New Media Film Festival

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Since the festivals 2009 inception, Honoring Stories worth Telling has been New Media Film Festivals mandate. As the 1st Major Festival celebrating innovation, story, mediums & platforms, New Media Film Festival has led the way in the pursuit of stories worth telling, the exploration of new media technologies, boundary pushing resulting in new distribution models and creating and establishing new methodologies in the global monetization of content. The New Media Film Festival embodies the transformative power of the cinematic arts and it reaches across cultural bridges to wed story and technology for everyone.

Dedicated to producing a cutting-edge, fair, upscale festival devoted to upcoming and seasoned content creators. More than 25 competitive categories are now open that collectively celebrate a broad spectrum of storytelling – podcasts, web series, Mobile media, virtual reality, augmented reality, drone, music videos, and many more. Huffington Post aptly describes the festival, "Makes the cutting edge accessible."

Country: USA
Running time: 5:00 World Premiere!

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Teen Trilingual Award-winning Actress & Songwriter Heavenly Reyna is the Opening Night Musical Performer. Globetrotting, trilingual and a triple threat talent, Heavenly is a charismatic teenage singer-songwriter - actress who plays 5 instruments and writes & sings songs in Spanish, Chinese & English. She spent a decade traveling the world non-stop to 48 countries as a digital nomad kid and did a TED talk at 16 in London about how that affected her music, creativity and world view.

Director: Michael Kenny
Country: Australia
Running time: 4:32 World Premiere!

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Student Animation - A monster born from the climate crisis rains down the fires of hell upon an innocent wallaby.

Director: Klaas Diersmann
Country: UK
Running time: 12:00

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The first romantic comedy written by a purpose-built AI program (a recurrent neural network called ZenMan). After being fed with Romantic Comedy scripts, the AI was asked to compute "what is love?". In response, it created a story of two city workers attempting to rescue their relationship after their previous attempt at dating ended in disaster. - Artificial Intelligence Category

Director: Matthew Taylor
Country: USA, France, Italy, Sweden, Germany
Running time: 1:27 L.A. Premiere!

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Trailer - This film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp’s ideas and applies them to both historical events and the modernists explosion that blanketed the early 20th century. - Documentary Trailer

Director: Tim Cash
Country: USA & Canada
Running time: 2:32 L.A. Premiere!

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A troubled writer left at the alter fashions a mannequin in his ex's likeness & seeks seclusion in the wilderness. 3 misfits jealous of their relationship vow to disrupt their peace. - Trailer Category

Director: Tim Earnheart
Country: USA
Running time: 1:14 L.A. Premiere!

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A young woman, on her path to success, betrays her best friend and winds up in a deadly game. - Trailer Category

Director: Ian Strang and Leif Kaldor
Country: Canada
Running time: 8:36 World Premiere!

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Two academics and a lost boyfriend use Nikola Tesla’s multiverse device to travel through parallel Brooklyns and bring him home. If they can get him out of debt, and avoid an interdimensional death cult. - Web Series

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Q & A 1- hosted by CNN Journalist and Host/Creator of Deborah Kobylt LIVE! with content creators in attendance that have screened in this first half of Opening Night programming that are in attendance.

Director: Silvia Le Brun & Omar Hechtenkopf
Country: Argentina & USA
Running time: :54 World Premiere!

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Some scars hit hard. - Digital Comic

Director: Tim Cash
Country: USA & Canada
Running time: 3:23 World Premiere!

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Get your dance on in the desert! 'Strut', directed by Tim Cash, is the lead single off Pennan Brae's 5th release, 'Gravity - The Astronot'. The track is mixed by producers Kirk Kelsey & Grammy-nominated Eric Alexandrakis & mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Grammy Award-winning engineer Sean Magee. - Music Video Category

Director: Garrett Tripp
Country: USA
Running time: 11:27 World Premiere!

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Five quirky diverse Millennials who work remotely for an international tech corporation. Each lone wolf must cooperate with the others, or everyone will be fired. Meanwhile, none of these independent co-dependents has a personal life that is even remotely working. - Pilot

Director: Kassi Crews & Susie Singer Carter
Country: USA
Running time: 0:44 World Premiere!

