A showcase of the best new films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from audience feedback festival):
Best Short Film: Cheap$kate
Best Direction: If Only For Memories
Best Story: Controller
Best Micro-Short Film: Desert Reforestation: Rivals and the Dropped Camera
Best Performances: Sugar
If Only For Memories, 6min., USA
Directed by Ari Roman
A grieving young man searches his dreams for a few more sweet memories with his fiancé
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-if-only-for-memories
Cheap$kate, 6min., USA
Directed by Calvin Catania
While a crafty detective teaches you his unique style of catching criminals, another criminal is on the run and heading down a dark alley he shouldn’t be going down. In the end, someone has to pay for their crimes.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cheapskate
CONTROLLER, 7min., USA
Directed by Clint Younkin
In this dark and unknown universe, an age of consumption has enslaved society and almost all are bound by their obsessions. A particular man desires new levels to his relationship with his own obsession: technology.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-controller
Desert Reforestation: Rivals and the Dropped Camera, 5min., Czechia
Directed by Stanislav Skricka
The film captures real, unplanned moments in which divided communities — rivals in politics, work, and sport — come together in a desert reforestation project. In a place where conflict might be expected, tension unexpectedly transforms into strong bonds of friendship.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-desert-reforestation
SUGAR, 20min., USA
Directed by Sutton Alexander Fry
A boy and his estranged father settle their differences in the ring
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sugar
Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival 