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TRYON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 7 OCT. 8-10 2021

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Dear Friends and Fellow Filmmakers, Hello and welcome to the 2021 Tryon International Film Festival (TRIFF).

The last seven years, we have thrown everything we have at the film festival. Certainly, our target has always been the three-day event that occurs in early October, when our festival comes alive in person, virtually or as a mixture of both. From the moment the prior festival wraps up, our work begins in earnest for the next festival.

We work on TRIFF in some form or fashion every day of the year. But through all the exhaustive efforts required, we do it with a huge degree of excitement and passion. Through thick and thin, we manage to push harder each year, even though family tragedy, health challenges and worldwide pandemic. Often, we ask ourselves what motivates us so much to do this and always the answer comes quickly. We do it because we love it.

Our entire staff and year-round volunteers smile while we work because of the pride we have in this unique event. We smile because we know how TRIFF impacts our community, the film industry, filmmakers, actors, producers, and spectators around the world.

Every year brings us something bold, beautiful, fresh, and new in the form of stunning stories, impactful documentaries, and gorgeous visual arts.

But TRIFF is even bigger than that. TRIFF brings you here, so that we can take you there. We produce TRIFF because of the smiles it puts on everyone’s faces who ultimately become part of our annual celebration. We do this also because of our love for people. Smiles bring more smiles, which then increases the amount of positive energy in our ever-challenging world.

So welcome to the 2021 Tryon International Film Festival and share a smile with us.

Sincerely, Kirk Gollwitzer and Beau Menetre Polk County Film Initiative 501(c)(3) Non-profit status

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JOHNATHAN host on television, and as KEVIN BERNHARDT – BROWNLEEproducer – a supervising in Kevin has worked on more film, BrownleeBrownlee founded Johnathan than 30 very different Torfoot Films in 2010 to is an award-winning screenplays, resulted in write and direct more produced films. They range Canadian-American narrative features. from commercial action to director, producer,He serves as president and critically and spiritually acwriter, and actor with CEO of Torfoot, an awardclaimed. As a writer, he has a diverse, winning film,international television had four films with budgets body of workwith spanning offices up to $30 million shoot – in just the last five years, with and digital content production company more than 20 years.

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After her unabashedly risqué performances in her youth, Patti has worked steadily in film and television series in the United States and France. In 1987, she won a Drama-Logue Award as Best Actress for her stage performance in Italian American Reconciliation (1987). She was well known for her role as Lt. Virginia Cooper on the FOX series New York Undercover.

STEVEN directedESTEB commer-– Steven is a versatile cials, music videos, filmmaker whoand has documentaries worked as an actor, features. Esteb’s film a “Hate Hollywood Crime”screenwon writer and director both Best Feature of commercials, music and Human Right & videos, Dignitydocumentacategories ries, in theand 2016features.

Tryon International Film Festival. Other His film “Hate Crime” won both Best Feature films include DIRTY POLITICS, a dark comedy starring and Human Right & Dignity categories in the 2016 Judd Nelson, Beau Bridges, Howard Hesseman.

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GREGG JAMBACK & JAMIE HUSS – Gregg is a film and video professional.

For more than thirty years his work has been seen on broadcast outlets, such as NatGeo, Animal Planet, ESPN, public television, and others.

His clients have included corporations, such as IBM, Amex, Pitney Bowes, Deloitte & Touche, and many others. Institutional clients include numerous foundations such as the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Winston-Salem Foundation, Save the Children, and non-profits.

As a filmmaker Gregg has produced independent projects, including Discover Yourself with the Enneagram, The Little America’s Cup Challenge, Peelers, Busters, and Soft Shell Crabs (broadcast on UNCTV), The Real Cost of Coal, and Greg Taylor – Ghost.

Awards have included “Best of the Fest” – Down East Flick Fest, “Judge’s Choice” – Eastern North Carolina Film Festival, and “Best Documentary” – Rugged Phoenix Underground Film Festival.

honed interview skills used when dealing with confidential, traumatic, or emotional subjects. A longstanding commitment to social justice issues led her to devote four years to a local foundation where she focused her energies on donor development, re- branding, and creating marketing materials (producing three annual fundraising testimonial videos) HOMAYRA SELLIER – Founder of Innocence in Danger (IID) – IID is an international child protection organization, operating in nine countries (France, United Kingdom, Colombia, Germany, Switzerland, United States of America, Austria, Iran, and Morocco). Since Sellier is multilingual, fluent in Spanish, French, English and Farsi, she will also be selecting all films submitted to the Human Rights and Dignity category. Sellier has been devoting her life to human rights issues, thus she is well suited for the task.

Over the years, Sellier’s organization has utilized television documentaries, billboard campaigns and other media platforms to help raise awareness on human abuse. A number of the French, Swiss, and German films and visual works that Sellier and her offices have been involved with have been nominated for the PRIX DEBOUZY, one of France’s most prestigious awards, and short films/spots at Cannes film competition categories. Sellier was also the primary inspiration for “Illegitimate Advantage” a 2016 novel written by Kirk Gollwitzer, the cofounder of TRIFF. Sellier and Gollwitzer are actively working together to adapt the novel to a major motion picture.

Jamie has worked as a producing partner at Swiftwater Media on three independent productions (and consulted on many others).

Discover Yourself with the Enneagram – 2001 The Real Cost of Coal – 2010 Greg Taylor – Ghost – 2014 With 11 years’ experience in a Fortune 500 corporate position involving communications, presentations, and training sessions, spanning all levels of employees and executives, she is comfortable with organizing materials for comprehension and meeting new people-skills critical to a film festival.

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Friday Night Gala Reception Friday, October 8th • 5-10 pm Tryon Fine Arts Center - 34 Melrose Avenue, Tryon, NC Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments Into the Light (01:13:00) USA - Best Full Length Documentary In the 1980s Chuck Connelly was recognized as a key figure among the New York-based Neo-expressionist painters. This film captures Chuck at his essence: manically painting, smoking in a deteriorating claustrophobic home packed with over 5000 original works, and trying to overcome a lifetime of failures, regret, and missed opportunities.

Saturday Night Special Screenings Saturday, October 9th • 8 pm Tryon Theatre, 45 South Trade Street

8:00pm - Cowboys (01:20:00) USA - Best Full Length Documentary Film Logline: In an age of breathtaking change, rapid urbanization, and a daily news cycle, it’s hard to imagine an existence almost entirely divorced from that reality. Yet, COWBOYS: A Documentary Portrait reveals a fascinating way of life tied uniquely to the natural environment and capricious thousand-pound animals. Filmed on location in the most remote parts of the American West, COWBOYS paints an intimate portrait of a surprisingly diverse and eloquent group of men and women committed to a harsh reality while feeding a population they’re likely never to encounter. COWBOYS grants audiences rare access to a world so compelling and unique that viewers can’t help but look at their own lives anew and marvel at how America’s most distinctive and eulogized profession has survived into the 21st century.

7:30 pm • Tryon Fine Arts Center (Veh Stage) The Final Stand (02:16:00) Russia -Best Full Length Feature Film / HR&D October 1941. Fascist hordes rush to Moscow. As a result of the breakthrough of the defensive line on one of the direct highways, there were no regular units of the Red Army left and the invaders were able to move in freely. Soviet High command decides to close the gap with cadets from the Podolsk infantry and artillery schools, many of whom were about 18 years old. Their task is to hold out for five days until the reserves arrive. The cadets held out for twelve… Аt a cost of their lives, they did not allow the enemy to reach Moscow, and thereby changed the course of war.

The film is about heroism, about love, about true friendship. A large number of real military equipment of the 1940s was involved in the filming.

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Our Gala Celebrity MC ... ALEX SCOTT

Alex Scott is known for the quick wit he brings to the stage. Scott’s ability to come up with jokes off the top of his head and connect with the crowd keeps him winning open mic competitions. The first time Scott ever touched the mic, he won second place in the DC Comedian of the Year contest. This was the motivation that drove Scott to move to New York City. Homeless and alone, Alex slept in Central Park for two days. Not giving up on his dream, Alex ended up staying for three years, performing at some of the hottest clubs in New York, such as Stand Up NY, Boston Comedy Club, and the Uptown Comedy Club. Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Alex moved back to D.C. and won the 2003 Kings and Queens of Comedy contest. Scott has appeared on BET’s Comic View and Grins, a local D.C. cable TV comedy showcase. He is becoming one of the hottest comedians in D.C. and can be seen performing in clubs and colleges from New York to Atlanta.

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TRIFF SCREENING, WORKSHOP,AND PARTY VENUES Historic Tryon Theatre Film Screenings Tryon Fine Arts Center Veh Stage, Mahler Room & Pavilion Room - Film Screenings & Workshops Lanier Library Workshops Rogers Park Workshops

Lavender Bistro Tito's Vodka Experience - Sat. Night Carri Bass Photography Studio Laurel of Asheville & WTZQ Party - Sat. Night Mcgourty's Pub Upcountry Brewing Party - Sat. Night The Nest Artisan Market Mountain Brook Vineyards Party -Sat. Night

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A Handful of Water KONRAD (85) has plenty of reasons for being grumpy. His wife died recently and now his only daughter even talks about adopting her girlfriend’s kids! He doesn’t approve.

THURBA (12) has a very different set of problems. In order to avoid deportation as a Dublin-Case she must jump from the second floor and run. But now she’s alone, out on the streets, in October... At night, Konrad hears something from the basement, arms himself with a nail gun and fires into the dark. He shoots little Thurba, who cries out in pain. Konrad is completely jumbled, this can’t be happening! Somehow this girl gets to him, touches long lost feelings of his own past and makes him dependent on somebody else’s luck again. Thurba needs to get to England. So she proposes a deal...

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Body of Water Body of Water explores how women self-identify in a world that presents us with constantly conflicting perceptions of what it is to be female. It examines the destructive nature of eating disorders and body dysmorphia within a narrative film framework. Stephanie, a woman in her mid-thirties, is trying to overcome chronic anorexia in order to re-establish her relationship with her daughter, Pearl. Pearl now lives with Stephanie’s mother, Susan and her fiancee Annette. The burden of Stephanie’s illness puts pressure on their relationship, with Pearl angry at her mother but also hopeful that Stephanie is getting better. Stephanie is also challenged by a tension quietly simmering between herself and Susan, while attempts to find solace in a relationship with her nurse, Shaun, invite more turmoil. continued...

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Tangled 8 Tangled 8 is eight adaptations of the same script.

The film explores the ways in which people of diverse social backgrounds, races and age manage grief through its different phases.

Originally conceived as a single short film, director John E. Seymore reimagined the piece as an anthology feature, based partly on the musical concept of variations on a theme. The script remains largely the same, but the action, visualization, situation and sound vary greatly with each new vignette. Finally, Tangled 8 is a film about film. It pays homage to John Ford, Woody Allen, Peter Greenaway and other filmmakers who have created the visual and thematic language of modern cinema.

Botox Akram and Azar, two sisters, lie about the disappearance of their brother by telling everyone he has fled to Germany. As time goes by, however, the “lie” turns into “reality” in Akram’s mind, so that she believes her brother will come back.

Rescued Tom Connelly is barely coping with the tragic loss of his family and searching for something that can ease his despair. He adopts a dog named Ruby, who is also looking for a second chance.

Owning Ruby quickly leads Tom down an unexpected path that could allow him to save another family from being torn apart - forcing Tom to make a life-changing decision just as his own life has taken a turn for the better.

The Awakening of Lilith A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.

