“I just wanted to thank you for selecting the film, for the honor, and for inviting me to participate in the very enjoyable interview with the other participants. It was a very stimulating and pleasurable experience.
I hope you’ve heard good things about the film, and that the festival continues to do what you have already accomplished.” John Strasberg, Director Best Feature – Adam’s Apples
Congratulations to all 119 New Media Films & Content Nominees from 23 Countries, 42 World – 6 US – 42 LA Premieres
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Wednesday 6-2-21
Event 1, VIP Soiree
4-5:30PM – PST
Join us online to Mix – Mingle – Industry leaders from the Entertainment & Tech sectors as well as fun loving film & content fans! Many people have made friends & business deals at these events all while having fun. Giveaways & more.
Wednesday 6-2-21
Event 2, Opening Night
6-8PM – PST
Live Music, Cutting Edge Screenings, various categories, Q & A with content creators Online. The Q & A is hosted by CNN Journalist Deborah Zara Kobylt.
Wednesday 6-2-21
Event 3 – Screenings w/ Q & A
8:30-1030PM – PST
Join us for screenings in New Media-Web Series-Drone-Mixed Reality-Pilot-Steam-Socially Responsible-Student-Shorts-Music Only categories w/ Q & A online.
Thursday 6-3-21 Event 4 Screenings w/ Q & A
6-8PM – PST
Join us for screenings in AI-Digital Comic-Documentary-Mobile-Podcast-Snipler-Trailer-Web Series Promo-TV categories and Q & A online.
Thursday 6-3-21 Event 5
Awards Ceremony
8:30-10PM – PST
Learn which of the nominees won Best of Category and Grand Prize awards. Plenty of special guests and surprises. We only announce the winners live in this ceremony, exciting!
24 hours, Event 6, VR – 360
From Noon 6-2-21 to Noon 6-3-21 – PST
Experience immersive and Collab VR (video) of nominees online for New Media Film Festival® Q & A coming soon on www.TinyUrl.com/PodcastNM
Thursday 6-3-21 Event 7
Screenings w/ Q & A
2 – 4 PM -PST
Join us online for a Feature, Short Doc, Scripts & Art Screenings
Full details of all nominees below.
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World – USA – L.A. Premiere status = 1st time in real Festival (not online only festivals)
Manatee – 360
L.A. Premiere
Director James Beissel – USA
See the world from the manatee’s point of view as we learn about their daily lives and habits and current threats to their tenuous existence.
Before I Knew – Socially Responsible
Los Angeles Premiere
Director Hans Augustave – USA
A powerful visual poem depicting both the subtle and harsh ways Black men come to the realization that they are seen as less than Human.
The Stand – Podcast
World Premiere
Director Anne Checler – USA
The story of Irene Checler’s unusual upbringing, as the daughter of fervent civil rights activists during the 1950s, and how the values she grew up with led her to take a stand of her own at her graduation in 1958.
Chord – VR
Director Ryan Atimoyoo – Canada
A young woman with abilities travels back through time to prevent the future. Amnesia and assassins may stop her before she has a chance.
Samarah Conley – Live Music Performance
Samarah Conley is a 13-year-old award-winning recording artist who will be performing her latest single, Movin’ On, as a live performance during festival. Movin’ On is a song to encourage people going through dark times, that no matter what, there are people that love you by your side to help you move on from the darkness.
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Short of Breath – Podcast
World Premiere
Director Emmy Winner Dustin Morrow – USA
A limited-run, four-part dramatic podcast series following the harrowing journey of a single mother and recovering addict who has just three days to secure a job and clean up her act, or risk losing her daughter forever.
Movin’ On – Music Only
Los Angeles Premiere
Artist Samarah Conley – USA
TeenMusicInsider – Can you tell us how this song came about?
“I wrote this when I was eleven years old. I was feeling sad when I wrote the song. The song title Movin’ On which is also the chorus didn’t actually come to me until I was in studio with my producer Len Monachello with Soundtronics. He creatively pushed me and Movin’ On was born. Thanks Lenny!” – Samarah
Loved Ones – Pilot
World Premiere
Director Sam Coyle – USA
The inside of the hard side of funeral workers.
