Tag: documentary film festival

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)

Short Film: TAOBAO, 4min., China, Documentary

Pin’er is a model on China’s largest online shopping site, Taobao. With a never-ending pile of clothes to shoot, Pin’er has developed a unique way of getting through her workload. Film Type: Documentary, Short Genres: Biography Runtime: 4 minutes 14 seconds Completion Date: April 1, 2017 Production Budget: 1,000 USD Country of Origin: United States… Continue reading Short Film: TAOBAO, 4min., China, Documentary

Short Film: PERSON OF THE FOREST, 17min., Indonesia, Documentary

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 ancient ancestors, before it’s too late. Film Type: Documentary, Short Genres: Natural… Continue reading Short Film: PERSON OF THE FOREST, 17min., Indonesia, Documentary

Short Film: BUILD RAMPS NOT WALLS, 13min., Mexico, Documentary

Build Ramps Not Walls (BRNW) documents a project that began with a tight knit Mexican and American skate community on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The two main characters, a young American-Mexican skater, Nat and an older Mexican skater, Emilio, are looking for a positive response to the negative rhetoric between Mexico and the United… Continue reading Short Film: BUILD RAMPS NOT WALLS, 13min., Mexico, Documentary

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

Short Film: NAMIBIA, 8min., Namibia, Documentary

Two friends, a filmmaker and photographer, traverse the vast expanses of Namibia in their 4×4 Ford Ranger. Discover with them the wild animals of Etosha, the incredible richness of life in the Himba village or the volcanic mountains of Damaraland and meet the locals in Katutura, a poor district in the capital. This hypnotic road… Continue reading Short Film: NAMIBIA, 8min., Namibia, Documentary

Director Biography – Blaze Hunter (WAY OF LIFE)

Blaze Hunter is a director from Lisbon. Born in Portugal in 78, studied design, photography and cinematography. For the past 5 years has been working mostly in filmmaking for a Portuguese production studio, Lobomau. Besides filmmaking and photography, surf and travel is where he charges his criativity to put out on stories worth telling.

DOCUMENTARY Festival Testimonial – November 26 2018

Watching the audience feedback on my film made me so happy. I wish I could have been there. I love people who are open minded and ready to see with their heart. And I love cinema. As most of the people there love movies too.  – Laura Lehmus, Director of “Alienation” Submit your film exclusively… Continue reading DOCUMENTARY Festival Testimonial – November 26 2018

Director BIO: Graeme Bachiu (WHY WE PUSH?)

Director Biography – Graeme Bachiu From his home in a converted 125-year old Methodist church in Southern Ontario, Canada, Graeme Bachiu brings his years of news and documentary experience to bear on intimate, personal projects that depict interesting people in their environments. Director Statement I am always drawn to people who are passionate about their work,… Continue reading Director BIO: Graeme Bachiu (WHY WE PUSH?)