Sabrina - Tortured for Christ, The Nazi Years Great character is sometimes forged amid great turmoil. Sabina: Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years is the story of how God’s love transformed an ambitious, atheistic hedonist into one of the greatest Christian women of the 20th century. The film opens with Sabina Wurmbrand risking her life to show Christ’s love to a trio of Nazi soldiers. Why? Why would a Jewish Christian risk her life to help her enemies – members of the army that killed her entire family? Experience the amazing true story that has redefined the concepts of love and forgiveness for millions around the world.

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together live musical performances from Native Son and the personal narratives of Black legacy farmers and land stewards throughout the film. The Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign is a grassroots organizing, popular education, and legal advocacy campaign to rectify the injustices of the Pigford v. Glick class action discrimination lawsuit.

Inspired by David Walker’s impassioned entreaty against the chattel enslavement of Africans in the United States, the Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign is a polemic against yet another form of racialized capitalism–unconscionable debt.

Our coalition is comprised of a multigenerational tribe of farmers, attorneys, writers, artists, and musicians using our diverse magic to bring restorative land justice to our Black legacy farmers. We use diverse strategies to preserve the Black agricultural land base, exploring innovative collaborations that deepen the linkages of music, culture, ecocultural traditions, and cooperative economy to protect Black landownership and stewardship, while raising community awareness, collectivism, and action. We also merge the aims of our campaign with our cooperative economy works with fiber artists, heritage quilters, and keepers of material culture.

AI La | Artificial Intelligence La (Pass) An experienced Silicon Valley engineer who has dedicated his life to Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over a decade felt confused and concerned about his future after realizing the rapid evolution of AI. Therefore, in order to find his potential in nature, he joined an international trekking expedition through the mysterious Caucasus region. Being inspired and protected by Natural Intelligence, he started a new AI journey exploring China, the UK, and the USA. Buzzkill German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG installs a light-hearted mural about bees in the quaint Oakhurst section of Decatur, Georgia.

What they hadn’t bargained on was the community’s offshoot conversation and response about the plight of bees, corporate-sponsored murals, fragile ecology and angry allegations of `greenwashing.’

Restoration: A Concert Film In Spring 2020, the Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund collaborated with the South Carolina Lowcountry hip hop group, Native Son, to create the anthem for our campaign, “The Land.”“The Land” is our generation’s love offering to the beautiful struggle to protect 1.5 million acres of Black farmlands from USDA dispossession. Our work continues to grow with Native Son with Restoration: A Concert Film. The film explores southern Black agrarian stories of self-determination, land ownership, and folkwit; amplifies ongoing struggles for restorative land justice in this country including the Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign; and weaves 24

The Girl Who Wore Freedom THE GIRL WHO WORE FREEDOM brings us to Normandy, France. Once an idyllic landscape, Normandy had succumbed to German invaders who overran its farms, its manors, its countryside.

Here we meet Dany Patrix, Maurice Lecoueur, Henri-Jean Renaud, and others, who recount their unique relationships with the Allied forces who liberated Normandy on June 6, 1944. The journey from occupation to liberation, to acceptance and forgiveness to gratitude and pride, is explored through interviews with French survivors and American veterans in this powerful, personal film that tells stories handed down over two generations. continued...

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lazy, drunk outlaws who are We visit Brecourt Manor, the site of the battle unable to hold a regular job, between the men of Easy Company - known as the wear long beards and have Band of Brothers - and a German battery. We hear longer arrest records with few from the children of D-Day, who were cared for by redeeming qualities except American soldiers after their families were killed in the for their entertainment value. onslaught. We explore the nature of war, of forgiveness, “Spirits” re-looks at moonshine of gratitude through interviews with French survivors history by chronicling the life and American veterans. of the Appalachian farmer, the We travel today’s United States with Flo Plana, who resilient life they lived and the role liquor production seeks out the men of the 101st Airborne Division to collect and curate their stories for the Utah Beach D-Day played in helping them make a living.

