https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/festivee_template https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/drive "Drive" "Drive" a short music film by Hayley Young and Alex Crook - Director Biography - Hayley YoungHayley Young has been telling stories with a camera for twenty years. As an editorial photographer, she has photographed thousands of characters from various walks of life. Invited into their private residences, offices, factories and creative spaces, she is conditioned to find the magic in the details of place and circumstance. Her approach to storytelling is observant, curious and patient. Known widely for her single-take music videos, Young puts much of her creative energy in front of every story she directs. Her vision is what steers her direction. Knowing what she wants to see while allowing room for her vision to evolve as she goes, Young's work is intentional yet, light-handed. She loves color, movement and human perplexity. Always a viewer before a director, Young consults her inner 8-year-old with every idea she brings to the table. hayleyyoung.com Director Statement Joshua Roman and I met in 2008 when I was in commercial photography school and working as the staff photographer for Sound Magazine, a music publication in Seattle, Washington. Joshua had just announced his departure from the Seattle Symphony, a position he had accepted just two years prior. He was the youngest principal cellist in the Symphony's history, and he was leaving his historic role to pursue the rapidly growing career that would pull him away from us. I was assigned to photograph him for a feature story we were doing on his decision to leave. Before he left, Joshua agreed to let me follow him around to document his life for a photojournalism project I had been assigned for school. We were both in our early 20s and during the two weeks I spent at his side, I gained an intimate look into his parallel universe as a classical musician. While I was frequenting dive bars and waiting tables at the restaurant across from Benaroya Hall, Joshua was performing in that very hall, premiering orchestras and introducing world-famous composers to thousands of people. I will never forget the time I saw inside his apartment, furnished with only a mattress, a cello case and piles of sheet music scattered across the floor. I found him fascinating to say the least. We became quick friends. Over the years, I have continued to be blown away by his many accomplishments and his surreal lifestyle of flying around the world to share his renowned talent. Joshua's days of traveling to perform for large audiences came to an abrupt halt in March of 2020. In August of 2020, I received a message from Joshua. Having grown restless with the lockdown, Joshua packed his belongings and took to his car. He was heading back to the west coast from his solo road trip across the country. The message was simple. A Soundcloud link to a piece of music he had just written. I hesitated to open the link as I lay in bed (it was late, nearly midnight). But something inside me said, "grab your headphones and listen to this". The experience that I felt through those headphones is the inspiration for this film. "Drive" is a force of sound that broke me down to tears. I cried for its beauty and for its empathy. Less of a classical music fan and more of an indie rock/pop/blues follower myself, I found "Drive" to be the perfect gateway drug into the world of Joshua's music at a time when I needed the catharsis it provided even more deeply than I realized. This film is an offering to those like me, who turn to music for relief, who find peace in the sounds of melody. Ryan Hadlock is the producer that perfectly transcribed these sounds into the environment he and Joshua recorded it in. Bear Creek Studio is a hidden gem in Seattle's music world. Home to many Grammy award-winning recordings, the space was inviting and the perfect home for this project to take flight. In a year filled with anxiety and fear, "Drive" was a silver lining that kept each of us focused on what is still to come. We are thrilled to share this with anyone who needs to feel the hope that we felt when producing it. -Hayley Young https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1106/1106_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T10:52:41-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/and-then-the-darkness ...And Then the Darkness - Director Biography - Andrew HugginsAndrew Huggins graduated with a degree in filmmaking in December, 2013, and has been making films professionally for about six years. He’s made nearly thirty short films and has screened at almost four hundred festivals. He writes stories spanning all genres and often tells narratives about family. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1094/1094_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T10:34:53-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/all-access https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/a-cry-for-help A Cry for Help - Director Biography - Steven EstebSteven Esteb is an award winning filmmaker that has worked as a Hollywood screenwriter and directed features, commercials, music videos, documentaries and was also a professor at Loyola University New Orleans teaching film and screenwriting, and founder of the Louisiana Screenwriters Bootcamp. His film, Hate Crime, starring Amy Redford, John Schneider and Kevin Bernhardt, won awards at film festivals all over the world. He's also known for the cult film, Baller Blockin', a rap film for Universal starring Lil Wayne, hit #1 on the Billboard charts in DVD and video sales eventually going quadruple platinum. Steve's been repped by top agencies like ICM and Paradigm as a screenwriter and worked as script doctor, coach and screenwriting teacher. Director Statement A CRY FOR HELP is an intimate look at the destructive power of white privilege and the impact of white silence on black incarceration told in a dramatic short film format. Lensed in black and white, reminiscent of classic films like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, it’s an American tragedy right out of the headlines. A cautionary tale that shines a sad light on the tragic destruction of an American family by the fear and indifference of an otherwise caring witness to a crime that never really happened. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1047/1047_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T09:34:51-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/a-handful-of-water A HANDFUL OF WATER Grumpy KONRAD (85) pushes everybody away, but young THURBA (12) manages to tear down his walls. Against all odds and external forces they ge - Director Biography - Jakob ZapfJakob Zapf, born 1983, lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany . He is executive director of the companies Neopol Film (Fiction, Series, Documentary) and clipkult (Advertising, Image), both located in Frankfurt.As founding member of the initiative "Junge Generation Hessischer Film", as chairman of the board of directors of "Vereinigung Hessische Filmwirtschaft" as well as member of the supervisory board of the regional film fund "HessenFilm und Medien" he lobbies for better working conditions for filmmakers and producers in Hesse. Jakob Zapf is also a Member of the Filmhaus Frankfurt and Director’s Guild of Germany (BVR).Since 2003 Jakob Zapf is working on short films, music videos, theater and performance projects that were showcased internationally and won numerous prizes. From 2004 to 2010 he studied theater-, film- and media studies, philosophy and art history in Frankfurt and Paris on a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. During his studies he worked in different positions on several film and video projects. Additionally, he took part in several scriptwriting and directing classes, e.g. with Mark Travis, and wrote his master thesis about script work in Lindsay Andersons "if...." and Schlöndorffs "Der junge Törless".Jakob Zapf has a lot of experience in marketing and advertising, and worked, among others, for UFA, U5Filmproduktion, RatPack, 20th Century Fox and the world sales agency TheMatch Factory. Today he works as a writer, director, producer and cutter. He works with industry clients such as Porsche, Toyota, PWC, Sinalco, Vileda, Heraeus Bildungsstiftung, World Vision and the City of Frankfurt. Filmography:A HANDFUL OF WATER debut feature Director, Co-author, Producer THE THIRD KING Short film Dramaturgical Supervision, Associate Producer 52nd Internationale Hofer Filmtage – Official Selection // Oscar Qualifying 11th Bermudas International Short Film Festival – Best Cinematography, Best Acting // 35th Tehran International Short Film Festival – Official Selection // 3rd New York Shorts International Film Festival – Best Foreign Film // 14th BuSho – Budapest Short Film Festival // 3rd Transilvania Shorts Film Festival – Best Film, Best Cinematography // 5th Montecine Montevideo World Film Festival // 3rd Revolution Me Film Festival // 8th Edinburgh Short Film Festival // 4th Ciudad de Panama International Film Festival – Best Director // Bafta Qualifying 8th Aesthetica Short Film Festival // 2nd The Black Sea Film Festival – Best Director // 7th Roma Independent Film Festival – Official Competition // 3rd Bucharest Short Film Festival – Best Narrative Film // 3rd Asia Web Awards – Best Web Film - Shorts // 8th Mumbai Shorts IFF – Best Film // 7th Short of the Year 2019 Summer Edition – Best Film SEIN KAMPF Short film Director, Co-author, Producer 47th Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2013 – Official Selection // 47th Houston WorldFest – Platinum Remi Award “Peace & Understanding” // 37th Montréal World Film Festival 2013 – Focus on World Cinema // 36th Grenoble Short Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection // 34th Durban International Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection // 24th Boston Jewish Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection // 23rd Muestra de Cine Internacional de Palencia 2014 – Official Selection // 16th International TV Festival 2014 – Official Selection // 16th Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People 2013 – Official Selection // 15th Fiaticorti Film Festival 2014 – Official Selection // 12th International Film Festival Tofifest 2014 – Official Selection // Hessischer Filmpreis 2013 – Nominiert als Bester Kurzfilm // 10th KO&digital 2013 – Official Selection // 10th Jewish Motifs International Film Festival 2014 – Official Selection // 10th ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival 2014 – Official Selection // 9th EfeboCorto Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection // 8th Days of respect 2013 – Official Selection // 7th Festival for Tolerance – Sarajevo Jewish Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection // 7th Festival for Tolerance – Zagreb Jewish Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection // 7th LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International 2014 – Official Selection // 6th Cineseptiembre, Mazatlán, Mexico 2013 – Official Selection // 6th Budapest Short Film Festival 2013 – Panorama // 6th Entretodos 2013, Brasil – Official