Our 11th annual International Film Festival was hosted in collaboration with Catalyst Content Festival in Duluth, MN Oct 9-13. Bringing the most creative community in independent cinema from around the world together with the largest and most prestigious independent television and episodic festival.
See Winners below
2019 Program of Attending Filmmakers
Official Selections Include:
OFFICIAL SELECTION FILMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER / Screening Date & Time listed next to attending filmmaker projects
Ex. Film Title (runtime) Director(s), City, State Abbreviation COUNTRY
26:32:00 (27min) Pendar Nasser Sharif, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Abracadabra (2min) Telemach Wiesinger
All the World is a Stage (2min) Hannes Rall, Berlin, Germany
Amanda_Test 1 (13min) Ben Gansky, Veronica Moonhill, Nat Moonhill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aquarium (6min) Stephanie Maxwell, Fairport, NY, USA
Art of Prep, The (0min) Jeffrey Blank, North Hollywood, CA, USA
Artificial Connection (4min) Brianna Seaberg
Asheng (30min) Mohammad Sadeq Esmaeili, Kerman, Islamic Republic of Iran
Athena (22min) Christian Stahl, Berlin, Germany
Balance (3min) Barzan Rostami, Kordestan Sanandaj, Islamic Republic of Iran
Bare Knuckle Gentlemen, The (19min) Nishad Chaughule, West Hollywood, CA, USA
Beach Boy, The (8min) Hannes Rall, Berlin, Germany
Beech Boys, The (48min) Matt Tory SAT 8pm
Beloved (63min) Yaser Talebi
Beth’s Three O’Clock with Dr. Harlow (2min) Emma Penaz Eisner
Bird, The (71min) Shomshuklla Das, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Bite Me (10min) Susan Dalian, Marcus Nobreus, Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA FRI 12pm/SUN 12pm
Black Pool (85min) Dustin Morrow, Portland, OR, USA
Blackground (6min) Nic L. Kelly, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Blank Page, The “Prázdná Stránka” (9min) Natalia Miranda Lastra, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Blue (4min) Maryam Farahzadi, Pasadena, CA, USA
Blue (13min) Ashley Eakin, Corona, CA, USA
Boogeywoman, The (17min) Erica Scoggins
Bounce (13min) David MacLean, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Box, The (14min) Christopher Lewis Cook
Boy at the Platform 3, The “Der Junge Am Bahnsteig 3” (17min) Michael Daniel Vetter
Bright Eyed In The Mornin’ (3min) Maria Fiorentini, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
Bunch of Grapes (80min) Shomshuklla Das, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Burqa City (20min) Bracq Fabrice, Le Plessis Trevise, France
Callback (18min) Sabina Vajrača
Campesino (89min) Mia Tate, Hailey, ID, USA
Carl (10min) Dylan Boom
Cavewomen “Cavernícolas” (9min) Karlos Alastruey
CODA (22min) Erika Davis-Marsh, Los Angeles, CA, USA SAT 4pm
Con Spirito (19min) Emily Izquierdo, New York, NY, USA TH 4pm/FRI 2pm
Constant Treason (17min) Ruvin Orbach FRI 12pm/SAT 12pm
Critic, The (15min) Stella Velon, Los Angeles, CA, USA FRI 12pm/SUN 12pm
Cupid is Not a Terrorist (5min) Bellopropello, Zuerich, Switzerland
Cut (2min) Rasht Guilan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dancing Soul, The (0min) Loki Ojhha
Dangerous Sensation (6min) Loki Ojha
Day Three (12min) Analise Nelson
Dear, Inescapable (15min) Sarah Cheshire, Sophie Strohmeier, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Declarations (5min) Adam E. Stone
Delay of Game (24min) Shaun Dikilato
Deleted (20min) Stephan Pierre Mitchell
Depth of Pyaar (93min) Mukesh Asopa, Canada
Duel Citizen (9min) Marcel Giwargis
