You will be notified how to pick them up for use on FilmFreeway or by email. Thank you all for your outstanding work. Keep Creating! This was an extremely difficult season for judges to choose Winners. Finalists. and Honorable Mention. All award-winning films will be up on this site by end of May. You each will be notified, and asked permission.
Winner: Hurricane
Finalist: Eve
Honorable Mention: Flutter & Spin
Winner:
Twilight in the Sculpture Forest
Finalist: Contentment for Those Who are Content
Honorable Mention: BINDI &
Dad's Frenemy
Winner: My Name is Swan
Finalist: A Pan Feminine Future
Honorable Mention: Checking In & Živa
Winner:
13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Finalist: Ascend &
Subtleties of Shanghai
Honorable Mention: Night &
Of Water
Summer Sonata About My City -- Macedonia
Gravitational Lensing - UK
Paul Panish:
Poem on My 87th Birthday -- USA
Uyafaafuji's Refusal, Ode to the Yanbaru - Canada
Winner:
OF WATER – COMPOSER VALERIO BELLONI -
Daniel Kepl's stream of consciousness as he watches and listens to each film that put Original Score in their credits.
OF WATER --
THE SCORE IS CHARMING, DELICATE, AND APPROPRIATE TO THE POEMS, THE SETTINGS, THE DANCES – THE SCORE IS SEQUENCES OF DELICATE TIMBRES, AS ARE THE VISUALS – LOVELY CHOICE OF TIMBRAL INSTRUMENTS TO MATCH THE VISUALS – I LIKE THE PRESENCE OF BIRD SONG THROUGHOUT – TOY PIANO, AMONG OTHER DELICATE, TINKLY SOUNDS? – IT’S AN ENCHANTING FILM, SOMEHOW QUITE EVOCATIVE, TOGETHER WITH IT’S SCORE – NOW SOME DISCREET ELECTRONIC STATEMENTS, NOW PIANO ARRIVES, WITH THE RUNNING CREEK – VERY NICE, VERY TASTEFUL – AERIAL DANCE – NOW WATER SOUNDS UNDER THE POINTILLIST SCORE – NICE USE OF ELECTRONIC AND ACOUSTIC SOUNDS AND INSTRUMENTS – THE GIRL’S POETRY IS BRILLIANT – NICE, AGAIN POINTILLIST PIANO WRITING – LOVELY –
Judge Daniel Kepl only gives out one award for Best Original Score. However, this season he mentioned a few others with some nice notes -- like this one.
MA’S CANH CHUA RECIPE – April - December 1975.
MUSIC BY ZIZI - NO SOUNDS IN THE BEGINNING, THEN PIANO AS THE NEXT IDEA IS READ – I LIKE THE PIANO WRITING AND THE SUSTAINED TONES AROUND IT IN STRINGS – IT’S VERY SHORT, BUT THE SOUND SCORE IS USED QUITE EFFECTIVELY –
Dan Kepl mentioned he enjoyed listening and watching each film submitted for Original Score.
Thomas Antonic, Director -- Visiting Professor from Austria, at Sanford University, California.
EVE
02:21
Meghann Plunkett, Director,Writer
Miranda Javid, Animator
An animated poem:
Eve the first Dissatisfied Woman
USA
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Flutter and Spin
02:18
Kelsey Bryan-Zwick
Gerard Wozek, Writer
An animated poem:
Butterflies at work.
USA
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Gravitational Lensing: poetic observation of a distant universe.
03:05
Alicia Sometimes, Director, Writer
Sar Ruddenklau, Animation
What happens to light when passes near a black hole? A cluster of galaxies? Any giant mass? The gravitational pull from these objects can distort or bend the light as it travels towards an observer. This effect is called gravitational lensing. Light follows the curvature of spacetime.
Australia
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Hurricane
02:05
Ian Keteku, Jon Jon, Directors
Aaliyah Aden, Writer
Exploring how fear and anxiety has tormented her for years, a young woman travels through her hurricane and musters the strength to overcome it.
