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Princes Bridge & Swan Street Bridge – Melbourne Australia – dir. Lawrence Gerver

Original Film Title: Princes Bridge & Swan Street Bridge – Melbourne Australia

Director’s Name: Lawrence Gerver

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 51 seconds

Film Description:

Melbourne’s grandest and oldest Bridge. Listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, Princes Bridge connects St Kilda Road to Swanston Street alongside Flinders Street Railway Station.

A bridge has crossed the river at this point since 1845, the present Princes bridge being the third bridge across the Yarra at that location, a need to handle increased shipping traffic on the Yarra River and the river was widened to cope with this.

The Swan Street Bridge provides a vital connection, linking Melbourne’s CBD with its world-renowned sporting and recreation precincts. The Swan Street Bridge Upgrade as a significant opportunity to improve the pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and to enhance the urban design quality of the bridge.

The design provides for a highly functional river crossing, with streamlined circulation paths that operate under both daily and highly congested event conditions.

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The three Su Scholars – dir. Shihyun Wang

Original Film Title: The three Su Scholars

Director’s Name: Shihyun Wang

Writer’s Name: Shihyun Wang

Producer’s Name: Shihyun Wang

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Country of Filming: Taiwan

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 6 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

The story of Su, Xun and his two sons, Su, Shi and Su, Che. How all three of them became most respected scholars of their time. And you get to see how we used Su, Shi’s poems to tell the stories of their lives.

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… Lucid dreams – dir. Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Original Film Title: … Lucid dreams

Director’s Name: Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Writer’s Name: Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Producer’s Name: Kostiantyn Mishchenko

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: England

Runtime: 13 minutes 34 seconds

Film Description:

Lucid dreaming is an altered state of consciousness in which a person is aware that he is dreaming, and can control its content to some extent. This is a kind of borderline state between REM sleep and wakefulness.

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The Five Priests – dir. Chris Charles Scott

Original Film Title: The Five Priests

Director’s Name: Chris Charles Scott

Writer’s Name: Chris Charles Scott

Producer’s Name: Chris Charles Scott

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 59 minutes

Film Description:

This documentary feature with cutting-edge animation relates the story of five Roman Catholic priests who made the choice to lay down their lives in the third-worst epidemic of Yellow Fever in United States history, which occurred in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1873.

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Not To Forget – dir. Valerio Zanoli

Original Film Title: Not To Forget

Director’s Name: Valerio Zanoli

Writer’s Name: Valerio Zanoli

Producer’s Name: Valerio Zanoli

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes

Film Description:

This is a drama that stars 5 Academy Award WINNERs.
After a life of little scams, a self-centered millennial is sentenced to take care of his grandmother, who is affected by Alzheimer’s. As he realizes the extent of her wealth, the protagonist gets closer to the treasure he’s been looking for.

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Why I’m A Vegan – dir. Lindsay Hicks

Original Film Title: Why I’m A Vegan

Director’s Name: Lindsay Hicks

Writer’s Name: Moby

Producer’s Name: Lindsay Hicks

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 9 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description:

Why I’m A Vegan is a multimedia short film that explores the musician Moby’s journey into veganism and animal rights advocacy.

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DELIVERING HOPE – dir. Jordan Orsak

Original Film Title: DELIVERING HOPE

Director’s Name: Jordan Orsak

Writer’s Name: Scott Felix

Producer’s Name: Jordan Orsak

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes 56 seconds

Film Description:

Delivering Hope is a feature film documentary that tells the ultimate story of people coming together for something bigger than themselves. On November 16, 2019, eight days before his 50th birthday, ultra-runner Kevin Kline set out to become the first person in history to run the northernmost 300 miles of Alaska’s dangerous Dalton Highway, in winter, to raise awareness for children battling pediatric cancer. Traversing the world’s 10 most dangerous road, Kline and his crew face a hostile environment of -40F temperatures on a road made of ice in near total darkness to run an 8lb backpack full of childhood cancer names to the virtual top of the world. When Kline’s body shuts down after 200 miles, the crew is faced with a life-changing dilemma.

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ITLU AMMA – dir. Umamaheswara rao C

Original Film Title: ITLU AMMA

Director’s Name: Umamaheswara rao C

Writer’s Name: Umamaheswara rao C

Producer’s Name: Murali Bommaku Bommaku

Country of Origin: India

Country of Filming: India

Language: Telugu

Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

On a stormy night, a 19-year-old boy is stabbed.
Unable to get help, he slides into an overflowing
manhole.
Balasaraswathi, a traditional Brahmin widow, alone
searches for her son Venu in the storm as even police
could not help her.
On the following day, the police show her the dead
body of her son. Later they reveal the cause of death
as murder.
Investigations start, the mother affirms no possible
pre-existent disputes that may lead to the killing. She
says that her son is meek, and his only world is she.
The police could not trace the killer as the motive of
the killing is unknown. The widow, who never used to
go out of her house, makes round the police station
to know of the furtherance of their enquiry.
Experiencing the outside world, she slowly
understands the structure of the society. She sees
Satyam, his wife and friends arguing with a goonda
political leader. She sees him holding the baby as his
wife being arrested alongside other protesters for the
cause of a rape victim.

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Alexander the Macedonian – dir. Takis Vogopoulos

Original Film Title: Alexander the Macedonian

Director’s Name: Takis Vogopoulos

Writer’s Name: Takis Vogopoulos

Producer’s Name: Takis Vogopoulos

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 1 hour 11 minutes

Film Description:

356 BC. A letter received by Queen Olympias from her son Alexander, becomes an occasion for unfolding meetings, memories and visions of the great mercenary shortly before he leaves his last breath

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Covid Mystery – What happened in Mexico? – dir. Shihyun Wang

Original Film Title: Covid Mystery – What happened in Mexico?

Director’s Name: Shihyun Wang

Writer’s Name: Shihyun Wang

Producer’s Name: Shihyun Wang

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Country of Filming: Taiwan

Language: English

Runtime: 29 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

Why Mexico’s Covid death rate has been around 10% since Pandemic hit April 2020? And why did the 7-day average death dropped 82% in just 9 week between 2/8/2021 – 4/7/2021?