Hustle – Web Series
Director Matt Strickland – USA
When faced with New York City supervillains, video gamers and best friends Nina and Paige fight to level up and achieve their creative goals.
Lead City – Digital Comic
World Premiere
Writer Eric Borden – USA
Before Deadwood. Before Tombstone. Before Durango.
There was Lead
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A Beautiful Brain in a Beautiful World – Student STEAM
Director – Grade 9 Student Martin Thaw – Canada
How Stem Cell-Derived Cerebral Organoids Revolutionize Treatments for Brain Diseases. The recent advancements will provide scientists with amazing insights into how the human brain develops and the possibility of discovering effective treatments for neurological diseases
The Gorilla Group: A Garmento’s Story – Script
Los Angeles Premiere
Writers Eric Diamond, Anthony Guilianti – USA
Paul Jewels, a fourth generation garmento, rises through the ranks of the men’s tailored clothing industry, partying his way through the decades and struggling to balance between his retail family and real family.
Unseen Australia- Drone
Los Angeles Premiere
Director Chris Tangey – Australia
Australia is so much more than the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef. It is, uniquely, both a country and a continent. This vast, empty land is the same size as the USA, but with just 25 million people. Here is just a glimpse of the Australia you didn’t know about. Unseen Australia.
Breathing Through – VR
Director Stan Adard – Switzerland
A VR experimental short film about the journeying of consciousness from birth, through the stages of life, into rebirth.
LIGO – STEAM
Los Angeles Premiere
Director Les Guthman – USA
The LIGO project made the first historic detection of gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. “Top 20 Discoveries of the Decade” – National Geographic & which earned Kip Thorne, Rai Weiss & Barry Barish the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics. This documentary is made in collaboration with Caltech, M.I.T. & the LIGO Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation, MathWorks & Caltech.
Generation Hops – Web Series Promo
Los Angeles Premiere
Director David Sabbath – USA
A television journalism series devoted to the emergence of the craft beer industry, but is equally balanced with stories of culture, community and love and life.
Endless Guitars – Music Only
Los Angeles Premiere
Artist Conny Conrad – Germany
From the internationally award-winning anniversary album “The World Anthem” shows Conny Conrad and his love for the guitar and other instruments.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful- STEAM
Los Angeles Premiere
Director RISD Senior Meredith Binnette – USA
A data driven exploration into the universal capacity for growth.
Colombia 2020 – Mobile
Director Nicky Woodhouse – Colombia
Surreal, sound led documentary shot on iPhone following a family backpacking around Colombia.
A Day In Wuhan – Documentary
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Al Jazeera Media Network – Qatar
How Coronavirus Pandemic Infiltrated the World from Wuhan.
Revolution Generation – Documentary
Los Angeles Premiere
Directors – Josh & Rebecca Tickell – USA
A manifesto for today’s youth on the societal forces that have shaped and held back their generation, and how they can deploy their unique strengths to revolutionize the political system. Narrated & starring Michelle Rodriguez
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Spiegel – VR
World Premiere
Director James Harris – USA
A virtual reality based visual interpretation of Arvo Part’s piece Spiegel Im Spigel to be viewed via an Oculus Rift
Hominidae – VR
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Brian Andrews – USA
Hominidae depicts an ecosystem of x-ray visibility. Creatures have evolved in surprising ways, where humans, birds, spiders and frogs share unique anatomies.
Roots-Sequoia – Music Only
World Premiere
Artist – emaé – UK
emaé would see her family move from Scotland to England, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana before settling in London. A feel-good blend of soul-pop, emaé is a fusion of all the cultures that embraced her and the places she’s called home.
Detention Adventure – TV
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Joe Kicak – Canada
Three nerdy friends and the school bully must get themselves thrown into detention to find the entrance to a labyrinth of trap-laden tunnels protecting the fabled hidden lab of Alexander Graham Bell.
GREEN UP! Revisiting Classics – Socially Responsible
Director – Rusty J. Matalou, Florie-Anne Virgile- UK
In London, a team of classic car enthusiasts have started their own green revolution: they’re converting petrol propulsions to electric. Using 3D printing, Kinect, Raspberry Pis, and any secondhand part they can find, these tinkering heroes are changing the face of the city, one car at a time…
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Norway majestic fjordland- Drone
Director Jan Barančík– Czech Republic & Norway
A drone film on the outstanding beauty of Norway’s fjords that were created thousands of years ago by retreating glaciers.
