We received so many excellent projects from filmmakers around the world for our inaugural event. Here is the first round of official selections for 2024. Projects can still be submitted and considered if you enter by the late deadline (Feb. 29, 2024).
Winners will be announced at the live event awards ceremony on April 7th, 2024.
SELECTED MUSIC VIDEOS:
4 OF YOU (CANADA / MEXICO)
Director: LOAD
CAR COLORS - OLD DEATH (USA)
Director: Kyle Garrett
DON'T (UK)
Directors: Wendy Lee Taylor, Aniez, Ch'Lu (as Camilla Mathias)
NO RETURN (MEXICO)
Director: Yail Haziel Vázquez López
SHOT! (MEXICO)
Director: Krossover PDC
THE GIRL WHO FADED AWAY (USA)
Director: Brent Heise
THEY DON'T KNOW I'M COMING (COSTA RICA)
Director: Jonathan Morales Searles
UNWIND - JAMES DOWNHAM (CANADA)
Director: Jake Sauve
WHATS THE DEAL? (USA)
Director: Constanza E. Godoy, Brett W. Vance
The Escence of the Guaguanco
(BELGIUM / CUBA)
Director: Jairo Valeria Mosqueira
SELECTED SCREENPLAYS:
TEAM BONDING
Writer: Mike Ede
THE ARCHITECHT OF THE FUTURE
Writer: Micheal D Eerdmans
TRICKSTER
Writer: Rob York
Join us for a special Q&A session from the directors of the festival as they present two of their own internationally award winning films in addition to Alan G, Parker's classic "Who Killed Nancy?" featuring local resident and star of the film Steve Dior.
SPECIAL SESSION:
AS ORGANISM
Director: Moe Taylor
KOH PHANGAN MAN
Director: Dewey Paul Moffitt
WHO KILLED NANCY?
Director: Alan G. Parker
Starring: Steve Dior
SELECTED FEATURE FILMS:
BUMPER (INDIA)
Director: Selvakumar M
It's the journey of a man who will do anything for money and a man who will do anything for humanity!
LISSA'S TRIP (USA)
Director: Jeffery Lando
Lissa’s Trip takes you on a wild ride through the streets of Los Angeles with an actress who accidentally took a lot of acid before a crucial audition.
ROSWELL DELIRIUM (USA)
Director: Richard Bakewell
During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks, and after the fallout those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they are all experiencing radiation poisoning.
THE ANNOYED (IRAN)
Director: Mehdi Fard Ghaderi
The film centres around three directors trying to make a film about social problems of violence and abuse against women and executions.
SELECTED DOCUMENTARY FEATURES:
DAUGHTERS OF MAGUEY (MEXICO / PORTUGAL)
Director: Francisca Siza
The story of a group of women who decided to break a male monopoly. Despite their historical involvement in the production of agave distillates, archaic traditions and beliefs have kept women under another glass ceiling.
FROM ZERO TO A HUNDRED (USA)
Director: Matteo Banfo
An inspirational feature-length film that explores the life-changing journey of high school students engaged in the Winners Circle Project.
LA PIPERA (MEXCIO)
Director: Miguel Perez
With personal testimonies and archive footage, this documentary tells the story of a great woman who for almost 40 years traveled the highways of Mexico.
MENTAWAI - ALMAS DEL BOSQUE (INDONESIA / GERMANY / SPANISH)
Director: Joachim Peter
The last indigenous people of the Mentawai archipelago in Indonesia are fighting for the preservation of their culture and the rainforest in Mentawai.
SAVING WALDEN'S WORLD (CUBA / INDIA / ASIA / USA)
Directors: James Merkel, Deborah Shaffer
When a young arms dealer discovers his work is harming families in less affluent societies, he has an ethical crisis and begins a decades-long journey to redeem himself and make the world a better place.
SITTING IN THE FIRE (USA)
Directors: Alec Goldberg, Boson Wang
‘Sitting in the Fire’ examines the spillover effect of rehabilitation programs in prison, on gun violence prevention in communities.
TAKE YOUR SPACE (MEXICO / COLUMBIA / CZECH REP / GERMANY / UK)
Director: Karolína Alvarez
The first feature-length documentary on Mexican urban art and graffiti based on the coexistence of the community of Mexican urban artists, is independent and one hundred percent free in its expression.
