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PERSON OF THE FOREST Short Film – Audience FEEDBACK Video from March 2019 DOC Festival

PERSON OF THE FOREST, 17min., Indonesia, Documentary Directed by Melissa Lesh, Tim Laman In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, research is underway to uncover and understand the unique cultural behaviors in wild orangutans. There, photographer Tim Laman, researcher Cheryl Knott, and young explorer Robert Suro shed new light on the similarities between ourselves and our… Continue reading PERSON OF THE FOREST Short Film – Audience FEEDBACK Video from March 2019 DOC Festival

2018 Documentary Short Films (41)

Submit your Documentary Short Film to the Festival Today: http://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com Films that played at the festival month by month: CITY OF MY HEART, 4min., Greece, Documentary WATCH Audience FEEDBACK 21ST CENTURY HERMIT, 3min., UK, Documentary WATCH Audience FEEDBACK THE CRYING CHEF, 6min., USA, Comedy WATCH Audience FEEDBACK AN ACTOR PREPARES, 4min., USA, Comedy WATCH Audience FEEDBACK… Continue reading 2018 Documentary Short Films (41)

Director Biography – Dennis Zaidi (CONNECTION IN CRISIS)

Dennis Zaidi is an award winning short film maker who has a passion for films about animals and nature. This project is the culmination of over two years spent researching and filming different types of Animal Assisted Intervention techniques. Director Statement When I set out to make this project, I did not expect to be… Continue reading Director Biography – Dennis Zaidi (CONNECTION IN CRISIS)

Director Biography – Melissa Lesh, Tim Laman (PERSON OF THE FOREST)

Documentary filmmaker Melissa Lesh (Co-Director) founded Emerging Earth Films as a way to bridge the gap between the arts and sciences, focusing on natural history and conservation stories. Her first award-winning documentary, James River Sturgeon, was a collaboration with scientists to uncover the uncharted migration of the endangered Atlantic Sturgeon. Lesh is the Co-Director and… Continue reading Director Biography – Melissa Lesh, Tim Laman (PERSON OF THE FOREST)

Director Biography – Cynthia Hunt (ICE FLOW)

Cynthia Hunt, first came from the big city of Toronto to the quiet of the Yukon Territory in the northern part of Canada, in 1983. Countless adventures and an ever growing family later, this move proved to be a wonderful decision. She and her family live part of the year along a river in the… Continue reading Director Biography – Cynthia Hunt (ICE FLOW)

Short Film: ICE FLOW, 10min., Canada, Documentary

“Ice Flow,” is a beautiful, absorbing, short non-narrative documentary that depicts the natural world and indirectly raises quesions about human values. In “Ice Flow, the river is the “lead character.” The people in the film (the film-maker and her husband) along with other animals and birds are observed as equal participants sharing nature’s stage as… Continue reading Short Film: ICE FLOW, 10min., Canada, Documentary

Director Biography – Matthieu Vinel (NAMIBIA)

Matthieu Vinel grew up in Lorraine in the east of France, a region marked by the steel crisis. Early on he discovered a passion for the seventh art and devoured the film selection at his local library – Wilder, Clouzot, Murnau, Walsh, Renoir, Hitchcock, Füller, Kazan, Mann, Kurosawa, Clayton, Spielberg, Polanski…In parallel he cultivated his… Continue reading Director Biography – Matthieu Vinel (NAMIBIA)

FEMALE Best Scene Reading of Sands of the Mirage by Aissa Martell

Originally posted on FEEDBACK Female Film Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hsveycioe8 The personal problems and psychological demons of everyday people manifest in the form of mirages, Forcing them to confront the real existence of their hopes fears and insecurities. CAST LIST: Mr. Parnell – Russell Batcher Sage (m) – Geoff Mays Narration – Sean Ballantyne Ronen (f) – Katelyn Varadi Evan…

FEMALE Best Scene Reading of Remember Kent State by Cicely Wynne

Originally posted on FEEDBACK Female Film Festival:
? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_hmZBw1wok The Vietnam War, Kent State, violent student protests, sex, drugs, classic rock. One week In May 1970 that defined a generation. CAST LIST: Margaret – Katelyn Varadi Announcer – Geoff Mays Narration – Norma Dawn Dunphy Case – Sean Ballantyne Lucy – Katelyn Varadi Walter Kronkite – Shawn Devlin ****** Producer:…