Fish Story – Script
World Premiere
Writer – Matthew Dixon – USA
A one-legged taxidermist gets her last chance at happiness when her father fishes a dangerous boy out of the sea.
I Want You Too – Script
World Premiere
Writer – Beja Christmas – USA
An accident, a temptress, lies and betrayal. With a feeling of love but a mind that can’t remember, is a vow enough to keep them together?
Hurricane – Script
Los Angeles Premiere
Writer – Mitchell Graham Colley – USA
As a young girl navigates an unstable home, a chance encounter with a woman coping with the loss of her son creates an unlikely friendship.
Peach Blossom – Script
Los Angeles Premiere
Writer – Cheng Yang – USA
A young astronaut returns with a sample from a habitable planet, only to find out his untold identity.
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After the Lockdown – Music Video
Director – Joy Shannon – USA
Title song for After The LockDown: Black In LA
Before – 360
World Premiere
Director – Caroline Smith – USA
Several young people from around the DC metro area share their memories of growing up in the United States capital.
The Gliwensbourg Chronicles – Web Series Promo
World Premiere
Director – Emilie Tommasi – France
Gliwensbourg, winter 1915, a French trench is pounded, all the soldiers are buried making only one survivor. Underground, the soldier who survived managed to get out of an air pocket and crawl into a hole leading to a mysterious tunnel that leads to … 1925!
The Fash Life Series – Web Series Ep 1
World Premiere
Director – Rebecca Hu – USA
Fashion, beauty and the Influencer life, starring your favorite real life Influencers. #unfiltered and #irl
Myth – Art
World Premiere
Director – George Maple – Australia
Luna and Sol; Two star crossed Lovers, born into a genetically engineered society, destined to change the course of history with their love.
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Cheyenne – Documentary
World Premiere
Director – Rich Underwood – USA
Facing kidney failure at the age of 20, Cheyenne’s options for a donor are dwindling until an unexpected turn of events presents love and a lifesaving gift. A set of skilled caregivers operate on Cheyenne and her living donor to give her a second chance at a life that had only begun to blossom.
Ode To Joy – Music Only
Los Angeles Premiere
Conductor – Taras Kutsenko – China, Monaco, Spain, Ukraine
This project was born out of a great desire to unite during the pandemic. Many musicians recorded their videos on their smartphones and sound engineers worked with this material to create a full fledged studio sound.
An Interesting Story About an Uninteresting Guy – Music Only
Composer – Donny Walker – USA
This soundtrack covers all genres, and features over 70 Chicago based musicians.
Ms Pearl’s Private School for Posh Piggies – Script TV
Writer – Michelle Worthington – Australia
You can take the pig off the pirate ship, but you can’t take the pirate out of the pig.
The Tea Room – Script
Writer – Dan Corter – USA
A woman with the ability to create a room where people can commune with the dead is perceived as demon even though her power was received from angelic beings.
Jessie + Jess – Web Series
World Premiere
Director – Hannah Dorozio – Canada
These two branding obsessed, social media savvy BFFs discuss the ins and outs of the prevailing digital era and how it affects our reality as individuals. Wow, that’s deep… I know.
Colourful and creative Leipzig in 3D Audio – New Media
World Premiere
Director – Martin Rieger – Germany
Experience Leipzig museums and art spaces as an immersive tourist. A completely new version of the sounds of Leipzig in 3D audio.
Yuki vs Panda – Animation Trailer
World Premiere
Director – Andrew Palmer – Canada
An action-packed animated series that combines comedy and teenage drama with the elemental power of a fantasy story.
Detroit Landmarks: Inspiration – Drone
World Premiere
Director – Dr. William Huszti – USA
A film composition celebrating the people and architecture of several places of worship in the Detroit area.
Into The Polar Night – Feature
US Premiere
Director – Amy Richman – Arctic
Hop on an icebreaker and join an international team of scientists as they venture out on a year-long scientific expedition to study the Arctic climate system.
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The Mississippi – New Media
World Premiere
Director – Keely Kernan – USA
An interactive documentary that explores the ecological transformation of the River. Using interviews with residents, local activists and researchers along with images and sounds, the project investigates the accumulation of impacts that create one of the largest dead zones in the world.