Selection // 5th AniFestROZAFA 2014 – Official Selection // 3rd Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection // 3rd Social World Film Festival 2013 – Official Selection, Nominated for Best Short and for Best Director // 3rd Golden Orchid International Animation Festival 2014 – Official Selection // 2nd Kolkata Short International Film Festival 2013 – Special Festival Mention for Best Actor // Hessischer Filmpreis 2012 – Nominiert als Bestes Drehbuch // “Prädikat Wertvoll“ der FBW – Filmbewertungsstelle AUFWÄRTS Short film Director, Author, Producer WorldFest Houston/Texas - Silver Remi Award // Berlinale Hessen Talents 2011 // Visionale Frankfurt NICHTSDESTOTROTZ Short film Director, Author, Producer, Cutter WorldFest Houston – Platinum Remi Award // IFCT World Tour Seattle - Runner Up for Best Drama // International Fest of Cinema and Technology Los Angeles – Best Foreign Short // Pfingstopenair Passau LIEBE LOLA, Short film Director, Author, Producer, Cutter SEIN KAMPF Short film https://vimeo.com/clipkult/seinkampfscreening Password: Kampf NICHTSDESTOTROTZ Short film https://vimeo.com/clipkult/nichtsdestotrotz Password: Neverevertheless Director Statement A HANDFUL OF WATER is about Konrad, 85, who shoots and hurts Thurba, 11, at night. Meeting each other will be life changing for both, but the bond they reluctantly develop is under constant threat from outside. This encounter between the old German man and the young refugee girl will only ever be short – obliterated by injustice, margined by society’s constraints, stolen from them by the world they live in. When I began writing of this film a very personal thing was at the core of it: the sensation that old Europeans and newly arrived people seeking refuge come from very different worlds, but we all carry our past with us. When talking about Konrad, he is as well a very personal character for me, somebody highly inspired by my personal experiences, by my family and my grandparents, but he’s also a paradigmatic German man of his age, somebody accustomed to being alone and on his own, somebody who dislikes being interrupted in his daily routine, a grumpy, bumpy old guy, tending to focus on the negative side of things. Thurba is just a child. I feel very close to her, her urge to be less a girl and more a boy, her grief over what she had to endure and her hope of getting to Britain and making life better for her family. The small things she tells us about her past show a hardship that the old man maybe never experienced. I think this is what slowly gets to him: That he sees parallels in her, but he can also see where her situation is nothing he ever had to endure. Working on A HANDFUL OF WATER made me realise how Homi Bhabha is right: Migration is an act of dignity. We are all different, sometimes almost in an agonistic position, and we got to understand that difference. But it is one single, collective story: There is not the dead at sea on the one hand and the old war stories on the other. The living are carrying the dead within them, everyone has their own journey to make and everybody takes something of the other when they leave. Jakob Zapf https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/911/911_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-16T15:20:12-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/absurd-man absurd man “The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world." Albert Camus (1942) - Director Biography - burak kumHe was born in 1984 in Bursa. After graduating from the Department of Public Administration in Trakya University faculty of economic and administrative sciences, he worked as a director of photography, assistant director and editor in many commercials, documentaries, promotional films and feature films. He founded Kanka Film Production Company. produced and undertook the post-production feature film ‘Love in Secret Garden’. The film was selected for the international competition section at the 35th Cairo Film Festival. Between 2017-2018, he directed many short films. His short film ‘Far Fom Home’ won awards from many national and international festivals. The film ‘Give back the Silent Spring’ was selected as the best European film at the AgriCulture film festival in Italy.His short film Far From Home won awards from many national and international festivals. The film ‘Give back the Silent Spring’ was selected as the best European film at the AgriCulture film festival in Italy. His short film Absurd Man won awards Roma Short Film Festival (Best Short Film), American Golden Picture International Film Festival (Best Experimental Short Film), Changing Face International Film Festival (Best Experimental Short Film), Nafco Film Festival (Judge’s Award Comedy), Best Istanbul Film Festival (Jury Award) , Assurdo Film Festival (Best Sci-Fantasy- Action). His short film Nevermind won award in 4th stage 32. Also he filmed intro videos for Chess Film Festival, Roma Short Film Festival and Hollywood Short Film Festival. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1065/1065_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T09:52:39-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/ai-la--artificial-intelligence-la-pass AI La | Artificial Intelligence La (Pass) When you feel confused just connect with natural intelligence. - Carlo Christian Spano was born in Rome in 1973. Before beginning his career as a cameraman and photographer Carlo graduated in Law and later attended the European Institute of Design in Rome for Photography. In 2001 he began collaborating with film and television production companies in Italy and abroad. An avid outdoorsman, Carlo specializes in documenting travel voyages, reportage and has filmed numerous nature as well as social documentaries including video clips, concerts, sports, performing arts, cultural events and military operations. He is a Photographer and Filmmaker that is strongly influenced by nature and instinct, with a tendency to convey a simplicity that is inherent in his work as a means of self-expression of his continuous search for inner knowledge. In co-production with the Chinese Globaltrekkingclub.com based in Beijing, he is producing a "Wild Planet Series" of documentaries on the top extreme trekking routes in the world. The story focus on trekking as one of the sane options we have to make a discovery journey inside ourselves in order to get back the “good” energies from nature to take the next step. Aiming to inspire people to explore their own potentials, and to control their own fate in AI future society, the most important is to advocate AI for Good in the technology industry around the world. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/916/916_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-16T15:43:36-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/angora https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/before-the-typhoon-comes Before the Typhoon Comes Out of Sea, In to Life. - Director Biography - Chen YunChen Yun, born in 1996 in Zhangzhou, Fujian and now a Beijing based cinematographer & director. Chen Yun graduated from Beijing Film Academy and from 2016, has shot films, commercials and documentaries. Director Statement The meaning of time exists in some particular moments, and the fact of time passing itself. In the story Before the Typhoon Comes, a premature boy feels restless when facing his parents’s divorce. The feeling follows him from the childhood to adulthood, and finally released on the beach. His story, and the story that he told himself take places in different dimensions of time, which is the truth of life, and the fact of subjectivity for everyone. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1035/1035_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T09:15:53-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/belarus-a-raleigh-solidarity-protest https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/bennie https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/body-of-water Body of Water What do you do when you can't let go? -  From Edinburgh, Lucy graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA in Creative Writing in 2005 before moving to Shanghai. She lived there until 2010, writing, directing, and producing short films, commercials and television dramas as well as learning Mandarin. She then studied Film Directing at Columbia University’s MFAin New York. Her short films have screened at numerous international festivals and her debut novel, SHANGHAI PASSENGER, was published by Blue Mark Books in 2015. Lucy currently leads the Screenwriting course on the University of Warwick’s Creative Writing Programme, blogs for Little White Lies about filmmaking and is in active development on a number of feature and television projects.Director Statement I initially wanted to write a story about eating disorders because of personal experience. Anorexia runs in my family. It was really only when I experienced it myself in my early twenties that I truly understood it. Furthermore, I would go so far as to say the majority of my female friends – and some male – have had issues with eating disorders or body dysmorphia at some time or other. It raises serious questions about how and why this keeps happening, particularly amongst women. Another motivation of making BODY OF WATER is also to show that it's not just a 'teenage girl' disease. It can stay with someone for their whole life. I’ve met so many women who have massive hang-ups about food. Research shows that 1 in 250 women and 1 in 2,000 men will experience anorexia at some point. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rates among psychiatric disorders and adults face long waits for NHS treatment. The older you get the more entrenched it becomes, the harder it is to break out of. We need to change the conversation around the subject, which was part of my motivation for writing the film.Over the years the character of Stephanie formulated as I considered the subject: a successful war photographer who has suffered from anorexia throughout her adult life. The present climate is really challenging for women, if you look at all the roles we’re supposed to fill: as mothers, as career go-getters, and then our looks. We’re under so much pressure to conform. Stephanie really struggles with that. That’s why she’s so compelling. Fundamentally, though, this is a universal story about woman who wants to be something that she’s not. I'm also fascinated with women’s roles in families, how they relate to each other and the complexities of those relationships. That comes from my own family experience, but also just watching my female friends and hearing them talk about their relationships with their mothers. Stylistically, the film uses a lot of repetition and long takes. This conveys the obsessive-compulsive tendencies and repetitive behaviors associated with anorexia, building a complex character study and hopefully elevating audience understanding of what it’s like to live with an eating disorder. It forces the viewer to sit and endure eating as Stephanie does. This conceit has been influenced by filmmakers including Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman and Todd Haynes’ Safe. The visual rhythms of the repeated behaviors