Audience Award Winners: Best Feature Film: The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan Best Long Form Short Film: SWIM THROUGH Best Short Form Short Film: CNTRL Best Spiritual Film: HOW TO THRIVE Best Sound & Music: BEYOND THE BEAT Best Editing: BRING BACK THE WHISTLE DOG Best Cinematography: THE USELESS GLASSBLOWER Best Human Interest Film: I CAN FLY Best Direction: GEARHEADS Best Culture Film: WE ARE GURUNG
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HOW TO THRIVE, 96min., Australia, Documentary Directed by Duy Huynh Is there a secret formula to happiness? Positive psychotherapist Marie McLeod takes 7 people on a transformative journey to learn the secret formula to happiness The film’s premise is; if we offer the science of happiness to people experiencing struggle; what difference would it make? Is happiness a learnable skill and can…
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Audience Award Winners: Best Short Form Short Film: TURKEY ON RYE
Best Long Form Short Film: BOSS OF THE TOSS
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TAKEAWAY, 2min., USA Directed by Joe McGowan A couple can’t decide what takeaway they want for dinner.
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PEOPLE, 9min., Brazil Directed by Maria Lagemann “People” tells two parallel stories. On a Sunday afternoon in Madrid, two young women have big decisions to make. While one tries to work up the courage to propose to her partner, the other keeps a secret that makes her question everything. This is a story of humor and love, with a pinch of chaos, as it portrays the dynamics of a group of friends in their twenties.
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!, 6min., USA Directed by Jeremy Sender A sinister criminal takes a hostage, but struggles to strike the right tone in her ransom note.
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SHAPE SHIFTER, 4min,. USA Directed by Monty Franklin A young girl discovers she can shape shift. Now the hard part is discovering herself.
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LADY & THE VAMP, 5min., USA Directed by Peter Alexander Stass Two “creatures of the night” discover one of their own kind. Or have they?
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PISS UP, 1min., UK Directed by Joe McGowan Two men meet in an alley after a few too many.
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EARLY RETIREMENT, 13min,. USA Directed by Michelle Bossy A 30-something year old man, on the heels of a breakup with his boyfriend, moves in with his parents who live in a 55+ adult community. Through confronting his own insecurities and examining family relationships and dynamics, he’s able to move forward.
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TURKEY ON RYE, 9min., USA Directed by Lucas Hule A short film about a man and his missing sandwich.
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BOSS OF THE TOSS, 29min., USA Directed by Chris Harboldt While balancing a relationship with his girlfriend, a down and out cornhole player must compete in a high stakes, underground tournament to help his grammy pay off a bookie.
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Audience Award Winners: Best Short Film: JUMP SCARES: THE MOVIE Best 1 Minute Film: Intimacy Simulation Update 76.43 Best Sound & Music: CLIMATE CHANGE: CAPE LOOKOUT Best Cinematography: HALDI Best Direction: ALMOST THERE Best Student Film: GUESS MY PET? Best Performances: BLUE STONES Best Experimental Film: SENSE Best Drama Film: IGGY Best Horror Film: FERMATA Best Animation: NANOSCAPES Best Documentary: THE TIME IS NOW Best Fashion Film: THE MISSING PIECE Best Original Story: THE 17 (LAS 17),
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SENSE, 2min., Ghaziabad, Experimental Directed by Chitresh Mishra Sense is a dive into the unknown longing for someone that makes it all worth it.
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GUESS MY PET?, USA, Drama/Horror Directed by Grace Charles A girl and her old friend our catching up after a falling out. Over ice cream and a guessing game it’s revealed there’s a more sinister plan to this friendly reunion.
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Intimacy Simulation Update 76.43, 1min., USA, Experimental Directed by Neil Sudhakaran In the not too distant future, the senses are now simulated through brain-implanted chips, including touch. This micro short is inspired by After the Blast, stage play, by Zoe Kazan.
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HALDI, 5min., Norway, Experimental Directed by Ann Holmgren The film evolves around a Sámi underground world where you can get inspiration and power. In this world Háldi is all living being’s guardian helper. The film focuses on the unity and power of female relations in Sami tradition and mythology.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: CAPE LOOKOUT, 5min., Documentary Directed by Hester Schell Created for the 7th Generation Pano Mural Project’s 5 minute film festival, July 2022. Assignment: Pick a section of the USA west coast to examine the effects of climate change on the region. Under 5 minutes. My film was chosen to screen at the festival last summer. I chose Cape Lookout to Cape Mears, Oregon, USA.
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BLUE STONES, 1min., Sweden, Experimental Directed by Hannah Murphy Blue Stones is a 1 minute short that gives a voice to the silent inner turmoil that many can relate to and that we are seemingly forced to carry, especially as an adolescent.
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JUMP SCARES: THE MOVIE, 3min,. USA, Comedy Directed by Peter Masterson Do you like horror movies? Or do you just like being startled? If it’s the latter, this is the movie trailer for you!
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FERMATA, 4min., USA, Thriller Directed by Preston Bowe A struggling pianist makes a peculiar discovery.
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NANOSCAPES, 4min., USA, Animation Directed by Kristina Dutton Images of butterfly wings at the microscopic scale are stunning, and at the nanoscopic scale they become otherworldly.
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THE 17 (LAS 17), 4min. USA, Drama Directed by Alyssa Carter Based on a true story, a young and very pregnant Salvadorian woman finds herself handcuffed to a hospital bed after losing her child to miscarriage.
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THE TIME IS NOW, 4min., USA, Documentary Directed by Jason Borkland The importance of Marine Protected areas. The need to support scientific research, to allow the preservation and expansion of these vital areas.
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THE MISSING PIECE, 4min., USA, Fashion Directed by Hitaali Dharamshi A Fashion Film on an upcycled denim corset collection, which is a marriage between denim, silver and leather. A man who is set on finding out what lies within a house related to disappearances in lower Manhattan; ends up meeting 5 interesting women.
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IGGY, 5min., USA, Drama Directed by Anthony Cuomo Overwhelmed with the pressures of high school. Iggy Fransisco attempts to make friends and is rejected. A classmate Abigail notices this and offers her friendship to Iggy.
Audience Award Winners: Best Web Series: SLUMLORD Best Direction: BALLS OF TIN Best Comedy: CHILDISH DEANO
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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