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Emmy Award Winner Leeza Gibbons has become an instrumental advocate for healthcare, wellness and care giving after her mother succumbed to Alzheimer’s. The founder of the non-profit Leeza's Care Connection, talks about the toll care giving can take on the caregiver. She details important concepts all caregivers should be aware such as Compassion Fatigue, Radical Resistance, the Worried Well, and explains insights from her best selling book - Take Your Oxygen First. - Podcast Category

Director: Christopher Ruane
Country: USA
Running time: 1:27 L.A. Premiere!

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"Return To Your Post was created for The International Free Expression Project. Combining old photographs from the 1950s and my own photographs at the closing and demolition of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Press building on the Boulevard of the Allies, I constructed a brief moment of time when the workers of the newspaper return to their posts for one last shift." - Christopher Ruane
Creator note- This video would never have existed if not for the conditions of Covid. The creation of the digital space and forced interaction say a lot about what art looks like in isolation. We do not only have to create the content but the environment it was meant to be viewed in. Adding yet another layer of false reality.

Director: Aaron Morgan
Country: USA
Running time: 6:00

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Two sisters have been driving all night when they come across a dilapidated roadside park and bathroom. Horrific events follow when one of them stumbles upon a strange message and a mischievous resident that wants to play a terrifying game. - Short Category

Director: Jeff Dickamore
Country: USA
Running time: 22:00

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The story of a young woman who uses her secret passion for taxidermy to cope with debilitating anxiety. And its a musical.
"Looking at this episode as a whole, whereby all episodes will be shown as a series and strung together for a feature length version for dual distribution is exactly what New Media is - many different ways to consume and create a piece of content/IP." Founder/Director Susan Johnston. RE Taxidermy - the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (P.E.T.A.) recently reversed their decades-old stance on it: In a recent CBC radio interview with Sarina Brewer, PETA made the unprecedented statement that taxidermy is acceptable as long as the animal wasn't killed for that purpose and the end product is respectful. The art movement's emergence during a time of growing concerns for our planet has also paired perfectly with the Green Movement, and the genre has been further validated by its recycling aspect.

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Q & A 2- hosted by CNN Journalist and Host/Creator of Deborah Kobylt LIVE! with content creators in attendance that have screened in this second half of Opening Night programming that are in attendance.

Director: Newton Lee
Country: USA
World Premiere!

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Chloe the Clam is on a journey to visit different places from the world to learn where pearls come from. In different cultures, pearls have different colors, values, and messages. Join Chloe as she explores different countries collecting even the most valued of pearls, the pearls of wisdom!

Written by: Guy Renardeau and Anthony Roemermann
Country: The Netherlands

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This music shows how much in love the new king and queen were, how much pain a big loss can cause, how much Henry's character has changed and how a historic love has changed the history and future of England.

Written by: Ashante P.T. Stokes
Country: USA
L.A. Premiere!

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The title soundtrack single for an upcoming animation film about two men who take different approaches to their hardscrabble neighborhood until life's vagaries intervene.

Director: Helmut-Michael Kemmer Ex. Prod.
Country: Austria
L.A. Premiere!

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Artist Jakob Eder is a Composer in the age of 20 years. His greatest love is to make Music. He wrote some Soundtracks for short-movies and also produced some Songs. His motto is, Celebrate every single breath you take, and don't take it for granted!

Written by: Pennan Brae
Country: USA

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The title track off the feature length film, The Astronot
With drummer Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) & bassist Garry Gary Beers (INXS). It was mastered at Abbey Road by Grammy winning engineer Sean Magee.

Director: Tania Luna
Country: USA
Running time: 3:48

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Ben Rodriguez is almost 40, he lives at home, and his mom thinks it's time for him to find true love so he can get married, so he can have kids, so he does not become... the last Rodriguez. It's never too late for a coming of age story.

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Q & A with nominees that screened in this section. Surprise guest host!

Director: Hartley Woolf
Country: UK, Russia, India
World Premiere!

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An interactive documentary exploring masculinity and men's mental health through the context of barbershops around the world.

