HIGHLIGHTS – MAY 2018 DOCUMENTARY Short Film Festival

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:

BEST FILM: REMAND

BEST SUBJECT MATTERS: WILDLAND

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: REMAND

BEST MUSIC: PROJECT 1948

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos:

PROJECT 1948, 13min., Bosnia, Documentary

REMAND, 40min., Uganda, Documentary

THE UNDERGROUND ARTIST, USA, 3min., Documentary

MOTHERS & METHADONE, 11min, Canada, Documentary

WILDLAND, 25min., USA, Documentary

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The theme of the May 2018 DOCUMENTARY FEEDBACK Film Festival was “Repairing”. Every single film was about a world or characters needing to fix or repair the situations that they are currently in.

Documentary shorts festivals are easily the hardest to program for many reasons. The main two are because there are so many well made doc shorts that are over 20 minutes in length. And many of those said films have deep and emotionally hard to watch subjects. So you don’t want to overwelm the audience with so many different and important subjects in just one sitting.

So you have to…