Official Selections

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.