Vampire State of Mind – Web Series
World Premiere
Director – Lydia Folckomer & Chelsea Robinson – USA
Newly turned vampires Irina and Roxi become involuntary roommates and navigate their afterlife together in New York City.
The Beast Rose Up! – Digital Comic
World Premiere
Director – Moyche Litchtenstein – USA
A blithering stream of short skits and stills, surrounding the funny, fierce, and whacky
Wee Beasties that daily run amok in our brains!
Dreamover – Feature Trailer
World Premiere
Director – Roman Olkhovka – Russia
When life turns unbearably miserable, a lonely old man takes part in a medical experiment, reviving a long-forgotten story of his love.
Icarus – VR-360
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Michel Lemieux – Canada
Freely inspired by the infamous character from Greek mythology, Icarus, the young man who burns his wings by flying too close to the sun. We move through his memories of the places and events from his childhood, privy to conversations with his father, Daedalus.
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Walking Forward – TV
US Premiere
Director – Tim Huebschle & Ndinomholo Ndilula – Namibia
Creative entrepreneur Ndinomholo meets some of Namibia’s most incredible minds and talents who share what they do to not only walk through a global pandemic, but to walk forward into an unknown and thrilling future.
The Safety Plan – Trailer Student
World Premiere
Director – Jesse Randall – USA
In the midst of an existential crisis, a socially inept New Yorker abandons his life for “perfect” Los Angeles in search of a chosen family in the LGBTQA community, but quickly discovers starting over again isn’t the fantasy he thought it would be.
Equally Shared Parenting – Socially Responsible
World Premiere
Director – Emma Johnson – USA
A public education project launched on social media about when parents divorce or break up.
Explore – VR
World Premiere
Director – Eric Hanson – USA
A new way to experience strong presence in some of the world’s most remarkable locations.
Corona Bats – New Media
US Premiere
Director – Al Jazeera Media Network – Qatar
How bats act as a virus reservoir because of their unique immune system, shows how the pangolin may have acted as the intermediate host before transmitting the virus to humans. It also stresses out on the fact that bats are important for the ecological system and that exterminating bats is not a solution for the virus problem.
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After Forever – Web Series Promo
Director – Tina Cesa Ward – USA
Season Two of After Forever picks up 6 months after the end of Season One. Brian has a new relationship and a new job, but Jason is still very present in his life. The 8-episode season continues his and his friends’ journey of love, loss and moving on.
Avocado Toast – Web Series Promo
Director – Sam Coyle – USA
Ever wondered about your parents’ sex life? Neither did Molly and Elle until coming out and divorce forced them to learn about their parents’ new sex-capades. After a lifetime of dating men, Molly (31, a grade eight teacher) surprises herself when she falls in love with a woman for the first time. When she finds the courage to come out as bisexual to her suburban parents, they empathetically reveal their own admission – they’re swingers and throw sex parties.
Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western Opera – Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Emmy Award Winner Kristin Atwell Ford – USA
LogOpera’s hallowed traditions and America’s cowboy culture converge to celebrate the collaborative power of art.
Disappearing Stories – Mobile
US Premiere
Director – Oleg Ageychev, Alexander Gornovsky – Russia
Among us there are people with real stories, for whom our attention is vital.
Adam’s Apples – Feature Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – John Strasberg – USA
A New Vision of a Classic Work
John Strasberg – actor, director, author, teacher – has created an unconventional reimagining of one of Chekhov’s greatest romantic comedies, “The Cherry Orchard.”
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LUA – Music Only
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Isaias Elpes – USA
The song is emotional, expressive and vulnerable.
Bottle Monster – Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Marjorie DeHey – USA
An alcoholic mother, Allison Key, is desperate to run away from her life. With her young son, Theo, Allison flees from everything she knows, to try to start over. However, she cannot escape the demons within her. Upon renting a what seems to be a perfect house to restart her life, Allison and Theo soon realize that their landlord is hiding a terrifying secret.
Gon, The Little Fox – Animation Trailer
Director – Takeshi Yashiro – Japan
When Gon, a playful orphaned fox, finds that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own earlier mischiefs by secretly bringing small gifts to the boy every day. But Hyojudoesn’t realize who is behind the anonymous gifts, and the two are headed for a heartbreaking climax.