Director: Mikkel Keldorf
Country: Denmark, Turkey

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An interactive documentary film that puts you in charge of the decisions of a young Syrian refugee named Ismael. The journey is full of risk, challenges and dilemmas as the future of the family depends on you and the choices you make.

Director: Casey Stein
Country: USA
L.A. Premiere!

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An interactive story of how a preacher, a grandmother, and a teenager all struggle to stay connected to their community during Christmas despite their destructive relationship to prescription drugs.

Director: Nathan Breton
Country: USA
Running time: 3:00 L.A. Premiere!

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A character driven short-film anthology, comprised of 5 films. In film #5, Mara prepares breakfast for her unsuspecting partner.

Director: Glen Condie
Country: Australia
Running time: 7:20

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Two unlikely misfits are forced to work together as location scouts on the upcoming Australian feature film, 'Top End Wedding'. During their misadventures in Australia's Northern Territory, Steve, a seasoned location scout who is in the NT for work (and work only), finds the holiday of a lifetime, while Morgan, who is there for what she thinks will be a holiday, finds a job for life.

Director: Misti Boland Osbern
Country: USA
Running time: 3:41 L.A. Premiere!

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FOR MATURE AUDIENCES - sexual situations. The Square Root is a short form episodic series that explores memory and the small moments that make us who we are. Each chapter focuses on a different character, and each episode takes place during that split second before a character makes the decision that will change their lives forever

Director: Elisa Sofia Fioretti
Country: USA
Running time: 4:14 World Premiere!

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The story of an Italian-American widower who lets technology into his life - initially to stay connected to his granddaughter and, with a little practice, to find a long-lost love.

Director: Alexandra Adomaitis
Country: USA
Running time: 5:38

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Mel moves to Highland Park and into an apartment with the eccentric Keely, who's obsession with the deceased Chris is a little much for Mel- especially once Chris, himself, appears to her to enlist her help.

Director: Nathan Chang
Country: USA
Running time: 5:00 World Premiere!

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A digital series about Victor, a struggling actor, and his two co-workers, Kate & Alejandra, as they struggle to keep their dreams alive while working as Brand Ambassadors in NYC.

Director: Laura Rivas
Country: USA
Running time: 5:41 World Premiere!

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When a queer Latina architect meets a struggling Asian comic who’s just come out...as unemployed, their instant spark sends them on a humorous and heartwarming journey through the city of dreams.

Director: Fab Filippo
Country: Canada
Running time: 10:13 L.A. Premiere!

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Dropped into random lives, mid-sentence, we get to know people through story lines that unravel with humor and pathos and a built-in ticking time bomb - that one of them at some point will be blindsided by a medical emergency. And all of it is rooted in the on-going stories of our regular cast of paramedics who come to the rescue.

Director: King Ho TANG
Country: Greenland
Running time: 3:11 L.A. Premiere!

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Take an adventurous "flight" over Greenland in this 4K drone film of Greenland Icefjord and Iceberg.

Director: William Harper
Country: USA
Running time: 3:26

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Patterns made by migrating mergansers shot from above a waterway with a drone.

Director: Xiaoyue Liu
Country: USA
Running time: 3:51 L.A. Premiere!

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A behind the scenes look at an installation project that incorporates 2D illustration, 3D animation and digital fabrication comes together. Based on the artists personal experience, it llustrates the lonely life of an imaginative girl and her illusory friends. Memories and feelings blending with curious nonsense, the art direction is inspired by Pop Surrealism paintings.

Director: Jennifer Moslemi & Marita Davison
Country: USA
Running time: 2:00 L.A. Premiere!

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An interactive film that reveals the incredible hidden world of corals. As you explore what lies beneath the surface on your unique journey, Lost Cities brings to light the surprising ways the lives of corals are interwoven with your own.