Derailers, The (13min) Joe Bartone, Valley Glen, CA, USA
Detained (9min) Khushnuda Shukurova, New York, NY, USA
Devil Share (sharefordeath) (5min) New Delhi, Delhi, India
Door, The “Die Tür” (5min) Florian Sailer, Berlin, Germany
Dog in the Woods (6min) Christian Chapman, Paul Jason Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dominant Species (19min) Joseph Sackett
Dull Hope (3min) Brian Ratigan
Thin Ice “Duünnes Eis” (24min) Alexander Herzog, Berlin
Eir’s Breath “El hálito de Eir” (28min) Karlos Alastruey
Empathy (19min) Farshad Khalilpour, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada
Eternal Ride of a Heartful Mind (5min) Paolo Sodi
Every Grain of Sand (11min) Amanda Spencer, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Execution Day (95min) Jalaladdin Gasimov, Baku, Azerbaijan
Faces From Mars, The (9min) Ryan Barnes, USA
Fat Punk (0min) Robert David Duncan
Father (30min) Daniel Torrisi
Fine Cycle, A (10min) Derek Willis, Portland, OR, USA WED 10pm/SAT 2pm
Five Minutes, The (9min) Shange Zhang, Los Angeles, CA, USA
For Love with Love “Bhalobasar Jonye, Bhalobasar Songe” (26min) Manav Kaushik, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Form of Memory (17min) Nicolas Alonso, Marina Figueiredo, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fox, The (10min) Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Frame (15min) Pedram Tajik
Frame for Solitude, A (30min) Mahmoud Azeri, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Frames (3min) Frank Donnangelo
Free Fly from the Fifth Floor (15min) Araz Pourvatan
From Liberty to Captivity (132min) Debbie Wright, Washington Crossing, PA, USA WED 7:30pm
Frontera (90min) Jake Thomas Armbruster, Justin Berti, Luis Ruiz, Omar Saavedra
Gods Die Too (3min) Adam E. Stone
Gods from Space (5min) Annalise Pasztor, San Antonio, TX, USA
Golnesa (95min) Sattar Chamani Gol, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Goodnight, Gracie (4min) Stellan Kendrick, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Grail, The (83min) Adam Maurer, Mike Yosh
Grindylow, The – City of Cranes (33min) Marcell Marias, Seattle, WA, USA
GSLV Mark3 (6min) Dinesh Kumar
Harmony (5min) Mackenzie Cendrowski, Pasadena, CA, USA
Harper Finch (9min) Matthew Toronto, Jonathan Baker, Burbank, CA, USA
Headlock (9min) Jacob Sussman, Framingham, MA, USA
Her Magnum Opus (60min) Marta Renzi, Upper Nyack, NY, USA
Her Room by the Kitchen “Ella Vive Junto a la Cocina” (12min) Romina Romero-Hermoso, Seattle, WA, USA FRI 2pm/SAT 12pm
Here I Think Of All My Freedom (2min) Mohammad Hasani, Tehran, Tehran Islamic Republic of Iran
Hungry (20min) Jillie Simon, Thomas Simon, NYC, NY, USA TH 12pm/FRI 2pm
I Had Too Much To Think Last Night (1min) Kevin Webb, Sacramento, CA, USA FRI 4pm/SAT 2pm
Idol (9min) Luisa Taraz, Berlin
In the House of Paper Flowers (8min) Anita George, Altadena, CA, USA
Inner Telescope, A Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac (35min) Virgile Novarina, Fresnay-le-Samson, France
IRY (40min) Anna Niebert, Maurice Miller, Garching, Bavaria, Germany
Isolated Crows of Solitude (20min) Sahar Soleimani
Javed (16min) Tariq Bashir, Cheema Town, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
KATZ On The Internet (12min) James M. Martin, Denton, TX, USA SAT 2pm & 8pm
Kintsugi “金缮” (15min) Jiayuan Liu, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kiss. (6min) Ricardo Montt
Ladies Most Deject (15min) Martha Elcan, Wise, VA, USA FRI 4pm/SAT 2pm
