She also leaves her grandchildren Mark (Iris) Cole of Kyle, TX, Jeffrey (Elizabeth) Cole of Leander, TX, Sharon (Craig)) Dooley of Slidell, LA, Cameron (Emily) Peyton of Cabot, AR, and Taylor (Troy) Strunk of Fairhope, AL, and ten great grandchildren. She leaves her daughters Betty (Newton) Cole of San Antonio, TX, Mary Lynn (Jimmy) Ball of Calhoun City, MS, Ann (Dean) Morrison of Madison, MS. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years, Percy Jackson Baker, her son Robert (Bobby) Baker, her sister and her six brothers. Stella was a homemaker, an accomplished pianist, gardener and cook and an enthusiastic fan of Mississippi State sports, and the Atlanta Braves. She and Percy Baker married in 1943, and settled in Starkville in 1948 where they raised their four children. Born in 1919 in Ellisville, MS, she was the sixth of eight children of Luther and Luna Smith Hill. Brooklyn Women's Film FestivalĬandace screened at the Brooklyn Women's Film Festival in June, 2018 American Pavilion Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film FestivalĬandace screened at the American Pavilion Emerging LGBTQ Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival where it won Best Short.Stella Hill Baker died on Decemat the age of 100. OutfestĬandace screened at Outfest Los Angeles, the world's premiere LGBTQ Film Festival in July, 2018. HollyShortsĬandace will screen at the HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles on August 12th, 2018.l Flickers RIIFFĬandace will screen at the Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival in Providence, Rhode Island on August 8th, 2018. Great Lakes International Film FestivalĬandace will screen at the Great Lakes International Film Festival in Erie, PA in September 2018. Twist: Seattle Queer Film FestivalĬandace will screen at the Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival in Seattle, WA in October 2018. New Hampshire Film FestivalĬandace will screen at the New Hampshire International Film Festival in Portsmouth, NH in October 2018. Mill Valley Film FestivalĬandace will screen at the Mill Valley Film Festival in San Rafael, CA in October 2018. Portland Film FestivalĬandace will screen at the Portland Film Festival in Portland, OR in October 2018. Chéries ChérisĬandace will screen at Chéries Chéris, France’s largest LGBTQ Film Festival in Paris in November 2018. Wicked Queer Boston LGBTQ Film FestivalĬandace will screen at the Wicked Queer Boston LGBTQ Film Festival in March 2019. CASCADIA International Women’s Film FestivalĬandace will screen at the CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival from April 11-14 in Bellingham, Washington. Em WeinsteinĬandace will screen at the Montclair Film Festival in Montclair, New Jersey this May. In its short 9 minute runtime, Candace works to illuminate the strange, sometimes erotic intimacy between girl friends trying to stay together as the world drags them apart. The women outgrow the pool they sit as oversized children with hope and fear in a tiny tub. But as the two women in Candace grow up, the realities of race, sexuality, and lived trauma exacerbate the pain of parting. These were the spaces of my childhood in which utopia felt possible and identity mutable. The film takes place in a pool and a bathtub. These moments are often as tiny and subtle as they are painful. Often, we fall away from our childhood friends over time, and through this heartbreak there is usually an event that we can trace that chasm back to. I made a film that shows the moment of fracture between two young women who have been intimately close since childhood, with special focus on how race and sexuality play into the fissure of their friendship. For many, these relationships are the sites of our first sexual encounters, first realizations of identity, and first experiences of the excitement and confusion of love and heartbreak. These friendships are intimate the borders of platonic and erotic love constantly shift, reform, and blur. For so many young women, our close friendships with other women are when we first come into ourselves.
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