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...

YOU ARE AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 8min., Qatar
Directed by Dimitri Yuri
Anne, an international photographer, is on a work assignment to capture the essence of visiting the National Museum of Qatar for a prestigious online media platform. Feeling overwhelmed by the pressures of work, yet intrigued b...

PARADES, 16min,. Canada
Directed by Alan Lake
Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.

JOI, 3min., USA
Directed by Caleb Viti, Alan Yammin
JOI is a showcase of unique collections portrayed by three diverse fashion designers. It combines film and fashion industry together and reveals artistic expressions of each designer. Emphasizing various mediums such as politics, escape from rea...

HOW TO GET OVER YOU, 4min., Australia
Directed by Adam Jordan
How to Get Over You is about experiencing rejection from a romantic relationship that never was and the smouldering grief that is experienced in isolation for a time thereafter. The song speaks to the helplessness that comes from navig...

MORE TOGETHER, 38min., Canada
Directed by Jake Foy
After years of best friendship, teenage Tom and Lucy finally surrender to spending the night together. As their new love blossoms, and Lucy's 'time of the month' is late, the pair are forced to face the music of adulthood head-on.

https://www.j...

SAM AND JESS, 12min., New Zealand
Directed by Nina Katungi
Neighbours, Sam and Jess, are both aware of each other’s existence but incapable of expressing their feelings and actually meeting... until one day, a touch of fate gives them a helping hand.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000...