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LITERARY FICTION Short Story: The Machine, by Kelsey Stewart
Performed by Val Cole
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POETRY Reading: Humming Hymm, by Ace Anzaldua
Performed by Val Cole
POEM;
Little fuzzy wuzzy buzzle bees,
quietly working away unseen.
Oh, how you sing amongst the trees.Pollinating plumage of Persephone,
bring life to all through spring,
Little fuzzy wuzzy buzzle bee.Sugar snaps and strawberries,
every color of the spectrum seen.
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COMEDY Novel 1st Chapter: WHY I HATE MY FRIENDS, by Michael Buzzelli (interview)
Summary: Andrew learns that his partner has a new boyfriend and all his friends knew about, to make matters worse, as soon as he moves on to someone new, they all plan to help his ex get back together with him.
Performed by Val Cole
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your novel about?
Andrew...
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SPIRITUALITY Short Story: Running From God, by Alexandra Grant (interview)
The story is of my personal journey after God first began pursuing me.
Performed by Val Cole
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
God's calling for salvation and my failure to do as I promised, followed by my running from a commitment I made to him, only to be permitted ... -
DEATH Short Story Reading: DENNIS, by Lori Boren
Performed by Val Cole
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of STAR WARS Short Films - 05/05/2025, 01:49:32
STAR WARS: RENDEZVOUS, 20min,. USA
Directed by Brett L. Peterson
A pair of do-gooders attempt to protect a young, force-sensitive girl from bounty hunters on their way to rendezvous with a mysterious contact with the power to protect her much better than they can.https://antigravityfilms.com/pr...
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Watch Today's FREE Festival: Best of STAR WARS Short Films
STAR WARS: RENDEZVOUS, 20min,. USA
Directed by Brett L. Peterson
A pair of do-gooders attempt to protect a young, force-sensitive girl from bounty hunters on their way to rendezvous with a mysterious contact with the power to protect her much better than they can.https://antigravityfilms.com/pr...
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POETRY Movie: The Promise of 2025, by Kaleigh Hess
Performed by Val Cole
Visual Design & Editor: Steve Rizzo
Produced by Matthew Toffolo
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The Promise of 2025
The clock ticks, a soft and steady sigh,
As fleeting moments slip and fly,
The days blur by in whispers faint,
And I feel the ache, the quiet complaint.
Each second lost, a ...
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Screenplay Movie: SUPERMAN 1983: Collector of Worlds
A new version of "Superman III" where Lex Luthor tricks the US Government into trusting him with planetary defense when Earth is threatened by a giant Kryptonite meteor. After banishing Lex to the Phantom Zone, Superman finds himself against a super-intelligent biomechanical being with a digital...
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FAMILY Short Story: Annika's Easter, by Kirsten Miles (interview)
Although Annika is blind, she doesn't need eyes to "see," and she finds joy in the small things. This Easter is no different as she plays with her cousins, helps her family bake, and comforts her little sister.
Performed by Val Cole
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your short story about?
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BIOGRAPHY Short Story: In Pursuit of my Erection, by Rosko Tzolov
Performed by Val Cole
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YOUNG ADULT Short Story: The Woods Beyond the Fence, by Morgan Laidler
Performed by Val Cole
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HORROR Short Story: The Burned Man, by JS Apsley
Performed by Val Cole
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Experimental Short Story: WHISKERUM: THE BEDTIME EDITION, by Gillie Easdon
Performed by Val Cole
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POETRY Reading: The Shape of Me, by Joanne DeTore
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
36- 26 -36
My measurements were an hour glass shape
Before children
After children
Before menopause
Before breast cancerDoctors scooped out cancer like ice cream
a triple scoop, a banana split of tissue
until I was left with divots
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DRAMA Short Story: Where is the Beginning of the Circle, by Rosko Tzolov
Performed by Val Cole
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FROZEN WATERS film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
FROZEN WATERS, 25min., USA
Directed by Anastasia Fetisov
Frozen Waters chronicles the awe-inspiring journey of endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh as he becomes the first person to swim beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. In this historic feat, Pugh swims 1 kilometre through subglacial rivers, navigating ic... -
MOSNEL DI FRAN film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
Mosnel di Franciacorta, 28min., Italy
Directed by Massimo Zanichelli
Twenty-eight minutes, which are an exciting journey into memory, remembering the figure of Emanuela Barzanò Barboglio, pioneer of the Franciacorta area and mother of Giulio and Lucia Barzanò, and above all in the present of the ... -
INSECT O CIDE film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
INSECT O CIDE, 76min., UK
Directed by Georgina Willis
We are fast approaching an Insect Armageddon. Insect_O_Cide is narrated by the Times Bestseller author Professor Dave Goulson, and explores the reasons for the dramatic insect declines occurring worldwide. Dame Joanna Lumley after seeing the f... -
Baka, The Wisdom Of The Forest film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
Baka, The Wisdom Of The Forest, 46min., Cameroon
Directed by Rui Diogo, Denis Ndeloh, Muleng Timngun
At a time of international chaotic events, wars, global warming, and ecological collapse of several crucial global habitats, it is urgent to pay attention to, and learn from, indigenous groups tha... -
WINGS OF GOLD film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
WINGS OF GOLD, 6min,. India
Directed by Sanjeev Venkataramanan, Navaneeth Krishnan
Presenting Wings of Gold - A Symphonic Thillana in Hamir Kalyani —a groundbreaking musical experience where the grandeur of symphonic orchestration meets the timeless beauty of Carnatic music. -
ICE BREATH film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
ICE BREATH, 43min,. Romania
Directed by Leonard Alecu
Between 2015 and 2024, Leonard Alecu filmed the melting icebergs off Greenland's East coast. Sailing dangerously close to icebergs, Alecu handled his camera to record the ice masses yielding to the ruthless ocean. Filmed in black and white, Ic... -
STAYCATION feature film, reactions Toronto COMEDY Festival (interview)
STAYCATION, 93min,. USA
Directed by Russell Emanuel
How is the world affected by a catastrophic event? Everyday people live through a government mandated quarantine during a global pandemic while desperate scientists race to find a cure before it’s too late.
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2124 film, reactions ENVIRONMENTAL Festival
2124, 4min., USA
Directed by Konstantine Vlasis, Marcus Neudigate
Data sonification of glacial change over the next century.