are key in highlighting Stephanie’s social alienation and relationship with her own body. BODY OF WATER also looks at the effects of Pro-Ana websites on anorexics, providing a timely and unique insight into how web communities exacerbate her problem. BODY OF WATER is, in many senses, a howl at dysfunctional attitudes to our conventional notions of beauty and the body, taking these themes to an extreme, but arguably logical, conclusion. Ultimately, it poses the question; who or what is really sick, Stephanie or the world she is living in? https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/901/901_source_L3.mp4 2021-10-12T12:00:39-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/buena-onda-the-tale-of-ronny-scott https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/buzzkill Buzzkill The hive fights back - Director Biography - Ron Harris: Ron Harris is a journalist for The Associated Press and a first-time director/filmmaker. Ron was born and raised in Northern California and is currently living and working in greater metro Atlanta. As a journalist, Ron's highlights include covering the Napster trial and the birth of distributed file-sharing, exposing the truth about the Grand Theft Auto `Hot Coffee' mod, interviewing Henry Rollins in an RV over coffee, flying into the eye of El Nino in a NOAA hurricane chaser and taking The Donnas to breakfast. He is a winner of the George Polk Award for environmental reporting, the Scripps Howard Award, the Deadline Club Award and the Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit for coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Ron completed his first feature-length documentary, "Buzzkill," in 2021, and his next three documentaries are already in production.Director's statement:I made this film in hopes that it will narrow the conversation about ecology, corporate messaging and community. Coexistence is possible. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1149/1149_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T18:52:02-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/dignity Dignity "Dignity" is a love story between a woman and her family. However, the family's strength is tested when a moral decision must be made. - Director Biography - Pat BattistiniAn award winning writer/director/editor is a native of Gary, Indiana. Pat began his career as an actor at the Player’s Workshop of the Second City in Chicago. He continued working in improvisation and eventually performed in over 500 improv shows. Pat suffered having to work for Club Med in their Entertainment Department in places such as St. Lucia, Thailand and Tahiti. Continuing to have fun in Asia, Pat moved to Tokyo where he collaborated with an all Japanese comedy group for two years performing in the Japanese language. Only making sense, he moved to Miami after his Tokyo gig, where he started his filmmaking career. Pat finally made his way to Los Angeles in the fall of ’98. In LA, he has written and produced eleven short films. His most recent film, 'Tin Can' has been screened in over sixty-six film festivals and has won twenty-six awards. His feature screenplay, "Rebound" has also won two screenwriting categories respectively. Pat resides in Santa Clarita with his wife Marnie and their two children. Director Statement As a filmmaker, I think it's so important that we create art that reflects life. And as in life, we have days filled with happiness and sadness. Thus, I make it my commitment to bring emotions out and connect with my audience by creating films they can relate to. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1100/1100_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T10:45:05-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/distracting-evelyn Distracting Evelyn Can romantic love survive isolation? - Director Biography - Francis CastelliI've worked on a diverse range of high end projects across advertising, documentaries, numerous music videos, the occasional feature film and even art projects - the truth is, I love the magic of turning a script idea into a piece of film. I have been involved in numerous TV campaigns that have won a range of acclaimed advertising awards and the documentary "Nefertiti Resurrected" was nominated for an EMMY. Director Statement Trelawney Bresic's script connected with me deeply at a time when the world around us was changing, and our relationships were under more pressure than ever. Her writing inspires hope and reminds us that love is so very precious. Our collaborative team and attracted a young and up-and-coming cast, who - as you'll see - have done a brilliant job. We were also thrilled when Malcolm McClean (cinematographer 'Oloture') offered to bring his talent and experience to our film. Our entire cast and crew gave their time and skills so generously to help make a film that we hope will uplift people in these difficult times. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1017/1017_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T08:52:13-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/divertimento Divertimento Remember! - Director Biography - Keyvan SheikhalishahiKeyvan is a 21-year-old French filmmaker. He made his first short Vesper (2017) when he was 18 with German actor Götz Otto (Schindler's List, Tomorrow Never Dies, Downfall, Pillars of the Earth, Cloud Atlas, Dignity...). He made his second short Nox (2019) with Australian actor Matt Passmore (The Glades, Satisfaction, Jigsaw). His new one, Divertimento is his third short. Each of the actors of this short accepted to make this movie in less than two days, Keyvan was compared with a 'young Spielberg' by Lutz and Otto on set. Director Statement I wanted to go beyond the limits of the short film. I was lucky enough to shoot with an impressive cast in a beautiful location, an 18th-century castle. 