Museum. We meet veterans like Ceo Bauer, Brad FreeVinyl Nation man, and Bob DeVinney, who recount their experiences A deep dig into the crates of and the relationships they built over the summer of the vinyl record resurgence to 1944. discover what an old technol Normandy itself is now a living war museum, with ogy says about our relationshrapnel on the beaches, bullet holes in its walls, and ship to music and each other blood staining its church pews. Those that were there in a divided time in America. have vowed never to forget the lessons of World War II and to pass down the value of freedom to their children and their children’s children.

The film closes on contemporary D-Day celebrations of remembrance and gratitude, where French citizens of all ages celebrate those who were and are willing to defend freedom because they, the people of Building Materials Normandy, know all too well that freedom is not free.

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Times Tryon Fine Arts Center (Veh Stage) 5:00pm TRIFF21 Opening Reception & Screening - Into The Light (01:13:00) USA

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Times Tryon Fine Arts Center (Mahler Room) 2:30pm WORKSHOP - The Nuts and Bolts of Filmmaking (01:20:00) Presenter: Frank M. Calo

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12:00pm AI LA (01:21:00) China - Best Full Length Documentary Film 2:00pm The Spirits Still Move Them (58:00) USA - Best Full Length Documentary Film 3:30pm The Girl Who Wore Freedom (01:29:00) USA Best Full Length Documentary Film 5:30pm Sabina - Tortured for Christ, The Nazi Years (01:55:00) USA - Best Full Length Feature Film / HR&D

Special Saturday Feature Film: 8:00pm Cowboys (01:20:00) USA Best Full Length Documentary Film

12:00pm Tangled 8 (01:37:00) USA Best Full Length Feature Film 2:00pm A HANDFUL OF WATER (01:34:00) Germany - Best Full Length Feature Film / HR&D 4:00pm One Pint at a Time (01:28:00) USA - Best Full Length Documentary Film 6:00pm Muni (39:54) USA - Best Short Documentary

Special Saturday Feature Film: 7:00pm The Final Stand (02:16:00) Russia - Best Full Length Feature Film / HR&D

Times Tryon Fine Arts Center (Mahler Room) 12:00pm Oh, Mother of Mine (24:57) USA - Best Student Film 1:00pm Hello Frisco (4:43) United Kingdom Best Student Film 1:30pm The Hidden Trails (9:32) USA - Best Student Film 2:00pm To Eat With Her Hands (4:24) USA Best Student Film / HR&D 2:30pm Book of Babel (8:55) United Kingdom Best Student Film 3:00pm Angora (11:39) USA - Best Student Film 3:30pm Parallax (9:17) USA - Best Student Film 4:00pm Bennie (33:37) USA - Best Short Dramatic Film 5:00pm Buena Onda: the Tale of Ronny Scott (19:25) United Kingdom - Best Short Documentary

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Times 12:00pm The Stupa (34:36) Nepal Best Short Documentary Film 1:00pm Botox (01:37:00) Iran - Best Full Length Feature Film / HR&D 3:00pm Body of Water (01:35:00) United Kingdom - Best Full Length Feature Film 5:00pm Rescued (01:20:00) USA Best Full Length Feature Film

7:00pm TRIFF Awards Ceremony

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12:00pm The Awakening of Lilith (01:22:00) USA - Best Full Length Feature Film 2:00pm TETHERED, ARE WE THE EXPERIMENT? (43:58) USA Best Short Documentary 3:15pm The other side of the coin: Race, Generations & Reconciliation (01:15:00) USA - Best Full Length Documentary Film / HR&D 5:00pm Vinyl Nation (01:32:00) USA - Best Full Length Documentary Film

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12:00pm Belarus: a Raleigh Solidarity Protest (2:54) USA - Best Short Documentary / HR&D 12:30pm Hen & Ham (34:23) USA - Best Student Film 1:30pm Before the Typhoon Comes (14:30) China - Best Short Dramatic Film 2:00pm Buzzkill (46:42) USA - Best Full Length Documentary Film 3:00pm Faleminderit (13:22) Luxembourg Best Short Documentary / HR&D 3:30pm Pinky Promise (9:00) USA - Best Short Documentary / HR&D 4:00pm ….And Then the Darkness (13:30) USA - Best Short Dramatic Film 4:30pm Restoration: A Concert Film (01:06:00) USA - Best Full Length Documentary Film