Director: Ash Patino
Country: USA
Running time: 2:34

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Mallory Rose Grossman was an all-American 12-year-old girl who loved gymnastics, cheerleading, and all things outdoors. Her love for her friends, family, and helping others was beyond measure and she showed her charitable spirit every day. Sadly, on June 14, 2017, Mallory took her own life after months of relentless bullying at school and online.
Mallory's school failed to stop the bullying and would remove her from class to distance her from the abuse, only isolating her further. In one instance the Vice Principal and guidance counselor made her “hug it out” with the aggressors. Frustrated by the lack of change, the family discussed changing schools but since there was only a few weeks left in the school year they decided that Mallory would simply finish out at her current school and begin the next year anew. A decision that changed their family forever.
On the last day of Mallory’s life, the family attended a 3-hour meeting where the principal dismissed the acts of cruelty and used the analogy that this was merely a game, handed her a poker chip, and asked if she "was all-in". Mallory and her parents returned home, vowed everything would be okay, and promised she did not have to return to school. Mallory was not even able to bring herself to make it through another day in this life. Her parents returned home from work to find that Mallory had taken her own way out.
This is the trailer of the story of the Grossman's and their journey from losing Mallory through their subsequent fight to combat bullying, hold people accountable for their actions, and change the very way we see our fellow human beings.

Director: Peabody Award Winner Jim Hall
Country: USA
Running time: 1:20 L.A. Premiere!

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A dictator with an orange for a face becomes the new symbol of fascism in this experimental FilmPoem.
The color orange morphs into the ultimate hue of hate and destruction,
the flame that ignites the world in a nuclear fireball.

...so it goes

Director: Orlando Campos
Country: USA
Running time: 1:00 World Premiere!

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The film addresses Global Warming and the urgent need required for us in stopping it. - Student Film

Director: Sam Vinal
Country: USA
Running time: 1:52

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On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight—to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it. - Trailer

Director: Krista Krieger
Country: South Africa
Running time: 3:48

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At the Somkhanda Game Reserve conservation activities including elephant and lion collaring as well as rhino de-horning take place. The trip was organized by Charity Travel and showcased the exceptional work of Wildlands, Wildlife ACT and Dr. Mike Toft of Kifaru Wildlife Veterinary Services.

Director: Denise Schamens
Country: USA
Running time: 1:29 L.A. Premiere!

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Eight neurodivergent students are at the center of this autism acceptance film, six of whom tell their own stories of living with #autism. All 12- to 16-year-old participants use their own language, which makes these personal accounts authentic platforms on which to build rich discussions about #neurodiversity, #bullying, and social emotional expression with other middle school students.

Director: Hannah Collins
Country: USA
Running time: 1:30 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
This pig has a day job!

Director: Yuhan Cui
Country: USA
Running time: 11:31 World Premiere!

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Sisyphus is the hero in a video game, but the Player outside keeps giving him a hard time. Could Sisyphus take the control back and win?

Director: Ylju Bang
Country: USA
Running time: 2:00

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Second graders put their thoughts into their own drawing. They also used their voices to produce a good expression to match the drawings.

Director: Linda Shayne
Country: USA
Running time: 0:58 L.A. Premiere!

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Identical twin sisters, recruited to go undercover for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), must first overcome a challenge set forth by the Special Agent in charge and yet, something much more dangerous will ultimately occur.

Director: Rolf Lindblom
Country: Finland
Running time: 7:05

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When strange anomalies are tracked to a small town on the coast of Southwest Finland, special investigations agent Helen Iduag is dispatched to look into the matter on behalf of her employer. But just as Helen prepares to wrap up her investigation, she makes a shocking discovery...

Director: Christopher Ruane
Country: USA
Running time: 2:25 L.A. Premiere!

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Aesop Fable's and AR. A new way to experience a combination of life, memory and fable, touch rotation.
"Touch rotation was tough because I had to create a new method than previously. All content had to be 3D which made me have to go further into video game design so effects were done using particle systems and physics engines instead of video." - Christopher Ruane

Director: Sasha and Derek Cuneo
Country: USA
Running time: 4:53 L.A. Premiere!

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A father bumbles, batters, and burns his way through Saturday breakfast.

Director: Jake Adams
Country: USA and United Kingdom
Running time: :16 World Premiere!

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The world's first digital holographic comic book is here! Maldacena: MFR is a multi-dimensional journey projected via holographic display that juxtaposes an emotional narrative with a psychedelic conceptualization of itself. - Digital Comic Category

Director: Atomic Elroy
Country: USA
Running time: 1:52 L.A. Premiere!

