Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: SURVIVING TO THRIVING
Best Short Film: SPACE FOR ART
Best Direction: CHANGE MAKERS: The Global Race to Save Our Seas
Best Story: GHOSTS MOVING FLOWERS AND PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP
Best Environmental Film: RORQUAL
Best Historical DOC: STORIES OF REPEAL & REUNION
Best Human Interest Film: THE FISHERMAN, THE ALIEN, THE SEA
Best Editing: THE KATZ TAPES
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STORIES OF REPEAL & REUNION, 16min., Canada
Directed by Ky Kim
Canada’s 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act was a dark and unprecedented period in Canadian history. It is also a mostly forgotten period of Canadian history that lasted for almost a quarter century and had a devastating impact on one community: the Chinese. Even after the law was repealed in 1947, the trauma continued for years. Told through eye-witness testimony, this documentary explores the repercussions on families who were separated and forced to spend most of their lives an ocean apart. To this day, the pain and suffering of this period is reflected in the stories of its survivors. This is a lesser known part of Canadian history.
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SPACE FOR ART, 15min., USA
Directed by Maclovia G Martel
Space for Art is an extraordinary documentary film on the power of hope, courage, and healing. Featuring astronatut, and artist, Nicole Stott the film follows her on perhaps her most important mission of uniting a planetary community of children through the awe and wonder of space exploration and the healing power of art. Meet some of the young children who are wise beyond their years.
https://www.spaceforartfoundation.org/space-for-art-film
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CHANGE MAKERS: The Global Race to Save Our Seas, 14min., USA
Directed by Simone Kisiel
Advancements in the fishing industry have led to devastating consequences, not just for sea life being hunted to extinction, but for communities around the world who depend on the ocean’s bounty to survive.
https://changemakersfilm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MagicDogProductions
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RORQUAL, 43min., France
Directed by Hugo Hebbe
Have you ever wondered what creatures might be hiding in the Mediterranean?
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THE FISHERMAN, THE ALIEN, THE SEA, 9min,. Italy
Directed by Elisabetta Zavoli
In June 2023, the population of blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) boomed unexpectedly in the Goro lagoon, Delta of Po River, Italy. Here, amidst the alarmed but inactive shouting of the entire community, a young fourth-generation fisherman, Alessio Tagliati, leader of a small cooperative of clams farmers that has lost all their production to the blue crabs’ voracity, faces this new environmental challenge by reviving a traditional sustainable fishing technique his grandfather taught him and by following what the sea taught him: being ready to adapt to an environment that continuously change, thus showing a tremendous spirit of resilience in the face of the collapsing of his world.
http://www.elisabettazavoli.com/
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https://twitter.com/elizavola
https://www.instagram.com/elizavola/
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GHOSTS MOVING FLOWERS AND PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP, 60min., UK
Directed by Karl Fallon
This Ghostcircle film by Director Karl Fallon, is a thought provoking documentary about Physical Phenomena never captured before on film. The documentary is captures moments in time about modern day Physical Mediumship with Physical medium Patrick McNamara in which he explains that by providing the necessary conditions with people in a “Psychic Circle”, it will allow spirit entities the opportunity to move flowers in people’s hands. These Psychic or Physical Circles were demonstrated repeatedly and held in independent and reputedly haunted locations around the UK and Ireland. The film explores and captures the phenomena as he discusses the process around the demonstrations. All attendees were unknown to the medium and his team before turning up to see what they would get. The individual independent Psychic Circle sitters actually see and feel amazing phenomenon, and then give witness statements about that they experienced. See the strange and flower moving by the spirit entities with the sitters.
https://www.instagram.com/karl_fallon
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THE KATZ TAPES, 25min, USA
Directed by Adam Fischer
From 1980-2005, Larry Katz, a reporter for the Boston Herald, interviewed music’s biggest stars and recorded their conversations onto cassette tapes.
https://filmfreeway.com/jimmyfische@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/JIMMYFISCHE
https://www.instagram.com/jimmyfische/
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SURVIVING TO THRIVING, 106min., Australia
Directed by Karin Isabelle Ochsner
As a fearless explorer with a disability, surfer and surf coach Karin Ochsner immerses herself in the raw beauty of nature. Her remarkable healing journey unfolds in the face of adversity.
http://www.surfingtosurvive.com/film2https://www.instagram.com/surfingtosurvive
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Documentary Film Festival. Los Angeles & Toronto 