Last Pitch, The (16min) Jonathan Steinfield, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Leprosy (15min) Alimohammad Eghbaldar, Rasht, Gilan, Islamic Republic of Iran
Light Wraps Me (71min) Shomhshuklla Das, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India WED 10pm
Like Sun in an Empty Room (24min) Lukas Ladner, Garching, Bavaria, Germany
Lines, The (68min) Kiku Ohe, Culver City, LA, CA, USA
Little River Run (15min) Ed Skrein, London, UK
Little White Lies (7min) Tracy Britton, Los Angeles, CA USA TH 12pm/FRI 12pm
Livin’ Free (3min) Dave Tabar, Westlake, OH, USA
Love the Most “Lo Que Ma’s Amas” (19min) Antti Seppänen, Berlin, Germany SUN 12pm
Loverboy (10min) Caleb King
Luz (84min) Javier Borrayo, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepequez, Guatemala
Maelstrøm (3min) Carlos Gómez-Trigo, Guadalajara, Spain
Magne (12min) Silvia Schmidt
Martha (13min) Zander Colbeth, Los Altos, CA, USA
Mei “The Truth” (92min) Harish, Dinesh Kumar, Vignesh Vijithran
Mens Sana (15min) Ludovica Musumeci
Metoo (8min) Ali Tabe imam, Tehran, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Millennial Disruption, The (28min) Somi Arian
Mixed Medium (65min) Shomshuklla Das, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Mugathirai (Mask) (19min) Harish Gokul
Murals (83min) Shomshuklla Das, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Muse (87min) John Burr, Los Angeles, CA, USA SAT 4pm
My Arms Flew (46min) Mahmoud Nuri FRI 2pm/SAT 12pm
My Body is Not A Weapon “Mon Corps N’est Pas Une Arme” (38min) Platon, New York, NY, USA
My Dad Was Contacted By Aliens (9min) Niklaus Lange, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Naangu (Four) Film Version (60min) Harish Gokul, Komathy Nagar Selaiyur, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Nanna & the Ice Dog (3min) Rose Waldschmidt, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Near the Edge (18min) CarrieAnn Lee, Lakebay, WA, USA
Nettles (21min) Natalie Ulman SAT 2pm/SUN 12pm
Journey of Emotions “Nigazhvugal” (50min) Harish
O One O (11min) Mohammad Hossein Jafari Moghaddam Fard, Qazvin, Qazvin, Islamic Republic of Iran
Oblivious (10min) Simon E J Wood SAT 10am/SAT 8pm
Old Man and the Dead, The “پیرمرد و مرد مرده” A17min) Amirreza Falaki, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Olympians (11min) Amit Gupta, Meghan Sunder, West Hollywood, CA, USA SAT 2pm
One That ___™, the (11min) Walter Smits, Minneapolis, MN, USA SAT 8pm
Only the Drum (13min) Ann Sullivan-Cross, Oakland, CA, USA
Perfectly Natural (14min) Victor Alonso-Berbel, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phototaxis (7min) Melissa Ferrari, Val Verde, CA, USA
Physicians of Aickarakkonam (110min) Biju Majeed, Kakkanad, Kerala, India
Pink (82min) Austin Herring, Waxhaw, CA, USA
Plenty to Say: The Radical Murals of Mary Perry Stone (9min) Ramie Streng, Ashland, OR, USA
Pooch Sitter – A Film That Will Give You Paws (15min) Monda Raquel Webb
Poor Greg Drowning (78min) Jeffrey Scott Collins, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Powerful Presence, A (17min) Christine Vandemoortele, London, UK
Prayer for the Childless, A “Santhana Gopala” (9min) Sandeep Ravindranath, Chicago, IL, USA
Prenatal (11min) Austin, TX, USA
Price for Silence, The (112min) Tony Germinario
Proof of Life (20min) Adam Harum
Prophetess, The “Mujakazi” (23min) Sylvie Weber, Berlin, Germany
Punishment (11min)
R&J (16min) Natalie Ulman SAT 2pm/SUN 12pm
Raheel (30min) Ayat Asadi Rahbar, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Rebirth (6min) Talbot Hall, Huntersville, NC, USA
