Category: documentary film festival

Director Biography – Rendah Haj (HAYAT)

Rendah Haj is an African-Australian filmmaker and director based in Melbourne. She has extensive history working in radio broadcast and curating social impact and youth mindful projects nationally. As a recent RMIT film graduate, her work now specifically focuses on documentaries that intimately and ethically explore social issues and human rights, with an emphasis on… Continue reading Director Biography – Rendah Haj (HAYAT)

Short Film: HAYAT, 14min., Australia, Documentary

Rahma, a single mother of four, encourages her children to maintain a strong sense of family, faith and cultural identity. This inevitbly is contrasted with the difficulties and disconnect she faces as a migrant and Muslim living in Melbourne. Project Links  Facebook  Instagram

Director Biography – PORUS KHAREGHAT (NOOR – QUEEN OF RANTHAMBORE)

WORKS AS HEAD OF FILM PRODUCTION IN OGILVY & MATHER ADVERTISING , MUMBAI . VERY PASSIONATE WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER & FILM MAKER . Director Statement ” UNTIL ONE HAS LOVED AN ANIMAL A PART OF ONES SOUL REMAINS UNAWAKENED ” Anatole France . I live by this quote and like to share the same thought through… Continue reading Director Biography – PORUS KHAREGHAT (NOOR – QUEEN OF RANTHAMBORE)

Short Film: NOOR – QUEEN OF RANTHAMBORE, 7min., Mumbia, Documentary

NOOR is a short film on the life of a mother Tigress with three female cubs . It is a tribute to her skills of motherhood , loving & caring at the same time a perfect assasin to provide food for four. It shows the true nature of the jungle , survival of the fittest.… Continue reading Short Film: NOOR – QUEEN OF RANTHAMBORE, 7min., Mumbia, Documentary

Breach Of Trust Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

BREACH OF TRUST, 24min., USA, Documentary Directed by Mishal Mahmud Breach of Trust explores the University of Southern California’s institutional cover up involving the sexual misconduct of former full-time gynecologist George Tyndall. The story is anchored by the survivors, who after being wronged by the university continue their fight for institutional change. Joining them are… Continue reading Breach Of Trust Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

Synnopsis Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

SYNNOPSIS, 11min., Canada, Documentary Directed by Mike Johnston Aidan “Synn” Pringle is a second generation professional wrestler, who trained to be the best. But when he was sabotaged in his WWE tryout match, he quit the business. This isn’t a story of failure. This is the story of losing in the ring, but winning in… Continue reading Synnopsis Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

Ashes To Ashes Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

ASHES TO ASHES, 25min., USA, Documentary Directed by Taylor Rees Winfred Rembert, the only living survivor of a lynching, a Star Wars fanatic and leather artist, develops a friendship with Doctor Shirley Jackson Whitaker who is on a mission to memorialize the forgotten 4,000 African Americans lynched during the Jim Crow era. Together, their journeys… Continue reading Ashes To Ashes Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

First In Man Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

FIRST IN MAN, 12min., USA, Documentary Directed by Ryan Durant Bill Richardson is a pioneer. Following multiple surgeries for aggressive brain tumors and infections, he is a unique host for an increasingly familiar enemy. He’s not one to invite trouble. But after each tumor is cut away, another bares its deadly teeth. So what if… Continue reading First In Man Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

#BuildingBridges Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

#BUILDINGBRIDGES, 20min, Germany, Documentary Directed by Johannes Olszewski The Making of #buildingbridges is a documentary detailing the production of the film #buildingbridges from its conception in Germany to the final shoot in America. We follow members of the creative agency One Inch Dreams through the process of devising and filming the stunt featured in the… Continue reading #BuildingBridges Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

Park Avenue Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from June 2020 DOC Festival

PARK AVENUE, 3min., USA, Documentary Directed by Jordan Brown John Thompson served 37 years in prison after killing a man who broke into his home. He now works at The Center for Returning Citizens, a prison reentry center in Philadelphia and helps others who get out of prison, stay out of prison.