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Nowhere Man must rescue Video Art from the trash can of art genres, put there by the The ARTGODS. Will he succeed or will the ARTGODS's constant chaos upend the Universe?

Director: Dilip Khatri
Country: USA
Running time: 1:20

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The tallest building on the west coast was recently completed in one of the most seismically active zones in the world.

Director: Samantha Bode
Country: USA
Running time: 7:14 World Premiere!

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Over the course of sixty days, nine strangers paddle the length of the third longest river in North America, discovering beauty in the chaos.

Director: Rich Underwood
Country: USA
Running time: 11:39

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Rocks from the cliffs above Torrey Pines State beach broke free and fell on Anna Hackenberg, changing her life in an instant and leaving her paralyzed from the chest down. Her remarkable rehabilitation and adjustment to her new life is documented in this short film.

Director: RJ Hall
Country: USA
Running time: 16:07

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The story of a man who came from nothing, lost everything, and through God he was saved. This brought about Godspeed MC, where they now make a difference in the community where he once belonged.

Director: John Woosley
Country: USA
Running time: 10:47

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When two young brothers swipe their fathers drone and take it for a joy ride, they make a surprising discovery.

Director: Yoni Ronn
Country: USA & Mexico
Running time: 6:33 World Premiere!

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After the infotech and biotech industries merged, a salesman takes broken-hearted-Caiti, into a wild digital-sales-pitch.

Director: Melody Rock
Country: USA
Running time: 0:47 World Premiere!

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An anthology of short stories following intersecting oddball characters on a sunny summer day in Los Angeles. Trailer, Shot on Mobile

Director: Gorka Vazquez
Country: Spain
Running time: 4:00 World Premiere!

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A man on an island tries to escape his past and sail away to his freedom.

Director: Giorgio Ranciaro
Country: Italy
Running time: 4:24

Description:
Music Video from the alt.rock band INNER SKIN. Japanese myth of a Scorpion Lady !

Director: Brit Phelan
Country: USA
Running time: :42 World Premiere!

Description:
Explore the millennial experience and how we navigate the deterioration and transformation of our personal relationships in this ever-growing digital world.

Written by: Dimitri D.Kwenda
Country: Uganda
Running time: :38

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Artist: Dimitri & The Scarecrow spirals into an entrancing mantra which is an awakening of the buried sentiment of the Scarecrow (a symbol/metaphor for the layman) and conjures an articulate verse of lyrical and cynical satire.

Director: Nova Lorraine
Country: USA
World Premiere!

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Interviews with the gutsiest creative entrepreneurs around the globe sharing tips, hacks and words of wisdom to inspire listeners to unleash their inner brilliance. Episode - Attention Changes Everything.

Director: Catharine E. Jones
Country: USA
World Premiere!

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When events at the national level threaten the health and well-being of Porque, New Mexico some of its citizens rise up in protest. Confronted with this act of civil disobedience the bumbling Sheriff’s department struggles to maintain order while addressing the needs of the community.

Director: Lanita Duke
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
On this edition of From the Grassroots we deconstruct the 1972 Soundtrack from the movie Superfly by Curtis Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999)

Director: Jerusha Hess
Country: USA
World Premiere!

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EP 8 - A crew of bureaucrats escaping to the distant planet Genesis, must confront a rogue robot that threatens to destroy humanity.

Director: Christianne Williams
Country: USA
Running time: :30

Description:
A short pitch on the exploration of “LECT”, a war-torn US veteran who journeys to build his legacy in the hip hop world.

Director: Garcia JC
Country: Canada
Running time: :29 L.A. Premiere!

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An intimate look into the lives of characters having left their home country to start a new life in the Nordic landscape of Quebec.

Director: Hudson White
Country: USA
Running time: :30 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Sometimes the space exploration job of your dreams isn't all it's made up to be.

Director: Khushnuda Shukurova
Country: USA
Running time: :30 L.A. Premiere!

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Two refugee siblings flee war for a better life only to find themselves in the middle of a travel ban.

