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Original Film Title: Mother Helen
Director’s Name: Casey Hockett, Elle Carpenter
Writer’s Name: Casey Hockett, Elle Carpenter
Producer: Elle Carpenter, Jessica Sugar Wolf, Taylor Gretz, Ben Stobber, James Mirabal
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 18 minutes 19 seconds
Film Description:
A woman seeks retribution for a past occurrence: one she can never forget.
Original Film Title: Reinventados
Director’s Name: Josefina Cabezón
Writer’s Name: Josefina Cabezón
Producer: Josefina Cabezón
Country of Origin: Chile
Country of Filming: Chile
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 3 hours 1 minute
Film Description:
This documentary series tells the story of immigrant families who arrived in Chile between the industrial revolution and World War II and started a particular business that is still alive today in the hands of their descendants.
Today’s generation has decided to continue their ancestors’ traditions and reinvent themselves through the work their ancestors started.
The series will consist of 5 episodes, each one focusing on a di erent market area
Original Film Title: Hyena
Director’s Name: Jack Perez
Writer’s Name: Mollena Lee Williams-Haas
Producer: Malinalli López Arreguín
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 46 minutes 16 seconds
Film Description:
A poetic retelling of a woman’s harrowing journey to beat alcohol addiction.
Original Film Title: The Painter
Director’s Name: Mackenzie Bunnell
Writer’s Name: Mackenzie Bunnell
Producer: Berridge Programs
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: English
Runtime: 10 minutes 46 seconds
Film Description:
Jack, a pretentious American painter, is taken by surprise when his portrait comes to life.
Original Film Title: BULLY
Director’s Name: Alejandro Mendoza Llopis
Writer’s Name: Laura Chimara, Gustavo Mosquera
Producer: Alejandro Mendoza Llopis, Willy Martin, Luis Luyando, Nelson Mata
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 9 minutes 30 seconds
Film Description:
How does it feel when your classmates point at you, insult you, and hit you for being different, or even more unfair, just for fun? Bullying is a reality… Bullying is unwanted and aggressive behavior among school-age children that involves a real or perceived imbalance of power. The behavior is repeated or tends to be repeated over time. Both children who are bullied and those who bully can have serious and long-lasting problems.
Original Film Title: Before I Die
Director’s Name: Mark Anders, Rush Sturges
Writer’s Name: Mark Anders
Producer: Mark Anders, Rush Sturges
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 10 minutes 30 seconds
Film Description:
Following the untimely death of their father to Early Onset Alzheimer’s, the Bussell family grapples with the life-altering decision of whether or not to find out if they too carry the gene. Out of the family’s five children, Tristan Bussell, 36, is the only one who decides to take the DNA test. This uplifting documentary short focuses on how those test results profoundly change the way Tristan chooses to live his life.
Original Film Title: גבעה 314
Director’s Name:Omrie Levy
Producer: Omrie Levy
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: Arabic, Hebrew
Runtime: 27 minutes 2 seconds
Film Description:
My childhood’s view – Latrun’s hills. “Oasis of Peace”, A settlement set on hill 314, has founded on coexistence between Arabs and Jews. Ibrahim, a herder Bedouin, lives there with his family for 51 years. Since 1999 the settlement and Silence Monastery, the landowners, has made an agreement therefore Ibrahim has been threatened to be deported.
Original Film Title: Anthropocene
Country of Origin: Italy
Runtime: 15 minutes
Film Description:
Our planet has been sick for a long time.
People have to use face masks because the air has become unbreathble.
Due to the harmful sun, two sisters are forced to study and play in their own home.
Suddenly the ventilation system stops working, so the two girls have to use artificial respirators but after a while they faint.
However Vanessa, a very curious little girl, finds the strength to react and decides to go out.
Thus a fantastic surreal adventure begins.
Vanessa finds a strange object: it is a forgotten book that will lead her to look for the colors and scents which our sick planet still keeps for those who want to dream.
