A LOVE LETTER TO FILM was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 UNDER 5 MINUTE Film Festival. You can watch the film & festival now for FREE HERE.
NO TRICKS was the winner of BEST FILM at the October 2021 WILDsound Film Festival. Doug also had another film, MOTORBIKE THIEF, play at the festival in 2020.
MAR I ANA was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. You can watch the film and festival for FREE today HERE.
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“Mar and Ana, best friends since childhood, look for the perfect place where Ana will get married; not before reviving their love and repressed desire for years.”
Conversation with filmmaker Mar Novo on the making of the award winning “MAR I ANA” film. Plus, she talks about currently directing her film feature film , “SISTERS”, starring Valeria Maldonado, Marta Cross, & Virginia Novello
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FOR ALL THE KINGS is a short animation film that played at the November 2021 LGBTQ+ Short Film Festival. You can watch the film and festival for FREE today HERE.
“Follow a potato’s journey to self-fulfillment.”
Conversation with Rosabel Su on the making of the film.
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ORSON REHEARSED is the winner of BEST MUSICAL at the 2021 Experimental/Dance/Music Festival. You can watch the film and festival for FREE today HERE.
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“Orson Welles’ heart has just stopped. We enter his mind in this moment, on the threshold between life and death. In the bardo Orson’s thoughts unspool as a stream of consciousness that loops back on itself, like a mobius strip. Three avatars onstage in the theater of his mind are paired with three films within the film as he shuffles through his memories, loves, regrets, like a magician preparing for one last magic trick. Is he ready for what comes next?”
Conversation with Daron Hagen on the making of his first film.
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GOGEOUS was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the November 2021 BLACK Feedback Film Festival. You can watch the film and festival for FREE today HERE.
FORWARD Episode 1 “Too Late” is a TV web series that was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November Black Filmmakers Film Festival. You can watch the film and festival for FREE today HERE.
“Forward explores the emotional/psychological effects of a lawyer who feels like he’s running out of time in life and can’t seem to shake his illicit affairs.”
Conversation with filmmaker Christopher Booth on the making of the film.
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TIMELESS DRIFT was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the November 2021 Documentary Short Film Festival. You can watch the film and festival for FREE today HERE.
“Short poetic documentary showcasing the Coppermine River in the Canadian Arctic through the long journey of a driftwood log witnessing some of the life and history tied to the river all the way to the Arctic Ocean.”
Conversation with filmmaker Mathieu Dumond on the making of the film.
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BEAUTIFUL VIOLENCE was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November 2021 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival. You can watch the film and festival for FREE today HERE.
Conversation with filmmaker Joey Medina on the making of the film. We also explore the “grey areas” of society today and how he puts these elements into his films.
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STOCKHOLM was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Interview with Writer/Director Tom Wright & Darius Shu Cinematographer/Producer on the making of the film.
Produced by Silverprince Pictures
https://www.silverprincepictures.com/stockholm
“A young gay man embarks on an unusual first date in a conquest to take control of his past.”
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TWO WOMEN was a short screenplay winner that was made into a Screenplay Movie by the WILDsound Festival.
Interview with screenwriter Ken White on the writing of the script and why he wrote it. Followed by the audio screenplay reading of TWO WOMEN.
“Maria and her daughter Stephanie have a heart to heart conversation.”
CAST LIST:
Narration: Sean Ballantyne
Stephanie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Maria: Kyana Teresa
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JUPITER & EUROPA was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the November 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. You can watch the film & festival today for FREE all day HERE.
“Owen has dreamed of being an astronaut his whole life, but living on Jupiter’s moon Europa isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. One day, on a boring satellite maintenance mission, he breaks free from routine with someone who makes outer space feel just a little warmer.”
Conversation with animator Milo Ferguson on the making of the film.
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ORBITAL CHRISTMAS was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the November 2021 WILDsound Film Festival. You can watch the film & festival today for FREE all day HERE.
“In near future, ALI, a Muslim space pilot, is working alone on a space station during the Christmas season, because all other crew is back to the Earth for holidays. One day, TAKAKO, a Japanese girl lives in the city on the Moon, stows away in an unmanned cargo ship and gets on board the space station.”
Conversation with filmmaker Mitsuyasu Sakai on the making of this amazing film.
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ELIZABETH BLAU played at the November 2021 DOCUMENTARY Short Film Festival. You can watch the film & festival today for FREE all day HERE.
“The story behind Las Vegas hospitality entrepreneur Elizabeth Blau.”
EXIT was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 DANCE Film Festival. You can watch the film & festival TODAY for FREE all day HERE.
“The Film is about the moment before and after a “tipping point”. Rotating, spinning around, being stuck, being airborne, wearing out – getting out and exploring the leeway. which is quite elusive…”
Conversation with dancer/director Simone Kieltyka on the making of the film.
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OPEN ALL NIGHT was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival. You can watch the film & festival this Friday for FREE all day HERE.
“In a city renowned for its nocturnal energy, there are many who work at all hours of the night. In interviews with veteran Broadway star LaChanze (Tony Award winner for The Color Purple), the night supervisor at the Office of Emergency Management, a night manager at the printing plant of The New York Times, and more, Open All Night offers a glimpse of what it’s like to work the “other shift.””
Conversation with directors Jim Bradley and Ben Wolf on the making of the film.
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WEST WINDS was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the November 2021 FANTASY/SCI-FI Film Festival. You can watch the festival for FREE HERE: https://fantasyscififestival.com/next-festival/
“West Winds follows our anonymous Jane Doe as they arrive at a beach where the steady flow of the west winds keeps the air clean from an ice-nine like toxic air. Before she can decide whether or not to stay, the tide comes in and takes her gas mask, forcing her to stay in this cove indefinitely. As the days go on, washed up supplies start to diminish and isolation becomes emotionally draining as she realizes her options of survival are limited.”
Conversation with filmmaker Matthew Thomas Ross on the making of the film from script to distribution.
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INVASION was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 FANTASY/SCI-FI Film Festival.
THE SPLIT was the CRIME/MYSTERY 2021 Winning Screenplay.
Conversation with writer Nicola Green on the process writing this screenplay. Followed by the best scene reading (audio version) of the script.
“Based on true events, this is the story of three lives intertwined; a 1960's London sporting hero turned gold thief, a sick child and a grieving daughter, determined to uncover her family's secrets, finding far more than she ever could have bargained for.”
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CAST LIST:
Narration: Steve Rizzo
Paula: Hannah Ehman
Frank: Geoff Mays
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YOU CAN KISS ME was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the November 2021 FEMALE FEEDBACK Film Festival.
“Penelope’s search for the kind of love that’s missing in her life leads her to a motel room with another woman – only to be confronted by the realities of her marriage.”
Conversation with writer/director Jan Jalenak on the making of her first film.
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