Saturday November 5th

 

CLOSING DAY

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12pm - 1pm

Arduos Journey Part II

Shooting Stars 60:00

Director: Lightning N. Mitchell

Director’s Bio: Lightning Mitchell, founder of the WBA, born in Hodge Louisiana in 1948. After finishing high school in 1968 he was drafted and went to  Vietnam to fight for his country. After returning home from Vietnam he chased his dream that to play professional football in the NFL, however, God had other plans and he was inspired to create a professional league for women basketball players, upon realizing that women had to go overseas to pursue their dream of playing professional basketball after college.

 

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Total 75 mins

 

 

Short Program

 

1:25pm - 2:55 pm

Young Heroes

Cracked  5:00

Director: Mahmut Tas

Director’s Bio: From an early age his passion for cinema led him to write scripts and shoot films. In this context, he received various cinema trainings and film shooting techniques trainings from private courses between 2015-2018. Between 2018-2019, he received screenwriting techniques training.

In June 2018, he shot his first short film, PAIN, of 6 minutes and 30 seconds. At the beginning of 2021, he completed his film called CRACKED, and in the middle of the same year, his short film called THE RETURN, a joint production of Turkey-Uzbekistan. Again, at the end of 2021, he released his movie called E-HAPPINESS. 

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The Wheel  13:42

Director: Metin EWR

Director’s Bio: Metin Ewr was born in Diyarbakır in 1978. He worked in the fields of theatre, literature and language in Adana. He started his cinema education in Diyarbakır, where he returned in 2010. He continues his cinema education at the Middle East Cinema Academy Association.

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Pick  4:06

Director: Shahoo Ahmadi

Director’s Bio: Shahoo took the filmmaking path in order to discover the small moments of life and the simple everyday human connection with the environment, which is full of deep human concepts. Storytelling on these simply topics is incredibly magical to me.

 

The Discipline  23:00

Director: Prahas Nair

Director’s Bio: Prahas is Malayali independent filmmaker from India. He graduated from K R Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kerala in Screenplay Writing and Direction. He has directed short films and documentaries.

 

Child Brides

9 hours with Hana 14:49

Director: Hossein Firoozeh

Director’s Bio: Writer, editor, producer and director. Author and director of the 13-part series Standing in "History for broadcast" on Iranian TV (Etrak network). 

The writer and director of the feature film Mushtaghi and Mahjuri. 

The writer and director of the short film Chehlcheragh. 

The writer and director of the movie Bagh Sib. 

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Gladiators  9:35

Director Maryam Rahimi

Director’s Bio: Maryam is an Iranian born writer, screenwriter and director. she works alongside Rai cinema with her work "Yalda". She has won many national and international awards for her works. She won Mibact MigrArt from the ministry of culture in Italy in 2016 for her short film "Mare Nostrum".

 

Ukwati  12:27

Director: Sean Economou

Director’s Bio: Sean Economou is a filmmaker based in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently the Creative Director for a non-profit, Watts of Love. He has traveled to the most remote corners of the globe to interview and collect stories. He has a passion to share stories about the truth of poverty and is dedicated to present viable solutions for change

 

Total 90mins

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43:35pm- 4:40pm

Family Ties 

Big Guy 20:00 mins

Directors: Hicham & Samir Harrag

Directors bio: Franco - Moroccan they grew up in Montreuil in Seine Saint Denis, they come from a modest family of Moroccan origin. As twin brothers have been inseparable since their birth. Both of them, at the age of 13, went to the theater in the middle school as well as to the neighborhood, passing through the cinemas that forged their paths. A few years later, they join the film school Cour Florent where they stay 2 years. 

 

A Traditional Brazilian Family 25:00 mins

Director: Rodrigo Sena

Director’s Bio: Photographer and audiovisual director, he remained in photojournalism for 10 years, participated in an artistic residency in Montevideo (URUGUAY) Iberescena in 2013,

Artist Residency in Cochabamba (Bolivia) in 2014. He directed award-winning short films such as O Menino do dente de Ouro (2015), film winner of the Mostra de Gostoso, RN; Couscous Peitinho (2017), awarded at the Vitoria Film Festival, ES; Rodrigo Sena is currently finalizing Encantarias, a TV series that portrays Afro-indigenous religions and developing his first feature film.

 

Total 45mins

 

4:50pm -  6:10pm

The Rain has Passed 14:04

Director: Marina Edwards

Director’s  Bio: Marina Edwards is a screenwriter, director, and actress, who moved to Los Angeles with a dream to create her own film projects with social impact.

Marina graduated Lee Strasberg Inst. (acting), New York Film Institute (screenwriting), UCLA extension (screenwriting).

In 2014, she opened her production company Ocean Star LLC. Marina received “The best of California Award 2019″. She is active in the Toastmasters Speakers Bureau where she deliv

 

Cage: Between Two Battles 83mins

Director: Cenk Uzgören

Directors Bio: Cenk İzgören was born in 1980. At the age of 12, he started to work as a child actor in State Theaters. In the following years, he entered the Department of Acting, Department of Theater at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Süleyman Demirel University to receive academic education. He completed his undergraduate education by doing a double major in acting and dramatic writing. He completed his master's degree in the field of cinema. He has worked as an actor, co-director, and executive producer in various television and cinema films. He directed promotional and commercial films. Voluntarily, he worked with psychologists in the field of psychodrama in social responsibility projects aiming to rehabilitate marginalized and damaged individuals of society and took part in art and rehabilitation studies. 

 

Total 97mins

 

6:10pm - 9:00pm

Closing Night Film

Troop 491: The Adventures of the Muddy Lions 109mins

Director: Praheme Praphet

Director’s Bio: Praheme is an American Storyteller/filmmaker based in Richmond, Virginia.  He realized his interest for the arts as a child and continued to pursue his passion at Howard University, earning a BA in Film Production in 2006.  While at Howard Praheme completed a handful of short films and videos.  Praheme graduated from Florida State University with a Masters of Fine Arts in film production. There he worked on ward winning short films “intercambios”, “Soap” and “Soaked” as the director and producer.

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Workshops & Public Forums

 

2 - 3pm

WEB 3 Onboarding Workshop with Takai The Artist

WELCOME! If you are reading this, you have probably heard terms like cryptocurrency, NFT,  Metaverse, DAO, Tokens, etc, and have an interest in learning more about the unlimited possibilities of web3. Join the Web3 onboarding workshop hosted by writer/director and founder of UDAY Studios Takaitheartist. The mission of this workshop is not to confuse, but to inform and inspire everyone to unleash their full potential through the power of Web3. Come out and learn about the next generation of the internet, sit back, relax, and decentralize!

 

3:15 - 4:45 pm

NFT, Cryptocurrency, Blockchaing Technology how will we use it to empower, build economic strength and move underserved communities towards self sufficenc and wealth.

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