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Times Rogers Park 12:00pm WORKSHOP - From Screenplay to Screen (01:20:00) Presenters: Kevin Bernhardt & Steven Esteb

Times Tryon Fine Arts Center (Pavilion Room) 12:00pm Goodbye Olympic (18:37) Iran - Best Short Dramatic Film / HR&D 1:00pm Hamartia (5:56) France - Best Short Dramatic Film 1:30pm Distracting Evelyn (13:58) United Kingdom - Best Short Dramatic Film 2:00pm Gold Digger (23:55) USA - Best Short Dramatic Film 3:00pm absurd man (8:06) Turkey Best Short Dramatic Film 3:30pm A Cry for Help (10:00) USA Best Short Dramatic Film 4:00pm Legerdemain (9:59) USA Best Short Dramatic Film 4:30pm Human Trash (16:38) Spain Best Short Dramatic Film 5:00pm Divertimento (30:00) France Best Short Dramatic Film

Times Lanier Library 2:00pm Special Session: Shadows of Silence (01:30:00) Screening & Conversation with Kenneth Kipperman

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4:30pm Special Session: Creative Writing With & Without Inspiration (60:00) - A Conversation with Paul Reid

Times The Wilcox on Melrose 12:00pm WORKSHOP - Fast Filmmaking - part.1 (01:20:00) Presenter: Alison Marek

2:30pm WORKSHOP - Screen Acting Technique (01:20:00) Presenter: Ashley Crane

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1:00pm DRIVE (18:14) USA - Best Short Documentary 1:45pm One Nice Day (2:48) Iran - Best Short Dramatic Film 2:00pm Wooden Sword (7:00) Iran Best Short Dramatic Film / HR&D 2:30pm Grave Talk (10:40) USA - Best Short Dramatic Film 3:30pm The War Within (14:59) Iran Best Short Dramatic Film / HR&D 4:00pm The Bench (17:13) United Kingdom - Best Short Dramatic Film 4:45pm Dignity (25:00) USA - Best Short Dramatic Film / HR&D 5:30pm Writing to Reach You (22:00) South Korea - Best Short Documentary / HR&D

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absurd man An ordinary man...

A mysterious drive...

A weird bag... _Wait, weird bag?..

Here is the Man vs the Bag... _What, is this a fight?

Then, which one will win it?

And, who will lose everything but one?..Don’t Wait, Do Watch!

Dignity “Dignity” is a love story between a woman and her family. However, the family’s strength is tested when a moral decision must be made.

Distracting Evelyn After months of living under restrictive social guidelines, thirty-something couple, Evelyn and her husband, Will, are driving each other crazy.

The life of adventure they promised one another has been replaced by monotonous, repetitive routines and petty annoyances. Will an offer of ‘distraction’ from a devilish charmer change their path forever?

A Cry For Help When a man of color is convicted of a crime he did not commit, his life and death hang in the hands of a woman too afraid to stand for truth. …And Then The Darkness A pharmacist seeks revenge as he searches for the man who took everything from him.

Before The Typoon Comes The father takes Chen to the beach, but unfortunately there’s a typhoon coming.

Chen is determined to swim. In the choppy sea, Chen meets his himself in childhood and tries to have a reconciliation with him.

Divertimento Jonas Olsen (Kellan Lutz), a chess player haunted by a tragic past, is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, Divertimento.

Gold Digger A wealthy bachelor “f*ccboy” discovers his captivating date is out for more than a good time as their trip into remote country turns apocalyptically dark in more ways than one.

Bennie Two sisters reunite to scatter the ashes of the man they both loved, only to realize that some things are better left buried.

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Grave Talk In 1947, Willie Earle was arrested and jailed for the alleged murder of a white taxi driver, Thomas W. Brown. Within 24 hours Earle was forcibly taken from the jail by 31 white taxi drivers and lynched.