Born Balearic: Jon Sa Trinxa and the Spirit of Ibiza – Trailer
US Premiere
Director – Lily Rinae – Japan
Adjacent to Ibiza’s party capital, resident DJ Jon Sa Trinxa has spent a quarter of a century on the beach spinning an eclectic mix of musical styles that stir the hearts of the Balearic artist community.
Coffee with Karina Ep Don Mclean – Podcast
World Premiere
Director – Karina Michel – USA
Inspirational chats within the entertainment industry.
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AI La | Artificial Intelligence La – AI
Director – Carlo Christian Spano-China
An experienced Silicon Valley engineer who has dedicated his life to Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over a decade felt confused and concerned about his future after realizing the rapid evolution of AI. Therefore, in order to find his potential in nature, he joined an international trekking expedition through the mysterious Caucasus region. Being inspired and protected by Natural Intelligence, he started a new AI journey exploring China, the UK, and the USA.
Dharmadhatu
Director – Martha Gogakou – Greece
2D experimental Animation
Legends of the Brush – VR
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Sutu (Stuart Campbell) – USA
Step into a wild collection of colorful fables created in virtual reality from the mind of Eisner-nominated digital artist Sutu. From a disgraced fashion designer’s deal with an unlikely partner to a young girl’s quest to find the creator of the universe, each fable features stunningly unique art styles and game mechanics.
A Castle In Brooklyn – Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Tyler A. Chase – USA
A Castle in Brooklyn, King Arthur, narrated by Golden Globe Award winner, Brian Cox, is a riveting, seven year condensed time capsule of American life.
Awakening the Earth – New Media
World Premiere
Director – Ksenia Diodorova – Russia
In many folklore traditions, existence cycles & human behavior are metaphorized with the soil, as a matter that gives life. Be led via 3 narratives: the key phases of a woman’s life; 4 seasonal cycles, from 1 winter to the next; and the life cycle — from death to death that is followed by birth.
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A Spoonful Of Stardust – Mobile Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Kulagina Natalia – Russia
The intergalactic Council believes that the inhabitants of Earth are very aggressive and for this reason pose a threat to the entire Cosmos. The decision was made to destroy the Earth. Astronaut Ion disagrees. He goes to Earth and promises to show proof that the inhabitants of Earth can change.
The Vision – Documentary Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Lightning N Mitchell, Laura Allen, Bobby J Mitchell – USA
The untold story of WNBA. With the arrival of the Women’s Basketball Association (WBA) the first ever in history spring and summer women’s professional basketball league, it finally gives the American woman an opportunity to play professional basketball here in the United States.
Los Bravos – Music Video
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Jonathan Shepard – USA
A powerful salsa band serenades the skyline of the city that engendered it. Brimming with the gusto and bravado of the song’s protagonist, LPT elevates and celebrates the fighting spirit of their homebase.
Planet b234 – STEAM Trailer
World Premiere
Director – Keelie Sheridan – USA
Jorge, a father thousands of miles away from his son, creates an alternate world- planet b234- where he can cope with the anxiety, depression, and desperation of being separated from one’s child. Geographical barriers are no match for Jorge’s fertile imagination, but it comes at the cost of his sanity and the very relationship he’s fighting for.
Around the World in 80 Plates w/ Leslie Durso – Snipler
World Premiere
Director – FoodAllergy.org – USA
Host Leslie Durso recreates top-9 allergy free dishes she puts on menus in resorts in the world’s hottest destinations.
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Vegan on a Jet Plane: Bali – Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Emmy Nominee Jacob Teixeira – Indonesia
Nutritionist and world traveler Ally Teixeira searches for the best vegan foods this world has to offer. Her journey starts in Bali, Indonesia where she’ll take you on an island tour of a lifetime.
Dwelling in the Unfolding – 360
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Matthew Burtner – USA
An art experience by artists Matthew Burtner and Mona Kasra. By inhabiting glacial landscapes, participants are invited to move between the interconnecting layers and bridge across seemingly disparate environments that belong to a unified whole. Whether on top of a vast ice field or deep in a mysterious ice cave, each encounter leads to distinct audiovisual experiences as participants’ gaze shapes and initiates unique sound events in the 3D space.
