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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.

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.

.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 

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 

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 

The Chosen Few

UK 2:09

Alan David Pritchard,  

Director, Writer

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

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. 

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.