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Original Film Title: Jenna The Great
Director’s Name: Dan Tonkin
Writer’s Name: Dan Tonkin, KT Parker
Producer: Dan Tonkin
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 38 minutes 45 seconds
Film Description:
A cocky student accidentally conjures young philosopher Aristotle into our present and seizes her chance to cheat through her exams.
Original Film Title: R.L Allman’s Peter Pan
Director’s Name: Ronald Lee Allman
Writer’s Name: Ronald Lee Allman, Alex May
Producer: Claire Fontana, Rex Wheeler
Country of Origin: USA
Country of Filming: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 25 minutes
Film Description:
With a dark, whimsical twist, we retell the story of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up. In this live-action modern version, San Francisco stands in as Neverland and we introduce Peter before his conflict with Hooke and take you on a wild ride around the gritty city of Neverland. You will meet the Lost Boys, Peter’s Street Gang, and many of your favorite Neverland characters, including a totally reimagined Tinker Bell. She still has wings and an attitude but is way more fabulous.
Original Film Title: Masked NYC
Director’s Name: AJ Stetson
Writer’s Name: AJ Stetson
Producer: AJ Stetson
Country of Origin: USA
Country of Filming: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 3 minutes 4 seconds
Film Description:
Since recovering from COVID-19 in April of 2020, AJ Stetson has created portraits of more than one thousand New Yorkers wearing masks, to share their radiance, resilience, and empathy during this challenging time.
Original Film Title: Brave New World
Director’s Name: Yantra de Vilder
Writer’s Name: Yantra de Vilder
Producer: Yantra de Vilder
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
Film Description:
Written during the pandemic of 2021, this film is inspired by humanity and is call to rise now into our bravery by going beyond divisions.
Original Film Title: Jack Be Nimble
Director’s Name: Steve Wollett
Writer’s Name: Steve Wollett
Producer: Steve Wollett, Bai Ling, Vernon Wells
Country of Origin: USA
Country of Filming: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes
Film Description:
Old gamers living together in an assisted living facility, what could possibly go wrong? When a friend dies, they embark on a journey of discovery that may or may not be real.
Original Film Title: 使者之路
Director’s Name: Ayo (Hsin-Yu in Chinese) Liu
Writer’s Name: Bettina Yang
Producer: Bettina Yang
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Filming: Denmark, France, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes 21 seconds
Film Description:
THE UNINTENDED JOURNEY tells the story behind a forgotten professor who transformed international relations during his oversea missions for Taiwan. He rose from a high school teacher to the architect of a national university in education, but service to his adopted homeland Taiwan placed him in unexpected situations on the world stage that led to a life of adventure he never intended. The Speaker of the Danish Parliament calls him a close friend. The Thai Foreign Minister went on secret missions with him to the Middle East. When ethnic bias and power rifts overshadowed his journey, he forged ahead in education, even founding Chinese language schools in countries where they were banned. This first documentary by Taiwanese Director Ayo Liu, highlights dimensions of humanity of a forgotten emissary, the missions he built from Europe to Asia, and the ordinary lives he touched along the journey with extraordinary stories…
Original Film Title: Grydscaen: scout eve (Episode 3)
Director’s Name: Natsuya Uesugi DuBois
Writer’s Name: Natsuya Uesugi DuBois
Producer: Natsuya Uesugi DuBois
Country of Origin: USA
Country of Filming: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 2 minutes 19 seconds
Film Description:
When the world’s democracies teetered too close to the sun unleashing nuclear war plunging the world into veiled autocracy radioactive fallout killing millions, those that survived developed psychic powers. Afraid those powers would threaten control, the Elite Government passed oppressive Article 15 Thought Crime laws unopposed for fear of retaliation to maintain the social order. But it was one voice, outspoken opposition leader of the Packrat hackers, Faid Callen with nothing to lose who dared risk everything to change the world in a fight for equality and justice he’d need a miracle to win.
Original Film Title: Luna
Director’s Name: Jacopo Matteo Golizia
Writer’s Name: Margherita Giusti Hazon
Producer: Jacopo Matteo Golizia, Margherita Giusti Hazon
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: Italian
Runtime: 15 minutes
Film Description:
LUNA tells the story of several lives, lives that intertwine over the course of a long night. Nicolò and Camilla are two young lovers who have not yet managed to open up to each other, out of fear, pride, insecurities. Camilla plays the piano to dare a sense of emptiness, Nicolò has grown up too quickly, he is always tough but inside he suffers, and does not know how to share his insecurities. Luna, on the other hand, is a tormented girl who has lost her mother, very lonely, deep, thoughtful. An outsider who spends her days walking around the city with headphones in her ears. Will these three existences meet by pure chance (or destiny?) and their lives will never be the same ever since. A music box will be the object that will unite these stories, a sort of magical door that will give access to something unknown and mysterious.
Original Film Title: Chronos
Director’s Name: GUI MERLINO
Writer’s Name: GUI MERLINO
Producer: GUI MERLINO, Felipe Cavassin, Carolina Sauceda
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 19 minutes
Film Description:
At the peak of the pandemic, in quarantine, all means of communication stop working. Without being able to contact anybody, in complete solitude, a woman is forced to face your most deep traumas to manage this new world.
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