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Tag: Documentary
Short Film: REDEMPTION SQUARE, 19min., USA, Documentary
Synopsis: In the footsteps of many unique Angelenos, a down-on-her-luck woman finds a new identity in Pershing Square, a notoriously unloved space in downtown Los Angeles. Description: Redemption Square explores how the design of public space can change a person’s life. Narrated by dozens of Angelenos, the story takes viewers into one public space at… Continue reading Short Film: REDEMPTION SQUARE, 19min., USA, Documentary
Short Film: CONNECTION IN CRISIS, 24min., Canada, Documentary
Born in the aftermath of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, this remarkable team of psychological first aid trauma dogs, the K9 First Responsers, are called upon after America’s worst tragedies. Led by Brad Cole and his encaptivating 150 pound dog Spartacus, the story culminates in a journey to Las Vegas to help firefighters… Continue reading Short Film: CONNECTION IN CRISIS, 24min., Canada, Documentary
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)
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
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)
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
Short Film: WAY OF LIFE, 10min., Portugal, Documentary
What defines the greatness of Men? Is it just the results you get? Or the commitment to pursuit your dreams? Why some people are afraid of the ocean while others can’t live without dropping 40 feet waves? This short documentary follows the story of João de Macedo, an underdog big wave surfer who tries to… Continue reading Short Film: WAY OF LIFE, 10min., Portugal, Documentary
Documentary Film Festival. Los Angeles & Toronto 