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Audience Awards (from FEEDBACK Festival):
Best Short Film: Caught
Best Direction: Samaná: The Last Free Flowing River of Antioquia
Best Cinematography: Jaguar Song
Best Documentary Film: Expedition Greenland: At The Front Lines of Sea Level Rise,
Best Live-Action Shrot Film: FȲR
Best Story: Sanctuary of the Leatherback
Best Micro-Short Film: Kin
Samaná: The Last Free Flowing River of Antioquia, 11min., USA
Directed by Cameron Atlas
The Samaná River is the only major river in Antioquia, Colombia, that remains free flowing. While the rest of the region’s waterways have been dammed, the Samaná’s ecosystem remains intact, supporting a critical corridor of biodiversity and a growing economy for locals.
Samaná River
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-samana
JAGUAR SONG, 16min., Ecuador
Directed by AnAkA
“We know that indigenous people have the same goals: to protect the earth and ancestral lifeways. We know that strengthening intertribal relationships will support the regional communities in cultural revitalization and defense of the natural world.
https://instagram.com/jaguarsongfilm
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-jaguar-song
CAUGHT, 8min., USA
Directed by Kevan Doyle
Caught is a short documentary filmed in Sri Lanka that explores how building economies around recycling can inspire sustainable change in developing communities. Directed by Kevan Doyle, the film was featured in his TEDx talk after the organizer was so moved by its message, she insisted it be shared with the audience. Caught is a hopeful portrait of how local action can spark global impact—turning ocean waste into opportunity.
https://www.kevandoyle.com/caught
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-caught
Expedition Greenland: At The Front Lines of Sea Level Rise, 29min., USA
Directed by James Hale, Luke Pavey
On Greenland’s remote shores, some of the planet’s oldest ice sheets are rapidly disappearing and quietly transforming global seas. Here, million-year-old glaciers fracture and crumble, and meltwater rivers rush to the ocean in icy waterfalls. Greenland’s ice sheet is the second largest on Earth, containing enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by about seven meters (about 23 feet). And it is melting at an accelerating pace.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-expedition
FȲR, 22min., UK
Directed by Mackenzie Fuller
A young warrior and his aging mentor confront the Mother, a primordial being of nature who blurs the line between creation and control.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-fyr
Sanctuary of the Leatherback, 10min., Thailand
Directed by Alongkot Chukaew
The Sanctuary of the Leatherback is the continuing stories, following the first documentary, The Story of the Leatherback. This documentary will raise an important issue, relating to the recent death of mother Tai Meaung, a mother leatherback turtle along with her 136 unhatched babies in her belly. The incident is heartbreaking. Losing her has been a major blow for the conservation efforts for this turtle specie, one of the critically endangered animals in Thailand.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sanctuary
KIN, 5min., Mexico
Directed by Ana Baer, Rocio Luna
Relating in times of crisis. A site-specific screendance that explores the relationship between humanity and nature, raising awareness of ecological challenges and seeking—if only partially—to remediate damaged environments. Drawing on environmental art practices, the work opens space for dialogue about our precarious entanglement with the natural world, inviting us to reimagine and reconfigure that relationship. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s posthuman theories.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-kin
Environmental Film and Screenplay Festival 