May 2020 - Official Selection

Redwood Film Festival May 2020 Official Selection Films

RedWood Film Festival announces the list of Official Selected films of May 2020.

• Redwood Film Festival is an Online Film Festival. 

• Our Jury screens the selections Privately and from there we select the winners. Only the winning films will get a chance to participate in a second selection at the end of the year. If they pass the second selection, we'll screen them at our annual live online screening. Where one film from each category will be awarded. 

Short Films

• Death Offers Life - last moments of Vincent Van Gogh | Saheer Abbas

• KUKLI | SHYAMA SUNDAR MAJHI

• Background | Dylan Chow

• Four Truths | Sylvain Govaert

• I See Dead People | Andrew Ball-Shaw

• La couleur du vent | Lionel Rigal

• My Gypsy Road | Vilma Kartalska

• Piklu | Mrinmoy Nandi

• The Heart of a Sunset | Eric willis

• "TH SR" Second Version | Mimi Garrard

• Afterwards | Marcello Quintella e Boynard

• The Assassin's Apprentice | Russ Emanuel

• CRACK A SMILE | LEVY CLAUDE

• WORTH | Dr. Constance McInyre

• True Colors | Cabell Vildibill

• Road.Dogs | Ez Eldin Deng

Student Short Films

• Gay as in Happy: A Queer Anti-Tragedy | Jordana Valerie Allen-Shim

• Perfect | Nathan Ragland & Church Barnas

• SHIFTED | Nathan Ragland

• 9A | Giorgio Molteni

• l u c i d i t y | Rachel Solomon

• Hygiene Hijinks | Jack Thomas

• Valak | Diego Di Iorio

LGBT Films

• Vidhān (Writ) | Manoj Rai

• I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me? | Tim Wolff

• Background | Dylan Chow

• Shadow of Love | Dylan Chow

• Distance | Dylan Chow

Web Series

• THE UNWILLING SERIES PILOT | Antonio Jefferson

• Rebound | Andrew Ball-Shaw

• Green Fingers | Velton J Lishke

• Trillo & Suede Web Series | Jonathan Geffner

• Stuck on Probation | Larry Hardison

• Kahdiak's Kitchen: Season 2 - Episode 1 | Seng 2kx

Music Video

• MARIBOR & SAXOPHONE | FRANC KOPIC

• Manifesto | Les Owen

• The Sun Will Fool You | Daniel Bigelow & Talon Nightshade

• Washington | Preston Randolph

• Six Day Back | Scott Cierski

• Undertow | J.B. Lawrence

• The Texture of London | Diego Di Iorio

1- Minute Short Films

• THE LAST SIP.....?? (1) | MANISHA GUPTA

• House For Sale | Cynthia Bergen

• Let Me Dance | Tania Kamal-Eldin

Animation Films

• The First Armageddon | ALDIVAN TEIXEIRA TORRES

• Magic Dream | Tomás Welss Barkan

Drama Films

• Reality Therapy | Robert Fritz

• SHIRONAM | INDRANIL GHOSH

• The Straight Man | Paul Laudicano

• Adult Humans | James Zeiss

• Ellipsis | Ben Parsons

Documentary Films

• I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me? | Tim Wolff

• Wave | Zhang Xiaoan

• I woke up in Myanmar | Valentina D'Annunzio

• Lakshmi - Untold truth | Kalpana Kumar

• Diversity in the Long Gray Line | Les Owen

• The Last Day on Duty | Jon Cortegoso Otaduy

• Return to Foretop's Father | Preston Randolph

• THE NORMANS | MAURICE MICALLEF

• R.O.A.M - Riders On A Motorcycle | Kapil Dev Sharma & Diwas Pant

• Mr India | James Fink-Jensen

Experiment Films

• APSARA DHARA { FAIRY FALLS ) | Dr Ramesh Kamath

• Polaroid YES | Benjamin Pascoe

• The Middle Child: Finding My Voice Through Dance *** | Constance McIntyre

• Wisper | Russ Emanuel

• Devika | Jibin George James

• The Ominous Project Universe Presents: ISOLATION | Shreco Bakari

Romantic Films

• Learning to Fly | Anthony J. Turek

Thriller Films

• Thy Neighbor | George A. Johnson

• SHIRONAM | INDRANIL GHOSH

• Sara | Bob Fokoua

• VENUS PROJECT | WILLIAM MUSSINI

• S'ids Lake | Kevin Ruiz

• My Stretch of Texas Ground | Ralph Cinque

• The Assassin's Apprentice | Russ Emanuel

• FORMERLY... | Abhishek Bhattacharyya & Indrashish Lahiri

• Abscessed | Isaac Rodriguez

• Occupants | Russ Emanuel

• Valak | Diego Di Iorio

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February 2020 - Winner

RedWood Film Festival team glad to announce the list of Winner of February 2020 Edition. 