All 31 defendants were tried as a group and acquitted.

One Nice Day The Teacher decided to give a Bag as a prize to one of his Students by a Ballot. So the Bag went to Rasooli, the Student who didn’t have any Bag and carried his books in a Pocket. After class, the Teacher by accident found out all of students has written Rasooli’s name on their Papers.

The Bench An Italian actor arrives in London for an audition just as lockdown comes into place. Losing his passport and wallet he is forced to spend the weekend sleeping on a park bench where he meets “the resident” of the bench a former soldier who fought in Afghanistan.

Hamartia Murder or accident ? When life turns to the irremediable...

Human Trash A boy is thrown into a trash container from the future.

In his frantic search for the exit, he runs into a misterious man, who will make him doubt the origin of his own existence.

The War Within A paralyzed man who has lost his legs due to a car accident is now staying at home, buying and selling dollars. He is now expecting a war between Iran and The US in the hope for a soar in the price of his savings in dollar, regardless of how many people would die in the war. The war and the profit he makes by selling his dollars afterwards, would help him make a fortune as well as having a leg operation. And this is just the beginning of the story … P.S. the story goes back to the day at the beginning of the year 2020 when Iran attacked an American military base in Iraq called “al-Asad” as an act of revenge.

Legerdemain Max (Bill Frost) offers Sally (Kristi Ray) the opportunity of a lifetime to try out for the role of assistant in his wildly successful magician’s road-show. But it is a takeall contest, and indeed the loser looses EVERYTHING. Legerdemain features BILL FROST (Story, EP, Lead actor). He has 10 years experience as a Marine Corps Infantry Leader and Combat Instructor as well as 5 years as a North Carolina Police Officer.

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At a time when 1 in every 95 people on earth has fled their home as a result of conflict or persecution, understanding the refugee crisis has become important than ever. Writing to Reach You is a short documentary exploring the lives of 3 refugees living and trying to find new lives in South Korea. The 3 refugees, who come from very different backgrounds and countries share their lives before and after coming to Korea, in search of a better place in which to live.

Wooden Sword Two little boys meet each other in a green space, and make friends. On the other hand, their fathers have a big problem.

In our world, they don’t even know escape is an option.

Digital addiction is a hidden illness among us, and it has our society in a vice grip.

Writing To Reach You At least 82.4 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 26.4 million refugees, around half of whom are under the age of 18. There are also millions of stateless people, who have been denied a nationality and lack access to basic rights such as education,

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Belarus his documentary has not had a world premiere. On Friday, August 14, 2020, hundreds of people converged at Moore Square in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, USA to protest the reelection of the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko.

This protest was in solidarity with the countless protestors in cities around the world and that filled the streets of Belarus that believe the elections to be fraudulent.

Protests continue to this day, seeking for Lukashenko to step down and for new elections to take place.

Rob Underhill is the director, and this is his first documentary project. The speakers in this documentary have been kept anonymous to protect their identities and the identities of possible friends and family they may have in Belarus.

Buena Onda: the Tale of Ronny Scott Meet 103 year old Ronny Scott, born in Buenos Aires in 1917. He’s a man with an incredible story to share, shining a light on a chapter of the WW2 story almost lost to history.

Drive An intimate look inside a musician and producer’s collaborative process.

Nationally renowned cellist and composer Joshua Roman records his 2020 Music Journal piece “Drive” with Ryan Hadlock, producer at Bear Creek Studio (Lumineers, Brandi Carlile, Vance Joy, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden). Written and inspired by Roman’s personal journey across the country during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic and racial unrest of this last summer, “Drive” is both an experiment of sound and space as well as an offering of hope and unity through our universal response to music.

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Full performance of the cello sextet written and performed by Roman and recorded by Hadlock in a turn-of-the-century barn nestled on 10 acres just north of Seattle, Washington.

