Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: KESTREL: THE ART IN SURVIVAL
Best Short Form Short Film: BATTLE PLAN
Best Long Form Short Film: LIVING WITH LANDSLIDES
Best Narrative Film: AGENTS OF CHANGE, Project: Polymer
Best Direction: SOLD! AN AMERICAN STOCKYARDS STORY
Best Nature Film: THE GREAT BASIN! Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desert
Best Cinematography: AQUAVERSE
Best Informative Doc: THE CLEAN WATER TANK PROJECT MISSION
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
AQUAVERSE, 13min., France
Directed by Justine Rauby
Aquaverse is a story about disappearance and the quest for a refuge. Through the dive of a half-human, half-machine character, the film raises a paradox attached to the deep sea: that of a tangible and real world, but considered less real than our new virtual worlds. The “Aquaverse” as a place not occupied by humanity is in fact a parallel world.
https://krakenplongee.fr/gangui/
https://instagram.com/krakenplongee
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
AGENTS OF CHANGE, Project: Polymer, 15min., USA, Action
Directed by Jett Garrison
“AGENTS OF CHANGE, Project: Polymer” is a spy-genre film that centers a fully a queer and transgender cast while bringing issues facing the environment to the forefront. Rookie secret agent Guy Longani is on a take-along mission to expose the ringleader of an illegal plastic dumping scheme, but when the operation goes awry, he must earn the trust of his more experienced partner if they’re going to bring an evil mastermind to justice.
https://agentsofchangemovie.com/
https://www.instagram.com/agentsofchangemovie
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
KESTREL: THE ART IN SURVIVAL, 62min,. USA
Directed by Ell M. Kinsey
Director Ell Kinsey places a camera in a nest box where American Kestrel pair June and July defy the odds to start a family and thrive in a world in which their species declines every year. With the help of self-made experts, Kinsey unravels the secret life of North America’s smallest falcon, combining the scientific and the artistic to inspire others to take action–the same way an experience fifteen years earlier inspired her.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SOLD! AN AMERICAN STOCKYARDS STORY, 41min,. USA
Directed by Drew Ames
On May 19th, 2021, the St. Joseph Missouri Stockyards had its last sale after 135 years in operation. From cattle trails to train rails and interstate highways, ‘SOLD!’ follows the growth and change in St. Joseph and agriculture communities across the nation.
http://sold-doc.com/https://www.facebook.com/SOLDdoc
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE CLEAN WATER TANK PROJECT MISSION, 2min,. USA
Directed by Ron L. Perrin
In less than 2 minutes you will learn something you did not know about drinking water. This very short film takes a close look at our drinking water and the work of the Ron Perrin Clean Water Tank Project, Inc. They promote and explain the need for cleaning water storage tanks and towers. Cleaning tanks and towers is often forgotten as the interior of the tank is simply out of sight and out of mind. Instead, the focus of many water utilities is on adding more chemical disinfectants to meet federal and state guidelines. Bacteria, protozoa, viruses, and other microbes can use the sediment at the bottom of storage tanks as a habitat to grow and eventually become a health concern.
http://www.ronperrincleanwatertankproject.com/https://www.facebook.com/cleanwatertankproject/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
BATTLE PLAN, 5min., France
Directed by John Banana, Mathilde Michea
A car ride with Mum results in an epiphany for a young girl who must imagine her way to a better future.Her ideas grow and with them the chance to make a real difference.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE GREAT BASIN! Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desert, 15min., USA
Directed by Eric Weeks
The Great Basin! Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desert is a film, book and print project that addresses climate change, the severe drought in the Western United States, gun culture, the military’s use of the basin and range of Nevada for atomic testing, cultural stereotypes, my own personal history, and my experiences in this mostly remote area. In the 15 minute short film I am creating complex collages of my still and motion captures made in Nevada with appropriated short clips from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, recent weather footage, The Lone Ranger, as well as John Wayne’s and other historic films, cartoons, and many other cultural artifacts, in order to speak to the place and its significance.
https://ericweeksphoto.com/the-great-basin-2
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
LIVING WITH LANDSLIDES, 45min., USA
Directed by Laure Quinlivan
This film documents the devastating costs of landslides to both private property owners and taxpayers, and offers solutions. Climate change means landslides will only get worse.
http://www.livingwithlandslides.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LQConsults
https://www.instagram.com/livingwithlandslides/
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival 