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Submit your Short Film and get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival in Chicago. 1 event in 2019. 12 events in 2020. Festival takes place at LOGAN Theatre in downtown Chicago on the 3rd Friday of every single month.

Chicago Festival: March 2022 Web Series Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Web Series: SLUMLORD
Best Direction: BALLS OF TIN
Best Comedy: CHILDISH DEANO

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

CHILDISH DEANO, 24min., Australia, Ep. 1 Web series
Directed by Dean Thomas, David Ferrier
CHILDISH DEANO is an Australian short-form animated comedy series about a rambunctious 8-year-old boy with a grown man’s voice and a heart of gold.
Deano lives for mischief. It’s his favourite thing, but he’s so charming and full of life that people can’t help but love him. He’s a ray of light in a world where it feels like the bullies are winning. It’s got it all: laughs, tears and spud guns!

https://www.tiktok.com/@childishdeano
https://www.facebook.com/childishdeano/
https://www.instagram.com/childishdeano

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

BALLS OF TIN, 18min., USA, Ep. 1 Web Series
Directed by Rachelle A Dermer
A small film crew sets out to make a mountain biking series; only one problem: their star cannot ride.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SLUMLORD, 30min., USA, Web Series
Producers by Sam Stair

We filmed a pilot for a docuseries following the day to day actives of a Milwaukee Low income landlord and his staff. Working with struggling people who are the least desirable tenants who are denied by every other landlord. Staff that have to deal with tough situations and the tough tenants.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

Chicago Festival: February 2023 Feature Film Festival

A showcase of the winning feature film in 2023 from the DIVERSITY festival.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE CANARIES, 110min., Spain, Drama
Directed by Armando Ravelo
Nola, a girl of Senegalese origin, arrives in the Canary Islands in a canoe. Then begins an epic through the most defining corners of the Canary Islands in search of a Canarian father whom he never knew.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://youtu.be/BJSC426P0Yo

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt21028142/
https://www.instagram.com/eraseunavezencanarias/

Director Biography – Armando Ravelo

He has directed several shortfilms and a feature films with great critical and public acclaim. His cinematographic work (Bentejuí Project), takes the History of the Canary Islands to the screens.
Ravelo, who has won several awards at national and international festivals, started this project with ‘Ansite’ in 2012.

In early 2021, his first feature film ‘La piel del volcán’ premiered, becoming the most watched Canarian film in theaters so far this century.

With ‘Once upon a time in the Canaries’, the author moves away from the historical genre to make a social chronicle with the hope of raising awareness of the problem of continental African migration to the Canary Islands.

Director Statement:

This film is the result of the effort of many people dedicated to tell a story about the migratory movements from Africa to the Spanish islands. Many people start the journey and only a few finish it.

POETRY Reading: Ruins of Memories by Badradeen Mohammed

POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Performed by Val Cole

Ruins of Memories by Badradeen Mohammed

On a sunny autumn day

I was leaning on a plastic chair in front of my house

With sweat dripping from my body

Caused by the high temperature

And resentment for the intensity of my anger

Suddenly, without realising I found myself standing up

So fascinated by the landscape

The breathtaking beauty and charm

This was magnificence and harmony which I had not found in any instance of my life

A cluster of white clouds and in just moments fantastic coloured

Were formed in red-dark and others were black and grey

Added to the sky was like a page, draped in lothario blue

Like a masterful painting, fine

Drawn by skilled artist

Which did not leave any room for error

Everyone was running down looking for a shelter to escape the heavy rain

I did not move a finger

Amused…

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Festival Reviews

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NOVEL Reading: Standoff, How The Cold War REALLY Ended, by Rick Karlsruher

Novel Writing Festival

Chapter Transcript: Stumbling into History
A Few Months Earlier

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34737368-standoff-how-the-cold-war-really-ended

Genre- Satire/comedy – 69,000 words

Logline- What if everything you were told about how the Cold War ended was a lie? Standoff has been called, “Dr. Strangelove on acid”.

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Watch the RECREATION DOC Shorts Festival – Jan. 19/20 event

Festival Reviews

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Go to the direct page:

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/jan-19-fest

See the Full Lineup of Films:

NEVER GIVE UP: AKINORI IN MOORESVILLE, 13min, USA, Documentary
Directed by Royce Akifumi Wilmot
24 years since first attending a NASCAR race, Akinori Ogata chases his dream of one day racing in the Daytona 500. Moving his family halfway across the world in the process, he races locally in the lower series of NASCAR, working for his big break. His sons have graduated high school, and they and his wife have moved back to Japan. Alone in his small race shop, he prepares his limited late model stock car for the biggest local race of the year.

BEYOND THE ROPES, 38min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jalen Robinson
BEYOND THE ROPES: The 40+ Double Dutch Club Documentary showcases how…

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