Category: AUDIENCE AWARDS – 2024 ARFF PARIS

Original Film Title: The Perfect Shot: Antarctica

Director’s Name: Quinn Halleck

Writer’s Name: Octavia Ethridge

Producer: Habib Paracha, Melissa Ganzi, David Runyon

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Antarctica

Language: English

Runtime: 10 minutes 20 seconds

Film Description:

“The Perfect Shot” is an inventive and captivating documentary that profiles award-winning fine art photographer Artem Shestakov as he attempts to photograph the most remote locations on the planet affected by the climate crisis.

Original Film Title: The Matriarch

Director’s Name: Octavia Ethridge

Writer’s Name: Octavia Ethridge

Producer: Trae Ireland, Alexis Branch, Dani Bryan, Phillip E. Odiete, Jayla Roxx, Swani Love, JoJo McCoy, Octavia Ethridge, Kula Mando

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute 26 seconds

Film Description:

In “The Matriarch,” a female-dominated society emerges, with men clamoring for their rights. This queer-centric universe wasn’t always the norm. Over the past century, women have steered the world’s course, and now men stand on the brink of extinction. In response, they’re uniting, poised for battle.

Original Film Title: Breakdown

Director’s Name: Gabriel Tibi

Writer’s Name: Morgan Cini, Gabriel Tibi

Producer: Gabriel Tibi

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 49 seconds

Film Description:

It’s a buddy movie comedy between a Republican client and a Progressive Democrat from a uber car driver who hate each other but who are forced to stay together in the middle of the night in New Jersey because the car brutally stopped and they have to fix it together.

Original Film Title: LITTLE BIG – It Happens

Director’s Name:  Alina Pasok, Iliya Prusikin

Writer’s Name: Iliya Prusikin

Producer: Misha Zvagilskiy

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

Veruca is just an average serial dater lost in the monotony of her everyday life. She is in constant search for the typical things in life – love, someone who understands her, power, human body parts. Is it too much to ask?

Original Film Title: Eat Me

Director’s Name:  Thuy-Vu Mai, Oscar Riveros

Writer’s Name: Vu Mai

Producer: Vu Mai

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

Veruca is just an average serial dater lost in the monotony of her everyday life. She is in constant search for the typical things in life – love, someone who understands her, power, human body parts. Is it too much to ask?

Original Film Title: SOLIDE

Director’s Name:  Bastien Grivet

Writer’s Name: Bastien Grivet

Producer: Jessica Rossier

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 13 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

SOLIDE is the story of a CrossFit® athlete who recalls the words of her mother, a former great international athlete in the discipline, as she doubts her ability to carry on her mother’s torch.