Multi-Screening: At Least 100 Things to Do Inside a Quarantine, Stay Together For The Cats, Windows to the World - AM to PM, The Littlest Snowflake, Nice Shoes, UnitedNotBlinded

Windows to the World - AM to PM

In quarantine times, Brazilian woman living in different countries express their anguish and loneliness as art ,music and poems become their best company during social isolation.

Director Bio: Bia Oliveira Bachelor of Arts, actress, director, screenwriter, artistic producer and actor coach with 30 years of experience in discovering new talents. As a director, she began her career alongside director playwright Domingos Oliveira. In 2013, he made his first feature film as an assistant director for Domingos de em Infancia, an award-winning film in Gramado with four Kikitos. Soon after, he directed short films and wrote several scripts. Since 2017, he directs Teatro Glaucio Gill, in Copacabana, a public theater that belongs to Funarj. In 2018, he started the Master in Communication with specialization in audiovisual and new media.

 In 2020, he decided to expand his audiovisual projects and invest in cinema to direct an international short film. During social isolation, Bia felt the need to tell new stories and wrote and directed the short film Windows to the World - AM to PM, filmed in four countries, at home. Through art, music and poems, Brazilian women from all over the world learn to survive during quarantine.

Afterpast

Afterpast is a take on the Lockdown and Lockdown films that illustrate relatability in the period of Covid19, as it tries to evoke a need to come out of this as better humans.

Afterpast, the created word and the idea, derive themselves from the aftermath of humankind’s sinful past, looking ahead into the hopeful future. It is a crowd sourced music video/film made along with the support of a humble sample size of diverse fellow humans, reflecting our collective yearning of the outdoors, which is a micro level insight, to throw immense light on macro issues that plague a global scale.  Exploring the depth of how greed lies at the core of human nature, which is realized as we feel that the grass is always greener on the other side. The film is a looking glass into a shared consensus of humanness at its rawest. The core concept is tied to what lies in the core of humanity - greed. In sync with Prabh Deep’s words in Pandemic, Afterpast is an Alternate Music Video that brings immersive visuals to his words. The depth of human nature is realized as Pandemic exudes the ethos of humanity’s greed. Maybe the question isn't where but who the real virus is?

Director Bio: Debraj Goswami is a filmmaker at heart and by profession, I’m 23 with ambitious visions and I aspire to be an illustrious director. I’m currently employed with a production house in Delhi, India, where I’ve worked on some award-winning projects. Afterpast is a pure long due independent passion project and an excuse to test my vision, it is a crowdsourced film I directed during the Covid-19 lockdown, from my room. With my zeal for directing, creating and getting inspired, I find myself entering the film festivals I look up to, to motivate myself. Whether it’s a nomination, a screening, a win or a loss - I find a lot to learn and work towards perfecting my craft - wherever my love for filmmaking takes me.

Nice Shoes

A sci-fi extravaganza that is as pointless as the lyrics. Over 40 classic movie references are featured in this epic music video.

Director - Jonathan Lawrence

Stay Together For The Cats

Music video, Skyler Michael (Artist)

Directed by: Kat Kingsley.

UnitedNotBlinded

UnitedNotBlinded by Jboaudioe (Juneau, AK) is a Hip Hop Music Video.

At Least 100 Things to Do Inside a Quarantine

In March of 2020, two creative types from Cleveland used film to present a detailed list of how to keep from getting bored while spending long bouts of time at home. As they worked through this long list of at least 100 things to do inside a quarantine, they began to wonder how others were passing their time at home as well.

Director Bio: Adam Grindler and Kate Dedinsky are a creative duo based in Cleveland, Ohio. Composition and music production is their primary focus, although they also create film on occasion. They recently completed a feature length film called "Far East by Midwest - a Depaysement Story." The two of them write and perform music under the name the Baker's Basement.

The Littlest Snowflake

The Littlest Snowflake is a musical stop motion that tells the encouraging tale of a little snowflake that just wants to be big and not be picked on. The guiding forces in nature let him know if he trusts in the process things will work out for the best. His patience is well founded.

Director Bio: Donn Weber is an ambitious independent filmmaker that began his career in writing, stop motion, and animation. He has balanced a corporate position while producing his film projects on the side. Donn's passion is in live-action film-making however and as 2020 arrived, he made the conscious effort to build Hartford Film Club and focus primarily on his live-action works.