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Original Film Title: Public Eye
Director’s Name: Davo Hardy
Writer’s Name: Davo Hardy
Producer: Davo Hardy
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 2 hours
Film Description:
A children’s entertainer falls from grace when NSFW content of him circulates online.
Original Film Title: Part Forever
Director’s Name: Alan Chung-An, Ou
Writer’s Name: Alan Chung-An, Ou
Producer: Meng-Lung, Yang, Andy, Wu, Mira Huang
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Filming: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Runtime: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Film Description:
In the dark hall, candles flickered faintly. A body lay in the middle of the hall. Huei and her husband Wen Hsiung came to say goodbye to Huei’s dearest sister. The seemingly calm and sad farewell ceremony seemed to hide an astonishing and dark secret……
Original Film Title: Night, Mother
Director’s Name: John Patrick Lowrie
Writer’s Name: Ellen McLain
Producer’s Name: Sarah Parsons, Sheila Houlahan
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 4 minutes
Film Description:
Set amidst the COVID-19 pandemic during a Zoom conversation between a mother and daughter, Jessie (Sheila Houlahan) tells her mother Thelma (Ellen McLain) that she will commit suicide within the hour. Exploring the concentric circles of isolation, grief, and suicide, this hybrid film based on Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play portrays a poignant and haunting picture of the current state of mental health care in America.
Original Film Title: A Silent Call: Can Anyone Hear Me?
English Film Title: A Silent Call: Can Anyone Hear Me?
Directors Name: Ana A Prickett Braunstein
Writers Name: Ana A Prickett Braunstein
Producer: Ana A Prickett Braunstein
Country of Origin: USA
Country of Filming: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 40 minutes 51 seconds
Film Description:
The story of protagonist BLAKE SMITH, an artist that lives in LA, played by Barrett Burnes and his journey to overcome his emotional pains, conflicts. addictions and identity crises. His single mother LYNN SMITH, played by Carla Susan Lewis, lives in New York City and works as an administrator at the Main Library Branch. She loves her only son Blake very much and is concerned about him, four months ago she suggested and offered to hire and pay for a therapist STACEY JOHNSON played by Ana A P Braunstein, Blake reluctantly agreed to see a therapist. Stacey truly cares about her patients and takes their issues to heart. Lately she is having to face and deal with some personal issues and problems of her own but is determined to focus her energy on her work. She feels a special connection with Blake and is thrilled to see his progress.
The antagonist, Blake’s absent father JOHN SMITH, played by David Laird Scott decides to reach out to his North Carolina long time childhood friend to ask her for a special favor. John is at a crucial time in his life and feels like he is running out of time.The events that unfold next intertwined and contributed to Blake’s finding closure, forgiveness and hope to start a new chapter in his life!
Original Film Title: Alaska Long Hunters
Director’s Name: Mark Rose
Writer’s Name: Mark Rose
Producer’s Name: Mark D. Rose, Isaac Rush
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 57 minutes 26 seconds
Film Description:
This award winning story follows the life of a young pilot who flew in Alaska’s frontier arctic. Experience the front-seat thrills of bush planes and helicopters operating in the most dangerous conditions on earth, airborne among the magnificent mountains, glaciers and rivers that only Alaska has to offer. Includes true-life experiences of accidents, comradeship, humor and heartbreak of life in early Alaska, gone forever when dismantled into parks in the 1980’s. Based on the book Last of the Long Hunters by Mark Rose, the scene opens with an early history of the Great Land and those that lived in it through interviews with several life-long Alaskans, including Hilda Lidner, Ray Atkins and Gale Ranney to name a few. Leading up to the introduction of the authors use of a new tool of transport – the single engine airplane, but not without extracting a terrible price. Experience what it was like to growing up among the dangerous game, hunting the massive caribou herds and absorbing the greatness of the county. Pilots will gain from the flying experiences related, and every boy, man and aviator will be compelled to grapple with its final truth, concluding with a crisis encounter that forever changed the pilot’s life forever.
Original Film Title: Dreams of Emmett Till
Director’s Name: Bobby Field
Writer’s Name: Gloria J Browne-Marshall
Producer: The Law and Policy Group, Inc., SPARK Theatrical
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 41 minutes 24 seconds
Film Description:
Vertu is the story of a family seeking redemption, each character in his own different way; a widow fighting for the safety and future of her daughter, a conflicted man escaping his past and a teenager navigating his future.
Original Film Title: Volatility
Director’s Name: Jason Winn
Producer’s Name: Ekaterina Behor
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 19 minutes
Film Description:
A seemingly perfect relationship transmutes into something more sinister as love, passion, and violence combine into an explosive downfall and push a tortured woman to the edge.
The Volatility team wants to thank you for considering our film for acceptance into your festival. As of today, we have been accepted into The American Horrors Film Festival, Cleveland Horror Fest, Halicarnassus Film Festival, LA Independent Women Film Awards, Himachal Short Film Festival, Divine Feminine Arts & Film Fest, and the IndieFEST Film Awards. Our lead actress won Best Actress at Halicarnassus Film Festival.
We made this film with the purpose of highlighting what the reality of domestic violence is really like – evoking emotions ranging from heartbreak to rage to complete and utter terror. The film can be described as a rollercoaster, an exemplification of volatility, the kind of volatility that is far too often hidden behind the scenes of seemingly happy relationships.
Original Film Title: The Eve
Director’s Name: Luca Machnich
Language: English
Runtime: 20 minutes
Film Description:
Simon is an eight-year-old boy who seems to have everything from life. He’s a handsome child, he’s rich yet unhappy. He senses that there’s something wrong with his life and this leads him to wander off thanks to his fervid imagination. His greatest wish is to leave the materialistic world behind since he isn’t fond of it. That’s why the only present he wants for Christmas is for Santa Claus to take him away to live in his fairyland toy factory. At the same time, a secret that his family has been keeping for a long time suddenly comes to the surface and it is feared that the worst might happen soon. The expectation for the stroke of midnight on the night before Christmas is transformed into reality for everyone on the eve of something truly different. Something terrible that might happen.
Original Film Title: For I Am Dead
Director’s Name: Patricia Delso Lucas
Writer’s Name: Patricia Delso Lucas
Producer’s Name: Patricia Delso Lucas, Al Nazemian
Country of Origin: Belgium
Country of Filming: Belgium
Language: English
Runtime: 18 minutes 12 seconds
Film Description:
In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, superficial life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.
Original Film Title: Volatility
Director’s Name: Jason Winn
Producer’s Name: Ekaterina Behor
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 19 minutes
Film Description:
A seemingly perfect relationship transmutes into something more sinister as love, passion, and violence combine into an explosive downfall and push a tortured woman to the edge.
The Volatility team wants to thank you for considering our film for acceptance into your festival. As of today, we have been accepted into The American Horrors Film Festival, Cleveland Horror Fest, Halicarnassus Film Festival, LA Independent Women Film Awards, Himachal Short Film Festival, Divine Feminine Arts & Film Fest, and the IndieFEST Film Awards. Our lead actress won Best Actress at Halicarnassus Film Festival.
We made this film with the purpose of highlighting what the reality of domestic violence is really like – evoking emotions ranging from heartbreak to rage to complete and utter terror. The film can be described as a rollercoaster, an exemplification of volatility, the kind of volatility that is far too often hidden behind the scenes of seemingly happy relationships.
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