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2018 Films |
Lemonade
Lemonade is a short documentary featuring one family's innovative solution to having extremely limited resources available for the care and education of adults with Autism in the UAE. Ibrahim, a young Autistic man, benefits from the makeshift home school program that his family has created just for him.
Home for the Holidays
An absentee father faces a harrowing new reality after a long overdue homecoming.
She was Young with Light Eyes
This film describes the sentimental training of a man, or better, the conflicting events that mark his feelings. Ironically, it smiles and moves the spectator into a whirl of characters and real and surreal situations, in which everyone can recognize his part of "X" (the protagonist). X, the feature character, slightly over 30, is an icon that represents all of us. He is one of the few people it Italy that has a chaotic job. All he thinks is integrated into a single question: “Is the truth really in the middle?” We are ask ourselves the same question that X asks every day, while we are surrounded by people who live extreme existences who seem happier than we are, but are locked up in social rules repressed by our most primal instincts. One of the many mid-winter nights that X is bound awake by his insomnia, he hears a prolonged scream of a woman on the street. It is Alessandra, a femme fatal, with Mediterranean features which make her even more fascinating. X thought it was a brief, short- lived encounter, but instead X finds himself waiting for the beautiful Alessandra in his house the next day for one more fleeting encounter. Alessandra doesn’t stand him up, but perhaps something worse, asking him to meet her elsewhere, close to an address that X knows little about. It’s outside the house of Marzi, a Jewish family in Portici, that the young woman will expose the nature of her intentions. Alessandra is in fact a skilled burglar who enters the homes of people illegally, not to steal, but instead obsessively searching for a treasure that she has been hunting for some time. X finds himself involved in Alessandra’s mission, which marks a series of extraordinary and bizarre events over an eight month period. He is faced with tough encounters that defy the life he has now but proposes a new life worth living. X questions himself, is it correct to conquer the extremes or is it justifiable to stay in the middle?
The Magi
The Christmas story told as a modern day suspense thriller.Mary,Joseph,and Jesus (as a 10 year old)are at a festival of lights meanwhile in a garage/ workshop a mid eastern man is working on what appears to be a bomb listening to mid eastern music and saying prayers.He washes his face and grabs the backpack that he has placed whatever he was making and drives to festival. The young family are at the festival in poses that suggest the Holy nature of the boy. The “protagonist” places backpack in a place where the boy notices it and approaches and as tension and music increase suddenly the fireworks start up just as boy reaches into bag and pulls out “gift” which turns out to be a crown instead of the bomb that everyone suspects.Ends with boy wearing crown while everyone around is overwhelmed.
Freedom Tonight
Music video for the song "Freedom Tonight", by Gaëlle Buswel. The week is over, the weekend is here... Having fun is all about new experiences and making new friends !
Brotherly Love
A Brother in the Catholic Church must choose between his vow of celibacy and the man he loves.
Don't Be Cruel
Short Film
If only they were Dreams
A night in the life of a 7th Ward couple fighting through the opiate epidemic currently ravaging New Orleans.
Twin Brothers Worlds Apart
Uplifting drama, based on Kevin Healey’s autobiography, about the lives of two brothers who grew up in 1980’s Stoke-on-Trent with autism. troubled by social attitude’s, bullying and lack of awareness of their disability, it portrays Kevin’s inner thoughts and experiences whilst growing up.
The Portal
The Portal is a heart-warming comedy/fantasy film about friendship and accepting the differences in ourselves and others Stanley, a student at Brigham High School loves magic. His mentor and friend is the high school custodian Mr. Krinklebine who is secretly the gatekeeper of a secret portal at the school and is teaching Stanley about the powers of the magic orb. Stanley and his best friend Robert Anglesmith are the only two who know about this until three mean girls, Stephanie, Sarah and Audrey discover their secret. Mr. Krinklebine decides to teach these kids a lesson by having them go through the magic portal into a world in another dimension, Splorgville High, where they will have the adventure of their lives.
Burn the River Down
Music Video
Jewels of the Gulf
On April 20th 2010, approximately 50 miles from the Louisiana coastline, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig experienced a catastrophic failure that resulted in the largest marine oil spill in history. Over the course of 87 days, an estimated 210 million gallons of oil surged into the Gulf of Mexico from a wellhead nearly one mile deep. Images in the media portrayed the dire consequences to human lives and livelihoods, animals, and shorelines in the northern Gulf. Less visible, but no less important, were the impacts to the Gulf’s deep sea ecosystem. A team of scientists sets out each year since the spill to document the ongoing impacts of the accident on the unique and beautiful deep sea corals that form the basis of diverse biological communities deep beneath the surface.