Faleminderit In 1921, a Luxembourgish cartographer visited Albania, preparing the border for the newly independent country.

He went on to take part in the chaotic Paris conference of Ambassadors, where an observation he made would change the outcome of the diplomatic gathering.

Muni A love letter to the game of golf as told by the Black caddies-turned-players who built a rich and vibrant golf culture on a municipal course in an eclectic southern town.

The common perception of golf is of a game played by the white upper class, but golf’s historic roots and for much of its history has been a game played by a wide variety of classes and people.Narrated by Darius Rucker, Muni is a documentary film of intimate and interwoven stories told by a collection of people, most of whom have played Asheville, North Carolina’s municipal golf course for decades against a backdrop of the racial turmoil and change of the 50’s and 60’s. For them, golf has been and will continue to be an essential part of their lives until they die. Designed by the famous architect Donald Ross and built in 1920’s Asheville’s Muni has always been a public course. But here, African American’s were prohibited from playing openly until the 1950’s. Then the caddies became the players, and a rich and vibrant integrated golf culture grew at Muni, highlighted by the notable Skyview Golf Tournament. Began in 1960, it hosted the most prominent black golfers of the day and continues today with a diverse and talented field. continued...

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Pinky Promise A short documentary about a mother who survived domestic violence and saved the lives of her children and herself.

The Stupa Can a mound of dirt represent the buddha, the path to enlightenment , a mountain and the universe all at the same time. It can if it is a stupa. The Stupa is a 2021 non-narrative documentary presented in a new age video journal vlogging style. Presented by the juxtaposition of images and music, It tells the story of the dome shaped Buddhist shrine called Stupa which is the monument of peace, harmony and

love and its presence in the mountains of Nepal. It then explores the theme of natural events, human conditions, historical activities and cultural mythologies surrounding the Stupa. Shot during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 in Kathmandu, Solukhumbu and Manang region of Nepal, this is an experimental project of a filmmaker’s journey into the Stupa which has a great symbolic significance and helps to understand the Buddhist teaching that embodies the compassion and mind of a complete and fulfilled human being, a Buddha.children and herself.

Tethered How long has it been since you last checked your phone? 5 minutes? 1 minute? 10 seconds?

Did you imagine that last vibration? In 2021, that smart phone of yours - is a fixture of you - and for many.

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Angora David, a paranoid high schooler, finds himself surrounded by mysterious stuffed rabbits.

His curiosity doesn’t end until he is face to face with their sinister source.

Hello Frisco Why was the baby abandoned in a Victorian drain? And how can the four maids on a mission save its life? This playful, surreal road movie pits four teens against the elements in a race against time.

Hen & Ham While searching for his father, a lonely teen befriends an older woman suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Oh, Mother of Mine The Prison Policy Initiative reports that women and girls are the fastest growing segment of the prison population in the United States, disproportionately impacting women of color and growing 834% since 1978, more than double the pace of men. What, then, happens to the motherdaughter relationship when it is interrupted and controlled at the hands of the state?

Charnal Chaney, 31, was three when her mother was incarcerated. She was one of thousands of children living in the District of Columbia, an area with one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, who have experienced a parent be incarcerated. G. King, 44, was incarcerated for nine years, leaving behind four children. “Oh, Mother of Mine’’ explores the systemic barriers mothers face in the carceral state, 44

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Parallax A young man returns home to help take care of his mother. An illness is hurting family ties and blurring the lines of reality.

The Book of Babel A mad man claims he holds the key to predicting the financial market. When Max, a young ambitious investment banker ends up in possession of a mystical book his obsession with finding out its secrets takes over his life. Will he ever find the answer or like his predecessor be drawn into an inescapable spiral?

The Hidden Trail About to head off to his freshman year of college, a son is excited to spend one final day with his father, until some life altering news makes him question everything he’s ever known.

To Eat With Her Hands To Eat With Her Hands is a visual poem reflecting my situatedness as a queer American woman. This hybrid audio/video poem is a synthesis of my reflections on lesbian spirituality.

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