Canada
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Merry
01:26
Fiona Tinwei Lam, Lara Renee Renaud, Quinn Kelly, Directors
Fiona Tinwei Lam, Writer
A cozily sinister short animated film about holidays, consumerism, plastic pollution and the climate crisis based on a shaped/visual poem.
Canada
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The Big (Deep) Sleep
06:00
Johannes DeYoung, Director,
Writer, Animator
A poetic reflection on anomie and desire, experienced through the vernacular of pulp-noir. As nightfall unravels into surreal fever dream, the landscape pitches into unrest. Whose interests steer us through the dark night of the soul?
USA
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Barcode Scanner
04:38
David Shook, Director
Zêdan Xelef, Poet, Writer
Zêdan Xelef recounts the drudgery of everyday life in Chamishko, a camp in Northern Iraq that now hosts over 5,000 Êzîdî families who survived the Islamic State's ruthless genocide.
Iraq
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BINDI
04:52
Mayor Bhandari, Director, Writer
My connection to the Bindi is as an Indian American woman calling out Western society's rejection of minority cultural expression, yet acceptance of its fetishization in pop culture- appropriation under the name of appreciation.
USA
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Content Contentment, For Those Who Are Content*
03:21
Sally Mamdouh Rawhey,
Director, Writer
Zayne Ahmed,
Voice Over
*North American Premiere
A portrait the life of an Egyptian senile lady who lives a life of extreme poverty yet she is so content with her life that the most painful details of her existence she projects as a blessing.
Egypt
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Dad's Frenemy
06:38
Annie Wood, Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
A documentary short told through art and poetry about one daughter's experience with her father's sudden onset of dementia.
USA
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Ma's Canh Chua Recipe:
April - December 1975
03:50
Kevin Park, Director
Mylo Lam, Writer, Key Cast
Channbunmorl Sou
Producer
Canh chua, translated as sour soup, is from the Mekong Delta. It has derivations in many Southeast Asian countries.
USA
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Paul Panish: Poem on My Eighty-Seventh Birthday
08:22
Dan Goldes, Director,
Oakland poet Paul Panish ruminates on the nature of creativity, on his life, and on the somewhat surprising act of turning 87, which he has, naturally, turned into a poem.
USA
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This World
06:00
George Ferrandi, Director
During a visit to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, my 90 year-old mom attempts to repeat after me the lines of Mary Oliver’s “This World,” a poem about the impossibility of writing a poem focusing on something in the world that isn’t special—because as soon as we focus on anything in the natural world, its special-ness becomes evident. My mom’s endearing fumbles in front of starfish and sharks demonstrate—with charming humor and poignancy— another level of truth in the premise of the poem.
USA
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Tilt, The Happening of Poetry
16:20
Rita Féria, Director
Teresa Júdice da Costa,
Producer
Ana Freitas Reis,
André Tecedeiro,
Maria do Rosário Pedreira,
Nuno Júdice, Key Cast
Teresa Júdice da Costa, Idea.
How does poetry happen? How does the poetic word appear?
Starting with the idea of “tilt” - the inner agitation that is induced by photography, by thinker Roland Barthes - this short documentary adapts the concept to the poetic impulse, and seeks to understand how poets make poetry within the mundane/spiritual days of their everyday life, and provide answers to questions such as: what triggers words and the choice of specific words? What happens and how does each poet deal with their creative impulse? What is the role of poetry and the “tilt” effect on readers?
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Twilight in the Sculpture Forest
03:32
James Morehead, Director, Writer
Brad Brown,
Cinematographer, Editor
The Haliburton Sculpture Forest is a magical place tucked into Canadian Cottage Country. Artists from around the world have created extraordinary sculptures set along a hiking trail and canopied by trees. The installation is a perfect inspiration for poetry.