They Call Us Sedicioso – Shorts
World Premiere
Director – Iz Gutierrez – USA
An ignored narrative of Mexican-Americans in U.S. history:
In 1915, Jovita Idár, a reporter, writer, and activist for women and Mexican-American civil rights, interviews a mother whose son has gone missing while at the hands of racist Rangers and vigilantes who have been targeting the Texas-Mexican community in the Lower Rio Grande Valley during a time known as La Matanza (The Massacre). Starring Blanca Araceli from Disney’s Coco.
Parallel – Student Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Jiwon Choi – USA
A dizzying collision of pop culture and personal memory, Parallel offers an introduction to contemporary Korea—K-pop, militarism, reality TV, the first female president, Samsung, and Gangnam style—while making connections between the country’s political and cultural histories.
Egg Allergy 101 – SRC
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Food Allergy.org – USA
Did you know that experts estimate that as many as 2% of children are allergic to eggs?
Egg allergies in children, second only to milk allergy by watching this video.
Allergic reaction to eggs is caused by many common foods that can range from mild to severe reactions. Severe reactions include anaphylaxis. Symptoms of an egg allergy include trouble with breathing and swallowing, vomiting & diarrhea, coughing, swelling, and loss of consciousness.
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The Great Atchafalaya Basin – VR
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Mark Knight – USA
The Atchafalaya Basin, home of North America’s last great river swamp, is the basin of the Atchafalaya River, a 135-mile long natural distributary of the Mississippi River that empties into the Gulf of Mexico and is the only growing delta in Louisiana. The Basin includes some 1.4 million acres. Situated at the mouth of North America’s most important flyaway, the Basin supports half of America’s migratory waterfowl (more than 300 bird species) and provides the most important habitat for neotropical migratory land birds in the Western Hemisphere.
Sleepwalker E1 – Pilot Trailer
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Josh Noftz, Joe Bariso – USA
“Sleepwalker is a character that I loved as a kid and who has received very little attention since the early 90s. Throughout this process I have gotten to meet the creator of Sleepwalker, Bob Budiansky, and even become friends. This pilot episode is near and dear to me in many ways and I hope people enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.” – Directors note
Perspective – Drone
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Timothy Hay, Simon Mulholland – South Africa
“Perhaps it requires such depth of oppression to create such heights of character. My country is rich in the minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil, but I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds.” – Nelson Mandela
Chores – Shorts
World Premiere
Director – Christina Tucker – USA
While Lily and Samantha, a long-term couple, are out doing routine errands, Samantha confesses her desire to move back home, inspiring an emotionally fraught conversation between the two.
Small Talk – Script
Los Angeles Premiere
Writer – Thomas Allen
Mark tries to navigate the doubting nature of his “roommate” as he courts Ashley who, unbeknownst to Mark, also struggles with a second-guessing voice in her life as well.
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The Safe Shipment of Small Cargo – Mixed Reality
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Tizzy Canucci – UK
The viewer is introduced to a new innovation: ‘a steel container called a cargo van’. The connecting link is the shipping container, through three locations with different arrangements of reality, actuality and virtuality.
Boy Scientist – Animation
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia – USA
A brilliant boy scientist meets the girl scientist of his dreams, poised and beautiful, surrounded by flasks and beakers. The best he can do is bottle her image in his flask, so he may serenade and waltz with her in his Quantum Physics Lab.
One Actor Short – Snipler 30 second pitch
World Premiere
Director – Yuval David – USA
The first-ever episodic digital series dedicated to creating films in an experimental and improvisational format by including randomly selected individuals from the street to spontaneously play roles in the film.
The Dinner – Shorts
LA Premiere
Director – Noura bint Hussam Al Saud – United Arab Emerates
Mariam returns home after four years at Stanford with a Korean male friend to find herself in the midst of a traditional Emirati family dinner organized by her famous butcher father.
Almost Flying – Photograph
Emma Penaz Eisner – USA
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Love Gov A Crisis Not To Waste – Web Series
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – John Papola – USA
Shunned by a failed relationship of his own doing, Gov embarks on a new, more ambitious mission to “help” a group of early careerists seeking to establish themselves.