Director: Mark Tyler Rénfro
Country: USA
Running time: 0:30

Description:
A mystical short silent film about the vibrations and the energy that we share, exchange and dissipate around us, affecting other people's vibrations and energy and these people cross our pathways or share the same vicinity. These are the vibrations that bring us close to other people with whom we may not even think of attempting to interact but unexplained phenomenon of vibrations connects us with them magically.

Director: John Edmonds Kozma
Country: USA
Running time: 0:48 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Darren Knight, aka Southern Momma from Munford, Alabama, is the fastest rising comedian in American history. We go behind the scenes and see Darren's childhood, through his journey to stardom in the world of comedy.

Director: Joshua Belinfante
Country: Australia, UK, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Thailand, France, Netherlands
Running time: 1:35 World Premiere!

Description:
Told he only had a short time to live, Joshua Belinfante sought out dedicated talents around the world striving their best at what they always wanted to do as kids; trying to find what he would do if given a second chance.

Director: Nick Alexander
Country: El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, United States
Running time: 3:53

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The miraculous journey of Salvadoran immigrant Laz Ayala’s life or death path to U.S. citizenship, the challenges of present-day immigration, and his mission to humanize immigrants and reform immigration for the benefit of all.

Director: Matt Gall
Country: Australia
Running time: 1:27

Description:
What was meant to be a documentary about the future of work and business growth soon turned into a personally exposing journey of fear, doubt and insecurity.

Director: Josh & Rebecca Tickell
Country: USA
Running time: 2:42

Description:
A documentary that reveals the scientific phenomenon of how we can heal our bodies by doing the simplest thing that a person can do… standing barefoot on the earth. - Trailer Category

Director: Giorgi Gachava
Country: Georgia
Running time: 2:23 World Premiere!

Description:
August 8, 2008. Georgian -South Ossetian conflict. Georgian troops are in main administrative town of South Ossetia – Tskhinvali. While Georgian soldiers are searching a house, shell bombing starts. In order to escape inevitable death Georgian is forced to open the basement door and jump in thus trapping himself underground. Will he survive?

Director: Michaela Zannou
Country: USA
Running time: 1:19 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
A dramedy about Natalia, a couples therapist who treats neurotic New York couples while her own marriage is falling apart and she can't seem to be able to follow her own advice.

Director: Marisol Diaz
Country: USA
Running time: 2:29 World Premiere!

Description:
In the months following college graduation, best friends Olivia and Mattie find themselves navigating the complicated world of dating, careers, and friendship. They are just as successful at dating as they are at being adults, which is not at all.

Director: Anna Dunbar
Country: USA
Running time: 1:28 World Premiere!

Description:
Zoelle, a young genie, decides to video blog her sister through her freshman year at Mythos University. What started off as a casual video blog turns into something unexpected as she and her mythical roommates decide to rush honor society Tau Theta Nu under the reign of none other than Medusa herself.

Director: Jennifer Nash
Country: USA
Running time: 1:30 World Premiere!

Description:
A young girl in current day, rural Pennsylvania switches places in time with a runaway slave family in 1848.

Director: Steven Mosley
Country: USA
Running time: 2:05 World Premiere!

Description:
Identical twin comedians, Adam and Todd, used to lead almost identical lives – until they both made two big decisions: Adam chose to have kids, and Todd came out of the closet.

Director: Adriana Maggs
Country: Canada
Running time: 1:27

Description:
Jane and Charlie in the throes of adoption, a process steeped in paperwork, parenting classes, home inspections and difficult decisions about just how far they are willing to go to become parents.

Description:
A Q & A with the nominees in attendance from this section of programming. Hosted by Susan Johnston, known as a Media Futurist, is President of Select Services Films, Inc. a multiple award winning production company. Susan founded the critically acclaimed New Media Film Festival ® in 2009. The festival honors stories worth telling by bridging story and technology with innovative mediums and ever changing delivery platforms.

Director: Elia Petridis
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
A modern love story told through a mirror maze of optical illusions. Enter a lush cinematic virtual world brought to life by cutting edge in-camera techniques, mirrors, reflections and time-lapse footage.

Director: Jialiang Liu
Country: Japan
Running time: 2:57

Description:
A hand-drawn VR animation created with the question where we came from and where we will go.