Bella Would
A man hires a cleaning lady to clean as a surprise to his wife.
The Scary Ham
Two middle-aged sisters sorting through 50 years' worth of family memorabilia reconnect, as they contend with their late father's beloved ham.
Junkyard
Sarah works in a garage at the local junkyard to save up enough money to continue her studies. She spends her spare time fixing an old Renault 4 so that she can take her autistic brother, Adam, to the beach for the first time. After her stepfather steals her pay, she plots her revenge to get her money back and finally fulfill her brother’s dream.
Little Girl
Animated music video of the song Little Girl by Susanna Rose. Haunting dream-folk is brought to life by Jon Lewis' animation.
Fighting Belle
When a sassy Southern belle is jilted at the altar by her fighter fiance, she picks up the boxing gloves to get her revenge.
Last Drink with Sarge
A man says goodbye to his father in this touching remembrance
Driven Blind
Driven Blind follows Dan Parker, a world champion drag racer, as he struggles to adjust to a new reality after a tragic racing accident that left him blind. Though Dan cannot see he has not given up his love of working with his hands, or his love of racing, and is doing everything he can to stay involved in the sport, and stay behind the wheel.
Giving Christmas
Karen hates Christmas until an encounter with a homeless woman changes her perspective.
Eggs and Soldiers
A single Irish Dad forgets the tree on christmas eve. Ned the older son's humanity is challenged when he risks everything to give his younger brother Marco a real Irish Christmas.
Labelled
Eric, an autistic boy, lives in a world that people are born into with labels mapping out their destinies. But Eric’s label is a blank. His subtle perceptions are walled in by misunderstanding and prejudices of the surrounding world. Is there a place in it for the likes of Eric?
Roses are Read
Roses are Read is about three finalists at a poetry competition. Each of the finalists will be called on stage and will recite their poem. The three finalists are: A veteran struggling with PTSD, A Photographer who sees a person's beauty from the inside not the out, and a (true) Holocaust survivor who tells his story when he witnesses teens being bullies. The film is about inner strength and courage. It will inspire others to succeed no matter what obstacles they face.
Whitman, Alabama
Journalist and filmmaker Jennifer Crandall--born in Africa and raised in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Haiti--has spent the past two years traveling across Alabama, filming people from all corners of the state reading from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," an epic poem about American identity. The result is Whitman, Alabama, a 52-part documentary series that reveals the threads that tie us together—as individuals, as states, as a nation, inside of a shared universe. This series is still in development. There are 17 videos produced and published so far. There will be 52 videos in total.
Digital Living
For people with autism, digital media like cell phones and tablets can improve the quality of life. The digital media open up completely new educational opportunities in connection with planning, visualization and manageability. Introduced by Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Denmark.
Team of Brothers
TEAM OF BROTHERS tells the story of Jenna, a young woman who spent her childhood being bullied and isolated, first for her life-threatening peanut allergy that required a separate table at school, Tourette’s syndrome and OCD. She had no friends but her parents, who struggled to help her even as they dealt with their own disabilities. They took her for neurological testing at age fourteen, and she was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis qualified her to receive appropriate educational services, but did little to help her find friends, especially since her school was nearly 20 miles from home. And girls like Jenna often fall through the cracks. As she noted after one especially easy life skill session, “It’s hard to practice social skills with people who have poor social skills.” Where does a person like Jenna find the friendships and social connections everyone craves? One day her mother got a call from Coach Ray of the East Coast Jumbos, a team he started to accommodate his own autistic son. His players were a lot like her and had a variety of disabilities including autism, Down syndrome, and deafness. Jenna tried out and made the team – their only female player (although not by design). Her hockey skills made her a popular teammate, and she gradually gained confidence and began to thrive. At the end of the film she tells us: “When you find something you love, you fit in. And being different can be hard, but it’s definitely okay.”
Memoriam
A nursing home resident with dementia befriends a young musician who helps him rediscover a lost talent.