Vigilante Laundry – Student
World Premiere
Director – Christian Walsh – USA
Marie is on the hunt for the city’s new vigilante. She is determined to put the spotlight on the mysterious vigilante and get them the appreciation they deserve. Enter her shy, hot neighbor that she has a pending ‘laundry date’ with every Wednesday night. When Marie learns that her neighbor and crush Tessa is the city’s new vigilante she jumps at the chance to get the vigilante and the girl.
Fire – Photography
Frode Ueland – Norway
Umbrella – Photography
Frode Ueland – Norway
Nona’s Peppers – Photography
Paul Gotto – Canada
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Seers – Script Pilot
Writer – Paul Jones – USA
When flight 129 returns from the past, the world soon learns that its passengers and crew have comeback with the ability to forecast and shape the future. Instantly, the passengers and crew of flight 129 become the most feared and valued people in the world. Millions would be paid to acquire one, and many would like to see them burned for being witches and demons. But for the governments of the world one thing is true, policing malefactors who can see the future can only be done by officers who can do the same.
The Intra-Earth Chronicles; Book 1: The Two Sisters – Script-Book
World Premiere
Writer – Kara Jacobson – USA
A middle grade fantasy novel about a teenage girl (15) in the desolate future of 2444 whose only sister falls into a ravine and is transported into an Intra-Earth world. The girl, with help from the divine, must find her way into the Intra-Earth and save her sister and her own surface world from annihilation.
Mayfair Lady – Script TV
Los Angeles Premiere
Writer – Shaun Raad – USA
An ambitious lawyer covertly uses her new bribery case to search for a link between her father’s execution in Africa twenty years ago, and her new billionaire client in London today.
Original Skin – Script TV
World Premiere
Writer – Ori Kowarsky – USA
In a surreal world of shape-shifting cops and criminals, where no one is who they seem to be, a homicide detective rendered pathetically normal tries to take down criminals with superhuman powers and appetites.
Heartland – Script Treatment
World Premiere
Writer – Anthony Povah – USA
With each protagonists’ story sequentially told before a shared, concluding episode, two damaged cops pursue parallel hunts for the man they wrongfully blame for destroying their lives.
Calamity Jen – Script Pilot
World Premiere
Writer – Geoffrey Scheer – USA
A dark comedy about an actress who joins a touring theater troupe in a lawless, climate-ravaged, post-apocalyptic America.
Round Went The Wheel – Script Stage Play
Los Angeles Premiere
Writer – Frank Ceruzzi – USA
When technology brings the world to the brink of disaster, a new regime will need to dream it all up again: the children.
The Old Gods Club – Script Short
Writer – Tracy Schumer – Switzerland
During a group exercise in humility, three powerful gods from the ancient past take the form of three elderly Boomers and meet up in San Diego’s Balboa Park, only to find that their presence amongst mortals generates chaos.
Homecoming – Script Pilot
World Premiere
Writer – Rae Binstock – USA
A successful New York doctor returns to her rural roots after the death of her estranged mother, only to discover her mother’s role in a new underground railroad for undocumented immigrants that goes right through the heart of Trump’s America.
Organa, A Saga of Epigenetic Proportions – Script TV
World Premiere
Writer – Kimberly Forsythe – UK
The world’s first biocomputer implant enables humans to merge with AI and each other by using synthetic DNA to encode/decode sensory data. But, creating a new world might not be as simple as unifying & uplifting humanity and could have dire consequences if we’re not careful.
Illuminaire – Script Book
Writer – Kimberly Moore
A modern-day daughter from an ancient, powerful, and mystical bloodline must inspire an army of slaves and become willing to kill, sacrifice, and die when she is taken into captivity by her family’s long-dormant enemy.
Corona Virus Mechanism – Short
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Al Jazeera Media Network – Qatar
This report is one of the rare scientific explainers broadcasted in Arabic on how Covid-19 works to replicate itself in our bodies. It explains the importance and danger of the virus’ spike protein. The report illustrates the lock and key mechanism it uses to “fool” our cell receptors.
The Torchbearers – Documentary
Los Angeles Premiere
Director – Cheryl Grant – USA
The best and brightest performers, writers, producers, and reviewers of our generation. In their own words and music they show how what a vital role cabaret plays; introducing new social mores to the mainstream, putting politics into perspective, and reminding us of our humanity.
