One Step At A Time captures the story of brothers Kyle and Tom as they portaged canoes, over 200km and 20 days, in the Himalayan Mountains to raise money for KOSHISH Nepal. 100% of the money raised has gone directly to support KOSHISH Nepal in building a Women’s mental health Transit Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Long Form Short Short Film: OUR SEA OF WASTE
Best Short Form Short Film: CLEANING SHIPWRECKS
Best Cinematography: AZILALI: THEY DON’T SLEEP
Best Sound & Music: ONE WORLD
Best Direction: BETWEEN THE CREAG AND THE SKY
Theme of night: It’s never what it seems.
NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private.
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The beginning of a (temporary) new era.
See you at the festivals. Whenever that happens!
– Matthew Toffolo
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Film: HOCKEY 24
Best Short Film: THE DEVIL GOES DOWN
Theme of night: Community
NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private.
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HOCKEY 24, 90min,. Canada, Sports Documentary
Edwin El Bainou is a young filmmaker. He’s mostly pulling out stories from daily life events, showing humanity at its most natural habitat, linking its existence and growth with Mother Nature, and somehow in a relatively hard, and dangerous environments.
He’s always worked as a one-man-film crew, director, sound designer, sound mixer, and a cinematographer in feature films, commercials, and short films for the last 8 years.
He’s on a constant pursue of adventures, finding a story in daily life events.
Director Statement
I’d favor it risky than easy.
Nicholas Julius is a NY based, Actor/Writer/Director/Filmmaker. Nicholas’s film, “The Devil Goes Down” starring Boardwalk Empire and The Wire’s Michael Kenneth Williams has been accepted into 109 Film festivals and has won 36 awards. His latest animated film, “Erin, Owen, and the Loch Ness Monster” is the 1st film of The Mythatania series and is the opening his novel, “Mythatania -The Adventures of Erin, Owen and the Mythfitz.” It has made 18 FF’s and won 12 awards.
Nicholas has written eight feature scripts, two television pilots, and one sitcom.
Nicholas was an actor as Al Capone’s right hand man, Gino, on Boardwalk Empire for 5 seasons, where he worked both in front of and behind the camera while he learned and honed his directorial skills. He has appeared in many more TV shows and feature films.
Nicholas’s company, Long Way Home Productions is in prep for two short films in 2020.
Director Statement
What a journey….
   
Nicholas Julius is a NY based, Actor/Writer/Director/Filmmaker. Nicholas’s film, “The Devil Goes Down” starring Boardwalk Empire and The Wire’s Michael Kenneth Williams has been accepted into 84 Film festivals and has won 29 awards. His latest animated film, “Erin, Owen, and the Loch Ness Monster” is the 1st film of The Mythfitz series. It has made 13 FF’s and won 10 awards.
The Devil challenges a young man to a game of basketball. The stakes? What is in the Devil’s bag against the young man’s soul.
The film is PROOF OF CONCEPT for the feature script, “On a Field of Legends.” In OAFOL a young man challenges Death to a football game for his daughter’s life. FIELD OF DREAMS meets IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
This is what I did with basketball. OAFOL is what I can do with football.
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News & Reviews
On November 17th, 2019, Canadians from coast to coast to coast joined award-winning documentary filmmakers for a once-in-a-lifetime event: to film a day in the life of community hockey. This is that day.
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THE DEVIL GOES DOWN, 10min,. USA, Sports/Fantasy
THE OPEN WATER SWIM TRAVERSE, 10min., Lebanon, Sports
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