The two narrative shorts that precede tonight's feature depict second-generation Americans' paths to reconciling their past with their present. In Veronica Majano's Calle Chula (1998, 12 mins, Color, 16mm), a search to understand the changes brought on by colonization, dislocation, and gentrification is centered on a street in San Francisco's Mission District and a fifteen-year-old Salvadoran/Ohlane girl who shares the same name. For Calle Chula, memory loss is the birthmark passed down to her from her ancestors as she attempts to trace where she came from. An artist takes a painful but liberating journey home in Return to Grace (1997, 12 mins, B&W, 16mm) by Luci Kwak. The film depicts the dichotomy between the personal pain and public shame of a loved one's schizophrenia.Compensation, Zeinabu irene Davis's first feature film, tells the touching story of love between a deaf woman (played by leading deaf actress Michelle A. Banks) and a hearing man, a love that endures through time. Set in turn-of-the-century and present-day Chicago, this unique drama captures the spirit of the silent film era, exploring the conflicts that arise when society and its afflictions are imposed upon lovers existing at different points in time. Davis, an Associate Professor at UC San Diego, was awarded the third annual Gordon Parks Award to honor achievement by black independent filmmakers.