Where fantasy meets procedural mystery, a cantankerous Chief Constable must solve crimes AND judge them in a dark and dangerous metropolis. Vike struggles with his own addictions and fears while up against the Arklanen: an underground guild of dark magic, responsible for the death of Vike’s wife.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Samra: Kyana Teresa
Proprietor: Hannah Ehman
Vike: Sean Ballantyne
Audience Award Winners: Best Feature Film: HIS NAME IS RAY Best Short Film: EAT A SWEDE Best Direction: ÎINHA
Best Cinematography: CUIDANTSIQMI: Love and Care for the Land Best Sound & Music: FLYING IN THE DARK
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HIS NAME IS RAY, 83min., USA
Directed by Michael Del Monte In his anticipated follow-up to “Transformer”, which took home the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Hot Docs 2018, acclaimed director Michael Del Monte gives a human face to our growing homelessness and opioid crises. Ray once had everything. A job that he loved with the Coast Guard. The father to a family. But his heroin addiction took it all away. Now, the former sailor lives on the streets of Toronto with an entire population that seems to have just fallen through the cracks. With a…
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In the first 10 pages the writer needs to let the reader know in general terms what the story is about, and what is at stake. Plus, set the tone of what world and genre the writer has created, while also introducing the main characters. All the while you need to engage and entertain the reader.
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Tier 1 – Get full feedback on your script (everyone who submits).
Tier 2 – Get your script performed by professional actors.
Directed by Stark Zhao Two girls at a tennis camp overcome a tough situation that could’ve ended their friendship.
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MANUEL, 19min., Italy, History Drama
Directed by Mario d’Anna, Stefano Mangoni In 1943, a Jewish family hides from the nazi roundups. Adam, a 10-year-old boy, following a strange dream, starts a mysterious countdown.
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Audience Award Winners: Best Film: MOONRISE Best Music Video: THIS WORLD IS YOURS Best Performances: IDKN Best Direction: I AM WHO I THINK YOU THINK I AM
Best Cinematography: THE MIGRANTS Best Music Film: THE OPENINGS Best Sound: MÓÐIR
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THE MIGRANTS, 5min., Canada, Music Video
Directed by Louise Marie Beauchamp Poetic fresco shot in the cold of Canada that expresses the difficulty for a migrant to tame a foreign territory. On J.-S. Bach’s Adagio in D minor, which he brilliantly interprets on the piano, the Guatemalan indigenous artist and farmer Salvador Chavajay tells us with simplicity and clairvoyance the recent forced exodus of workers from his country and offers his definition of the term’s poverty, wealth and conscience.
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Audience Award Winners: Best Film: HUNROS JORNA Best Experimental Poem: MEMORY OF WATER Best Sound & Music: caprice x² Best Performances: WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID
Best Fashion Film: SONAR
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caprice x², 4min., Austria, Animation
Directed by Claudia Ungersbäck Forms and gestures, situations over a copy (is_t) existance. marks and notes happening while light resounds.
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WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID, 4min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Jamie Donohoe A family is in pain after losing their mother and wife. Will these family members say what they desperately need to say? Or will their fractures deepen?
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Audience Award Winners: Best Film: THE WAY WE CHANGE Best Dance Film: LET OFF Best Experimental Dance: COUNT IT ALL Best Sound & Music: GHOSTLY LABOR Best Performances: INFERNO
Best Direction: YOU WANTED RIVERS Best Cinematography: FAREWELL
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FAREWELL, 5min., China, Dance
Directed by Ruo Wen Tian Countless ordinary life experiences are buried deep in the dust. In an old factory trapped in stilled time, I try to show how common folk constantly exist in an ever moving forward torrent of time, through the collision and contrast between the youth of young dancers and the antiquity of the machinery and environment, while also using the shoe that appears in the beginning and at the end to represent the memories of people who couldn’t keep up with the changes of the times.
Audience Award Winners: Best Feature Film: ASTEROID RUSH: PLANETARY DEFENSE Best Short Film: 12 SHADES OF GREY Best Experimental Film: MILLENNIALS LEAVE IN PEACE
Best Cinematography: REFUGE ALASKA Best Sound & Music: CYCLE
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ASTEROID RUSH: PLANETARY DEFENSE, 52min., France, Documentary/Sci-Fi
Directed by Jacques BEDEL, Bertrand LOYER At first glance, it appears unlikely that we are under threat from extra-terrestrial objects. Yet, at any moment, the sky could fall on our heads. Our solar system contains millions of objects known as asteroids. The smallest measure just a few centimetres across but the largest can have a diameter of a thousand kilometres. Some circle the sun, like planets, while others cross paths with Earth’s orbit. Now, technological marvels are under construction to avoid a cataclysmic collision. What seemed like science fiction, has now become reality…