PREACHER WITH AN UNKNOWN GOD
USA MiniDV 16 mins Director/Producer/DoP Rob Van Alkemade Print Source rob@cityfish.org

On the road with Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they exorcize California Big Boxes and New York City Republicans.

THE BITTER AFTERTASTE
UK DV 18 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay/DoP Philip Thompson Print Source world.write@btconnect.com

A critical investigation of the real impact Fair Trade has on the developing world in contrast to the claims of its proponents.

WAITING FOR SUNRISE
UK Digibeta 6 mins Director/Producer Aneel Ahmad DoP Ashiq Mirza Print Source jane@aneelahmad.co.uk

Extreme poverty, courtesans and prostitution on the streets of Lahore.

DIRT HEAVEN
UK DV 12 mins Director DoP Producer simon pont Phil Shepherd Print Source simon@ponts.f9.co.uk

Dirt Heaven is about the ear splitting roar from 4 x 100 brake horsepower methanol burning bucking broncs which liquidises your guts and brain. It reveals a seldom seen underbelly of British life in a visceral arena of spectacle and symbolism. Showing parallels with Roman gladiator circuses and bullfighting it is above all a celebration of sound and the acknowledgement of the passing of great things and people and places in the name of progress.

CINEMA WAS KING
UK DV DV mins Director Ali Collins, Paul Roberts Producer Freerange Media Print Source ali@freerangemedia.co.uk

With his enthusiasm and passion still very apparent, it is hard to believe Les Read first started as a projectionist back in the ’30s.

THE BELL
The Netherlands DV 10 mins Director/Producer/S’play/DoP Ivanka Bakker Print Source ivanka_bakker@yahoo.co.uk

A female guard operates the crossin g of haste and quietness in the city, the bridge. Quietness which shiftsinto haste, and shifts back to quietness again.

NATIVE NEW YORKER
USA 16mm 13 mins Director/Screenplay/DoP Steve Bilich Producer William Susman P/S bill@susmanmusic.com

Shaman trail scout Coyote takes a journey which transcends time; from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now ‘Broadway’), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground).

DIMMER
USA MiniDV 12 mins Director/ProducerTalmage Cooley DoP Jim Wall Print Source talmage@kinoglaz.com

Dimmer is a glimpse into the life of Mike, a blind teenager growing up with a somewhat tough gang of blind friends amid the decaying rust belt factories and neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York.

THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT
Lebanon / UK MiniDV 11 mins Concept/Camera Zeina Aboul-Hosn Editor Josephine Le Grice P/S zeina.ah@gmail.com

CATCH ME WHEN I FALL
UK DV 13 mins Director/Producer Kevin Liam Curran Print Source brightsparksmedia@yahoo.co.uk