Director: Brandon Zamel
Country: USA
Running time: 10:30

Description:
THE 100% follows Maggie Kudirka, a professional ballerina, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Ultimately, Maggie's story is one of hope as she was able to regain her strength through dance.

Director: Jacob Kupferman
Country: Sao Tome e Principe
Running time: 11:28 L.A. Premiere!

Description:
In the summer of 2018, an American climbing team completed a free ascent of the Pico Cão Grande tower in São Tomé & Principe. The trip was documented through photos, video, and 360 degree footage filmed with GoPro Fusion cameras. To the best of our knowledge, there is very limited 360 degree footage of climbing expeditions, particularly of remote and unique ascents.

Director: Fabio Rychter
Country: Peru
Running time: 13:43

Description:
Two brothers in a surreal world with no ground, everything that exists is forever falling.

Country: USA

Description:
A Q & A with VR nominees in this section hosted by Brian Seth Hurst.
Brian Seth Hurst is chief storyteller and president of StoryTech Immersive, an immersive content production, packaging and distribution company.
We are showing VR collaboratively vs immersive this year.

Written by: Lele Park
Country: USA
Running time: TV Series

Description:
A psychotic Millennial will do her best to become the perfect 1950's woman. No matter what.

Written by: Michael W. Hogan
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length

Description:
A curmudgeonly retired baseball announcer and bubblegum are mankind’s only hope to avoid becoming fast food for a species of evil extraterrestrials.

Written by: Tim Millette
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length World Premiere!

Description:
A charismatic misfit, a dry scientist, a caring do-gooder, and a spunky engineer unravel a mystery involving an ancient idol that could save modern civilization - or destroy it.

Written by: Anderson Boyd
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length

Description:
A woman infiltrates a dark crime syndicate that traffics in organs and dangerous technology. As she pivots to use their weapons against them, her gambit hits closer to home than even she could imagine.​

Written by: Chris Tasara
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length World Premiere!

Description:
A past his prime Las Vegas fighter must defeat an Olympic gold medalist to pay for his daughter's kidney transplant.

Written by: Bryan Kelsey
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length

Description:
A former gunslinger’s desire to live out his days in peace is put on the back-burner when he learns that his estranged daughter’s life is in danger.

Written by: John Montgomery
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length

Description:
A romantic comedy about an uptight executive sent to refurbish a ruined tropical hotel full of nutty guests and a slew of suitors.

Written by: Christopher Sirmons Haviland
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length L.A. Premiere!

Description:
Twelve year old Shep, son of a widower, finds a mysterious invention that with a lock of hair can secretly remote-control a person's body from the neck down. He uses it on his unsuspecting father to wreck an out-of-country job opportunity and court a woman he wants for a new mom.

Written by: Trish Dotson
Country: Honduras
Running time: Feature length L.A. Premiere!

Description:
An overconfident young billionaire meets his match in an altruistic humanitarian who refuses to sell him her land which he needs to complete his lucrative development project and teaches him there is more to life than money along the way.

Written by: Linda Shayne
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length L.A. Premiere!

Description:
A love story to Einstein.

Written by: Travis Misenti
Country: USA
Running time: Pilot length World Premiere!

Description:
In this sci fi dramedy pilot script, Highschoolers, Virgil and Kimberly, must navigate through parallel dimensions in search of Virgil's missing father all while balancing the drama-filled topsy-turvy world of 1980's high school life.

Written by: Daniela Eiberle
Country: Spain
Running time: Animation Short World Premiere!

Description:
An angry young woman unable to face her past and a scared young man unable to deal with his present work their way through different paths in dark, crumbling spaces that eventually lead them to a place they may find a connection.

Written by: Alan Adler
Country: USA
Running time: Animated Short Story

Description:
An island of disagreeable people find themselves headed for the falls and build a fleet of hot air balloons to save themselves.

Written by: Laura O. Solow
Country: USA
Running time: Pilot World Premiere!

Description:
A neo-noir miniseries that follows femme fatale Lee Caspary as she sets out to stop the egomaniacal drug lord who threatens to destroy the New England Island she loves and calls home.

