While sitting comfortably in her living room, feet propped up on the coffee table, Star receives quite the shock. What ensues is a journey inward, accompanied by the faces and facets of her ego. This story is stylistically kitsch and told through dance for camera in five acts.

http://alyrose.org...

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PIGMENTS: DOWN BY THE BAYOU, 8min., USA, Dance
Directed by Dawn Richard
Pigments is accompanied by a short film that features the dance students of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and was helmed by Richard and her longtime collaborator Monty Marsh. For ...

A lone construction surveyor navigates the mysterious lower level of a soon-to-be demolished building. Burdened with the task of mapping the infrastructure’s network of ancient utility lines and deteriorating foundation, he descends deeper into paranoia as his measurements begin contradicting hi...

A young man's attempt to show a beautiful girl his charitable nature backfires...

Directed by Sam Tibi, Brook Driver

Cast: Nafees Hamid. Harriet Barrow. Aquiles Pantaleao. Louis Papaloizou

Moving Portraits is a short dance film by the two dancers Himerria Wortham and Raquel Cabrera. Born out of a yearning for elevated images of women of color, Wortham and Cabrera borrowed from their respective Algerian and Mexican cultures to create this contemporary series of moving dance portrait...

A feature-length documentary by DailyBOOM Media on Covid-19's crushing impact on the music industry as seen through the eyes of artists, musicians, promoters, venue owners, merchandisers and Save Our Stages/NIVA ambassadors.
All interviews filmed from Nov. 2020 - Jan. 2021 via Zoom due to pandemi...

Two concrete poems come to life via animated text and sound in this short unnarrated video based on Fiona Tinwei Lam's visual poems about marine plastic pollution.

http://www.fionalam.net/

Directed by Fiona Tinwei Lam

Animation: Nhat Truong

Sound Design: Tinjun Niu

Director Statement
Each po...

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NEVER GIVE UP: AKINORI IN MOORESVILLE, 13min, USA, Documentary
Directed by Royce Akifumi Wilmot
24 years since first attending a NASCAR race, Akinori Ogata chases his dream of one day racing in the Daytona 500. Moving his family halfway across the world in the proc...

POSITIVE is a film and photo series starring three people with special skin conditions. Putting a spotlight on albinism and vitiligo through negative editing , the project aims to raise awareness of these skin conditions and the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination those with albinis...

BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE, 88min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Melissa Tittl
Award Winning executive producer and director Melissa Tittl follows Best-selling author and entrepreneur, Billy Carson as he uncovers the truth coming from an unknown signal. Carson has spent most of his life studying the ...

A hitman gets a call from his irate wife while on the job

http://etudemicro.com/
https://instagram.com/etude_film

Writer/Director: Daniel Riser

Cast: Todd Stroik, Lexy McAvinchey, Fred Grant

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SAUDADE, 31min., Portugal, Dance/Experimental
Directed by Sandra Cristina Pires Lopes, Sandra Ramy, Equis Alfonso Valdes, Inti Herrera
Portugal & Cuba, two cultures separated by the ocean.
The intimate relationship that each one maintains with the sea has been the ...

“It's Good Business: Moving Beyond Conservation” is a short documentary that explores the antiquated idea that capitalism must be at odds with the health of the environment in order to profit. While we all want to protect our planet, current models of environmental conservation are failing. It’s ...

Luck's Reality by William G Chandler Jr

Pitch: Making luck is something you can try. Capturing good luck is a shifting affair. It may turn in your favor. However, luck is non-negotiable.

THE CONDUITS by Katy Chance

Beautiful sociopaths, Callan & Damon (The Conduits), are wildly popular online mediums (LOL). Shun (GM) ensures social media colludes with their sociopathy. Corona made them uberfamous. Saying "you can’t get a real virus" via SMM, but online errors & a fatal offline o...

TWITTER Short Story by Keshia Nowden

The count, knowing what he would have to do to keep the woman from dying in his arms, intercepted the last bullet, as if he anticipated where it would land long before it left the smoky chamber. He flattened the bullet, leaving no bruises on him, all while c...

Chapter Transcript: Stumbling into History
A Few Months Earlier

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34737368-standoff-how-the-cold-war-really-ended

Genre- Satire/comedy – 69,000 words

Logline- What if everything you were told about how the Cold War ended was ...

No Funeral? by Perry Terrell

The conductors on the train lost my bird. They were trying to hide it so they wired ahead and had an exact one for me as I arrived. They gave me a live bird. My bird was dead.

Performed by Val Cole

Type: life

Performed by Val Cole

Genre: Autobiographical anecdote

1 Liner: A truly great artist is gracious and thrives on performance setbacks.

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Ruins of Memories by Badradeen Mohammed

On a sunny autumn day

I was leaning on a plastic chair in front of my house

With sweat dripping from my body

Caused by the high temperature

And resentment for the intensity of my anger

Suddenly, without realising I found mys...

Escape the pens of the dog shelter with Sadie, the Saint Bernard and her friends in search of loving homes.

Genre: Animation

Narrator: Val Cole

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1. What is your short story about?

My short story is about 4 dogs given up by their owners and put into a Dog shelter. The...

IT WILL NEVER END, 39min., Hungary, Drama
Directd by Barbara Somossy
A romantic drama in the Hungarian plain in the 19th century. A great love between the bandit and the poor girl, however the jealousy of Kitty the tavern keeper can destroy everything.

https://www.instagram.com/barbisomossy/