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.