Birth and Rise of Jazz
The story of jazz and its birth and rise in New Orleans
time and love and I
time and love and I is about a couple who is in a predicament. Amber has to choose between William and the career of her dreams (between time and love). What is her choice? All footage shot on iPhone 7 Plus.
Falling South
Charlotte puts Rochester in the rear view as she runs away from the life she has known. She has never been on her own and doesn't know if she'll make it as her resources are stripped away. She meets diverse women who offer connection, insight, and laughter on the road to Florida and a possible new life.
Quiver
Suzanne’s grief transcends the boundaries of the natural world and arouses a primordial being. She courts this ghost, using intellect and desire to forge a union between them. Quiver melds horror and passion with Virginia Woolf’s idea of a woman requiring a ‘room of her own’ in which to uncover her true identity. Can Suzanne force a rift into the supernatural realm to build a space where she can coexist with what haunts her?
Life in Ab Minor
A musician on the autism spectrum makes one final push to keep her dreams alive - no matter the cost.
In-Between
What happens in the last few minutes of brain activity after someone dies? The inspiration for this short film derives directly from that statement. The film itself is about a young man who has awoken, after he has died, in a life center. Wyatt, our young man, struggles with the fact that he has passed; he is stuck in this purgatory, set in a life center, until he reaches his evaluation day. Along the way, Wyatt meets an unlikely friend, Petey, who helps Wyatt come to terms with his early passing and find the beauty in life even when it has been lost.
THERE
A punishment boy imprisoned in his room, uses his imagination to free himself and travel far away, somewhere else, there.
Ultra Attachment
A mother obsesses over her cell phone, loses her individuality, and transforms into the entertainer she adores.
Any Last Words
Caroline's depression has pushed away her husband Donovan Davis and her best friend Faith Accurso. Now she has inadvertently pushed them toward each other. Filled with vengeance, can she be swayed by three simple words?
A Soldiers Rest
Some soldiers return from battle. Others never return. Even others return physically, but never really return. Follow the story of a soldier who battles all three. "All for the Greater Good" Kevin.
IT Girl
When Quinn dreamed of joining the Agency as an IT analyst, she imagined a life of solving near-impossible technical problems for the brightest minds the Agency had. The reality is somewhat different.
Lemonade is a short documentary featuring one family's innovative solution to having extremely limited resources available for the care and education of adults with Autism in the UAE. Ibrahim, a young Autistic man, benefits from the makeshift home school program that his family has created just for him.
Home for the Holidays
An absentee father faces a harrowing new reality after a long overdue homecoming.
She was Young with Light Eyes
This film describes the sentimental training of a man, or better, the conflicting events that mark his feelings. Ironically, it smiles and moves the spectator into a whirl of characters and real and surreal situations, in which everyone can recognize his part of "X" (the protagonist). X, the feature character, slightly over 30, is an icon that represents all of us. He is one of the few people it Italy that has a chaotic job. All he thinks is integrated into a single question: “Is the truth really in the middle?” We are ask ourselves the same question that X asks every day, while we are surrounded by people who live extreme existences who seem happier than we are, but are locked up in social rules repressed by our most primal instincts. One of the many mid-winter nights that X is bound awake by his insomnia, he hears a prolonged scream of a woman on the street. It is Alessandra, a femme fatal, with Mediterranean features which make her even more fascinating. X thought it was a brief, short- lived encounter, but instead X finds himself waiting for the beautiful Alessandra in his house the next day for one more fleeting encounter. Alessandra doesn’t stand him up, but perhaps something worse, asking him to meet her elsewhere, close to an address that X knows little about. It’s outside the house of Marzi, a Jewish family in Portici, that the young woman will expose the nature of her intentions. Alessandra is in fact a skilled burglar who enters the homes of people illegally, not to steal, but instead obsessively searching for a treasure that she has been hunting for some time. X finds himself involved in Alessandra’s mission, which marks a series of extraordinary and bizarre events over an eight month period. He is faced with tough encounters that defy the life he has now but proposes a new life worth living. X questions himself, is it correct to conquer the extremes or is it justifiable to stay in the middle?
