Watch this best of DOCUMENTARY Shorts streaming online ONLY on Saturday February 20th. EMAIL US to reserve the FREE private link and password to watch the festival.
GET BUSY LIVING, 16min., USA
Directed by Chris Burket
GET BUSY LIVING is an inspiring new documentary following one thrill-seeking couple’s unique love story. He survived a crippling skydiving accident. She supported him through a painful recovery. Together they aspired to jump out of a plane again.
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YOU HANDSOME DOG (DON’T YOU EVER DIE), 9min., USA
Directed by Theresa Desautels
My grandfather, Tom Watkins, is a 90-year-old harmonica player who lives in a retirement home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2016, I interviewed him to get his thoughts about the U.S. Presidential elections. When I finally got around to editing the footage in 2020, I found a different story altogether.
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UNTIL WE TOUCH, 3min., Australia
Directed by Charlotte Mungomery
A short poem like documentary. Through windows we watch the polyphonic narrative of twelve mothers in lockdown who read letters from their adult children who are overseas, interstate or are quarantined in the same city.
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WRITING ON THE WALL, 6min., USA
Directed by Miya Matsumoto Lee
When thousands took to the streets of New York City in June 2020 to protest police brutality and systemic racism against Black people, the high-end stores in Soho responded by swiftly boarding up their windows and doors.
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COVID LANDSCAPE: BOISE, IDAHO JUNE 2020, 5min., USA
Directed by John D. LeMay
Life in a global pandemic is surreal for us all, but creating a piece of public art on the side of a 14 story building in downtown Boise, Idaho takes it to a whole new level. Watch my latest short film featuring muralist David Carmack Lewis.
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TADPOLES: THE BIG LITTLE MIGRATION, 8min., Canada
Directed by Maxwel Hohn
TADPOLES: The Big Little Migration is a unique mini documentary and a world first. The movie documents the incredible daily migration of the western toad tadpoles, a designated threatened species, and one that faces constant risk from urban development.
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GORILLA GIRL, 46min., USA
Directed by Rob Grobman, Antonio Melendez
Animal rehabilitation expert Ann Southcombe shares over 50 years of experience raising animals. She expresses the deep emotional intelligence of our non human counterparts and the love that transcends species.
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IRAN’S WILD SIDE, 44min., Canada
Directed by Mani Mirsadeghi
Wild Persia offers a rare look into Iran ’s wondrous wildlife and nature. This documentary features the marvels of this little-known land, nested in the Middle East . From the hot arid deserts and their shifting sands, to the breath-taking snow-capped mountains and their unique inhabitants, and to the lush greenery of mangroves and their unusual creatures, Iran is a land cloaked in mystery and extremes.
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