POV, Vimeo Staff Picks, and PBS, and screened at SXSW, True/False Film Fest, Slamdance Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, SFFILM Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, Mountainfilm, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, among others. She was awarded the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship for 2023–2024 and is currently pursuing an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University.