Get to know the writer:

1. What is your short story about?
During a yearly event with my friends, I almost drowned and found peace in the understanding I would eventually die.

2. What genres would you say this story is in?
Coming of Age,

3. How would you describe this story in two words?
P...

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The allure of Fame and Fortune 
by Robert Evans

My friend gave me a story to read, his first. On a whim I sent it to my publisher as it was so good. "Did you write this?" My publisher texted me, pure genius! You'll sell a million copies.”  “Of course,” I texted - not thinki...

https://youtu.be/Li-8sXlZdi4

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The theme is the quest for existential belonging.

2) What motivated you to write this poem?

I have been writing poetry my whole life.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

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Name: Badradeen Mohammed
City: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Title: The Scattering Of The Sitting
Genre: Tragedy

Performed by Val Cole

Synopsis: A young man must decide whether to spend an evening with a beautiful young woman or to whitewash a barn with his retarded brother on the hottest day of the summer.

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

What is your short story about?

A young man must choose between spendi...

Title: Place Your Bets
by William Powell

Travis waits. Nurse Gage picks up the already prepared file and scans. There is a clipboard with sign-in.

NURSE GAGE Do you have your number?

Travis unfolds the paper. Nurse Gage points to the sign in –

NURSE GAGE: Sign here, next to your number. Any...

https://youtu.be/W7c4_wMFMbY

Performed by Val Cole

1) What is the theme of your poem?
Shame - acknowledging the impact of being shamed

2) What motivated you to write this poem?
A simple moment when I asked a question in a Q&A after a talk about what motivated her to do something she had discus...

https://youtu.be/vhZODR_ecOE

Performed by Val Cole

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Executive Severance, by Robert K. Blechman

Willum Mortimus Granger was beside himself. In fact when his body was found the top half was right next to the bottom.

Genre: Ghost or Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The most needed comfort sometimes comes from the most unexpected visits.

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BIRDIE, 1min,. Ireland
Directed by Declan Davis
Birdie is a story of a bird overcoming her fear of flying for the first time.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/birdie-review

MAJDRESCHER, 3min., France
Directed by Antoine Ganduber...

BUMP IN THE NIGHT, 7min., USA
Directed by Skyler Pinkerton
Charlie and Lily are cousins, roomates, and best friends trying to embrace the spooky season with a horror movie marathon. Are they just high? Or is their paranoia legit?

https://www.instagram.com/thecharlieandlilyshow

https://www.wild...

Read interview with screenwriter:
https://matthewtoffolo.com/2024/01/17/screenwriter-pat-obrien-who-are-you/

A Documentary film about the life and activism of LGBTQ Scot Kath Duncan The most important Uk Civil rights leader past 100 years but almost forgotten in time until my Highly acclaimed stage play #liberty and my biography of Kath The Last Queen Of Scotland stage play Liberty

http://www.kathdunca...

Is art "essential"? This is a story of how a multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese and Indian descent in New York survived the pandemic and attempts to "return to normal" when the world is now anything but.

Directed by Fahim Hamid

CATS AND HUSBANDS, 7min., USA
Directed by Grace Samson, Barry Samson
We enter the story where two close friends, Fern and Marcie get together at a local coffee shop to celebrate a birthday. Fern has been going through two years of cycles of In Vitro, desperately trying to get pregnant but with no...

It’s lockdown. Emboldened by red wine, a fortysomething woman braves her first Zoom date with a guy in snowy Montana. A short play devised through improvisation, VIRTUALLY SINGLE explores the tragicomic challenges of dating during the pandemic.

https://www.finitefilmsandtv.com/projects/virtually...

Global Cities Free of Slavery is a 52-minute documentary on modern slavery and the exploitation of labor in three different cities, located in different continents. Nottingham in the UK, Maputo in Mozambique and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Directed by Luiz Eduardo Lerina

Director Statement
It's a...

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WATER TRAILER, 10min., USA
Directed by Gary Beeber
“WATER” is a feature documentary film by Gary Beeber that focuses on Ohio’s source of water and what’s being done to protect it for future generations.

https://www.filmsbygarybeeber.com/water

DANTE, 1min.,
Direc...

In search of the being of light within.

Directed by Elias Djemil

Director Statement
Looking for the universal poetry of humanity is a lifelong search. Project by project I pursue this goal; each encounter, film and photograph brings me closer. We all have our own aspirations, ambitions, and res...

TOPIA, 15min., USA
Directed by Jessie Lee Thorne, Justin Thorne
Topia investigates the complexity of emotions, specifically exploring individuals’ different manifestations of darkness – numbness, dissociation, depression, mania. The work examines the necessity of vulnerability, community, holding...

TANNA, 6min., USA
Directed by Noah Lipsitz
This short documentary style film takes us on a beautiful journey learning about a remote community on an island called Tanna located in the south Pacific Ocean. We learn about this community's values, what their day to day looks like, and their passion ...

QUESTIONING THE WINDOW, 19min., Austria
Directed by Vulpecula Collective
In an intensive conversation in her old apartment in Vienna, the world-experienced artist Beta tries to take away young Gamma's fears, among other things in connection with her native Burgenland-Croatian language - just as h...