Logline: Vladislav and Inna live with Inna’s 92-year old mother, Daria, in Ukraine when Russians start to invade and they are all forced to make difficult choices.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
VLADISLAV: Steve Rizzo
Inna/Russian Anchor: Val Cole
Masha/Ukrainian Anchor: Kyana Teresa
Daria: Hannah Ehman
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Tier 2 – Get your script performed by professional actors.
Directed by Stark Zhao Two girls at a tennis camp overcome a tough situation that could’ve ended their friendship.
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MANUEL, 19min., Italy, History Drama
Directed by Mario d’Anna, Stefano Mangoni In 1943, a Jewish family hides from the nazi roundups. Adam, a 10-year-old boy, following a strange dream, starts a mysterious countdown.
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Audience Award Winners: Best Film: THE WAY WE CHANGE Best Dance Film: LET OFF Best Experimental Dance: COUNT IT ALL Best Sound & Music: GHOSTLY LABOR Best Performances: INFERNO
Best Direction: YOU WANTED RIVERS Best Cinematography: FAREWELL
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FAREWELL, 5min., China, Dance
Directed by Ruo Wen Tian Countless ordinary life experiences are buried deep in the dust. In an old factory trapped in stilled time, I try to show how common folk constantly exist in an ever moving forward torrent of time, through the collision and contrast between the youth of young dancers and the antiquity of the machinery and environment, while also using the shoe that appears in the beginning and at the end to represent the memories of people who couldn’t keep up with the changes of the times.
Audience Award Winners: Best Film: HUNROS JORNA Best Experimental Poem: MEMORY OF WATER Best Sound & Music: caprice x² Best Performances: WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID
Best Fashion Film: SONAR
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caprice x², 4min., Austria, Animation
Directed by Claudia Ungersbäck Forms and gestures, situations over a copy (is_t) existance. marks and notes happening while light resounds.
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WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID, 4min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Jamie Donohoe A family is in pain after losing their mother and wife. Will these family members say what they desperately need to say? Or will their fractures deepen?
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Audience Award Winners: Best Film: MOONRISE Best Music Video: THIS WORLD IS YOURS Best Performances: IDKN Best Direction: I AM WHO I THINK YOU THINK I AM
Best Cinematography: THE MIGRANTS Best Music Film: THE OPENINGS Best Sound: MÓÐIR
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THE MIGRANTS, 5min., Canada, Music Video
Directed by Louise Marie Beauchamp Poetic fresco shot in the cold of Canada that expresses the difficulty for a migrant to tame a foreign territory. On J.-S. Bach’s Adagio in D minor, which he brilliantly interprets on the piano, the Guatemalan indigenous artist and farmer Salvador Chavajay tells us with simplicity and clairvoyance the recent forced exodus of workers from his country and offers his definition of the term’s poverty, wealth and conscience.
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Audience Award Winners: Best Feature Film: ASTEROID RUSH: PLANETARY DEFENSE Best Short Film: 12 SHADES OF GREY Best Experimental Film: MILLENNIALS LEAVE IN PEACE
Best Cinematography: REFUGE ALASKA Best Sound & Music: CYCLE
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ASTEROID RUSH: PLANETARY DEFENSE, 52min., France, Documentary/Sci-Fi
Directed by Jacques BEDEL, Bertrand LOYER At first glance, it appears unlikely that we are under threat from extra-terrestrial objects. Yet, at any moment, the sky could fall on our heads. Our solar system contains millions of objects known as asteroids. The smallest measure just a few centimetres across but the largest can have a diameter of a thousand kilometres. Some circle the sun, like planets, while others cross paths with Earth’s orbit. Now, technological marvels are under construction to avoid a cataclysmic collision. What seemed like science fiction, has now become reality…
Can the aging process be reversed – or even halted, altogether? If we manage to decode this final mystery of our human biology, we might soon be able to eradicate age-related illnesses like cancer, dementia and heart problems.
ELIXIR, 10min,. Canada Directed by Jean-Marc Abela After the recent break up of a longterm relationship, Maeve must move through nostalgia and pain to find herself again.
WE DANCE, 12min., USA Directed by Ethan Payne, Brian Foster From the world renowned Wideman-Davis Dance Company and award-winning filmmakers Ethan Payne and Brian Foster, We Dance is a love story, deconstructed and distilled into its most elemental ingredients. Dreams. Memories. Family. And environments. Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis take us from Chicago to Montgomery, from New York to the point where their lives meet and become one. Along the way, they honor and signify on Black American art, poetry…
Audience Award Winners: Best Long Form Short Film: I BOT Best Short Form Short: THE LAST WOMAN Best Sound & Music: THE ROCKER AND THE PUCA Best Animation: CRUSOE Best Performances: VOID
Best Direction: SIGNAL DARK Best Cinematography: AFTER Best Fantasy Film: THE LADY OF THE HOUSE OF LOVE Best Sci-Fi Film: THE WORLD IN A BEAUTIFUL BOOK
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CRUSOE, 8min,. USA
Directed by Shane Acker This Sci-Fi action comedy follows the adventures of Crusoe, an astronaut stranded on an alien planet teeming with hostile life.
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THE ROCKER AND THE PUCA, 12min,. Ireland
Directed by Trevor Courtney A Teenage busker Jack is driving the locals mad because he plays only one tune…