ISA award-winning Maryam Pirband: “When I saw the videos of ISIS, I was shocked”
Iranian ISA award-winning Maryam Pirband talks on “Fermysk”, a short film about a young pregnant Kurdish girl who survived an ISIS attack.
Interview with ISA award-winning Cam McHarg, director of “Deer Season”
ISA award-winning Cameron McHarg talks about his latest film, “Deer Season”, double awarded in the July season.
Review of “My Week With Maisy”
Mark Oxtoby, the director of ISA award-winning short film “David’s Here”, is back with the remarkable script “My Week With Maisy”, also a recipient of an ISA Platinum Award. A sensitive and touching writing piece in which Oxtoby turns a simple idea into something beautiful with the power to touch the viewer.
Cuban Queens
“Cuban Queens” is a rhythmic study of subliminal hand-drawn portraits that evolve though shifting relationships of image-to-image and image-to-sound. The film is a collaboration by Warren Bass (direction, experimental animation, and music), Lowell Boston (additional animation), and Liz Goldberg (original graphics, sketched in the streets of Havana).
Directed by Warren Bass (USA)
I Cant Lose
A man down on his luck pressures his girlfriend, who works part-time in a private social club, to help him set up the robbery of the local hustler who runs the club. When she refuses, he decides to take matters in his own hands.
Directed by Patrick House (USA)
Killing Adam
What happens if a serial killer and his victim are both addicted to social media?
Directed by Dino Sardella (USA)
Blood & Water
A henchmen Ramon Anderson (Alex West) wants to change his life and leave the family business behind him. His Uncle Andres Sosa (Giovanni Silva) has other plans for Ramon and his crew.
Directed by Mr. West Ashe (USA)
Women Since Ever
An examination of the female identity across three generations in four minutes.
Directed by D.S. Chun (USA)
Wildness
San Francisco, 1967: “Wild Bill” balances fatherhood with a lifestyle born in the Summer of Love, and turns to robbing banks to feed his family. Based on a true story.
Directed by Sarah London (USA)
End of the Night
A chance encounter with death and a vital clue pull an LA actor into a dangerous web of love and power.
Directed by Alexander Weinberg (USA)
A22
Accompanied by omnipresent, imaginary commercials two friends drive home with their new toilet seat. It was on discount but has a rather special design, which leads to a hefty discussion about noses and sea mammals.
Directed by Eva Amann (Austria)
Lisa At Large
An idealistic young woman living in Los Angeles strives to be a journalist of substance but ends up working for a third-rate celebrity gossip network.
Directed by Eliot Gurrin (USA)
Bang Bang Goes the Gun!
In a world on and around the stage, “Bang Bang Goes the Gun!” tips it’s hat to old Hollywood. A play on today’s headlines, this film takes you on a journey that has you asking the age-old question, “What would YOU do for fame?”
Directed by Thomas Everly (USA)
Beffroi: Faint
A bully of about twenty-five has a tumultuous daily life where violence and the sale of drugs with his friends mingle. But as soon as he has a moment of respite, he escapes to the luxurious neighborhoods of the city. A house particularly interested him, that of the model family, perfect in all respects but who hides his game well. No one knows what drives him to flee to this house and what binds him to this family that opposes everything.
Directed by O’nonto Zaman (Belgium)