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A DANCE AWAY film, reactions WILDsound Festival
A DANCE AWAY, 14min., USA
Directed by Maxwell Gilbert
A Dance Away tells the story of Ava, a college dancer who breaks her ankle during a performance a few months prior. Still traumatized and scared to go back on stage, her best friend, Riley, gives her a strange necklace, which mysteriously tran... -
HEPHAESTUS AND APHRODITE film, reactions LA Feedback Festival
Hephaestus and Aphrodite, 8min., USA
Directed by Daniel R. Allen
In the Ancient Greek myths from old antiquity, many songs were sung of Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Their fraught marriage, full of jealousy and wrath, spurred each other Into lies and betrayal. But the muse’s whisper of another tale. ... -
RED CLOUD: A NEW DAY film, reactions WILDsound Festival
RED CLOUD: A NEW DAY, 80min., USA
Directed by Alex Kruz
Based on Red Cloud Comic Book Issues 1-6. Vigilante contractor Jake Red Cloud wages a covert war against the Yakuza sponsored human trafficking in the golden triangle. Retaliation by the criminal organization strips Jake of his family, forci... -
THE LAST RECKONING film, reactions WILDsound Festival
THE LAST RECKONING, 102min., Canada
Directed by Garnet Campbell
A prestigious attorney colludes with his impulsive brother to hide a manslaughter, but when an innocent is charged, their plans spiral out of control, leading to moral reckoning and inevitable judgment.
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THE SEA film, reactions WILDsound Festival
THE SEA, 10min., Canada
Directed by Son Roberts
This experimental short film is a "Jazz Monologue" presented by an elusive oracle. Through rage and reflection, incendiary prose and inspirational poetry, he reminds us of the legacy of lies that define our human journey. And he insists that we embr... -
I WISH I WAS A DOG film, reactions WILDsound Festival
I WISH I WAS A DOG, 12min., Canada
Directed by Katherine Costal
When a young woman's desire to become a true member of her favourite art club turns her into a dog, she finds the newfound relationship between her and the members poses a different kind of challenge.https://www.instagram.com/kat_c...
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W. MULBERRY ST. film, reactions WILDsound Festival
W. MULBERRY ST., 18min., USA
Directed by Michael Donaldson
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MOVEMENTS film, reactions WILDsound Festival
MOVEMENTS, 5min., Canada
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YOGA GIRL film, reactions WILDsound Festival
YOGA GIRL, 9min., USA
Directed by Kaitlyn Furey
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Samaná: The Last Free Flowing River of Antioquia, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Fest
Samaná: The Last Free Flowing River of Antioquia, 11min., USA
Directed by Cameron Atlas
The Samaná River is the only major river in Antioquia, Colombia, that remains free flowing. While the rest of the region’s waterways have been dammed, the Samaná’s ecosystem remains intact, supporting a critic... -
JAGUAR SONG film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
JAGUAR SONG, 16min., Ecuador
Directed by AnAkA
“We know that indigenous people have the same goals: to protect the earth and ancestral lifeways. We know that strengthening intertribal relationships will support the regional communities in cultural revitalization and defense of the natural world.
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CAUGHT film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
CAUGHT, 8min., USA
Directed by Kevan Doyle
Caught is a short documentary filmed in Sri Lanka that explores how building economies around recycling can inspire sustainable change in developing communities. Directed by Kevan Doyle, the film was featured in his TEDx talk after the organizer was so m... -
Expedition Greenland: At The Front Lines of Sea Level Rise, ENVIRONMENTAL Fest
Expedition Greenland: At The Front Lines of Sea Level Rise, 29min., USA
Directed by James Hale, Luke Pavey
On Greenland’s remote shores, some of the planet’s oldest ice sheets are rapidly disappearing and quietly transforming global seas. Here, million-year-old glaciers fracture and crumble, and ... -
FȲR film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
FȲR, 22min., UK
Directed by Mackenzie Fuller
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Sanctuary of the Leatherback film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
Sanctuary of the Leatherback, 10min., Thailand
Directed by Alongkot Chukaew
The Sanctuary of the Leatherback is the continuing stories, following the first documentary, The Story of the Leatherback. This documentary will raise an important issue, relating to the recent death of mother Tai Meaung,... -
KIN film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
KIN, 5min., Mexico
Directed by Ana Baer, Rocio Luna
Relating in times of crisis. A site-specific screendance that explores the relationship between humanity and nature, raising awareness of ecological challenges and seeking—if only partially—to remediate damaged environments. Drawing on environme... -
IF ONLY FOR MEMORIES film, reactions CHICAGO Festival
If Only For Memories, 6min., USA
Directed by Ari Roman
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CHEAP$KATE film, reactions CHICAGO Festival
Cheap$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 -
CONTROLLER film, reactions CHICAGO Festival
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. -
DESERT REFORESTATION: Rivals and the Dropped Camera film, reactions CHICAGO Fest
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 expe... -
SUGAR film, reactions CHICAGO Festival
SUGAR, 20min., USA
Directed by Sutton Alexander Fry
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ISABELLE film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
ISABELLE, 4min., USA
Directed by Annie Kloppenberg
Isabelle Johnson (1901-1992): artist, rancher, teacher. In this film, three young women imagine her ghostly presence, re-inhabiting the very land she loved, their action framed by Patrick Dougherty's fantastical installation that weaves local wil... -
THE PAUSE film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
THE PAUSE, 17min., UK
Directed by Samantha Grierson
After losing her job and her sense of identity, Charlie begins to feel as though her life has turned into a horror film she never auditioned for.
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LET'S GO film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
LET'S GO, 10min., USA
Directed by Siggi Jung
Depressed divorcee who also lost her furry best friend unexpectedly finds strength and purpose in an impulsive rescue.