Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: A REFLECTION OF LIFE
Best Short Form Short Film: NIVEH T’AH’IN
Best Long Form Short Film: ALL SACRED THINGS
Best Direction: GENERATING CHAOS
Best Nature Film: LOGGING ALGONQUIN
Best Story: ROSENWALD: TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION
Best Environmental Film: ENCOUNTERS BY THE WATER
Best Society Film: DANCE OF THE DAKINIS
Best Sound & Music: LOUD ENOUGH
Best Animation DOC: STOKER MACHINE
Best Experimental DOC: BEIRUT PORT BLAST STORIES
Best Sports Documentary: ADAPTATION
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
LOUD ENOUGH, 62min., USA
Directed by Hilary Klotz Steinman
In the shadow of the fifth year anniversary of the #MeToo movement, this intimate, personal film following a sexual assault survivor and her family explores and reflects the Herculean effort still required in America for a survivor of sexual violence and their loved ones to hold an attacker and the judicial system accountable. Loud Enough is empowering and inspiring to people everywhere, not just sexual assault survivors, to understand concretely how criminal justice systems can and must change for there to be accountability and justice.
https://www.loudenoughfilm.com/
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DANCE OF THE DAKINIS, 28min,. USA
Directed by Lindsay Gilmour
The film focuses on the empowerment of female monastics and the innovation of gender roles in Vajrayana Buddhism. The film has two frameworks: an outer framework that focuses on rising status of Tibetan nuns in previously male dominated religious structures, and an inner framework that focuses on the inner state of the dancer. The film delves into how ancient rituals adapt in shifting political and cultural landscapes and how the roles of women evolve and develop in this framework.
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STOKER MACHINE, 12min., USA
Directed by Darieus Legg
Stoker Machine is a must-see animated surf documentary. Chad Campbell, an expert surfer discovers a mysterious surfboard on the big island of Hawaii. The retro board provides only a phone number and an email address as clues to its origin, leading Chad to accidentally uncover a central-coast California surf legend. The man they call, “Stoker”.
http://darieuslegg.com/https://www.instagram.com/darieuslegg
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GENERATING CHAOS, 11min., USA
Directed by Carlos Felipe Garcia
Generative art explores the relationship between order and chaos, as well as the concept of infinite variations within constraints. By embracing the inherent unpredictability of computational processes, generative art pushes the boundaries of traditional art forms and challenges the traditional notion of the artist as the sole creator of a work of art. Two established pioneers of the NFT and digital art space, along with two rising artists, guide us on a journey through the origins of the movement and their passion for generative art.
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ROSENWALD: TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION, 10min., USA
Directed by Charles Poe
The extraordinary story of a forgotten philanthropist, a Jewish son of immigrants from Chicago who became a champion for black education in the Jim Crow South.
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BEIRUT PORT BLAST STORIES, 30min., Lebanon
Directed by Chérine Yazbeck
This is the story of four people who lost a family member in the Beirut port explosion on August 4, 2020.
A fifth person who worked nearly half a century explains the rise and fall of a port that was in the heydays the flagship of the Lebanese economy.
The documentary gives voice to the families of victims who bring their brother or sister back to life for a few moments.
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A REFLECTION OF LIFE, 90min., USA
Directed by Jesse Locke
“A Reflection of Life” explores water issues in the Pacific Northwest, while noting the broader issues facing the entire West, with an emphasis on amplifying Indigenous voices. Filmmaker Jesse Locke interviewed members of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Chugach Alaska Native Corporation and Valdez Native Tribes, The Klamath Tribes, The Nez Perce Tribe, The Hopi Tribe, and Standing Rock Tribe to gather the Indigenous stories and wisdom featured in the film.
https://theworldmuse.org/muse-films/
https://www.facebook.com/worldmuseonline
https://www.instagram.com/theworldmuse/
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ADAPTATION, 102min., Canada
Directed by Jake Thomas
Adaptation follows a group of wheelchair bound athletes as they converge in British Columbia, Canada for the BC Summer Race Series. The World’s first downhill mountain bike race series to include an adaptive mountain bike (aMTB) category. However Adaptation is not just a film about a race, it’s a group of stories about the human race and ones ability to overcome adversity. Whether for the thrill of competition, or a need to push through the pain of daily life to simply get lost in a moment. The film seeks to inspire the uninspired, and educate the uneducated. To celebrate the gift of life, love, and friendship through all its complexities.
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ALL SACRED THINGS, 24min,. Canada
Directed by Derek Sands
A group of indigenous college students go on a journey to reconnect to their culture, which leads them to experience the once almost extinct Ojibway Spirit Horses.
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ENCOUNTERS BY THE WATER, 20min., Brazil
Directed by Joao Manoel Machado
Indigenous communities, artisans, fishermen and people of various walks of life come together in this documentary which traces the course of a river from its source in the forrest all the way down to the sea.
https://www.instagram.com/joaomachadoarte
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NIVEH T’AH’IN, 7min., USA
Directed by Kenny Gamblin
Sam Alexander grew up half Gwich’in, half white, in remote, Fort Yukon, AK, above the Arctic Circle. As a child he was inspired by half-native movie characters to join the US Army Special Forces. Sam went on to serve for ten years as a US Army Green Beret.
https://www.mysteryranch.com/mystery-ranch-films
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LOGGING ALGONQUIN, 28min., Canada
Directed by Conor DeVries
Logging Algonquin is a 28 minute documentary film that looks at the historical and on-going logging happening in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Through conversations with indigenous locals, scientists, foresters, and political experts, the film asks the question:
http://www.loggingalgonquinfilm.com/
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Documentary Film Festival. Los Angeles & Toronto 