Author: festivalforromance

Keith Sargent is an artist and multi-award winning filmmaker since graduating from the Royal College of Art. He is a director of b#1 (buildingnumberone) and 3x3x3.tv. As a book publisher Keith makes, designs and commissions books, working with artists, photographers, illustrators and writers, having produced 30 titles that have been sold worldwide. He works in… Continue reading Director Biography – Keith Sargent (ALWAYS THE SUN)

A short film based on a poem: always the sun by Keith Sargent. Wilderness, illness and the great British cretinocracy. Project Links  Website  Instagram

The idea comes out opposite of freedom during this pandemic. The world turned upside down and struggling in this situation for a while. Stay alone also becomes the safest way to protect us. We slow down, having those silences around us. From the bottom of our heart, how much desire comes out? And how long… Continue reading Director Biography – FangTing Yeh (SILENT BUT NOT SILENCED)

The idea comes out opposite of freedom during this pandemic. The world turned upside down and struggling in this situation for a while. Stay alone also becomes the safest way to protect us. We slow down, having those silences around us.From the bottom of our heart, how much desire comes out? And how long we… Continue reading Short Film: SILENT BUT NOT SILENCED, 3min., USA, Dance

An intense courtroom docudrama that recreates the 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing when Sidney Buchman, the Communist who wrote “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, was blacklisted. This is the day that Mr. Buchman, like Mr. Smith, learned that patriotism requires sacrifice. CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Mr. Walter: Sean Ballantyne Mr. Travenner/Mr. Buchman:… Continue reading BLACK & WHITE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Mr Buchman Goes To Washington, by Bill Baber

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Short Film: R-E-V-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-Z Best Cinematography: KAERU Best Performances: NEIGHBORS Best Sound & Music: EVERYTHING I KNOW Best Direction: MICKEY HARDAWAY Theme of night: Alone in conflict. NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: MICKEY HARDAWAY, 20min., USA,… Continue reading HIGHLIGHT & VIDEOS: MAY 2021 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival

Marcellus Cox is an Award Winning Writer/Director hailing from Los Angeles, California. Marcellus Cox has always had a passion for movies and filmmaking. As a True Auteur His style of cinematic storytelling embossed with dark and edgy themes that is engaging and enlightening, delivering his audience to a place of understanding and compassion for social… Continue reading Director Biography – Marcellus Cox (MICKEY HARDAWAY)

A Young Sketch Artist visits a well renowned psychiatrist as his life begins sprawling out of control after years of Physical and Verbal Abuse has taken a toll on him. Project Links  Facebook  Instagram News & Reviews “Mickey Hardaway Is Hot 🥵 In Miami “The Miami Timeshttps://www.miamitimesonline.com/lifestyles/urban-film-festival-goes-virtual/article_2315440c-ed25-11ea-b022-ef087911a74f.html “Director Marcellus Cox Discussing His Career and Films”Shoutout… Continue reading Short Film: MICKEY HARDAWAY, 20min., USA, Thriller/Drama

My current work, primarily video and painting exploring the gestures of the body, uses both physicality and performance as ways of making meaning. In 2020 video work ‘Salt Lake’ was acquired for permanent collection and exhibited in group video art exhibition ‘Moving Pictures’ at LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, VIC. ’Salt Lake’ also screened the entire… Continue reading Director Biography – Vanessa White (EVERYTHING I KNOW)

This song emerged through a multimodal exploration, through feeling, painting, sculpting, dreaming, enacting, drawing, talking, listening, moving, playing, writing, singing, and making sounds in relation to (and as an enactment of) some of my relational patterns, especially in the context of holding experiences of trauma, and experimenting with degrees of openness and collaborative holding. While… Continue reading Short Film: EVERYTHING I KNOW, 4min., Australia, Music/Dance