THE TRAIN & THE PENINSULA (MEXICO)
Directors: Sky Richards, Andreas Kruger Foncerrada
The Train and the Peninsula is an intimate portrait of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as the controversial railway megaproject known as the "Mayan Train" is being built.
SELECTED DOCUMENTARY SHORTS:
ARMED WITH A BRUSH (CHILE / NETHERLANDS)
Director: Nèma van Raalte
A documentary portraying the works and lives of Chilean street art movement Brigada Ramona Parra (BRP).
BICYCLE HERO (NEPAL)
Directors: Gopal Shivakoti, Govinda Siwakoti
Pushkar Shah (Nepali) set off for a world bicycle tour with the message of peace, he cycled around 150 different countries and collected their national flags.
DEB'S STUDIO (UK / FRENCH ISLANDS)
Director: Miguel OCTAVE
Debs Studio tells the story of Henri Debs and how he developed the music industry in the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
I'M A GIRL, I'M A BOY (IRAN)
Director: Maziyar Koopidar
Making the headlines after a glorious sporting achievement is always a coveted dream for any athlete. However, for Zohreh Koudaei, it was followed by a painful sequence of events. The female Iranian international, who has had to plow her way through difficulties all her life, found herself facing an unprecedented challenge.
MONEY MAKER: SAYGIN YALCIN EN (Germany / Europe)
Directors: Johannes Thuermer, Martina Schuster
He wanted to become a millionaire so he could help his seriously ill sister. Today, Saygin Yalcin owns various companies around the world. The entrepreneur, who was born in Bremen in Germany and has Turkish roots, runs his companies from Dubai and invests in numerous start-ups.
THE POWER OF ONE (USA / COLUMBIA)
*trailer submission only*
Directors: Alex Valdez
A team of documentary filmmakers travel to an unknown ecological sanctuary deep in the jungles of Colombia, where a conservationist planted 10,000 trees in a deforested field to rebuild an ecosystem for endangered animals.
VORTEX (Australia)
Director: Chris Tangey
Driven by relentless heat, these desert wanderers hurl whatever gets in their way high into the sky. Dirt, sand, ash ... and even fire! Music composer Quinten Coblentz "Zaphenath-Paneah" through Artlist.
SELECTED SHORT FILMS:
5/3/0 (SERBIA)
Director: Danilo Stanimirović
A LATINO HOLLYWOOD NIGHTMARE (MEXICO)
Director: Jeff Valdez
BETWEEN THE WORDS (LUXEMBOURG)
Director: Farid Ismail
CASH ON DELIVERY (SRI LANKA)
Director: Udara Buddika Wijesinghe
DATING AUDREY (USA)
Director: Dan Hertzog
DEATH ANNIVERSARY (IRAN)
Director: Armin Keshvari
DOMINO SPRINGS (USA)
Director: Dan Hertzog
EXPENSES (USA)
Director: Gary Fieldman
FATIH THE CONQUEROR (FRANCE / TURKISH)
Director: Onur Yagiz
FRED THE SUPER COMPUTER (USA)
Director: Sam Kimbrell
INSIGHT (USA)
Director: Abey Lin
PLANET OF RUST (CYPRUS)
Director: George Merabishvili
SORAYA (IRAN)
Director: Maryam Rahimi
SPOOKY CREW (USA)
Director: Erin Broussard
THE TRANSIENCE (IRAN)
Directors: ipek shahbazi, ario motevaghe
THE VOLCANO AND THE BABY (SWITZERLAND / FRANCE)
Director: Danielle Jaeggi
UNDER COVER (NEW ZEALAND)
Director: Guillaume Arnoulet
VANCE AND THE AFTERLIFE (USA)
Director: Sam Kimbrell
YOU THINK ALTHOUGH YOU ARE NOT (IRAN)
Director: Salaheddin Noori
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS:
ANCIENT LORE (GERMANY)
Director: Patrick Müller
BERLIN (USA)
Director:Ashley Bogley
*student film*
GULAG EROS OF THE RUSSIAN MIND: SEX IN THE SOVIET UNION (UKRAINE)
Director: Chad Garcia
HERCULES RECYCLED 2.0 (USA / ITALY)
Director: Don Moriarty, Greg Alt
R.d. Cane's 52 Thursdays (CANADA)
Director: R.d. Cane
Who Is God? (MEXICO)
Oscar Adan Lopez Parres
