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AUDIENCE AWARDS (from Audience Feedback Festival)
Best Feature Film: I HEAR AMERICA SINGING
Best Short Film: HEAVENS APART
Best Performances: AUDER
Best Story: WHEN & WHERE
Best TV Web Series: BEYOND THE LIMITS
Best Direction: CANCER KID
Best Visual Design: CINDY
HEAVENS APART, 15min., Canada
Directed by Steven Kumala
After serving time in prison for a crime that shattered her family, a mother returns to reconnect with her estranged daughter for the first time in fifteen years, only to realize that her daughter is on the verge of moving overseas to start her own family.
https://www.instagram.com/heavensapartfilm/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-heavens-apart
AUDER, 18min., USA
Directed by Felipe Marinheiro
After being kidnapped and forced into a brutal assimilation camp where the English language is used as control, two teenage girls from different countries must find a way to escape, before they are stripped of their identity.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-auder
WHEN & WHERE, 14min. USA
Directed by Vas Eli, JJ Condon
In a near-future world, enormous, enigmatic monoliths appear in the sky, periodically abducting large swathes of humanity in seemingly random events. No one can stop them, and society is divided: some believe these mysterious entities are divine forces of God, while others fear they are hostile extraterrestrials. As the next cycle begins, three men find themselves in a quiet, deserted, candlelit bar, grappling with their own fears and conflicting beliefs, searching for meaning in a world teetering on the edge of chaos.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-when-and-where
Beyond the Limits Pilot Episode – Act The Part, 22min. USA
Directed by Emmitt H Thrower
In a world where communication transcends spoken language, “Beyond the Limits” pilot episode explores the mysterious realm of disability through the authentic stories and experiences of those who navigate their world from a unique perspective. Their unique abilities, challenges, and creativity can transport them into dimensions that are beyond the usual realities.
https://www.instagram.com/the_limits_film
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-beyond-the-limits
Cancer Kid, 16min., Canada
Directed by Vasili Manikas
A schoolyard prank gone wrong sends the naive Elliot on a desperate quest to make sense of his mortality.
https://www.instagram.com/manikasproductions
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cancer-kid
CINDY, 21min., USA
Directed by Al Chang
“An aspiring rapper takes a vague driving gig hoping for a quiet night to himself. Instead, he meets Cindy, a bubbly and unpredictable passenger who drags him into an absurd and unexpectedly heartfelt adventure.
“CINDY” is a quirky dramedy about connection, detours, and the strangers who change our lives.”
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cindy
I Hear America Singing, 78min., USA
Directed by Daron Hagen
The conventions of documentary, musical theater, and magical realism are combined and subverted to address issues of personal, national, and artistic identity through the eyes of a composer desperate to pull off one final backer’s audition whilst hounded by a disdainful documentarian named Charon.
https://instagram.com/americasinging
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-i-hear-america-sing
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