Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: A BIG RUN – MALAPAD’S MARATHONS
Best Direction: JUST LOVE STORIES: QUEENS RULE TOGETHER
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
A BIG RUN – MALAPAD’S MARATHONS, 5min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Reid Valmestad
A Big Run represents the commitment, dedication, and passion that many community athletes share amongst one another. It aims to inspire viewers by showcasing the raw emotions, challenges, and sacrifices that many athletes feel and overcome when they train for their own personal milestones. Collaborating with lululemon, we developed and created this film to highlight Junel Malapad’s 7-day, 490km run across the province of Manitoba in support of mental health awareness.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
JUST LOVE STORIES: QUEENS RULE TOGETHER, 6min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Tezarah Wilkins
This short film explores what love and community look like through the vehicle of cycling and how one woman went from quarantine to QRT, Queens Rule Together, a Philly based global cycling community whose mission is to promote a healthy fun lifestyle while being fully committed to bringing diversity to the sport of cycling.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
NEVER ASK WHY, 20min., India, Documentary
Directed by Saurabh Dubey
The unfulfilled dream of a young football fan became the catalyst to help achieve the dreams of talented young under-15 football / soccer players who come from very underprivileged and under-nourished families, struggling to meet their daily needs.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
BLEED FOR ME: ART OF THE DEATHMATCH, 28min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Matthew L. Lenz
What Does it cost to make great art? A lot of Blood apparently. This documentary follows various deathmatch wrestlers as they put their bodies on the line to make compelling art.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
Sports, Fitness, & Recreation FEEDBACK Film Festival 