ODE TO THE PRESIDENT, by Frank Vespe

He just turned legal, plays guitar, his craft.
An Aries like me, a Graduate student of math.
I taught him to dribble, now he beats me,
Swoosh! a three-pointer, from the top of the key.

I fear for my son.

Threescore ago, another Irishman won,
Escalated a co...

Bound by Blood is an action-thriller TV Pilot with strong mythological elements in which a Colonial woman unjustly burned as a witch struggles to reclaim her soul from the Sumerian demon who saved her from the flames and used her as his Ageless assassin for over 300 years. Adapted from an award-w...

MOVING BARCELONA, 6min, UK, Dance

Directed by Jevan Chowdhury

Moving Barcelona is a magical realist dance story about the Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in the Spanish State contending with an identity crisis. A city with everything going for it is still haunted by the ghosts of its p...

Performed by Hannah Ehman

Lessons of Imperfections, by Laleeta Tongo

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to write, write and give speeches about.
But then I turned thirty, and I wrote nothing but text messages flirty, and my hidden urge was also turning out.

I saw an ad in the newspaper...

Police captains Hamilton and Lee meet with Mr. Varick and Mr. Turner from the Lofton County Free Voice newspaper to discuss the release of police records that contain explosive information about police brutality against African Americans in Lofton County.

Performed by Val Cole

SUNDAY, 3min., USA, Dance

Directed by Ani Taj

Time sort of stopped. Or it stretched out, slow and amorphous, without the demarcations of social rituals, gatherings and punctuation that most people rely on to know that it’s passing. Streets went quiet; music halls, dance clubs and theaters sat e...

Performed by Hannah Ehman

Love your Curves, by Jesus T. Solis

Gives me the words,
To speak of,
That Sensual love,
To be made,
I’m not afraid,
Take you by the hips,
And kiss you on lips,

Your woman I’m into,
To dance with you,
To twirl in lust,
Our bodies will thrust,
Upon each other,
To becom...

SOMETHING WICKED DWELLS, 7min., USA, Poem
Directed by Waide Riddle
This silent film adaptation, based on the critically acclaimed poem, follows four men chained together in the gallows of Hell. Each face their demise one-by-one at the hands of the Beast.

A female teacher for a rural Afghan school for girls demands protection from a Talban attack. A lone tribal guardian, an Arbakai, learns the value of female education.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Steve Rizzo
School Teacher: Kyana Teresa
Bilqees: Hannah Ehman
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Performed by Hannah Ehman

A FILM ON FILM, 6min, UK, Documentary
Directed by David McNulty
Because everybody is naked at some point in their life.

This short 6min documentary film shot on super 8mm in black and white follows award winning artist and portrait photographer Selina Mayer one cold November morning. Faced with ...

UP TO HERE, 7min., Canada, Comedy
Directed by Liz Whitmere
Desperate for alone time, a woman escapes to a meditative retreat in her mind… but finds it's not as isolated as she’d hoped.

Performed by Hannah Ehman

THE NEW LIFE, 9min., Switzerland, Dance

Directed by Dmitry Khamzin

A beautiful woman called life. Steps lightly and tenderly, breaking through fear, anger, and doubts, turning them into faith, love, and hope into the new life.

Performed by Hannah Ehman

hungover. by Rachel Spell

her childhood tastes like whiskey
on virgin youthful tongue;
liquid fire scalding her soul
since she was still young.

her past tastes like rum,
like everything she knew
that was painful and scary
was comforting her too.

her lov...

Based on the musical - MILEY CHASE THE SCIENCE ACE. Miley Chase, a lonely, nerdy 10-year old science whiz, discovers the notes of her recently retired grandmother - a former mathematician and scientist - and builds a time machine. When Tyler -- her sports minded neighbor who thinks that science i...

Performed by Bill Poulin

The uninvited guest, by Alex Hai

I am an immigrant

of my own premiere .

The cinema is full

of empty whispering chairs

Covid 19 is the uninvited guest

filling all movie theaters for now

I wish I could beam a few years back

so exciting

to see people taking t...

Synopsis: A mother and daughter face the end of the world.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Sean Ballantyne
Mother: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Daugher: Kyana Teresa
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102 DEGREES, 14min., USA, Dance

Directed by Natalia Marty, Paula Nunez

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tampa City Ballet presents 7th Avenue & Ybor – 102 Degrees, a short film about the cycle of life, loss and love.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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An intelligently profound Transgender female, seeks to establish her dominance as one of the top defense attorneys in the Nation's Capital of Washington, DC, but must face the demons of her troubled past as a male, before setting her sights on a promising future.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Steve Ri...

RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, 7min., USA, Animation
Directed by Shane Bryant
The film follows a balloon observation during WW1. The cables and winch brake sending the ballon sailing towards Hunland. The observation pilot jumps overboard with a parachute but soon finds himself in the middle of a dog figh...

YOU CAN, by Nadine Weathersby

Life is not merely a game of chance,
It’s yours to shape and mold, you can be whatever you want to be in
constant reality if you accept the responsibility
You can stand tall,
Dare not to fall, persist, insist, and you will win,
Use all your tools; get the knowledge...

Performed by Hannah Ehman

Before After Always, by Eugene Butler

Before what?
Birth…Breath…Discovery…
Love…Loss…Joy…
Pain…Awareness…Memory
Regret…Tears…Laughter
Death?
And after?
Believe the Buddhist
Believe the Christian
Believe the Muslim
Believe the Jew
Believe the Atheist
One is the other…T...