Chouette – Documentary
World Premiere
Director – Elliott Loucif – France
Beatrix, a local school teacher and polyvalent French artist. His pressing urge to make this planet a better place to live, for the generations to come, gave him the desire to do something about it, in his own creative way.
The Last Zen Master
Writer – Peter Kaufman – USA
An epic story of love as a young American living in Japan. Put in the crosshairs of a turf war between rival gangsters. His life is on the ragged edge as he trains to be a Zen Master and bring an end to the 200-year conflict.
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“Pushing the envelope is a big deal in the film industry. You can’t just tell the same old stories to get your name out there. Someway, somehow, you have to innovate and tell a new story, or tell the same story in a completely different way. If that sounds like you, then there’s the perfect film festival to show off your work, New Media Film Festival® is the film festival you’ll want to enter” – FilmDaily
Yasmine/Jasmine – Script TV
World Premiere
Writer – Yossera Bouchtia – USA
After the sudden and mysterious death of her mother, a grieving daughter must contend with haunting visitations from her doppelganger to put an end to a generational curse and reclaim a part of herself she never knew.
Blackout – Script TV
Writer – Angelique Letizia – USA
In a post-apocalyptic world where an army of evil has asserted control of the planet, a new kind of mystic warrior is recruited to defend the earth. In a race against time, these light warriors struggle to prevent the unholy ones from destroying Gaia, who has vowed to impress upon mankind that humanity doesn’t control the end of time, the earth does.
Players – Script TV
World Premiere
Writer – Sharon Rapose – USA
Based on the true story of the world’s first superstar Sarah Bernhardt who falls in love with Samuel Pozzi, a pioneering doctor in 1868 Paris. Both married to their work, they develop a lifelong friendship that changes the course of history.
Ashford – Script TV
Los Angeles Premiere
Writer – JC Barclay – USA
Doppelgängers Mikey and Faolan switch realities to solve the riddle of who the other is, and how to get back to who they are meant to be.
Help Wanted – Script
World Premiere
Writer – Patricia Tabb – USA
When a rowdy teen and old geezer work together in a repair shop, they discover an unexpected friendship with surprising benefits to both.
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Festival Programming Schedule
Wednesday, June 2 -Thursday 3, 2021
Pre-Fest:
June 2nd
Noon-2:20PM
Revolution Generation Feature Screening
Event 1:
June 2nd
4:00-5:30PM
VIP Soiree
Event 2:
June 2nd
Opening Night – Live Music, Cutting Edge Content Screenings, Q & A with CNN Journalist Debra Kobylt
Event 3
June 2, 2021
New Media-Web Series-Drone-Mixed Reality-Steam-Socially Responsible-Student-Shorts-Music Only, Scripts and Q & A
Event 4
June 3, 2021
AI-Digital Comic-Documentary-Mobile-Podcast-Snipler-Trailer-Web Series Promo-TV categories and Q & A
Event 5
June 3, 2021
830:- 10:00
Join us as we announce which of the nominees won Best of Category and Grand Prize awards. Plenty of special guests and surprises.
Event 6
June 2-3, 2021
Enjoy 24 hour window. Wednesday June 2 from noon to Thursday June 3 noon.
Experience immersive and Collab VR (video) of nominees for New Media Film Festival® Q & A coming soon on www.TinyUrl.com/PodcastNM
Event 7
June 3, 2021
12:00 – 4:00PM
Join us for a Double Feature, Short Doc, Scripts, Art categories.
Connect
We will mix, mingle, make new friends, learn, discover and connect.
Wine & Nosh
Enjoy a glass of wine & some nosh while you mix & mingle, make new friends, new deals. Pic by QUI
Red Carpet
As always, nominees, celebrities, Industry VIP’s walk the Red Carpet and dazzle.
Q & A
Nominees, VIP’s and surprise guests.
Marketing Table
What do you do? A place to share that info.
International Art Exhibit
From world renowned artists to new entries in the art world. All mediums have been curated: sculpture, oils, prints, pastels, mixed media and more. Come discover what the art world is creating and exhibiting now.
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10850 Pico Blvd.
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