The Magi
The Christmas story told as a modern day suspense thriller.Mary,Joseph,and Jesus (as a 10 year old)are at a festival of lights meanwhile in a garage/ workshop a mid eastern man is working on what appears to be a bomb listening to mid eastern music and saying prayers.He washes his face and grabs the backpack that he has placed whatever he was making and drives to festival. The young family are at the festival in poses that suggest the Holy nature of the boy. The “protagonist” places backpack in a place where the boy notices it and approaches and as tension and music increase suddenly the fireworks start up just as boy reaches into bag and pulls out “gift” which turns out to be a crown instead of the bomb that everyone suspects.Ends with boy wearing crown while everyone around is overwhelmed.
Freedom Tonight
Music video for the song "Freedom Tonight", by Gaëlle Buswel. The week is over, the weekend is here... Having fun is all about new experiences and making new friends !
Brotherly Love
A Brother in the Catholic Church must choose between his vow of celibacy and the man he loves.
Don't Be Cruel
Short Film
If only they were Dreams
A night in the life of a 7th Ward couple fighting through the opiate epidemic currently ravaging New Orleans.
Twin Brothers Worlds Apart
Uplifting drama, based on Kevin Healey’s autobiography, about the lives of two brothers who grew up in 1980’s Stoke-on-Trent with autism. troubled by social attitude’s, bullying and lack of awareness of their disability, it portrays Kevin’s inner thoughts and experiences whilst growing up.
The Portal
The Portal is a heart-warming comedy/fantasy film about friendship and accepting the differences in ourselves and others Stanley, a student at Brigham High School loves magic. His mentor and friend is the high school custodian Mr. Krinklebine who is secretly the gatekeeper of a secret portal at the school and is teaching Stanley about the powers of the magic orb. Stanley and his best friend Robert Anglesmith are the only two who know about this until three mean girls, Stephanie, Sarah and Audrey discover their secret. Mr. Krinklebine decides to teach these kids a lesson by having them go through the magic portal into a world in another dimension, Splorgville High, where they will have the adventure of their lives.
Burn the River Down
Music Video
Jewels of the Gulf
On April 20th 2010, approximately 50 miles from the Louisiana coastline, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig experienced a catastrophic failure that resulted in the largest marine oil spill in history. Over the course of 87 days, an estimated 210 million gallons of oil surged into the Gulf of Mexico from a wellhead nearly one mile deep. Images in the media portrayed the dire consequences to human lives and livelihoods, animals, and shorelines in the northern Gulf. Less visible, but no less important, were the impacts to the Gulf’s deep sea ecosystem. A team of scientists sets out each year since the spill to document the ongoing impacts of the accident on the unique and beautiful deep sea corals that form the basis of diverse biological communities deep beneath the surface.
Bella Would
A man hires a cleaning lady to clean as a surprise to his wife.
The Scary Ham
Two middle-aged sisters sorting through 50 years' worth of family memorabilia reconnect, as they contend with their late father's beloved ham.
Junkyard
Sarah works in a garage at the local junkyard to save up enough money to continue her studies. She spends her spare time fixing an old Renault 4 so that she can take her autistic brother, Adam, to the beach for the first time. After her stepfather steals her pay, she plots her revenge to get her money back and finally fulfill her brother’s dream.
Little Girl
Animated music video of the song Little Girl by Susanna Rose. Haunting dream-folk is brought to life by Jon Lewis' animation.
Fighting Belle
When a sassy Southern belle is jilted at the altar by her fighter fiance, she picks up the boxing gloves to get her revenge.
Last Drink with Sarge
A man says goodbye to his father in this touching remembrance
Driven Blind
Driven Blind follows Dan Parker, a world champion drag racer, as he struggles to adjust to a new reality after a tragic racing accident that left him blind. Though Dan cannot see he has not given up his love of working with his hands, or his love of racing, and is doing everything he can to stay involved in the sport, and stay behind the wheel.
Giving Christmas
Karen hates Christmas until an encounter with a homeless woman changes her perspective.
Eggs and Soldiers
A single Irish Dad forgets the tree on christmas eve. Ned the older son's humanity is challenged when he risks everything to give his younger brother Marco a real Irish Christmas.
Labelled
Eric, an autistic boy, lives in a world that people are born into with labels mapping out their destinies. But Eric’s label is a blank. His subtle perceptions are walled in by misunderstanding and prejudices of the surrounding world. Is there a place in it for the likes of Eric?
