Since 2016, the FEEDBACK Film Festival has been showcasing the best of Documentary Short Films. We now will be showcasing a Documentary Film Festival every month in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Carlton Cinemas.
We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:
Tier #1 – Your film plays at either a public live event where we will record the audience reactions of your short or feature and then send you the feedback video. Or, it plays at a private festival event where the audience will record their comments/reactions to your film on their camera or phone, then we edit them and send you a promotional video. No matter what you will receive a promotional video of your film of people commenting on your film.
QUEER MONGOL, 16min., USA, Documentary Directed by Brandt Miller Queer Mongol follows four characters over the course of Mongolia’s LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, who embody a diversity of gender and sexual identities. The film is a meditation on queerness in the non-west and a nuanced glimpse into a nascent movement on the Central Asian Steppe.
A LIFE OF HONOR, 3min., USA, Animation/Documentary Directed by Richard O’Connor When Joseph Patton joined the Navy in 1955, he recalls serving in silence, as the LGBTQIA+ community could not be open while in the military. Despite being the “perfect sailor,” Joseph was kicked out of the Navy for being friends with gay service members, under the assumption that he was homosexual. Due to the status of his “undesirable discharge,” Joseph was unable to receive any benefits for his service in the Navy. Years later, Joseph came to StoryCorps to reflect on his journey and share his resilience, as he fought and successfully changed his status to “honorable discharge.”
THINGS WE SHOULDN’T TALK ABOUT, 11min,. USA, Docuumentary Directed by Robbie Kruithoff The mental health impact of religion on the LGBTQIA+ community is unchecked and misunderstood. Alone and largely ignored, queer individuals from conservative, religious communities commit suicide at alarming rates. How many must die before we start talking about it?
THE EMPTINESS STEVEN LEFT, 13min., Dominican Republic, Experimental Directed by Franklin Villar Xiomara is a young woman who dreams of becoming a beauty queen by winning a beauty pageant since she was a kid, she will have to face the mysterious emptiness that Steven left in everybody around her when he left, for her to achieve her dream.
YOUNG KINGS, 23min., USA, Documentary Directed by Dr. Arsley Emile, Jonathan Banks From Ponce De Leon to Ralph David Abernathy, bike culture is pumping hard through the heart of Atlanta. Whether pulling clutches or pushing pedals, “Poppin’ wheelies” through the concrete jungle is an authentic, unapologetic form of self-expression. It’s art. Culture. Freedom. Escape. Bike life.
MEMORY, 7min., Canada, Documentary Directed by Keefe Jassoy A story about the Canadian identity and the histories of one particular woman as she learns about her grandmothers past through the living memory of music and dance.
IN THE SHADOW, 8min., France, Drama Directed by Fabrice Mathieu A fantasy film noir with shadows. A shadow is telling its life story with his “Wearer”, a flesh and bone double, who one day it decides to get rid of…
This festival now takes place every single day giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film (All accepted films get all four tiers).
1) Screening #1 where you will also obtain your audience feedback video. 2) Screening #2 virtually on the streaming service WILDsound TV 3) Podcast interview at WILDsound Radio on ITunes 4) Blog interview promoting you and your film.
All festival dates have been relegated to private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.
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Short Film Festival – Occurs at least 7 times a WEEK in Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto
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Seeking a momentary respite from the strains of life in 2020, two strangers from the same building end up on a roof together and make a socially distant connection. (Shot on a mobile phone by the sheltering-in-place cast.)
Directed by and Starring: Masa Gibson, Abby J. Smith
Director Statement Back in the spring of 2020, we found ourselves halting preproduction on a feature project we’d been developing while we sheltered in place. Naïve and hopeful that everything would be back to “normal” within a couple of months, we decided to shoot a quick-and-dirty little “meet-cute” sketch on our rooftop…
Marked as the final scene of the entertaining film “Scent of a Woman”. A remarkable speech by Pacino who delivers amazing lines like “I’ll take a flamethrower to this place.” and “This is such a crock of shit.” He’s a blind man so he simply sits in his chair for 5 minutes and chats with the full assembly of private school boys and the faculty. And he’s got them in the palm of his hand as the cliche goes. Some interesting reaction shots by the boy he’s protecting, Charlie (Chris O’Donnell), and the boy, George Willis Jr., he needs to take down to protect Charlie (a very young Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays this role. Go back and watch this film from the beginning. Hoffman has some terrific moments.) Charlie won’t rat on George because Charlie has a moral code. Ironically not the code he learned at the big private school…
REVERIE, 9min., USA, Dance Directed by Brian Bowers The past can be an unreliable narrator, and the future is simply a shifting reflection of where we are right now. Driven by choreographed movement, original music and sound, REVERIE is an experimental visual narrative that seeks to question and explore. An ensemble dance casts guides us through the delicately narrated introspective, inner dialogue that an emerging artist is having with time itself. Is it true, what they say, that life is but a dream?
REMAIN, 3min., New Zealand, Dance Directed by Kit Reilly “Remain” explores themes of solitude and subtlety within the naked body. It exists in an abandoned space where small shifts in movement create tides of energy that swell and reignite a sense of hope. This project was self filmed during a Covid-19 lockdown and is part of the 9 part dance film series “Turbulent Kingdoms.”
PICTORIAL WAY, 3min., France, Dance Directed by Laura Bonnefous To give life by color, to make live the bodies and their emotions is the stake of this poetic and dreamlike film.
BE STILL, 5min., USA, Dance Directed by Nicole Manoochehri An improvised dance film in collaboration with dancer Mélissa Guérin-Torres, Paris-based composer Arnaud Drieu and award-winning cinematographer Steven Fadellin.
PRIMORDIAL, 4min., USA, Dance Directed by Madison VanDerLinde A movement based film depicting the love story between Life and Death. Unable to be together, Life and Death send each other gifts, humans, to express their love for one another. An explanation for existence on Earth.
CANA, 14min., USA, Dance Directed by Ana Maria Alvarez This film is an investigation of movement within a natural landscape, of rich textures and textiles in motion, and of the mystery of ritual. It provides a window into a private world of a group of women, dancing together unselfconsciously among natural landscapes and dressed in lusciously colored textiles. Throughout the film, sugar cane is ripped, bitten, and swung about as a meditation on this indulgent substance—echoing themes of vice and virtue.
This festival’s location is as mainstream and as Hollywood as it gets. It’s located in downtown Los Angeles, right beside the Staples Center, home of the LA Kings, Clippers, and Lakers (LeBron James). And also right beside the convention center which holds a nightly concert.
So…….let’s put on a film festival that showcases films & talent that no other festival does. Alternative films. Fashion films. Music Videos, Dance Pieces. Films without a plot. Films that let the visuals and sounds tell the emotions and let the audience interpret their own feelings.
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NEW Showcase: Submit your FEATURE FILM and receive an audience feedback promotional/testimonial video of your film. Great video to use to get into more festivals and/or promote your film. All submissions receive feedback on their film no…
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