Author: documentaryfestival

A hunt for a missing “Stranger Danger” video that disturbed select groups of Ontario students while digging deeper into how to educate children on these subjects. Project Links  Website

Alex Hai studied cinematography in Hamburg at the university for visual communications in 1992 , he is an author of German poems selected in the National Library of Congress in Washington in 2020/21. For 24 years , until 2020 he was working in Venice as a private gondolier .Mahtab Mansour is a Iranian filmmaker living… Continue reading Director BIO: Alex Hai , Mahtab Mansour (VENI ETIAM)

Veni Etiam is a moving and poetic transgender documentary film. It tells the story of a gondola and its gondolier navigating through the canals of Venice . The gondoliers journey is a metaphorical passage . Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram

Director Statement ‘Crescendo’ explores Gretchen Lee’s travel as a musician and how, despite hearing loss in the right ear, she is able to write, play, and share music with her community. Gretchen explains how she came to the U.S. at the age of ten after losing her father who had been murdered by a stranger… Continue reading Director BIO: Ryan Park (CRESCENDO)

Having to immigrate to the U.S. from South Korea with a widowed mother and two siblings as a teenager, a songwriter Gretchen Lee has a struggling childhood trying to pursue her dream – music. While doing her internship at a music post production house, she finds that she has hearing problems. After going through many… Continue reading DOC Short: CRESCENDO, 17min., South Korea

Jim Bradley, DirectorJim Bradley has directed commercials and corporate video projects in various countries around the globe. He has worked in all areas of film from development, to production and post production. One of his proudest moments was working with legendary filmmaker Albert Maysles on one of his last (and never completed) projects. He has… Continue reading Director BIO: Jim Bradley, Ben Wolf (OPEN ALL NIGHT)

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… Continue reading DOC Short: OPEN ALL NIGHT, 20min., USA

The story behind Las Vegas hospitality entrepreneur Elizabeth Blau.

Daniel Parris is a documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco, California. He enjoys telling stories of people in transition. His favorite documentary films include Spellbound, Icarus, and Minding the Gap.

A short documentary following San Francisco’s longest-running movie theater, The Roxie, as it reopens after 434 days closed. Project Links  Website