Phantom Quartz, 12min., France
Directed by Marc DAVID
Nolan Le, a former DGSE agent, aspires to lead an ordinary life with his daughter after several years of service, but fate intervened differently.

Get to know writer/actor Kahina Benyahia:

1. What motivated you to make this film?
- The dr...

CRAWL SPACE, 4min., USA
Directed by Randy Scott Slavin
After his daughter wakes up terrified by sounds from the crawl space, a father ventures into the dark to prove there s nothing to fear but some things that go bump in the night are better left unexplored.

https://instagram.com/randyscottsla...

Oregon's Boat: the McKenzie River Drift Boat, 35min., USA
Directed by Randy Dersham
Oregon's Boat is an expository documentary that explores the evolution and enduring influence of the McKenzie River Drift Boat, a distinctive craft that represents the Oregonian spirit for adventure. Featuring a c...

The Feast (For My Beloved Son), 1min., Canada
Directed by Sara Gonzalez Lopez
A loving Mother cooks for her son, who is currently distressed by his father s disappearance. Once the feast is served, so are answers.

https://www.instagram.com/flishy_fix/

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motiv...

Let Us Out, 10min., USA
Directed by Chris Allan
A struggling painter begins to question her own sanity when her latest nightmarish creation inexplicably escapes its canvas.

See the Full Lineup of Films:

Isolated and Deprived, 27min., USA
Directed by Estela Imigo, Víctor Gutiérrez
The community of the Quinchao Archipelago, Chiloé, is isolated due to connectivity problems that force them to uproot themselves from their territories to access health, education, among...

Ana, 14 years old, coexists with the terminal illness of his mother and his father's sorrow . One day, her aunty and her daughter, Laura, the same age as Ana, propose her to live in another village. That will change the lives of Ana and Laura forever.

http://www.miguelangelmengo.com/quiero-volve...

Sofia, the young owner of an important avant-garde farm in Salento, recalls during an interview how it all began with the scent of bread that her peasant grandparents made with their own hands and offered her when she went to visit them as a child. A simple gesture of love that remained in her he...

See the fill lineup of films:

They, 15min., Iran
Directed by Seyed Morteza Sabzeghaba
Group of Dezfoulion people leaving the city so sadly dressed of war to return to their families, at this time jets attack them.

https://www.instagram.com/ms.sabzeghaba

STATUE, 9min., Iraq
Directed by Brwa Ka...

Taekkyeon Reign is a non-verbal music video showcasing the different forms of the South Korean Traditional martial art of Taekkyon fused with a dub-step music.

Author:

Artist/Bands:

Ik Taekkyon Group

Pink & Black Dance Team

Brennan Cleveland

Valerie Piche

Narrated by Val Cole

BUY Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Spidersilk-Akutra-Ramses-Atenosis-Cea/dp/1990695183

With an imaginative technical view on the mechanics of time and space, Akutra weaves a schematic of logic that explores the fringes of reality in ways that are within the realm of the possibility and reality. Cre...

A Vietnam veteran with PTSD lives by himself in an isolated are and grows most of his food. He is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury and believes he is being framed for a murder he didn't commit.

Performed by Val Cole

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Am I disgusting for letting him strip my shirt from my skin so I can feel an ounce of what I think love could possibly be? How can I hate my body so much, but then also only believe a man could ever want me for my curves, a braless chest made for his hands. I want to...

Narrated by Val Cole

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

What should we make of a country that takes
Donald Trump as its leader
a second time?
The first time could be seen as an unplanned marriage –
that pounding head waking up the morning after in Vegas
married to the wedding singer moment.
But the second time? Knowing wha...

Narrated by Val Cole

Editor & Visual Design by Steve Rizzo

Produced by Matthew Toffolo

POEM:

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 piece of me,
Caught in the...

Narrated by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your novel about?

Somebody Else’s Life intertwines the personal histories of a convicted cold war spy, an East German intelligence officer who sets her up for entrapment, and the son of Holocaust survivors who takes her in following her...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

April 1, 1946
Hilo, Hawaii

It was the natural thing to do,
send the whole class
to play on the beach.

Where else could you enjoy recess
on the shore but the Aloha state?
Reflective Popsicle green waves topped

with whipped cream, every child’s fantasy.
Even the tid...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

when no one knows,
the wind will gust
again and again
until the final push
and the dead Elm
crashes in darkness –
and you won’t even know
it happened.

In darkness

Spring wind reforms
with pressure and gravity –
the touring planets
and conspicuous moon
cycles – the ...

See the full lineup of films:

THE RAVIN', 6min,. USA
Directed by Ron Ford
A sequel to Poe's The Raven, in verse, in which the narrator grows to question the validity of the bird's symbolic pretensions. Stop motion puppet animation.

Making Emmie Smile, 5min., USA
Directed by Abby Vo, John Vo, K...

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

Director Statement
Is art essential? This film is a meditation on...