THE FIVE STAGES, 12min., USA
Directed by Jessica Orcsik
Eva Allen is a recently single, devastated young woman. She enters a black box theatre being filled with well-dressed and put together people, laughing and drinking. A variety act performance is about to begin.

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Get to know producer/actor Hannah Carman:

At the time of making the film, I was studying full time as a student at the American Arts Film and Television Academy in their full-time Actors Conservatory, and had moved at the age of 18 to Los Angeles all the way from Australia. It was an incredible experience, but also a big emotional rollercoaster. Amid going through all these new emotional challenges, I felt motivated to make a film that explored the complexities of more challenging feelings like loss and sorrow. My coproducer Jess Orcsik and I felt that there was no better way to do that than structuring a short film using the five stages of grief.

I also was really set on making a film that incorporated musicality, as I’m a singer and was surrounded by some amazing singers and dancers that loved musicals like I do.

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ON DEAF EARS, 13min., US
Directed by Ty Hunt
A mother’s worst fear comes true when her special needs daughter’s actions are misunderstood during a routine traffic stop.

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Get to know Portia A. Cosby:
I have a daughter with special needs, and the scenario in the film has always been a concern. What happens if her processing time and level of understanding lags in an intense or critical situation? I decided to finally write about it in 2020 after the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor killings occurred.

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MY ROOMMATE, DEATH, 7min,. Canada, Comedy
Directed by Becca Isaias
Over 200 years after making a bet for Margaret’s soul, Death is still losing every game to her, which has resulted in them getting demoted from collecting human souls- they want their old position back, but they have also developed a soft spot for Margaret.

Get to know producer Emma M. Cooke:

We wanted to make a fun, silly film that had at its heart a story about friendship. We were motivated because we wanted to have fun, and we wanted everyone to laugh and be able to take a break from the real world with a little bit of fun. We thought mockumentaries are a currently popular genre of comedy and we wanted to put a little bit of a different spin on it- taking a character, or figure, so widely known and recognized as Death, and turn it on its head. By making it a comedy centered on a quirky friendship rather than a horror focused on Death reaping souls, we thought it would provide a little extra punch to the finished product.

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NATAL, 20min., Brazil
Directed by Isabella Secchin
Natal, in his early fifties belongs to a generation that broke social barriers, worshiped cerebral movies, drugs and rock’n roll. However, he does not accept it well when Milene, his only daughter, takes her boyfriend to sleep at home with her. In the middle of the night, unable to put a stop to the sex in the next-door bedroom, he locks himself in his car parked in his building garage. That’s when Silvana, his wife, comes after him. In the quietness of the late night, only witnessed by the parked cars and the garage surveillance cams, Natal tries to unburden his difficulty to accept costumes for which he fought so much. He ends up telling his wife secrets about his past, he has an epiphany: he was never young. Now, being in his early fifties, he doesn’t need to like what everyone else liked, do what everyone else did, be as everyone else was. He is old, he has always been. However, Silvana’s memory says the opposite and he sees himself back to his past and younger than ever.

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Get to know Theresa Falcão
Firstly I was motivated by the idea of making a film as a producer and Actress. I chose this “tale”, Natal, written in 2004, because I found it had a viable structure for me as an independent producer without any kind of sponsorship: a small cast and almost no set design requirements.

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ARMED WITH A DILDO, 5min, USA
Directed by Karuna Tanahashi
When Dani’s boyfriend Leslie breaks up with her, a mass shooter starts attacking the motel they were going to have a romantic night at and suddenly the break up becomes the least of her problems.

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Get to know Thea Touchton

We made this film for the Collaborative Film Festival where we had two weeks to come up with the film based on a quote that was revealed at the festival launch. Winnie pitched this idea to me at the launch after just meeting and it stuck and even though I knew it was going to be challenge, I couldn’t think of anything else and knew we would figure it out and grow as filmmakers in the process.

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AGENTS OF CHANGE, Project: Polymer, 15min., USA, Action
Directed by Jett Garrison
“AGENTS OF CHANGE, Project: Polymer” is a spy-genre film that centers a fully a queer and transgender cast while bringing issues facing the environment to the forefront. Rookie secret agent Guy Longani is on a take-along mission to expose the ringleader of an illegal plastic dumping scheme, but when the operation goes awry, he must earn the trust of his more experienced partner if they’re going to bring an evil mastermind to justice.

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Conversation with screenplay writer, producer, and star Shaan Dasani.

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HEY ALEXA, 10min., USA, Fantasy
Written by Produced by Xochi Blymyer
Alexa is helpful, she’s funny, she’s kind, she’s a friend, who is she? A day in her life…with us.

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Get to know the writer/producer:

I had always been curious when Alexa and all the other AI helpers were created – what would she look like and how does she actually get all this information. From the first time we all discovered she would tell you where to bury the dead body (that changed later!) to telling us good night like a friend.

