A showcase of the best ALTERNATIVE Films from around the world today. The best of the best!
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from FEEDBACK Film Festival):
Best Feature Film: The Box Trap
Best Short Film: Once More, Like Rain Man
Best Micro-Short Film: She Makes a Moving Picture,
Best Sound & Music: Jeff Hilliard – Love Myself
Best Visual Design: Street Muse
Best Experimental Film: The Duet
Best New Media Film: Act 1 Disciple: Ep. 1 of Harmony Saga
Best Direction: Bartogay Lake
Best Performances: The Last Rehearsal
Best Music Video: Mr. Wayne in Seoul
Best Comedy Short Film: Over My Dead Body
Jeff Hilliard – Love Myself
Directed by Jeff Hilliard
Official music video for Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox
https://www.instagram.com/jeffhilliard
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-jeff-hilliard-love-myself-wildsound
STREET MUSE, 5min., USA
Directed by Beth Cloutier
Overlooked by passersby, two homeless women forge an intimate moment recalling how it felt once to be beautiful. A sleeping drunk wakes to join them, finding dignity in the soaring lines of the Puccini aria through which they share their stories.
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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-street-muse
Once More, Like Rain Man, 15min., USA
Directed by Sue Ann Pien
‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe (Martinez) and her dad, Gerry (Jones) in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambit of stereotypes she has to deal with – and her dad’s battle in supporting her forging that path for herself – in a funny, frustrating, painful and sometimes triumphantly sarcastic kind of way.
https://www.instagram.com/omlrmovie
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-once-more-like-rain-man-wildsound
The Duet, 5min., USA
Directed by Gica Pucca
A dancer and a violinist, isolated yet connected by sound, break and rise through the silence between them.
https://www.instagram.com/_the.duet_
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-duet
She Makes a Moving Picture, 3min., Canada
Directed by Deb Ethier
How is a film made? Probably not in this off-kilter, wacky and surreal way! The Architect of the Liminal decides it’s time to put her dreams on film, but she interprets the “usual” steps of the filmmaking process with her own inimitable results.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-she-makes-a-moving-picture
ACT 1 – DISCIPLE: EPISODE I OF THE HARMONY SAGA, 26min., USA
Directed by Brad Reinhold
The first act, reinterpreted bt the director, of the award winning feature film Saga screenplays. Disciple; Episode I of the Harmony Saga is set 80,000 years after the disappearance of Earth. A Galactic Church rules the galaxy, enforcing dogma. Freedom fighters seek liberation. Samantha Sacre, a disciple of the Church, encounters something that will change the course of history forever, and must reconcile what she has learned with how she was taught and raised. This is only the beginning, and, as Sam says, “The best is yet to come.” This mythopoetic journey into the far future challenges us to look beyond the surface of our realm, through the lens of a future civilization, and ask, “what does it all mean?”
https://www.instagram.com/brad.reinhold
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-act-1-disciple
Bartogay Lake, 9min., France
Directed by Katya Mokoio
An old man crosses the boundless Kazakh steppe, driving alone. Haunted by memories of a lost love, he stops by Bartogay Lake, flowers in hand. But as he tries to step out, his car door refuses to open, trapping him between past and present.
https://www.instagram.com/kitsuney/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-bartogay-lake
The Last Rehearsal, 19min., UK
Directed by Carling Ernstzen
Inspired by true events. Faced with terminal cancer, a beloved acting teacher rallies his favourite students one last time to stage his final play.
https://www.instagram.com/thelastrehearsal_film
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-last-rehearsal
Mr. Wayne in Seoul, 4min., South Korea
Directed by HEEWOON LEE
‘Mr. Wayne in Seoul’ begins with the quiet absurdity of Albert Camus’ L’Étranger: a man detached from both origin and belonging.
https://instagram.com/kgaroo_music
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-mr-wayne-in-seoul
OVER MY DEAD BODY, 7min., USA
Directed by Daniel Sadler, Erica Rowe
A bereaved widower gets the chance to speak to his late wife again using a costly reanimation procedure.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-over-my-dead-body
THE BOX TRAP, 85min., USA
Directed by Meg Poveromo
The world of a blissfully detached woman turns upside down when she’s forced to adjust to the ordinary life that exists beyond working at an off-the-wall lesbian bar, and its rivalry with the gay club across the street.
https://instagram.com/theboxtrapmovie
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-box-trap
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