Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Drama Short: PULLING THE GOALIE
Best Doc Short: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE ADVERSITY
Best Cinematography: MONOLOG 2
Best Direction: TRIAPHIE
Best Sound & Music: GRANITE JAW
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
PULLING THE GOALIE, 23min., USA, Drama
Directed by Hiag Avsharian
“Avsharian has cleverly framed his film about male infertility from a conventionally male perspective using hockey as a metaphor to provide both context and levity. Sport provides an immediate connection to an uncomfortable and embarrassing topic with both situations and language that are laughingly familiar to both men and women. As an entry into the increasingly complex and demoralizing process of the infertility treadmill about which men frequently feel baffled and disengaged, Avsharian uses that parallel to create a deeply personal and compelling narrative.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE ADVERSITY, 19min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jay C. Williams
Past, Present, Future Adversity “Arrival”, new director of San Jose State University track and field and cross country Charles Ryan arrives in San Jose State University, as the program’s first African American director of track & field. After the program’s recent reinstatement after a +40 year gap between the era of Speed City including athletes such as Ray Norton, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. Coach has been tasked with rebuilding program with a new coaching staff, an entirely new athletic department, and no track and field facility.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
MONOLOG 2, 10min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Nils Roling
Christoph Schoefegger is skiing longer than he can remember, it’s his biggest love and his whole life circles around it. But what happens if somehow you loose the foundation of this passion? What happens when you don’t go skiing for yourself anymore but because of competitions?
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
NEVER GIVE UP: AKINORI IN MOORESVILLE, 13min, USA, Documentary
Directed by Royce Akifumi Wilmot
24 years since first attending a NASCAR race, Akinori Ogata chases his dream of one day racing in the Daytona 500. Moving his family halfway across the world in the process, he races locally in the lower series of NASCAR, working for his big break. His sons have graduated high school, and they and his wife have moved back to Japan. Alone in his small race shop, he prepares his limited late model stock car for the biggest local race of the year.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
BEYOND THE ROPES, 38min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jalen Robinson
BEYOND THE ROPES: The 40+ Double Dutch Club Documentary showcases how taking a “break from adulting” to jump double dutch, hula hoop and play old childhood games can be an exciting, affordable way to tone, burn calories and improve physical, mental and spiritual health while encouraging and inspiring women in an often overlooked age group to relive positive childhood memories and create new ones!
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE ADVERSITY, 19min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jay C. Williams
Past, Present, Future Adversity “Arrival”, new director of San Jose State University track and field and cross country Charles Ryan arrives in San Jose State University, as the program’s first African American director of track & field. After the program’s recent reinstatement after a +40 year gap between the era of Speed City including athletes such as Ray Norton, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. Coach has been tasked with rebuilding program with a new coaching staff, an entirely new athletic department, and no track and field facility.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
TRIAPHIE, 14min., Austria, Documentary
Directed by Matthaeus Weissenbacher
Manfred Eder had suffered from chronic asthma since he was 18 months old. His whole life he took strong medicine like cortisones, to compete the asthma. At times the side effects were as bad as the sickness, Manfred says.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/triaphie-review
GRANITE JAW, 6min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Conner Nikides
A heavyweight boxer training on his boxing bag as he thinks of the fights he has had in the past and is going to have.
A man with a granite jaw.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/granite-jaw-review
Sports, Fitness, & Recreation FEEDBACK Film Festival 