AFROLISTIC: BLACK HEALING FROM ZIMBABWE TO THE BAY, 22min., USA
Directed by Nekia Wright, Shylet Ndarambwa
Black American healer shares about her practice and explores traditional healing, music, and dance in Zimbabwe.

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https://www.amazon.ca/Unmasked-Howard-K-Pollack/dp/B0B456VHVW

When the wife of a shady Florida businessman is shot in bed in their exclusive home, all signs point to a senseless robbery. Detectives are on the case, but it's the dead woman's high school sweetheart, now a high-powered attorney, wh...

Narrated by Val Cole

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your novel about?

It's a memoir about my cousin who was more like a loving older brother to me. He died at 47. He was a third-generation Mardi Gras sculpture artist and float builder in New Orleans. I quit graduate school in 2011 and s...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

The old trees bend protectively around us
as we rest on the park bench in our winter wear
your faltering mind following the course of the river that is close and sure and deep

even now I can still find your younger face and remember the pillowy softness
of your lips...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

i. THE BLACK SHUTTLE IS PASSING OVERHEAD

ii. The Chumash (California) referred to meteors as Alakiwohoch,
which simply meant “shooting star.” They believed a meteor was a
person’s soul on its way to the afterlife.

iii. The black shuttle is passing overhead, sent ea...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Grass grown tall green slicks drizzle wet,
new planted seedlings shakily take hold,
crumpled mulch retains soil covered mold,

run tongued dogs
checked for ticks
lap water bowls.

And I am left with trowel and rake
to gather weeds in sunlit rain still cold.

How easi...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

I’m from a Southern backyard —
Magnolia grandiflora sporting huge white blooms
Honeysuckles spilling over the fence
Red roses soaked with the aroma of tea
Hollyhocks springing up yearly into flowering towers.

I’m from a Southern backyard —
Mud pies being made beneat...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Sometimes I’m stunned by how time

moves through a life
so easily
and quietly
so that one spring day,
you’re ten, running to a neighbor’s to climb
his apple tree;
the next week,
you’re buying your first house in Adrian,
wife pregnant with a third child;
two weeks lat...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

I miss you…
phoning
just to say hello.
I miss you…
calling
to hear about your day.
I miss you…
coming here to stay
giving me
your precious time.
I miss…
our travels together
taking in the sights
like kids set free
on a playground
finding pleasure
in exploring new thi...

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Narrated by Val Cole

POEM: I am an immigrant, nomadic desperate for home,
to hammer myself into existence
out of pain in depths of yearning—
for what it’s too immense to bookend in language,
perhaps only indicted by silence inserting itself
into the form,
the only s...

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Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

After checking each other
for spit-up stains, we head to an Italian place,
glasses of red wine, gnocchi,
in a booth by the window.

There’s a flurry or two, Christmas
lights strung across Main.
The marquee on a local theater
seduces: Ult...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Today is a day both rare and familiar. Tragic months before
another comes around. This will be the past that makes the
future proceed. Only what of the lack of true possession?
What of the decline spotted once again in our ascent, that
we heard in what was said in tir...

Narrated by Val Cole

POEM:

Beauty is what we’re here for.
To utilize our sense of wonder
To create a path of wonder for others.
Be awake in the now and
Find that connection to the universe
To dig deep and discover what is in us
That is moved by the aesthetically pleasing.
Why is that which we ...

DWOLMA, 7min., USA
Directed by Ben Meade
EXPERIMENTAL, SHOWING WHAT FILM CAN BE

https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.meade.58

WARRIORS OF THE WORLD, 10min., USA
Directed by Gary McMillan Jr.
In a war that will decide the galaxy's future, the greatest warriors from across the globe join forces to take down the dark forces of Death-Is-Fun-Gary and restore peace to the cosmos.

https://garymcmillanj611.myportfolio.com/

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STORM, 3min., USA
Directed by Jiayi Tang
The endless war has inflicted deep trauma, as soldiers silently observe the hallucinations before them, imagining times long gone.

https://www.artstation.com/jerrytang2831
https://www.instagram.com/darth_jt/

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SHADOW FIST 3: THE FINAL CHAPTER, 33min., Mexico
Directed by Robert James Samuels

LINECAP, 7min. USA
Directed by Aidan Michael Kelley
A mother and father find themselves in a desperate race against an oppressive government, constantly evading capture. Their struggle for survival becomes even more challenging as they face the harsh reality of scarce resources—no access to food ...

MEGAVILLE - AFTER HOURS, 14min., Germany
Directed by Tim Cürlis, Christian Skibinski
On a restless night in the cyberpunk city "Megaville" a disillusioned ranger encounters a washed up chef called Jack. They reach an agreement and a culinary duel to the death follows. A lethal supper that only on...

BLESSING, 21min,. Chile
Directed by Herman Choque Rodriguez
A story of misery and social determinism, which reflects the underworld of a marginalized character and his path to self-destruction.

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ACERBITY, 13min., USA
Directed by Edgar Jimz, Artemus Cole
Governor Robert Smith (45) receives an unexpected visit from an old friend, Jose Martinez (50). Martinez questions Smith's drastic change in values. The two engage in a profound and bitter exchange posing to unravel a devastating truth.

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THIS IS ONLY A TEST, 9min., USA
Directed by Bill Sorice
The tale of a Girl’s surrealistic journey encountering varied tests during the different stages of her life. It's Pink Floyd 'The Wall' meets a Calvin Klein AD.

http://www.coldginproductions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thetestmovie

HAMBRE, 2min., Venezuela
Directed by Roberto Villafane
In a macabre cycle of violence and perversion, Mr. Lugozi, a serial killer obsessed with the dark pleasures of cooking with human flesh, descends deeper and deeper into darkness as he searches for new prey in a square of seemingly calm souls....

CUL-DE-SAC, 11min., UK
Directed by Francesco Gabriele
A couple of city dwellers move to the suburbs and are bombarded by their hyperactive neighbours who aggressively try to get them to try a strange, new health product.
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