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ReelHeART July 03-09, 2023
Live Online!

Welcome To Opening Day – 17th Annual ReelHeART
Theme – Shorts Filmed Around The World

Kenya’s Symphony
Animation, Thesis Film | Duration: 00:04:50
Dir. Carlos Douglas Jr, United States
In Attendance via Zoom for a Post Premiere Q&A
Producer and Animator: Carlos Douglas Jr, Composer and Trumpet: Michael Van Bodegom Smith
Language: English

*Nominated For Best Animated Film, Best Short Film, Best Original Score by Michael Van Bodegom Smith

Synopsis: Kenya, a bold five-year old girl, is reluctantly dragged to a symphony by her mother. Through the power of the orchestra, the young girl’s passion for music blossoms before her own eyes.

 

Keywords: #Animation #BlackFamilies #Family #Parenting #Music #ClassicalMusic #OutsideYourComfortZone #FindYourPassion

Why We Fly
Thesis Film | Duration: 00:05:35
Dir. Allie Marsh, United States
Language: English

*Nominated For Best Thesis Film, Best Short Documentary

Synopsis: Only about 7% of all pilots are female. Why We Fly is a collective celebration of lady aviators who make up the 7% and a tribute to our freedom to fly.

Keywords: #Flight #FemalePilots #Female Aviators #7Percent #Aviation #GirlPower #Empowerment

The Mirror
Thesis Film, Student Film | Duration: 00:16:35
Dir. Leila Murton Poole, Australia
Language: English, French with English Subtitles

*Nominated For Best Thesis Film, Best Short Film, Best Set Design

Synopsis: Mathilde, a mute French orphan, helps to protect Madame B, the most superstitious lady in the world, from all bad luck. Both have developed their own coping mechanisms to deal with extreme loss. When Mathilde breaks Madame B’s most prized possession, a magical mirror, she goes on a journey to fix it. Along the way, she meets 12 year old Tobias who is wise beyond his years and changes her life forever.

Keywords: #Death #Fable #BadLuck #Fate #GrimmFairytale #Family #French

How To Fall In Love In A Brothel
Film Short | Duration: 00:11:00
Dir. Sunhui Chang, United States
In Attendance via Zoom for a Post Premiere Q&A
Language: English, Korean with English Subtitles

*Nominated For Best Short Film

Synopsis: How To Fall in Love in a Brothel. Set in 1960 Incheon, South Korea. As a young country is struggling through rebuilding after the Korean War, two young Koreans struggling to find their place in a hard world, find love in an unexpected and unlikely setting. Showing what is possible in life when two people happen to cross paths.

Keywords: #Heritage #Love #Life #War #1960s #SouthKorea #KoreaWar #Meta #FilmInAFilm

Milkskin
Experimental Film | Duration: 00:05:17
Dir. Sarah Derendinger, Switzerland
Language: English

*Nominated For Best Experimental Film, Best Art Film

Synopsis: A woman is awakened from her memories. Milk boils: a glimmer of hope perhaps? She gulps down the milk skin, feels new strength, wants to live the daydream of freedom. But the hope was deceptive. She is left with nothing more than the desire, into which she dissolves…

Keywords: #Experimental #Switzerland #DayDream #Delicate #Devour #Desire #Milk #WarmMilk #ThatGrossThingOnHotMilk

Ophelia
Experimental Film, Web / New Media | Duration: 00:06:06
Dir. Hadi Moussally, France
In Attendance via Zoom for a Post Premiere Q&A
Language: MOS

*Nominated For Best Dance Film, Best Art Film

Synopsis: A tribute to the Pre-raphaelite brotherhood by telling the story of the creation of some of the most famous paintings, especially the most known “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais. Where we can see nature taking more and more place in the art. The group’s intention was to reform art by rejecting what it considered the mechanistic approach.

Keywords: #Experimental #France #Ethereal #PreRaphaelite #Painting #Fashion #HauteCouture #Design #ModernDance #White #Art

Stadt, Land, Baum.
Thesis Film | Duration: 00:27:13
Dir. Felix Friedlein, Germany
Language: German with English Subtitles

*Nominated For Best Short Film, Best International Film

Synopsis: When Sophia’s little brother’s maypole is stolen by the rich neighboring village, she decides to return to her hated hometown to help him steal it back. Will they manage to save the maypole festival? Producer: Remi Kalisz.

Keywords: #Friends #German #Crime #City #Country #Tree

Derek And Daisy Do…
Web / New Media | Duration: 00:14:35
Dir. Gareth Brierley, United Kingdom
In Attendance via Zoom for a Post Premiere Q&A
Co-Star: Gareth Brierley, Co-Star: Bernadette Russell
Language: English

*Nominated For Best Short Film, Best Web Series, Best Actress – Bernadette Russell as “Daisy”

Synopsis: In season one, maverick brother and sister tour guides Derek and Daisy Elm embrace 21st century technology and the restrictions of the lockdown, to bring you, the lucky viewer, a walking tour of their “ancient, ancestral home”- a one bedroom flat in Deptford, London SE8.

Keywords: #TourGuide #UKTourGuides #Covid19 #DeptfordUK #SouthEastLondon #Comedy #BrotherAndSister #Ancestry

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