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    • Program details & Awards
    • Official Selection
    • Mission/Categories
    • Venue
    • Hollywood Films + others
    • Media/Press
  • Program details & Awards
  • Official Selection
  • Mission/Categories
  • Venue
  • Hollywood Films + others
  • Media/Press

Details To Follow for Times,Ticketing and Events.

Screening April 28, 29, 2023

Kick-off Screening April 28, 2023

Kick-off Screening April 28, 2023

43 Films selected for in-person screening, from 13 countries. Categories include: Animation, Documentary, Narrative, Experimental, and Original Score. 


Kick-off Screening April 28, 2023

Kick-off Screening April 28, 2023

Kick-off Screening April 28, 2023

All screenings and events are at Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA. The two-day event will kick-off on the night of April 28, doos open at &PM. It includes a feature length documentary on Ruth Weiss, an extraordinary Beat Poet from San Francisco of the post WWII area. Her escape from Berlin and the Nazis to winding her way to America is what storytelling is all about. One of her poems will be read, and the panel will include the film director Thomas Antonic. A receptions will follow. Tickets TBA.


Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA.

Kick-off Screening April 28, 2023

Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA.

The screening of the 43 films will start at 1PM, doors open at 12:30 PM, Saturday April 29th, and go into the early evening.  Information on panels, and details will be forthcoming. A reception will follow with the Latin Jazz band of Juan Cardenas, who is a flutist as well as an LA poet.  

Ticketing information TBA.                


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1sr Season Awards 2022

Animation Winner

Experimental Winner

Experimental Winner

Ships a Comin'

USA 2:58


Ebony Gilbert,

 Director, Writer, Producer


Inspired by Octavia Butler and Zora Neale Hurston, "ships a comin" explores Afrofuturism and contemporary Black issues to examine the African American experience in the past and future.

Experimental Winner

Experimental Winner

Experimental Winner

In the End We Will be Archives for Someone Else to Make Sense Of

UK 23:00


Helga Dorothea Fannon

Director, Writer, Producer 


Megan Garrett Jones

Key Cast 


 Donna Mckevitt

Original Score


For this project, Helga Dorothea Fannon worked from an archive of family photos recovered from a stash of negatives that had remained forgotten for over 35 years. They had all been taken within a two-year period. At times near a hundred were captured in a day. Then they were left, not to be looked at until I rediscovered.


Documentary Winner

Experimental Winner

Documentary Winner

.Photographing New York

Italy 8:54


Cesare Bedogne

Director, Writer, Producer


The poem Bedogne wrote remembering the two weeks he spent in New York in 2004, on the occasion of my first photography exhibition 


Narrative Winner

Original Score Winner

Documentary Winner

Oul Ferminm Life

Ireland 6:50


Tristan Crowe

Director, Writer

 

Charlie Gillen, Writer


Key Cast  

Dick Glasgow 


Original Score 

Liam Logan


Producers 

Chris Eva,

Eugene Mullan


Additional Camera

Mick Crossey 





Original Score Winner

Original Score Winner

Original Score Winner

Requiem for a Spoken Word

USA 2:58


jimi Kijai 

Original Score


Jim Hall

Director, 

Associate Producer-A Writer's Roots: Kurt Vonnegut's Indianapolis

 

Marc Zegans

Writer-Poet 

Director's Choice

Original Score Winner

Original Score Winner

The Chosen Few

UK 2:09


Alan David Pritchard,  

Director, Writer


A poem about the words that poets choose not to choose.




Animation Finalist

Documentary Finalist

Animation Finalist

Combine

US 4:56


A poem from Bill Ratner

Enhanced by 3-D.


Micah Chambers-Goldberg, Director

 The poem tells the story of an actual incident involving a railroad switchman who encounters a Native American traveler in a rail yard in the middle of the night. 




Animation Finalist

Documentary Finalist

Animation Finalist

Utility Pole

Canada 2:58


Fiona Tinwei Lam

Poet and Co-Director 

Mary M McDonald 

Co-Director,

Original Soundscape Composer


The poem-based film explores the transformation of trees into the poles that hold our communications, the many branched network that connect us, as the trees have been severed from each other and their own living networks.






Documentary Finalist

Documentary Finalist

Experimental Finalist


An Armenian Triptych: 

Retracing Our Steps

USA 10:58


Directors, Producers

Kevork Mourad

Alan Semerdjian

Aram Bajakian

Alan Semerdjian

Poem (Reader/Writer)

 Aram Bajakian

Original Score/Music


The film is a new multimedia collaboration art project/short film inspired by German writer Heinrich Boll’s notion that “the artist carries death with him like a good priest his breviary,” Armenian Genocide recognition, and 2020’s 44-Day War in Artsakh.


"An extraordinary meaningful and creative project."

Judge, C. Korbel






Experimental Finalist

Experimental Finalist

Experimental Finalist


Awoken Soma

UK 20:44

Nadia Gardner-Charles

Director, Writer, Producer

 Leyla Alizada,

Emily Crouch

Producers


Key Cast: 

Kloe Dean, 

Elsie Ayotunde, Mikiel Donavon, Helen Suzanne Olaonipekun, Colleen Joseph, Elliott Banks, Harrison Dante Jerome, 

Bradley Charles, Marcus Damon SUPA D, Sarah Lisney


 The poem-based film shares the reality of a small sample who have experienced trauma and have embedded emotions within their minds that cause everyday pain. However life goes on; things with us can be missed. Behind the smile you cannot always find happiness. Behind the hard work, its not always just motivation.








Experimental Finalist

Experimental Finalist

Experimental Finalist


Midnight in Houston

USA 3:00


Krista Leigh Steinke

Director

Nick Rattner

Director, Writer


Sherman Finch

Music


Shot on Super 8mm film, 

Midnight, Houston is a video poem that depicts, in mythic terms, a parent’s attempt to share with their child the beauties and depravities of the city of their nativity: Houston.





Narrative Finalist

Experimental Finalist

Experimental Finalist


Alexithymia

USA 6:09


 Brian Alan Hill

Director, Key Cast

Charlie, Dog


A Pandemic Short,

Inspired by the poems of 

Charles Bukowski

Be Kind

Alone with Everybody

So Now


Alexithymia: the inability to recognize or describe one's own emotions.









Additional Awards 2022

Semi-Finalist

Honorable Mention

Semi-Finalist

I Am Already Free

USA 3:22

Chandel White

Director, Writer, Composer 


Tanner Cross

 FILMSProducer 


A true story of a Los Angeles homeless man celebrating a moment of great clarity with a song he wrote and recorded in his vehicle… a vehicle that has served as both his cocoon and his shelter for the past 3 years.


Semi-Finalist

Honorable Mention

Semi-Finalist

UNSAID

USA 17:51


Ayodeji Otuyelu, 

Director, Writer, Key Cast 


Ashleigh McGregor, Producer  


Key Cast 

Ejembi Adakole, Kone Sendou,

 Alem John, Paulin Essayiyas


A visual adaptation of poems from the book Words In My Head, which explore emotions surrounding gender, sexual orientation, blackness and feminism through the eye of a gay director from a homophobic African country Nigeria.



Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention


Gaby -- The Moving Picture

50 years in love, and in films.


 Piers Bedford

Producer 

Gaby Bedford

Key Cast


50 years in love and in films.

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Bárbaros

Spain 6:33


Danilo Adriano Marinho

Director, Writer, Producer, Dancer 


Ivan Alvarado

Director  


Pablo Giraldo

Director 

 

Núria Such Basiana

Writer, Producer, Key Cast 


Anna Tréa 

Key Cast 


The hard trajectory of migration from home to an unknown land. Danilo Marinho, a young man torn between the new and the old world in which he grew up and the people of his own tribe, leads to an epic and real tale.

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Hop Along Hang On

Canada 4:17


Cobra Collins*

Director, Writer, Key Cast- Poet 


Xstine Cook

Producer


Alex Moon

Animation 


Renn Madeleine Bibeau

Original Score


How do you take back a story you didn't know was yours? How do you move forward while embracing and understanding your past? Follow Rose the rabbit as she seeks her way back home. 


*Cobra Collins (She/Her) is a Métis poet of significant height based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) - Treaty 7 Territory.


Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

Little Gem Magnolia

USA 13:54


Kathleen Kelley

Director

 

Paul Rabinowitz

Writer, Key Cast


Limited Light Productions

Producer


Jordan Rabinowitz

Original Score

 

Tom Mariano

Original Score


Little Gem Magnolia tells the story of a relationship between an artist and his muse, Ayva, who is a new immigrant to New Orleans. With her visa soon to expire.

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