AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: ANDROMEDA
BEST CHARACTERS: AH
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: G(R)O(W)ING UP
BEST MUSIC: WATERMELON
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The theme of the April 2019 FEMALE Feedback Film Festival in Toronto was “Innocense Lost”.
Each film was about something or someone losing their idealism.
The 4th event of the Los Angeles festivals in 2019.
8 more festivals to go in LA this year.
See you at the festivals.
– Matthew Toffolo
WATERMELON: A CAUTIONARY TALE, 3min., USA, Animation/Fantasy
Directed by Kefei Li, Connie Qin He
After a boy accidentally swallows a watermelon seed, weird things start to happen.
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SKJEMT BLOD, 6min., USA, Experimental/Music Video
Directed by Gwenmarie White
Filmmaker uses what she has coined “girl kvlture” as a vehicle for meditation on American brutality. The orchestral black metal adaptation of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” takes advantage of the tension between the sounds and images of pop culture and metal culture to call attention to larger aspects of violence and pleasure.
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MY BROTHER, 9min., Canada, Drama/Family
Directed by Myriam Kamel
Youness wants to introduce his Canadian girlfriend to his family, but the cultural differences between his north american lifestyle and his family’s conservative values makes this acquaintance more difficult than planned.
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G(R)O(W)ING UP, 10min., USA, Drama/Romance
Directed by Annabelle Frost
A short film about falling for Mr. Wrong on your way to finding Mr. Right.
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GOD TOLD ME, 6min., USA, Drama/Relationship
Directed by Letia Solomon
Although deeply drawn to each other, Reggie and Felicia grapple with the toxic nature of their relationship in one evening after a nice night out in the parking lot.
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FOR WANT OF A NAIL, 18min., UK, Drama/Comedy
Directed by Lucy Joan Barnes
Inspired by writer Nick’s own struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Intrusive Thoughts, but reconfigured and extrapolated to a more severe ‘worst case scenario’ “For Want of a Nail??” follows Marty, who attempts to live out a ‘perfect day’. As the story unfolds it becomes apparent that his range of intricate routines have been compounded by a succession of deaths in the family. Now, with only his twin sister left, Marty has found himself seeking to finally, once and for all, dispel the urges and paranoia that drive the compulsions which are seriously affecting his life – and, in his mind, stop his sister from dying
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SKJEMT BLOD, 6min., USA, Experimental/Music Video
FOR WANT OF A NAIL, 18min., UK, Drama/Comedy
WATERMELON: A CAUTIONARY TALE, 3min., USA, Animation/Fantasy
GOD TOLD ME, 6min., USA, Drama/Relationship
AH, 8min, India, Drama
MY BROTHER, 9min., Canada, Drama/Family
ANDROMEDA, 15min., USA, Sci-Fi/Fantasy