Reborn (20min) Edina Kishonthy TH 8pm/SUN 12pm
Receding (14min) Dario Caudana
Return of the Thumb “Die Rückkehr Des Daumens” (102min) Flo Convey
River Mojo (9min) Russell Biggs, Anchorage, AK, USA
Robin (75min) Toby Schmutzler, Kevin Schmutzler
Rose Colored Shades (88min) Randy Sparks, Tacoma, WA, USA FRI 4pm
Same Boat (83min) Chris Roberti, Chicago, IL, USA
Sand Dunes (17min) Tiana C Marenah
Seagull, The (16min) Maria Popistasu, Alexandru Baciu
Senior Entourage (87min) Brian Connors, Culver City, CA, USA
She Who Wasn’t Tamed (15min) Saleh Kashefi
Sholler’s Archive (88min) Jalaladdin Gasimov, Baku, Azerbaijan
Short Wave (15min) Mohamad Esmaeeli, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Siren of the Mediterranean Islands “La sirène des iles Méditerranéennes” (15min) El Ghaieb Lassaad
Sisak (15min) Faraz Arif Ansari, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Sitting Shiav (18min) Heather Shapiro, Preston Lane Jeter, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sluggish Life (11min) Mohsen Mehri Deravi, Karaj Alborz, Islamic Republic of Iran
Smoke Through a Spider Web (15min) Niranjan Raj Bhetwal, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal
Snake Marked, A (14min) Juan Riedinger
Snow Child (12min) Diana Cignoni, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Sophia (18min) Zhenzhen Ma
Space Between Words, The (103min) Ian Fowler, Portland, OR, USA
Space to Explore (14min) Silver Spring, MD, USA
Speed of Life (76min) Liz Manashil, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Spider Creeps In (9 Pages) Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran
Spinoza Hotel (6min) Robert David Duncan
Statue, The (15min) Becca Wolff, Berkeley, CA, USA
Strange History of Djerba’s Jews, The (40min) Lassaad El Ghaieb, Tunis, Tunisia
Stranger and The Wind, The (15min) Hmed Ahmadi, Hamidreza Ahmadi, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Sublime Life, A (2min) Luis Diogo, Frazão, Portugal
Suburban Supernova (25min) Steven Markowitz, North Hollywood, CA, USA
Sugar (13min) Emiliana Ammirata, Orange, CA, USA
Summon a Fiend (15min) Eleanor Cho
Sunset, Sunrise “日落日出” (12min) Bruce Hsin-Ta Chiu, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Super Dude! (5min) Caitlin Duffy
Susan (98min) Mahmoud Shoolizadeh, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Sylvia (17min) Richard Prendergast, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
Tech Bettys (22min) Kathleen Davison, Brooklyn, NY, USA FRI 12pm/SAT 8pm
Teddy Mate (15min) Rommel Villa, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Things Break In (6min) Tess Harrison
Things Would Be Different (13min) Kerri Fernsworth Feazell, Los Angeles, CA, USA
This Little Death (19min) Alex Hardy
Throuple (19min) Los Angeles, CA, USA
Time Forever Before, A (21min) Christopher M. Miller, Glendale, CA, USA
Time On The Bridge (13min) Artak Parsian, Oakland, CA, USA
Timepiece, The (14min) Karan Choudhary, New York, NY, USA
Through Time, Gino Jose, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Together (17min) A.W. Scott, Los Angeles, CA, USA TH 12pm/FRI 12pm
Tomorrow Island (16min) Gwenn Joyaux
Too-Tash (15min) Dariusz Sipowski
Traffic Separating Device, The (15min) Johan Palmgren
Turbid (23min) Aboozar Paknejad TH 12pm/SAT 12pm
Twelve Conversations (101min) Emanuele Valla
Typical Day, A (10min) Hossein Jeyroodi
Uganda Project, The (74min) Robert Fritz, Reint Bakema, Newfane, VT, USA
Unconditional Love (12min) Franie Éléonore Bernier, Samuel Matteau, QC, Canada
