'One' mixes split screen and documentary into a collage of image and sound representing one person at one time in their life.

Gone by socially concious singer/songwriter Bill Madden brings the worlds of film and music together with a metaphorical environmental warning alert. This compelling video raises questions, fusing art, social commentary, and music to spark debate on what it means to be alive and grapple with the consequences of environmental change. Directed by Andrew David Watson of Current TV, an interactive cable TV channel founded by Al Gore.

Dos Sombras (Two Shadows) 
(Spanish w English Subtitles)
North American Premiere
Dir. Pawel Kloc
Short or Long Form Film Category
Seville, Spain

'When pain and the past mix with vengeance'

The Clinton 12
*ReelHeART Official Opening Film*
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Keith McDaniel
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

On August 27, 1956, twelve black teenagers entered Clinton High School, in Clinton, Tennessee, for the first time. What followed shocked the world, and changed a nation. Narrated by James Earl Jones.

FISSION
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Kun-I Chang
Animation, New Media Category
Taiwan via New York, NY, U S A

A motion graphic film about a man who see himself as a graffiti

Pictures begin with words.  In this often surprisingly revealing 'doculogue,' sixteen film and television writers spanning the gamut of genres -- from Shane Black (Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang) to Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) -- candidly explore the personality, process and profession of being a writer in today's Hollywood.

A foreign action flick suffers a massive stroke and begins to lose its recollection of image and sound.  The dying film's narritive is explored through incisions and splices on the operating room table unfolding a complex analogy between the process of filmmaking, storytelling and the concept of memory.
 

This documentary is the result of the meeting between an italian director, storytelling iraqi people a few days before the war and an iraqi director who at first in his country renovated the view once the war ended.
 

A beautiful and abundant village in a festal mood environment.In the cloudy and gloomy night of the village, however, are shining two moons... The village, gradually transforming with the disturbing machinery noises. The village reflected in the two eyes of the main character, running away to some place, is....

Mobsters terrorize a man while dispensing marital advice. A short crime musical by the same people who brought you CREDO.

“No Bigger Than A Minute” is a head-on confrontation with conventional misperceptions about dwarfs. It is an eclectic documentary providing an idiosyncratic perspective based on the diminutive director's lifelong observations and a well-tested sense of humor. Do not miss this engrossing documentary with Delano's incredible access to 'inside Hollywood', as well as historical footage and present day interviews with the likes of Meredith Eaton-Gilden (Boston Legal) Randy Newman (writer, composer "Short People") and Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent)

Big Dreamers is the quixotic struggle of one town in far north Queensland, Australia to build the World's Biggest Gumboot to bring tourism back to a once thriving town...

Evocation is a visual ode influenced by the poem "evocation" written by Kim So Wol.which consists of strong emotional conflicts that occurs from losing a loved one. And these develop Han, known as ironic or paradoxical emotions...

When blue-collar Henry orders a beer in a snooty wine bar run by the William Sandler (Tales From The Crypt), he offends everyone and has to defend himself and the woman sitting next to him...

Dark Circus
Canadian Premiere
Dir. Tania E. Padilla
Animation, New Media Category
San Francisco, CA, U S A

Two puppeteers travel into the forest to unleash a circus from a magical trunk. There in the chaos of a dancing skeleton circus barker, shape shifting opera singer and a gravity defying serpentine dancer, a little marionette girl learns how to love. Based on a childhood memory of the late humanitarian heroine Helen Rodriguez-Trias with an original score by Daniel Corral.

Commentary on the traffic of weapons in Kosovo - The rest is said in this powerful documentary...

A DJ, following his girlfriend to Los Angeles, falls into a deadly relationship with a couple of female hitchhikers.