The killing of a teenage basketball prodigy in New York presents a life-threatening challenge for a beautiful Latina detective and her partner.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Erika: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Maria: Hannah Ehman

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1. What is your screenplay about?
Whit...

A brilliant and unstable Egyptologist becomes entangled in an international incident when she agrees to search for a tomb that holds a mummified ancient alien. Her problems deepen when she becomes possessed by the alien's power.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Walter: Shawn Devlin
Deborah...

After the sudden death of her father, Devine “Mack” Muhammad, an NBA legend, WNBA superstar Destiny “Beloved” Muhammad is faced with a choice: to play in Game 7 of the Finals and honor his legacy or be consumed by grief and doubt. Ball is Life explores themes of family, generational pressure, and...

Love Unveiled explores the collision of two different worlds. Sophie, a driven and self-centered woman, dreams of a political career in Washington, D.C., but her plans derail when her father’s gambling debts entrap her with Drago, a ruthless mafia boss in Split, Croatia. Forced into a marriage wi...

Greta, a young Swedish actress, leaves her home and her twin flame, Clara, to pursue stardom, reinventing herself as the glamorous Margo Alba. Fame and success follow, but they come at the cost of the authenticity she left behind. Meanwhile, Clara embarks on a new chapter with Richard, a tech dev...

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JOYCE, 25min., Norway
Directed by Tomas Martinsen-Hickman
Joyce, a 40-something closeted alcoholic, hits her breaking point after a series of bad choices, her husband stages an intervention but it goes awry and she risks losing her family and her life, based on tru...

Performed by Val Cole

READING:

Existential Hazards of the Mythmaker, by Michelle Chen
In English class we learn how the lotus flower, native
to Guyana, is a fiction of resilience, but under keen
Chinese eyes blooms purity in the dark. Because critical
interpretation never lies – unlike climate ...

Performed by Val Cole

Sunbeam, by Amita Jayant Sanghavi

Sometimes a memory
Burns and scalds
So bad
Those moonbeams
Can’t soothe
The seething heart,
Sometimes a memory
Leaves shivers and chills
So bad
Those sunbeams
Can’t warm
The frozen heart.

Between
The moonbeams
And the sunbeams,
The ‘prese...

Performed by Val Cole

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Performed by Val Cole

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1. What is your short story about?

King Harold is insufferable. His bad behavior is poisoning his universe. This goes on until one day, the Angel of Death decides that he has to have a word with the king. My daughter summarized it best: "It's a...

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer;

1. What is your novel about?

The Edge of Dreaming is a collection of vignettes that paint an overall picture of this new fantasy universe. I have specifically chosen a point in time when the world and its characters are at a crossroads. Technology...

Performed by Val Cole

Wings, by Angie Kinman

Give sorrow words,
Shakespeare wrote.
Lest my heart
should break.

So I tell her story to the Indigo Buntings
as they craft nests of
beautyberry and Indian blanket
in a field abloom with life.

They listen.
I think they know
my little girl who was Li...

Performed by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your short story about?

“Luz and Corazón” is about the transformative power of genuine love between Luz, an unwanted girl, and Corazón, her little dog, a love which carries Luz safely through a near death experience.

2. What genres w...

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WIND LINES, 13min,. Spain
Directed by Janire Etxabe
As soon as I tried vertical dance, I knew I wanted to keep doing this. At home, in the mountains, flying, hanging. In a incessant search for the indefinable feeling.

https://www.dimegaz.eus/portfolio-item/haize-l...

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EXCHANGE OF FIRE, 5mmin., USA
Directed by Rose Elizabeth Sutton
A love poem on the concept of equations and the element of fire.

https://www.rosesutton.com/
https://instagram.com/roseesutton

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audi...

A showcase of the best Animation short films from around the world in the last year. (This is an encore presentation from the in-person festival on January 16th at the Carlton Cinemas in downtown Toronto.)

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FLY AWAY, FROGGY BOY, 8min., Canada
Directed by Mia Lobo
Fly Det...

A lovesick teenager tries to rekindle her relationship with a past boyfriend by inviting him to a surprise party, only to discover the harsh truth behind their romance and the love lives of the guests.

Director Biography - Katherine Costal

Katherine Costal is a writer and filmmaker from Toronto...

Question & Answer session after festival screening with filmmakers from the January 2025 Animation Festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Filmmakers on stage:

FLY AWAY, FROGGY BOY film
Director: Mia Lobo
Voice & Sound Artist: Kyle Testa
Producion Manager/Layout Lead: Mi...

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KITE, 6min,. Canada
Directed by Jerry Trieus
A short film about a dancer on a mission to experience flight. The journey is disappointing and filled with challenges. The result is a transformation as the dance artist finds strength through perseverance and ultimatel...

VOETRY, 28min., Canada
Directed by Affrica Spence
This project captures the depth of filmed day to day moments, and the poetic confessions within them. Each rendition of spoken word poetry paints the picture of individual poets through a series of intimate stand alone short films. Characters expl...

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BOTTOM-FEEDER, 14min., USA
Directed by Brandon D. Hill
A reformed criminal must confront the demons of his past to save his estranged daughter from old sins and prove his innocence.

https://www.instagram.com/bottom.feeder.film/

STEEL MOTHER, 16min., USA
Directed ...

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out of control, 16min., Switzerland
Directed by bellopropello
Machines and robots take care of almost all human activities. The world is automated, and meaningful individual employment isn't possible anymore. A workforce simply is no longer needed – except for some...

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BLUE BLOOD, 12min., South Korea
Directed by Hye won Lee
A world where blue blood is Replicant,
Seogyo and his art teacher Tae-woo stay in the art room after school and practice, then cut their hands with a carving knife.
Seogyo tries to deceive Tae-woo as if he is ...