Us (13min) Will Darbyshire, Loughton, UK
Variables (24min) Sabina Vajraca Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fear for Something ”Vithdhai” (26min) Harish Gokul
Vizhi (Kayalvizhi) (11min) Harish Gokul
Wake of Light, The (84min) Renji Philip, Studio City, CA, USA TH 4pm
Wash Me Please (6min) Ali Nikfar, Saeid Mayahy
We (86min) Mani Nasry, Scarborough, ON, Canada TH 2pm
What I Wish You Said (8min) Tiffany Frances, Brooklyn, NY, USA
What’s In The Box? (6min) Ryan Kelly, San Diego, CA, USA
Where Love Leads (10min) Marta Renzi
Where the Jungle Ends (6min) Joe Stucky, Culver City, CA, USA
Wingman, The (8min) Jeremy Gutierrez, Queens Village, NY, USA TH 2pm/FRI 12pm
Wishbone (60min) Ali Atshani
Withorwithout (7min) Benjamin
Wrestler, The: A Q.T. Marshall Story (75min) Frank Zarrillo, Toms River, NJ, USA SAT 10am
Worlds From Home (13min) Delmar Washington, Glendale, CA, USA
You Are My Person (24min) Dan Dobi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
OFFICIAL SELECTION SCRIPTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Ex. Script Title (page count) Screenwriter(s), City, State Abbreviation COUNTRY
25 to Life (9 Pages) Kimberly Jade Soliman
Angel of Rain (118 Pages) Lawrence Kennon, Sacramento, CA, USA
Before Paul (101 Pages) Kimberly Jade Soliman
Coin Laundry (12 Pages) Christopher Mitchell, USA
Currency Exchange (14 pages) Derek Willis
Everylife (120 Pages) Hunter Liguore, USA
Fariza (86 Pages) Khushnuda Shukurova
Freedom of Choice (10 Pages) Kimberly Jade Soliman
Gold Rush (10 Pages) Nic Kelly, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Grace Like Rain (91 Pages) Kimberly Jade Soliman
I Am Arzé (90 Pages) Sam Shaib, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Internet Marker, The (127 Pages) Mike Buchanan, Chicago, IL, USA
Jack London Story, The (60 Pages) Michael Oakes, Vallejo, CA, USA
Kill-Crazy Gang, The (105 Pages) Gary Gurner
Life Gamble 2, The (20 Pages) Peter Janov, Tustin, CA, USA
Man in the Mirror (62 Pages) Michael Kaminski
My Black Friend (9 Pages) James Martin, Denton, TX, USA
Never Goodbye (126 Pages) Edina Kishonthy, Culver City, CA, USA
Renaissance Men (139 Pages) Michael Oakes, Vallejo, CA, USA
Space Expedition (118 Pages) Rohini Arju Somkuwar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Spider Creeps in (9 Pages) یزدان باقری, , Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran
Star People2010 (27 Pages) Kelly Lacombe, USA
Street Dreams (101 Pages) Nic Kelly, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019 Winners
Best of Fest – The Wake of Light
Legacy Award: The Shom Award – Natalie Ullman [R&J, Nettles]
Legacy Award: Walt Ratterman Award – My Arms Flew
Legacy Award: The Triangle Award – I Had Too Much To Think Last Night
Legacy Award: John Basham Award – Oblivious
Narrative Feature – Rose Colored Shades
Narrative Short – The Wingman
Documentary Feature – From Liberty to Captivity
Documentary Short – Her Room by the Kitchen
Best Director – CODA
Best Cinematography – Love the Most (Lo Que Mas Amas)
Best Screenwriting – Together
Best Experimental – The One That ____
Best Fantasy – Reborn
Best Horror – Muse
Best Suspense – Constant Treason
Best Historical/Biography – Con Spirito
Best Web Series – Tech Bettys
Best Comedy – The Beech Boys
Most Inspiring – We
Thought Provoking – Little White Lies
Social Message – Hungry
Most Impactful – A Fine Cycle
Breakthrough Performance – The Critic
Someone to Watch Award – Ladies Most Deject
Feature Screenplay – Never Goodbye
Short Screenplay – Currency Exchange
