Independent Shorts Awards

A hideous creature roams the trashed apartment of a beautiful dead woman, and after experiencing her past memories, realizes that true beauty lies within.
Directed by Joshua Steele (USA)

“Joyride” explores the optimism of facing fear to triumphantly become the person you’re meant to be in life. The video is a testament to that belief exploring how a surfer boldly attempts to conquer the ocean while a little girl fights to overcome her fear of it.
Directed by Ben Fraternale (USA)

Web series – An atheist farm girl arrives at the big city of “Vancouver” after being exiled from her cult community in Kamloops but in order to survive, she’ll work as personal assistant for a former god of chaos now the god of order.
Directed by Ezgi Gundogdu and Farsina Kabir Prithwi (Canada)

An indie short story set to the music of WhiteWater Ramble spanning the tumultuous relationship of a touring musician and his wife who remains at home while he tours. It touches upon domestic and gun violence issues in our society today.
Directed by Patrick Sites, Tomas Herrera and Doug Usher (USA)

Five women meet a mysterious woman that transports them into a new worlds forcing them to find their truths and sisterhood.
Directed by Viktoria-Isabella King (USA)

Directed by Khaled Zidan (Saudi Arabia)           https://vimeo.com/318606568

Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve is not only the most important festival to celebrate Chinese New Year, but also a reunion day for every Chinese family. We asked people filmed their lives on New Year’s Eve, and collected almost hundreds videos from Chinese people in all around the world. Many of them can not come back home because of different reasons. We were deeply touched by their lives and made this emotional film.
Directed by Jingqi Hu (China)

A stained couple trying to enjoy a movie are pushed beyond the limits of rational understanding- descending arm in arm with Eros and Thanatos- unto a great tear in the framework of reality itself.
Directed by Eric Newcombe (USA)

In the snow-covered ruins of 24th century Toronto, AEGIS, a humanoid war machine, leads a team of five robot-bound digital-humans into the real world (aka the “E-X-T”) to retake an enemy-occupied server installation vital to the survival of their digital homeworld.

During an attempt to ambush a large pack of enemy controlled war-drones, AEGIS recalls an interrogation with the enemy’s founder, an extremist named KYM MINAMOTO…AEGIS’s mother.

As AEGIS fights for her life in the real world, she recalls the emotional fight for her identity in the INT (the digital world), as she and her mother argue over the true nature of humanity and inclusion of digital-persons within it.
Directed by Adrian Bobb (Canada)

Seven Micro Poem / Films
Directed by Carolyn Guinzio (USA)

When a woman meets the ancient Babylonian goddess, Ishtar, in her dream, she embarks upon a journey to complete a lethal mission.
Directed by Dena Ryane (USA)

When old family tensions suddenly resurface, a quietly resilient teenage girl is forced to weigh her own wellbeing against the reconciliation of her loved ones.
Directed by Francesca Sewell (New Zealand)

After playing a part in his own neighbor’s tragic fate, an ICE officer with a guilty conscience must choose between the Homeland Security badge and the foreign nationals he’s in a unique position to help.
Directed by Louis J. Guerra (USA)

When lovers, husband, sister, wife and mother all share their guilt through the same bunch of flowers, anarchic chaos ensues.
Directed by Wayne Kelly and Matt Holt (UK)