Film Jury Awards Best Picture - Trust in Love (Mick Davis, USA)  Nominees: Out of State-A Gothic Romance, Not for Nothing, Burst the Silence, The Problem of the Hero Best Student Film - Tangerine Drum Machine (Reilly McHugh, USA) Nominees: Lovie Dovie, Slanted Perspectives: My Life with SMA, The Hauntings of New Hope, Adagio, Mike & Frank, Living All of Life Best Alternative Film -  Divine Instinct (James Gossard, USA) Nominees: Who Followed Us Home, The Blood Orange, Order My Steps, The Sun Rises in the East, The Problem of the Hero, White Noise, I Approve this Message Best Sh ..read more

In this deadpan, Kafkaesque take on the modern corporate grind, a middle manager interviews a job hopeful for a position in a secretive spiritual order. The organization, called Third Eye Moonwalk, travels outside of four-dimensional space-time. Despite this amazing feat, it's still bound by the humdrum oppressions of debt, turnover and general administrative expenses. They need help, but is Traveler #582 the candidate who can help them? Co-Directors Lisa Steindler and Jon Bernson conceived this satirical project to illuminate people on the perils of seeking financial gain ..read more

When Susana learns that her husband of many decades has abandoned her, she is disconsolate. Life is joyless, bland and empty. In desperation, she reaches out to her neighbor Gloria, a high-spirited soul who could help her heal the wound. Yet Susana despises Gloria for all the reasons the younger woman could help. It is a vortex of suffering, and neither words nor possible friends are enough to help Susana really live again.  Mexico City-born Director Marlen Rios-Farjat has a discerning touch in Living All of Life (Vivir Today la Vida). The acting is intimate and nuanced, and e ..read more

Poor Max. He tries and tries again to land himself a girlfriend. No, a date! Just a date would be fine. But women will have none of it as he endures rejections, slaps and general love life failure. Yes, it's a humiliating, even depressing, mental state for him to exist in each day...after agonizing..........day.  But he won't give up. In fact, his frustration is propelling him to take action. So, one day, he heads off to see a fortune teller. It's a Hail Mary, he knows, but hey it's LA and you can make the nutty choice when stretching for your dream. If Gypsy Rose is making it here, she ..read more

This short documentary involves a powerful and moving love story. The film's narrator, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, speaks with eloquence, wisdom and deep fondness about her parents. Her father, a Hungarian Christian, was a rising star of Hungary's Foreign Ministry, but he found his government's alliance with Germany despicable. Her mother was the granddaughter of a Jewish industrialist. The story of their tumultuous lives unfolds through letters found 60 years after they were written.  Family tribute films aren't often so beautifully produced, a lofty compliment to Director Matt Sulli ..read more

A cherished member of New Hope, Pennsylvania's music scene, Liz DuFour would need no introduction in this area. She is a local celebrity, an entertainer par excellence, and a long-term participant in the evolution of the LGBTQ+ community. She is so respected that New Hope Celebrates included this biographical film in the LGBTQ+ organization's New Hope Celebrates History: Artists and Authors series.  Directed by local filmmaker E. Robert Reilly, the short doc includes exclusive interviews with DuFour and other leading lights of New Hope, making this is a must-see for anyone who ..read more

Dogs occupy a special place in the lives of many people. This short documentary from Northern California portrays that specialness at another level: a service dog program for sufferers of PTSD.  In By My Side, Co-Directors Vicki Topaz and Wynn Padula focus their camera on three veterans and their families. Through these intimate portraits, one better understands how difficult it is to overcome the "invisible wound." Twenty suicides per day is a bleak number; indeed, many veterans feel there is no hope.  Yet there is hope in service dogs. Once the veterans were a ..read more

There are things to do. What an understated, yet earnest, rallying cry.  Urvashi Vaid is considered one of the most formative LGBTQ+ activists in history. When she took the podium at the Washington Mall in 1993, an estimated 1,000,000 people stood and listened. Her powerful voice, combined with a certain openness that one associates with love, helped shape a movement and change lives. Director Mike Syers, a refugee from corporate America who found his calling as a filmmaker, does a sound job of recounting Vaid's story. This short documentary includes interviews and archival footage ..read more

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