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What We'll Never Know- Police tactics get an innocent young man to confess to murder in Memphis. The Oshay Sims story for justice.

Malpelo: Mountain of Sharks- Documentary looks at the ecological threat of poachers to this shark sanctuary off the coast to Columbia.

Lifetime Achievement Award Recepient – Michael A. Schultz

Michael Schultz’s career spans five decades in theater, film and television. He was a founding member of the world-famous Negro Ensemble Company, the renowned off-Broadway theater group that was the training ground for Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights and countless actors of quality. His first off-Broadway production, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, earned him an OBIE Award for Best Director. His first play on Broadway, Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie? earned him a Tony nomination and a Tony Award for its star, Al Pacino.

This recognition led to his first feature film directing assignment on the acclaimed To be Young, Gifted, and Black. As a feature filmmaker, Schultz helmed the 1970s classics Cooley High, Car Wash, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Last Dragon, Krush Groove and many more. Car Wash won two awards at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, for Best Music and the Jury Prize for Exceptional Technique. The 1980s saw him discovering talents like Denzel Washington, LL Cool J and Blair Underwood.

In the 1990s, Schultz directed many network telefilms and several two-hour movies for George Lucas’ Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. His episodic series credits include Picket Fences, The Practice, Boston Public, Ally McBeal, Touched By An Angel, JAG, The Gilmore Girls, and The O.C. More recently, he has directed episodes of Lincoln Heights, October Road, Brothers & Sisters, Dirty, Sexy Money, and Women’s Murder Club. Schultz also produced and directed the Warner Bros. series Everwood. His most recent feature film, Woman Thou Art Loosed, won the Best Film award from The American Black Film Festival and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, as well as a directing honor from The Black Reel Awards.

A DGA member since 1973, Michael Schultz has served as a co-chair of the Guild’s African American Steering Committee and was an alternate on the Western Directors Council from 1993-94.

Festival director Paul Rivas(right) and Lane College President Dr. Hampton(left). We are very excited to be hosting our very first film festival at Lane College. Thank you to all film submitters for helping our dreams come true!

Offering a unique view into the world of independent filmmaking, this documentary follows the production of the indie film "Apocalypse Love Story" and gives insight into the challenges, obstacles, and adventures that ensue along this journey.
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Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, Justin Wilder Neese moved to Los Angeles in March of 2014. Entranced by the abundant creativity found in Los Angeles, Justin began gaining experience on film sets as a production assistant. Over the years, Justin developed a desire to write and direct his own film projects, the first being a multiple award winning short film entitled "Glass of Scotch" completed in May 2019. Justin continued writing, directing and producing award winning films such as Hummingbird, Dopamine, My Melancholy Baby, and I Miss Her Too. Justin recently finished production for his first feature length film entitled "Apocalypse Love Story" which is now in the post-production stages, set to be released in the summer of 2022. Justin's current focus is producing and directing a film written by Cate Whitlatch and Haley Leanne Johnson entitled "How to Kill a Butterfly". Production will begin July 2022.
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A group of friends aged 69 to 99 refuse to hang up their skates and give up on fun.
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Jennifer ‘JP’ Piper is a multidisciplinary storyteller who loves messing with the boundaries of artform. In 2019, JP created ‘The Representation Hour’ for Triple Bi-Pass on JOYFM Melbourne, exploring q***r representation in pop culture. Her stageplays A Scandal in the Weimar and That Time Everything Went Well And We Were Totally Fine are published via Australian Plays and her short films, Facing the Future, At Home with Anne Zieté, skate. and Breakfast Tea – all created in isolation during Melbourne lockdown – have enjoyed official selection at various film festivals.
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Ben, a young filmmaker at a small college, comes toe to toe with an identity crisis when he investigates a group of 36 students who share one thing in common: his name.
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Ben Greenly, Benjamin Swift, and B(erg)en Hoff are three lovely boys who have gotten so tall since you last saw them. Some consider these filmmakers groomsman at the wedding of comedy and philosophy. Some take them for frauds and dilettantes. Others see them as an embodiment of the holy trinity: Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Greenly is Harry, because he is brave, charismatic, and the face of the company. Swift is Hermione because he is smart and organized. Hoff is Ron, because Dumbledore would only trust him to play with lights.
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The Iron Digger is a story of a Jelbang village of Rolpa district. Jelbang was considered as the commercial center of mountain iron since 2046 BS. The Film showcase the impact of the closure of iron mines by the government of Nepal on the lives of the villagers.
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Anil Budha Magar is an independent filmmaker from Nepal. He is also a scriptwriter, novelist, director, and journalist. His first short movie “Lomba” (The Leader sheep) was nominated for Nepali Indigenous Film Festival 2017, held in New York, and won 3 awards including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Costume.
"Lomba" was also nominated for the 15th Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) 2017 and 3rd Pokhara International Mountain Film Festival (PIMFF) 2017. It was also nominated in Nepal America International Film Festival (NAIFF) 2018.
His second documentry film is "The Iron Digger". Which is nominated in 9 different countries festivals and won 3 best documentry awards till date.
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In the southwest of Madagascar, the Mahafaly plateau is an extremely arid land. Here, the rains fall only a few times a year. In these very difficult living conditions, the inhabitants of the small village of Ampotaka found a unique solution to store water.
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Filmmaker, Cyrille Cornu is also scientist, explorer, naturalist and photographer. He has conducted research on the baobabs of Madagascar for ten years. Author of numerous publications on the subject, he organizes expeditions every year to the heart of the most remote forests of Madagascar to study the giants there. The island is a unique source of inspiration. Nature, lights, encounters and landscapes are exceptional. Since his arrival in Antananarivo in 2010, he has constantly crisscrossed the Malagasy territory to capture images with his camera. Released in 2015, his first film entitled "Baobabs between Land and Sea", was selected by a hundred festivals in more than seventy countries and won thirty-five awards including four grand prizes. On the strength of this success, Cyrille left research to devote himself to the production of documentary films. At the same time, he works on photographic reports and books. He is currently directing a documentary series consisting of three 52-minutes films on the theme of the baobabs of Madagascar. Filming sessions took place between January 2017 and August 2020. "Mamody, the last baobab digger" is the first film of the series. The two other ones are in production.
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Have you toys, books or photographs from childhood? Are they locked away in drawers, collecting dust? 'Doors to Fantasy' unlocks the doors to your past. Journey with the philosopher and singer Ortansia to the enchanted world of the Academy Award nominated short film animator Yamamura Koji, and let yourself be transported back to a time when you gazed at the twinkling of the stars and the pale light of the moon from your bedroom window when the light was off, and to your small bed where you dreamed those dreams so long ago.
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Noel Williams is a university professor, with a doctorate from the University of Oxford. He is a member of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). He is the Producer and a co-director of the documentary film 'Doors to Fantasy', a film about the Academy Award nominated film animator Yamamura Koji
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WHY WE WALK follows the journey of three Black men, from across the globe, united to empower and de-stigmatize urban communities of color and their participation in the great outdoors. After years of city exploration, The Urban Hikers strive to introduce the power of walking to a community that has historically been underrepresented in this space.
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Eric Bishop is an American documentary filmmaker. In 2016, Bishop graduated from Ohio University with a degree in Integrative Media & Film Studies.

Upon graduating college, the aspiring filmmaker worked part-time as a Lyft driver to supplement his freelance career. In an act of serendipity, Bishop met Vanny Mwamba, the future subject of his directorial debut film, as a passenger in his vehicle. In that brief, yet fateful car ride a spark was ignited.

Soon after, Bishop was invited to join Vanny and his group, The Urban Hikers, on their weekly hikes throughout downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. After years of routine urban exploration, Bishop participated with and documented the Hikers' on their epic backpacking odyssey through Appalachian wilderness in 2019.

Ultimately, their curious friendship has solidified into a life-long one. Their collective purpose remains focused on bringing more folks into the righteous practice of walking and exploration —something that is needed now more than ever.
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Essentially Criminal is a documentary that sheds light on the state of the American Asylum system, lack of legal protection to essential migrant farmworkers, border militarization, and the humanitarian aid response in the US-Mexico Border region. Inherently immigrants are criminalized for pursuing their lawful right to asylum in this country; meanwhile, the Border Patrol Agency is riddled with corruption and malpractice. This documentary posits the question of who is the real criminal in America's 'Crimmigration' system.
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Maya Pratt is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania studying Sociology and Cinema and Media Studies. She is the recipient of funding from the Seltzer Family Digital Media Prize as well as the Sachs Program for Arts and Innovation. She is an ambitious and talented director who is participating in the FilmAid Kenya Program in May 2022. She will also continue to cultivate her creative and technical skills at Tremolo Productions RealArts@Penn Internship in the Summer of 2022. Maya possesses an interest in emerging VR technologies in transforming storytelling through immersive practices.
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Under Paris' glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, to support their families back home.
Far from their loved ones and hounded by the police, each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.
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Tal Amiran is a multiple award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor based in London, UK.
His first short documentary Seven Days a Week (2016) was screened at 27 festivals including AFI DOCS and Big Sky Documentary Film festival, winning 7 awards including Best London Short at the London Short Film Festival. It was described by director / writer Mark Cousins as “classical, moving and profound”.
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Dafa Metti