Showcasing the best of short films and screenplays from the LGBT community. Screenplay Winner every single month performed by professional actors. Film Festival occurs 3 times a year!
NEVER GIVE UP: AKINORI IN MOORESVILLE, 13min, USA, Documentary Directed by Royce Akifumi Wilmot 24 years since first attending a NASCAR race, Akinori Ogata chases his dream of one day racing in the Daytona 500. Moving his family halfway across the world in the process, he races locally in the lower series of NASCAR, working for his big break. His sons have graduated high school, and they and his wife have moved back to Japan. Alone in his small race shop, he prepares his limited late model stock car for the biggest local race of the year.
BEYOND THE ROPES, 38min., USA, Documentary Directed by Jalen Robinson BEYOND THE ROPES: The 40+ Double Dutch Club Documentary showcases how…
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The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousands of famous and not-so-famous paintings and artifacts– in miniature. From well-loved Picasso and Frida Kahlo paintings to more obscure intricate Maori canoes, McMahan has mastered dozens of genres over 30 years of creating, and he’s made most of it on a cluttered kitchen counter using recycled materials. McMahan is also the curator of a mini-museum with a collection that surveys the scope of humanity’s visual record. Olympia Stone directs this surprising portrait of a most unusual artist.
This festival is designed to showcase the best of student short films and screenplays. Over the last 4 years, the FEEDBACK Festival has noticed a dramatic increase of quality in student projects. So the time has come for a distinct showcase of the many amazing student films and screenplays from around the world.
Every SINGLE month, the festival will host a student screenplay reading series that will be performed by professional actors in Los Angeles and Toronto.
And every 3 months, the festival will host a “Best of Short Film” lineup using the popular FEEDBACK Festival format. The audience reaction video the student filmmaking team receives will help the film get into other festivals around the world.
Festivals take place the Revue LA LIVE Cinemas in downtown Toronto, and the Carlton cinemas in downtown Toronto.
(NOTE: Screenplay Festival occurs every single month.)
CLIMATE DIARIES: HEATHER’S STORY, 8min., USA, Documentary Directed Ali Scattergood, Berit Anderson Go underwater with one of the only female geoduck divers in the Suquamish tribe as she explores the personal, spiritual and economic impacts of the climate emergency on the Salish Sea.
CLEANING SHIPWRECKS, 5min., Netherlands, Documentary/Environment Directed by Maarten Slooves In the night of 1st and 2nd of January 2019, the ship MSCZoe lost 342 cargo containers in the North Sea. Plastics in the sea accumulates around shipwrecks and threatens the water quality of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. A team of experienced North Sea wreck divers voluntarily heads out to salvage the waste around wreck sites.
SUNNYSIDE, 23min., Japan, Skiing Directed by Daisuke Kurata