Canada
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My Name is Swan
15:43
Adam Carr, Director
Jan Noble, Writer, Key Cast
A wayfaring passage downriver following ‘Swan’ from vagabondage to a blissful dawn fix. A meditation on the marginalized, a glimpse of London’s narrow-ways and city tributaries where litter glitters like supernovae…
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Checking In
04:56
Francesca Patrón, Director
Lor-Shing Hsu, Writer
Hana Wu, Key Cast
Checking In, a lyrical poetry short that explores a young woman’s journey as she processes both the trauma and the beauty of what it means to be Asian-American.
USA
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Summer Sonata about my City
01:55
Marija Shaklevak Director
Sandra Gjorgieva, Consultant
Julijana Velichkovska, Producer
Ilija Zhogovski, Cinematographer
This is a movie based on the poem Summer sonata about my city by Andrej Al-Asadi,
Macedonia,
(former Republic of Yugoslavia)
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Lotus-fising at J.K Temple
02:00
Aashna Singh, Director
Gauri Awasthi, Writer
Producers
A woman revisits her memory of visiting a place of worship, with her grandfather by physically immersing herself in the space, only to find so much has changed yet remained the same.
India
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A Panfeminine Future,
09:38
Rachel Clarke, Director, Writer
One day in the future. A delegate joins the emergency convention of the global government to prevent to a pending crisis.
Germany.
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Uyafaafuji's Refusal:
An Ode to the Yanbaru
11:00
Shō Yamagushiku, Director
From the dense rainforest of memory, strange images and sounds present themselves. Our uyafaafuji (ancestors in Okinawan language) appear to intervene in our daily lives. They refuse to let us forget, refuse to let us compromise and refuse to let us live restrained by the laws of the nations that seek to claim us
Canada
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Živa
(The Death of the Goddess Živa)
09:53
Nataša Prosenc Sterns, Director, Writer, Key Cast
Carmela Segal, Key Cast
The Death of the Goddess is inspired by the Slovene national epic The Baptism on Savica (1836) by France Prešeren. Živa was a pagan goddess of love and prosperity. The meaning of her name is Life, Alive, Living. The poem about the violent Christianization of the Slovenes, depicts Živa as she is being replaced by Virgin Mary.
Slovenia
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Black Bird
08:00
Pamela Falkenberg,
Jack Cochran, Directors
Wallace Stevens, Poet, 1954,
uses the blackbird as a way to describe the relations between humankind, nature, and emotions.
USA
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Interlands
06:00
Alia Brandt, Director
A young woman looks into herself through memory, and poetry, in order to heal and achieve a new state of growth in the face of heartbreak stemming from love and, more generally, life.
USA
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A Dialogue with
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Simple Truth of Light
03:49
Patricia L. Meek, Director
It is the third poem in a five-poem series inspired by the 20th-century American master painter, Georgia O'Keeffe, and it explores metaphysical wisdom(s) for the 21st Century.
USA
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Advice for Live Bait
03:27
Patrick Moser, Director
A mixed and multi media animation
USA
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Aftershock
01:59
Marius Grose, Director
Aftershock is short poetry film that explores the sense of dislocation and isolation that comes from traumatic events of the covid pandemic, Brexit and the climate crisis.
UK
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Ascend
05:55
Grotti Pehuen,
Johner Iris, Directors
'Ascend' is the journey back home of an incarnated soul from its awakening to its ascent. It's about reclaiming individual sovereignty.
France
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I See You
04:44
Luke Jacobs, Director
This is the film version of Mark Attwood's poem dedicated to starseeds, lightworkers and spiritual warriors during the time of The Great Awakening
Ireland
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Laundry Isle
06:00
Alice Evans
The piece is a poetry film with a jazz influence. It muses on notions of new technologies and their influence on our present and future lives. It was made with the support of the greatly respected disabled led theatre company GRAEAE.