Roses are Read
Roses are Read is about three finalists at a poetry competition. Each of the finalists will be called on stage and will recite their poem. The three finalists are: A veteran struggling with PTSD, A Photographer who sees a person's beauty from the inside not the out, and a (true) Holocaust survivor who tells his story when he witnesses teens being bullies. The film is about inner strength and courage. It will inspire others to succeed no matter what obstacles they face.
Whitman, Alabama
Journalist and filmmaker Jennifer Crandall--born in Africa and raised in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Haiti--has spent the past two years traveling across Alabama, filming people from all corners of the state reading from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," an epic poem about American identity. The result is Whitman, Alabama, a 52-part documentary series that reveals the threads that tie us together—as individuals, as states, as a nation, inside of a shared universe. This series is still in development. There are 17 videos produced and published so far. There will be 52 videos in total.
Digital Living
For people with autism, digital media like cell phones and tablets can improve the quality of life. The digital media open up completely new educational opportunities in connection with planning, visualization and manageability. Introduced by Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Denmark.
Team of Brothers
TEAM OF BROTHERS tells the story of Jenna, a young woman who spent her childhood being bullied and isolated, first for her life-threatening peanut allergy that required a separate table at school, Tourette’s syndrome and OCD. She had no friends but her parents, who struggled to help her even as they dealt with their own disabilities. They took her for neurological testing at age fourteen, and she was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. The diagnosis qualified her to receive appropriate educational services, but did little to help her find friends, especially since her school was nearly 20 miles from home. And girls like Jenna often fall through the cracks. As she noted after one especially easy life skill session, “It’s hard to practice social skills with people who have poor social skills.” Where does a person like Jenna find the friendships and social connections everyone craves? One day her mother got a call from Coach Ray of the East Coast Jumbos, a team he started to accommodate his own autistic son. His players were a lot like her and had a variety of disabilities including autism, Down syndrome, and deafness. Jenna tried out and made the team – their only female player (although not by design). Her hockey skills made her a popular teammate, and she gradually gained confidence and began to thrive. At the end of the film she tells us: “When you find something you love, you fit in. And being different can be hard, but it’s definitely okay.”
Memoriam
A nursing home resident with dementia befriends a young musician who helps him rediscover a lost talent.
Birth and Rise of Jazz
The story of jazz and its birth and rise in New Orleans
time and love and I
time and love and I is about a couple who is in a predicament. Amber has to choose between William and the career of her dreams (between time and love). What is her choice? All footage shot on iPhone 7 Plus.
Falling South
Charlotte puts Rochester in the rear view as she runs away from the life she has known. She has never been on her own and doesn't know if she'll make it as her resources are stripped away. She meets diverse women who offer connection, insight, and laughter on the road to Florida and a possible new life.
Quiver
Suzanne’s grief transcends the boundaries of the natural world and arouses a primordial being. She courts this ghost, using intellect and desire to forge a union between them. Quiver melds horror and passion with Virginia Woolf’s idea of a woman requiring a ‘room of her own’ in which to uncover her true identity. Can Suzanne force a rift into the supernatural realm to build a space where she can coexist with what haunts her?
Life in Ab Minor
A musician on the autism spectrum makes one final push to keep her dreams alive - no matter the cost.
In-Between
What happens in the last few minutes of brain activity after someone dies? The inspiration for this short film derives directly from that statement. The film itself is about a young man who has awoken, after he has died, in a life center. Wyatt, our young man, struggles with the fact that he has passed; he is stuck in this purgatory, set in a life center, until he reaches his evaluation day. Along the way, Wyatt meets an unlikely friend, Petey, who helps Wyatt come to terms with his early passing and find the beauty in life even when it has been lost.
THERE
A punishment boy imprisoned in his room, uses his imagination to free himself and travel far away, somewhere else, there.
Ultra Attachment
A mother obsesses over her cell phone, loses her individuality, and transforms into the entertainer she adores.
Any Last Words
Caroline's depression has pushed away her husband Donovan Davis and her best friend Faith Accurso. Now she has inadvertently pushed them toward each other. Filled with vengeance, can she be swayed by three simple words?
A Soldiers Rest
Some soldiers return from battle. Others never return. Even others return physically, but never really return. Follow the story of a soldier who battles all three. "All for the Greater Good" Kevin.
IT Girl
When Quinn dreamed of joining the Agency as an IT analyst, she imagined a life of solving near-impossible technical problems for the brightest minds the Agency had. The reality is somewhat different.