The Animal Liberation Front, comprised of clandestine animal rights activists, is now labeled the #1 domestic terrorist threat by the FBI. Behind the Mask exposes exclusive underground footage revealing heart-thumping action, while capturing the hearts and souls of people who unveil their struggles for Animal Liberation, through imprisonment, devastation, and even death.

We were captivated learning about the lives of a cranberry grower's daughter, and her prominent botanist partner, who cultivated the blueberry in 1916. This film knits together an analysis of contemporary blueberry commerce and science and compelling dialogue of those related by blood or occupation to this twosome who labored to bring the blueberry into a global marketplace...

*Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee*

An American Opera
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Thomas McPhee
Feature Documentary Category
Bloomfield Hills, MI, U S A

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina tens of thousands of house pets were left to perish in neighborhoods all across the gulf when the owners were forced to evacuate without their pets. Director Thomas McPhee went to Louisiana knowing he needed to help and by chance found himself spending four days taking picture after picture of thousands of house pets rescued from flooded New Orleans. For the next 16 months he would document this historic event...

My Silent Sadness
Special Invite
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Stephan Szpak-Fleet
Short or Long Form Film Category
Los Angeles, CA, U S A

A Polish Jewish Artist (played by character actor Larry Hankin) in America struggles to remember painful memories of the Holocaust in order to find a connection with a young woman who has recently intruded upon his life.

'Sensational City' is an animation which explores the sounds we hear everyday but have learned to filter out of our consciousness.
 

Angels of Change is a unique look of the daily challenges of a small educational non-profit organization working in some the poorest communities of Washington, DC.

*Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee*

As her world falls apart, Michelle Watson must convince her husband that the price of keeping their marriage together is worth the cost of keeping a secret between them.

After the tragic loss of their son Salvatore, the Aquia family starts a memorial scholarship in his name and learn just how special this young man really was. This project was produced with Towson University's Electronic Media & Film Corporate Video class as a public service.

I have been trying to make my life better but now I am thinking about what I have been missing? The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.'

When They Could Fly
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Piotr Kajstura
Short or Long Form Film Category
Krakow, Poland via New York, NY, U S A

This poetic film is a cinematic adaptation of a magical folktale, which uses the period of American slavery, as a stage to show how people can survive and overcome the most extreme experiences by the power of their own will. In the film, a group of slaves on a South Carolina cotton plantation learn that people in Africa practice magic, and have developed the ability to fly. This idea of transcendence is a necessity for human existence in times when there is nothing else to believe in.

Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Faith Morgan
Short or Long Form Documentary Category
Yellow Springs, OH, U S A

The collapse USSR was an economic disaster for Cuba. Oil and food imports were cut drastically and people were desperate. From hardships to creativity, from industrial to organic farming and urban gardens, Cuba, is an example of options and hope.

One person's quest to re-establish a family connection broken by the Holocaust and the Iron Curtain.

A man finds life in a strange, dead, and haunting land.

Silences
Canadian Premiere
Special Invite
Dir. Octavio Warnock-Graham
Short or Long Form Documentary Category
New York, NY, U S A

In this film Octavio Warnock-Graham, a bi-racial son confronts his mother and her refusal to acknowledge that he is of African American descent. While trying to understand his mother's choices, the filmmaker discovers that too often the truth reveals itself in the unspoken.

A documentary about six different people with several million things in common.

PARALLEL LIVES is the diary of a day in the prison of Milan, Italy. The protagonists are a prison guard and a prisoner.

Han Wei's husband, Zi Gang, died protecting her during a 7.8 Richter Scale earthquake that killed 240,000 in Tangshan, China, on July 28, 1976. Her buddy Ding Yi survived the earthquake and takes care of Han and her daughter for 30 years. When Han finally proposes to Ding, he refuses...
 

Philip Long is accused of three murders he knows nothing about.  But the people closest to him in the world are dead, and he could be responsible. Did he do it? Will he confess? What's the truth?
 

A short animation about the futility of summing up one's life in one page.

A woman is torn between two loves; the love for her boyfriend and her addiction to drugs