Written by: Mark A. Dispenza
Country: USA
Running time: Feature length

Description:
A science fiction story.

Written by: Matt Sadowski
Country: Canada
Running time: Pilot

Description:
In a utopian utilitarian future, two teens, on the run from a government agent, discover they may have literally been made for each other and hold the secret to dismantling society.

Written by: Morris Jackson
Country: USA
Running time: Episodic World Premiere!

Description:
During the lowest point of a young man's life, he starts an untapped Uber service while dealing with depression. Little did he know, this new business venture will unlock an underground world for the supernatural, extraterrestrial, and super-humans.

Written by: Matthew Papadopoulos
Country: Australia
Running time: Feature Length

Description:
A virgin college student creates his virtual ‘perfect’ girlfriend but must grow up or never love when he falls for her real-life lookalike who is anything but perfect.

Written by: Justin Feinstein
Country: USA
Running time: Feature Length L.A. Premiere!

Description:
When a disgraced, reclusive film critic is framed for the disappearance of a YouTube megastar, he's forced out of hiding and must fight to regain control of his story.

Director: Niko Volonakis
Country: Greece, USA
Running time: Book World Premiere!

Description:
In 1950s New Orleans, a young Vodou priestess contemplates her eerie connection to the RMS Queen Mary, an historic British ocean liner. Sixty years into the future, she will find herself aboard, in Long Beach, California, where the ship is now permanently docked, serving as a hotel and museum, and rumored to be haunted.

Description:
After a screening of the Script Nominees, those nominees in attendance will participate in a Q & A. Host is Clayton Connor, UTA

Description:
Delighted to have Jonathan Cane on board, Jonathan Cane is an unscripted development and production exec with 19 years of experience delivering immersive, fun and fresh content to a wide range of outlets. He was VP of Development for BBC Worldwide Productions and Fremantle Media North America. He ushered original concepts into Fox, MTV, CW, Bravo, E!, GSN, Discovery, Oxygen, Style, Lifetime, VH1, National Geographic, TLC, We, Red Bull, and A&E. Jonathan got his start working at MTV News in 1998, and moved up through the MTV ranks where he ultimately served as showrunner for a diverse slate of shows; delivering a total of over 250 hours of aired content.

Description:
Sheer delight in welcoming back Steven Wolfe, a seasoned film producer and president of Sneak Preview Entertainment, the Production and Talent Management company currently celebrating over 25 years of creating Industry darlings.

Description:
Excited to have Randy Bellous on board. Randy Bellous is an fourteen-time award-winning television producer. Although his expertise is in live multi-camera television events (mostly concerts), he has been producing network and cable television shows, live concert videos and elaborate corporate shows for over 30 years. His International credits include documentaries from The United Nations (Geneva, Switzerland), Live Showcase Stage Show Concerts from Yokohama, Japan, Carpi, Italy and the South Pacific World Music Festival in Savusavu, Fiji. His domestic credits include multiple NARAS (Grammy) "Live", Award Winning Events, Entertainment News, Daily Network television strips, commercials, U.S. Government Military Training Films and "Extreme" Sport shows. Pictured with Karen Lee Cohen at one of New Media Film Festival's infamous House of Blues events.

Description:
We announce the winners during the Awards Ceremony only! A fun, fast paced honoring of the Best of each category winner, the top 3 & Best script winners, audience award and Grand Prize winner. A must attend event.

Director: Anish Andheria
Country: India

Description:
I know you

Director: Anish Andheria
Country: India

Description:
Wild Habitats

Director: Anish Andheria
Country: India

Description:
Biodiversity

Director: Dylan Perlot
Country: USA
L.A. Premiere!

Description:
- The power & beauty of Love

Director: Travis Fox
Country: USA
World Premiere!

Description:
International Art Exhibit - Scars of Racism seeks to document the lasting physical reminders of racism on the American landscape. The legacy of racism exists throughout our society-- in culture, language and economics. With these photos I’m attempting to highlight how institutional racism of the past is present today in the roads we travel, the houses we live in and even where we dump our trash.

Director: Dom Kegel
Country: USA

Description:
- A Photovoice Project