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THE ADVENTURES DIARY, 15min.,

An elderly woman full of adventure takes one final journey.

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Conversation with creator Jean Maye, on the making of this very personal film.

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THE THIRD, 4min., USA, Comedy
Directed by Jonathan Kehoe
Making friends is hard.

From Danny Abrahms:

I wanted to make something fun with my actor friends that we could all add to our reels. I wrote it in January, we filmed it in May, and had a final cut by September. There was plenty of downtime in between, but from start to finish was about eight months. We ran into some technical issues in post that were very annoying and slowed the process down. We probably would’ve finished it a month or two sooner otherwise.

Interview conducted by Matthew Toffolo

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MONOLOG 2, 10min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Nils Roling
Christoph Schoefegger has been skiing longer than he can remember, it’s his biggest love and his whole life circles around it. But what happens if somehow you loose the foundation of this passion? What happens when you don’t go skiing for yourself anymore but because of competitions?

From Christoph Schoefegger:

The whole film was more a journey than really planed to go out and make a movie. Basically the last push to make this movie was the Coronavirus and that we suddenly had even more time to ski and film because of Lockdowns and so we just went out and had fun. But in my mind I also had that I don’t want to make just another ski movie, I really wanted to inspire people and share my passion with them, and also that it’s not always about competition or against each other it’s just about being out with friends and having fun.

Interview conducted by Matthew Toffolo

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CLOSURE, 9min., USA, Action
Directed Gui Agustini
A detective. A mercenary. Of course it didn’t work out but when a relationship ends messy, can you ever really have Closure?

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From Kaitlyn Farley:

This project began as part of a stage combat summer intensive with the goal being to create new opportunities, help actor-combatants put to use their trained skills and create a space for the crew to play and gain experience in the world of action. Personally, I began producing to create strong female leads and opportunities to play complex characters in the action world.

Interview conducted by Matthew Toffolo

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LENNON was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the April 2022 LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

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“Lennon” is a film about an individual experiencing homelessness who craves to be seen and heard, but all it takes is a stranger offering a cup of coffee to ignite some compassion. The best part is... that compassion can be contagious.

Conversation with creator Giovanna Ferraro on the making of the film.

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“Roe v. Wade: A Legal History” was the winner of Best Documentary Short at the 2022 Female Film Festival.

“As one of the most consequential decisions in the history of the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade articulated the right to abortion as a fundamental right. But where did this landmark case originate? In this documentary short, six law professors discuss how and why Roe v. Wade made it to the Supreme Court.”

Conversation with producer Samantha Schroeder on the process making the film and her way of getting the best out of her interview subjects.

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THE OUT-FIT was the winner of Best Direction at the January 2022 Film Festival.

Film also playing at the WILDsound TV app next month. You can watch for free and sign up at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform.

“When coming out of the thrift store isn't all you do. A new coming-of-age queer film follows Emily, a costume-wearing 25-year-old, on her journey through change, love, and discovering one's self.”

Conversation with creator Jessica Rookeward on the making of the film.

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“Viscera: Autopsy of a (non)human body” was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the December 2021 DANCE Film Festival.

Conversation with Producer/Choreographer Celina Liesegang & Director/DP/Editor Arturo Bandinelli on the making of this amazing short artistic piece.

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ON THE ROCKS was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the December 2021.

Conversation with the writer / producer / co-star Stefani Zabner on the making of the film from concept to distribution. And it all started in an acting class.

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"TETHERED" is an award winning short documentary about digital addiction and our need to always be on our smart phone. https://consciouscontent.org/films/tethered/

Digital addiction is a hidden illness among us, and it has our society in a vice grip.

Conversation with the producers of the film and the making of "TETHERED". Go to their website to learn all about their films and mission: https://consciouscontent.org/

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THE BURKES is the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the September 2021 Female Film Festival. You can watch the festival and film at the Female Film Festival for FREE at home for 24 hours starting at midnight EST on Sept. 3rd right HERE.

Conversation with the filmmaking team of THE BURKES on the process and reasons for making this terrific short film.

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Narrated by Richard Gere, CLIMATE EMERGENCY: FEEDBACK LOOPS is a series of five short films, featuring twelve leading climate scientists, that explores how human-caused emissions are triggering nature’s own warming loops. Part 1 is playing at the Documentary Short Film Festival today for FREE HERE.

Conversation with director Susan Gray and Outreach Producer Melanie Wallace on the process making this series and what the plans are for showing it to the world.

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THE VIRTUAL CONNECTION was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the June 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

“A MAN, of a certain age, newly single after a long relationship, finds himself navigating dating and romance through the mediator of the smart phone.”

Interview actor turned screenwriter turned producer Tim Christian on the making of the film. From writing a role for himself to producing the film. An inspiring story.

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