COWBOY TOWN is short documentary film about a roadside ghost town of a replica ghost town with decaying automatons in rural South Dakota.

2018 / United States / 8:45 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Jennifer Boles

It’s the night before the wedding and The Groom discovers he’s made a huge mistake. With the help of his two loyal Groomsmen, can Liam fix it before disaster strikes? Or is it already too late

2018 / Australia / 7 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Shane Emmett
WRITER: Shane Emmett
PRODUCER: Josephine Emmett
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Sam Vincent
SOUND: John Roy
MUSIC: John Roy
EDITOR: John Roy

An exhausted young mom on the run from an abusive home life desperately seeks a quiet moment to process all that’s happening but parenting an active, watchful toddler along the way means she needs to stay on her game.

2016 / United States / 13:45 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Nancy Bannon
WRITER: Nancy Bannon
PRODUCER: Jeremy Skidmore

Neltje is an 82 year old woman living just outside Sheridan, WY.

She was born Neltje Doubleday, yet for years she has used no last name and goes solely by Neltje. Her grandfather started Doubleday & McClure Company, which over the years became Doubleday Publishing.

This film is a companion to her book/memoir, North Of Crazy. It captures a schizoid upbringing where on one hand she is surrounded by wealth and art’s glitterati, but on the other hand she is farmed out to relatives, servants and boarding schools like a child in a Charles Dickens novel. Her mother was trying to make Neltje into a corporate wife and brood mare. Neltje tried to find love by pleasing her family, husbands, and lovers but none of it worked. Although the memoir states it, this film shows that she has found love in nature, beauty, art and of course, dogs.

2018 / United States / 12:36 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Robin Layton

Patrolling the streets of Clearwater, FL in bright red spandex is a man known around the world as “Superhero”. He helps the homeless, provides charity to sick and disadvantaged children, aids stranded motorists, and patrols the streets to prevent crime. Using Godzilla, Star Trek, Superheroes and Science Fiction movies as his role models he overcomes a troubled childhood to become A Real Life Superhero.

2017 / United States / 14:56 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Tony Armer

Simple Rotation is an open living system that is in entropy, moving towards equilibrium. It’s a rigid yet fluid body that maintains itself while it develops and evolves, inspired by process and progress – the essence of life.

It combines abstract, atmospheric landscapes that shift and evolve from a rigid system to an organic one, with chaotic and orderly spaces that interact with each other while breathing to the music. Form and music work together in harmony to orchestrate a powerful balance.

All the seemingly interdependent dualities of order and chaos, rigid and fluid, come together, as complementary forces.

Likewise, the music is both rigid and elastic, while the living system keeps moving and pulsing into a constantly flourishing, fluid space.

Musically, harmonies and textures unfold against a backdrop of a one-note synth/piano ostinato. John Kameel Farah is a Canadian composer-pianist. Farah now focuses primarily on his own creative hybrid of improvisation, composition and electronic music. Simultaneously using piano, synthesizer, computer, and at times harpsichord, his solo performances exist somewhere between the concert hall and an experimental DJ set, mixing forays into free improvisation, jazz, electroacoustics, middle-eastern modes, and ambient minimalism and distilling them into cohesive, imaginative surrealistic structures.

2017 / Germany / 4:08 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Sahar Homami
COMPOSER: John Kameel Farah

Old lonely Owl dreams of having his own family. In his travels he comes upon a large skulk of foxes playing together. Owl thinks they are beautiful and he watches over them for many days and nights. He wishes he could have such a beautiful family. One fox is different, she notices Owl and watches him. Owl flies down to meet her and showing off his charms, becomes a part of the skulk. Foxx and Owl fall in love, but their love is met with contention driving Foxx and Owl away to try to find happiness together.

This is a true legend based on a love story between a Native Canadian woman and a non-Native man, taking place sometime between 1867-1985 when the Indian Act of Canada suppressed the rights of Indigenous women married to a non-Native.

2017 / Canada / 10:39 Minutes

DIRECTOR: Tara Audibert
WRITER: Tara Audibert
PRODUCER: Tara Audibert

Lift is important for thunderstorm formation, and where the Rockies meet the Great Plains, the most common source of lift is called upslope flow. Easterly winds bump into the mountains and moist air gets forced upwards. Storms are formed and pushed out onto the plains where they may become supercells producing all kinds of severe weather: strong winds, large hail, flooding, and tornadoes. This time lapse film, titled “Upslope Flow,” is the culmination of months of chasing these storms across the Northern Plains, with 5,000 miles driven across 4 states. Jaw-dropping storm structure, awesome displays of power and beauty, and incredible sunsets are some of the things I was blessed to see and capture. A few shots from the previous 2 years were included, but 2018 has been a much more active season for chasing this area. I love the challenge of learning as much as I can about these storms, and attempting to be in the right place at the right time to see them. As the season was waning, I still lacked the tornado shot I needed to finish up the film. But at the end of June, I finally had the chance to time lapse a photogenic tornado, which I’ve been seeking for many years.

2018 / United States / 4:45 Minutes

MUSIC: James Everingham

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