BEST CATEGORIES AWARDS

BEST SHORT FILM

Film: Sela (drink)

Directed by: Rafieka Davis

Synopsis: A young boy named Kamva carries the weight of his family due to the heavy drinking of his mother. (This film was written by students aged 12-14 as part of a screenplay project in an after school program in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.)

BEST ONE MINUTE SHORT FILM

Film: Anzel

Directed by: Donovan Swart

Synopsis: Anzel, a man on the brink of his own demise ruminates about lost love Clara. He wishes for nothing else but to hold her one more time.

BEST LGBT FILM

Film: INFRA Story

Directed by: Fabrice BRISEUX

Synopsis: Anny, a sixty-year-old painter, lives alone. During her many walks in the forest, she meets Laura, twenty-five, beautiful, bubbly and dynamic. An ambiguous relationship is established between them. Laura will do anything to get close to Anny, not wanting to be unfaithful to herself. Will Anny accept this relationship against her prejudices? This age difference, thirty-five years?

BEST STUDENT FILM

Film: Death did us part

Directed by: George Ward IV

Synopsis: A widow trying to move past her husbands death is haunted by a demon.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Film: Drown

Directed by: Michael Valentino

Synopsis: A mother reflects on her past of having to protect herself and her children from an abusive husband.

BEST WEB SERIES

Film: NihonGO NOW!

Directed by: Hiroki Ohsawa

Synopsis: Three Americans who learn and use Japanese participate in Japanese culture in Japan and in the US.

BEST GENRE CATEGORIES AWARDS

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

Film: Once Upon A Sky

Directed by: Barnali Ray Shukla

Synopsis: This film is a tribute to life, while we are still living.

The film follows the story of an Indian paraglider, Gurpreet Dhindsa and gazes upon this man’s total commitment to flying and engages with the idea that adventure sports is closest to being most alive and we know that best when we come to injuries. Injuries are variable here, some are fears, most are obstacles and finally of-course the ones which are external, which reveal as the film unfolds. The challenge is to get better than our circumstances and that brings out the real one in us. Gurpreet has given up things on earth to be in the skies.

BEST ANIMATION FILM

Film: Idiot

Directed by: Dušan Davidov

Synopsis: The “Smiling Man”, our hero is, in fact, an “Idiot”. The topic of altruism, when a hero helps also at the cost of not being understood, and his help may be considered annoying, is as eternal as mankind itself. Our story does not take place in aristocratic chambers but rather in an office. The “Smiling Man” is a small officer in a small town who lives 150 years later than the prince (the prince Myshkin). While F. Dostoyevsky depicted altruism in human relationships, our hero lives to work. For him, work is everything, it is something like breathing. Work is his second nature, he doesn’t realise the fact that he is abused by his colleagues, he helps because everybody wants him to help; because he is asked for help. While the topic of Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” was altruism, our key topic is the misuse of altruism and its perception as a weakness. The “Smiling Man” slaves for all of them, not only at work, but also at home; without any claim to be paid, without any appreciation from his colleagues or family. He lives the life he considers correct. When a stupid boss unjustly fires him, he is not angry with him. Not even when the boss runs down to the street to give him the food box he has left behind in the office. The “Smiling Man” perceives it as the boss´s favour. He sees a human being in his boss. It would never occur to him, not even in his dreams, that he brought it to him just to prevent him from entering the office any more. Even if it came into his mind, he would never believe it, because he’s a nice guy; he is an “Idiot”.

BEST EXPERIMENT FILM

Film: Metamorphosis

Directed by: Charles-Edouard Dangelser

Synopsis: A mystical sculptor seeks to transform himself into his work.

BEST ROMANTIC FILM

Film: FLAWLESS

Directed by: LEVY CLAUDE

Synopsis: A young man is going on a first date with a young lady, but things will take an unexpected turn because of a new mobile app

BEST INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

BEST DIRECTOR

Award goes to: Veenit Katariia

Film: Love Ishtory

Directed by: Veenit Katariia

Synopsis: Love Ishtory is dramatical take on the casteism issue fructifying in our country. It’s a story of a young couple facing opposition on their affair. Chavi is from a brahmin family while Aakash belongs to a backward caste. Chhavi’s father, Bhaskar Shukla, is an influential personality. His daughter’s desire to marry a lower caste boy has shaken him up. Bhaskar ordered the local inspector Dubey Ji to catch Aakash to rough him up. It is a story of that day on which all this unfolds. Keeping the adrenaline high, the film progresses to reach a point where Chhavi’s elder brother Vicky is ready to blow Aakash’s head off. Will this classic tale of casteism end in another honour killing? Will the society again be a mute spectator to a horrific incident?

BEST SCREENWRITER

Award goes to: Suhaib khalid, Veenit Katariia & Nandita Pareek

Film: Love Ishtory

Directed by: Veenit Katariia

Synopsis: Love Ishtory is dramatical take on the casteism issue fructifying in our country. It’s a story of a young couple facing opposition on their affair. Chavi is from a brahmin family while Aakash belongs to a backward caste. Chhavi’s father, Bhaskar Shukla, is an influential personality. His daughter’s desire to marry a lower caste boy has shaken him up. Bhaskar ordered the local inspector Dubey Ji to catch Aakash to rough him up. It is a story of that day on which all this unfolds. Keeping the adrenaline high, the film progresses to reach a point where Chhavi’s elder brother Vicky is ready to blow Aakash’s head off. Will this classic tale of casteism end in another honour killing? Will the society again be a mute spectator to a horrific incident?

BEST EDITOR

Award goes to: Katsuhide Yamago Film: Nothing is Going Well

Directed by: Katsuhide Yamago

Synopsis: A young jobless man rent an apartment where nameless body lie down. Landlord who suspicious old man planing Insurance murder.

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February 2020 - Official Selection

Redwood Film Festival February 2020 Official Selection Films

RedWood Film Festival announces the list of Official Selected films of February 2020.

• Redwood Film Festival is an Online Film Festival. 

• Our Jury screens the monthly selections Privately and from there we select the winners. Only the winning films will get a chance to participate in a second selection at the end of the year. If they pass the second selection, we'll screen them at our annual live online screening. Where one film from each category will be awarded. 

Short Films

• That thing between us | Dave Michael Guller Grønvall-Pedersen

• TAGGED | Daniel Ferrell

• Hollie | Velton J Lishke

• Dear Mum, | Donovan Swart

• Rectitude | Komalankutty Methil

• Sela (drink) | Rafieka Davis

• After You | Korichi Christelle

• Sand and Stone | Julian Bate-Vergette

• Alternate | Adrián Adamec

• Love Ishtory | Veenit Katariia

• Nothing is Going Well | Katsuhide Yamago

• Leakage | Marc Eikelenboom

• Almost Midnight | Jan Fabris

Student Short Films

• Fresh | Tatiana Wisniewski

• Family Portrait | Hannah Paquette

• Death did us part | George Ward IV

• Arnisi | George Ward IV

LGBT Films

• INFRA Story | Fabrice BRISEUX

Web Series

• NihonGO NOW! | Hiroki Ohsawa

Music Video

• Drown | Michael Valentino & Autumn Greenfield

• Metamorphosis | Charles-Edouard Dangelser & Grégoire Vaillant

1- Minute Short Films

• Anzel | Donovan Swart

• THE BOMB | Bob Jones

• VICTORY........??? | MANISHA GUPTA

Animation Films

• Land of the Little People (Animation) | Guy Quigley

• Idiot | Dušan Davidov

Drama Films

"Not Enough Entries"

Documentary Films

• Strange Tenants: Ska'd for Life | Fiona Cochrane

• Magna Graecia: the Griko of Apulia | Billy Cotsis & Basil Genimahaliotis

• Once Upon A Sky | Barnali Ray Shukla

• All the King's Men- 1910 Cornhusker Football | Donnie Dodge

• Caminhos Longos - Long Paths | António José de Lemos Ferreira

• Twilight Zone: The Worst Accident in Film History | Robert Jones

• "Looking Back Part 4" | Mimi Garrard

Experiment Films

• Metamorphosis | Charles-Edouard Dangelser & Grégoire Vaillant

Romantic Films

• FLAWLESS | LEVY CLAUDE

• Dabba | Divyamaan Srivastava

Thriller Films

• Beauty Queen | Jan Bartels

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