UK
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Night (Nuit)
02:58
Donna Hewitt, Director
John Montgomery, Videographer/Director
Stephanie Petitcolin, Poet
Night (Nuit) tells us of the sacred time of sleep, and dreams where the night goddess, Nyx liberates and renews our heart, soul and mind.The inspiration for this work is the French poetry of Stephanie Petitcolin that explores transformation, liminality and human connection.
Australia
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Subtleties of Shanghai
03:46
Angela Kong Director,Writer
A visual poem where I poetically reminisce about being forced to stay indoors during the 2022 Shanghai lockdown and how I find ways to cope.
Footage filmed in my apartment and around my compound in Shanghai,
USA
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Flooded Valley
01:58
Iván Salinas, Director
Madi Parsley,
Videographer
A journey through an LA neighborhood.
USA
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Of Water
13:08
Bryan Hewitt and Vita Mei Hewitt Directors
This is a conceptual dance film and love letter to the beauty of water. It was created on location in and around the Smith River, California's only remaining free-flowing river from source to sea
USA
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Lost Souls
03:46
Dennis Phillip Earlie, Director,
Kevin McManus, poet
The inspiration for the poem came from recollections from poet Kevin McManus recalling his father. He immigrated to England in the late 1950s and worked in construction. He often spoke about how some of the young Irish men he worked with gradually spent more and more time in the pubs probably because they were lonely and homesick, and the drink eased the pain somewhat.
Ireland
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Tenderness
01:55
Adam William Wilson, Director,
The is film is a visual treatment of the Poem "Tenderness" By American poet Joshua Edward Smith. The visuals are inspired by conversations with Joshua about his state of mind when writing the poem "Tenderness". Joshua described life from his perspective as, "a race against time with himself".
USA
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The Bellybutton of My Universe
07:17
William Ramirez, Director
Bhis is a short film based off of the poem "The Bellybutton of My Universe," also by the artist, which was initially published in the student-run publication 'Palabritas' at Harvard University.
USA
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The Last Drama
06:37
Jon Clark, Director
An absurdist meditation on life, death, art, and the end of the world.
USA
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The Spring Has Many Silences
01:09
Maile Lynn, Director
An adaptation of The Spring Has Many Silences (1925), a poem written by Laura Riding Jackson
USA
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The Voice in Isabel Fleiss's Office
06:24
Jim Haverkamp, Director
A woman with an unusual malady--cobweb buildup in the throat--receives an even more unusual treatment in this adaptation of a surreal poem by North Carolina writer Virgil Renfroe.
USA
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The Work of Bone
01:39
Holly Willis, Director
The Work of Bone is a black-and-white experimental video poem combining images, voice-over, and text. The goal, of which is to design encounters with media that spark an embodied sense of curiosity and wonder, alongside critical reflection about our lived relationship with the matter around us.
USA
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We are All Lost Girls
05:38
Steve Downey, Director
This film by Steve Downey features the poem "We are the Lost Girls", written and performed by Christina Jane ["C. J "]. Both Steve and Christina are on the Autism Spectrum, but were not diagnosed until they were adults. This late diagnosis helped to explain the challenges they had both experienced when children, growing up and later as adults
UK
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White Walled World
03:04
Zarah Cabañas, Director
An anthem for ancient souls.
USA
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Interlands
Original Score
Oliver Jek
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* Of Water
Original Score
Valerio Belloni
Winner of Original Score
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EVE
Original Score
Shayfer James
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Lotus-fishing at J.K. Temple
Original Score
Harvey Samson Harrison
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Uyafaafuji's Refusal: An
Ode to the Yanbaru
Original Score
Joseph Yoshimasu Kamiya
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Ma's Canh Chua Recipe
Original Score
Zizi
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BINDI
Original Score
Aks and Lakshmi
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Summer Sonata About My City
Original Score
Jovan Jovanovski
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Night (Nuit)
Original Score
Donna Hewitt
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White Walled World
Original Score
Zarah Cabañas,
Matt Werden
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