150 people worked on this movie and made this tale possible to be told. What’s at the centre of this story is the issue of responsibility facing a tragic event. For you, who's responsible for what happened? Who's the 'good' guy, who's the 'bad' one? Who's guilty? All the movie deals with memory, its structure between reality and imagination allows the audience to follow what the character thinks. At the beginning, he doesn’t know more than us, he doesn’t know where he goes, what he’s getting into. We explore his thoughts and his memories at the same time as him. In other words, he lives the same immersive experience than us. Divertimento is an experience movie as the story and the atmosphere are like one. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1041/1041_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T09:25:36-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/faleminderit Faleminderit - Director Biography - Nicolas NeuholdNicolas Neuhold was born in Vienna, Austria and is an Austrian/Luxembourgish filmmaker. He obtained a Masters of Art degree from the University of Bournemouth (UK), and is a graduate of the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. His short films, documentaries and feature debut "Another One Opens" have had over 250 festival screenings worldwide and won several awards, including the "Bigas Luna Award" and the "Ulrich Schieg comedy award" for his short film Würstelstand, as well as a "Royal Television Society- Southern Centre" best documentary award and the Meridien Prize for the documentary "Cannes - Through the eyes of the Hunter". Director Statement As far back as 395 AD, when the Roman Empire was being divided up, the region of what, today, is Albania was a border region. Not just politically, but very much culturally: the area had three religions and even three alphabets: Greek, Arab and Latin. This made it an area full of stories; an area that was, and still is, torn apart as to its place in the world. The story of FALEMINDERIT was related to me by an Albanian historian. It is a story that is told in different ways, sometimes with chocolate or candies and a grateful "Thank you" replied by its recipient, sometimes with coins being thrown into a school courtyard to get children to fight over them. The purpose of this was always to hear the real language spoken to decide the demarcation of the borders. For me the children symbolise the young country, while the chocolate is a symbol of enjoying life. The Paris Conference of Ambassadors portrays the interests of the participating neighbouring countries and the Great powers. There was, however, no one single conference where such events would have taken place, but more than 300 (!) meetings. This process started in 1913, when the first border commissions were sent out. It was interrupted by World War I, while the final borders were not in place until 1926. The script therefore takes the liberty to portray the events in a selective and compressed way. The Balkans are a region that, 100 years after this story took place, still hasn’t found its peace. The Belgrade - Pristine dialogue that is debating the territory of Kosovo has not yet found a solution and constitutes the last armed conflict in the exact region where this story took place. However, even more worrying than the regional conflicts are the nationalistic tendencies of today’s politics to which this story holds up a mirror. Voices of populism which were only audible in hushed tones before, have now become loud and acceptable. Nationalistic politicians speak unashamedly of humans as if they were animals, praising dictators while breaking with allies and reason itself. I greatly enjoyed finding and writing this script, as it fulfils my greatest desire as a filmmaker, to tell layered stories that entertain without the use of violence. I believe that FALEMINDERIT could, in a subtle way, create an interest in history and show the importance of diplomacy and creative solutions in a world that urgently needs them. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1029/1029_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T09:09:11-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gold-digger Gold Digger All's fair in love and war - Director Biography - Joey FingersWriting for years, never directing until Gold Digger (2021). A much darker, grittier feature version of Gold Digger will be shot in 2022. TV series Monsters in the Dark ready to pitch in 2021. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1023/1023_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T09:01:25-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/goodbye-olympic Goodbye Olympic - Director - Mojtaba poorbakhsh https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1059/1059_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T09:47:07-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/grave-talk Grave Talk - Director - Andrew Huggins https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1077/1077_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T10:10:32-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/hamartia https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/hello-frisco https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/hen--ham https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/human-trash https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/into-the-light Into the Light - Award winning Director/Cinematographer Benjamin Schwartz is the creative force behind Chuck Connelly "Into the Light" and "Sugar Baby". For the past decade Ben has worked in various production roles on feature film EPKS and in professional sports. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/928/928_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-17T18:02:19-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/legerdemain Legerdemain - Director Biography - Rob UnderhillROB UNDERHILL is a film & media director, producer, editor, writer. His feature films & more than 50 short-films have received over 100 awards, showcased at over 200 screening engagements worldwide, including CANNES & Academy-qualifying film festivals like ST. LOUIS & SEATTLE. Rob’s work has received rave reviews from top film critics, earned endorsements from major public figures like UN Ambassador Andrew Young & former NC Governor Beverly Perdue, & has been featured on the NPR programs, THE STATE OF THINGS with Frank Stasio & THE STORY with Dick Gordon. Rob earned a BA in English from NCSU & was honored to accept the invitation to serve as featured speaker at the 2015 NCSU English department graduation commencement. His work has aired on the ASPiRE network, ShortsHD, & other national & international broadcast outlets. Carolina STYLE Magazine recognized Rob as one of 25 "Most Stylish People" influencing positive change in the Carolinas. He is a RAWards Indie Art Award recipient for Best Regional Filmmaker. More at www.RobUnderhill.com & follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RobUnderhillProductions. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1053/1053_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T10:02:22-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/muni Muni A love letter to the game of golf as told by the Black caddies-turned-players who built a rich and vibrant golf culture on a municipal cours - Director Biography - Paul BonesteelPaul Bonesteel is a documentary filmmaker from Asheville, North Carolina. His passion for the outdoors and a love for history, music and storytelling led him to a diverse career of documentary filmmaking and commercial media production. Celebrated works include "The Mystery of George Masa" (2003), a historical biography about a mysterious Japanese photographer who immortalized the Appalachian Mountains. "The Great American Quilt Revival" (2005) a story of the resurgence of quilting as craft and art. In 2012, after eight years of research and production "The Day Carl Sandburg Died" aired on PBS’ American Masters while also winning ‘Best Educational Film’ at the International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal, Canada. In 2016 he wrote and directed "America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment" telling the story of how George Vanderbilt and others brought scientific forestry to American, helping to establish and influence the conservation movement globally. In his latest film "Muni" (2020) he creates a love letter to the game of golf as told by the African-American caddies-turned-players who built a rich and vibrant golf culture on a municipal course in an eclectic southern town. Director Statement At the core of the stories I tell are ones that I feel simply have to be made. It is a passion and a need to share ideas and stories between people. For me, it's both the interaction between subject and filmmaker and the film and the audience that is a sacred relationship. This is what fires my filmmaking. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1133/1133_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T11:34:40-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/oh-mother-of-mine Oh, Mother of Mine Exploring the generational impact of the incarceration of mothers. - Anna Rawls is a visual anthropologist and photographer based in Washington, D.C. Driven by her deep curiosity, social awareness and aesthetic understanding, she works alongside individuals and communities to create work that expands analysis, communication, and interpretation of the human experience. Thematically, her work explores concepts of identity, belonging, and narratives that exist at the margins https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/960/960_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T07:32:14-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/one-nice-day https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/one-pint-at-a-time One Pint at a Time - Director Biography - Aaron HoséBorn in the United States and raised on the Caribbean island of Aruba, Aaron Hosé is a producer, director, and editor with over 20 years in the film, television and video industry. His work has screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide and is distributed on digital platforms such as Hulu, Amazon, Vimeo on Demand, Tubi and Gaia. Aaron has received multiple awards and honors, including five regional Emmy Awards and twelve nominations.Director StatementCraft beer has changed my life. Ever since I fell in love with it in 2014 in Asheville, North Carolina, it became a personal quest to discover as many breweries as possible. The more breweries I visited, however, the more I noticed that my wife and I were the only—or among the very few—people of color inside taprooms. After conducting some preliminary research into the craft beer industry, I realized it was heavily white male dominated, from brewery owners, to management, down to the brewing and bar staff.My desire to better understand the lack of diversity in the craft beer industry is the catalyst for One Pint at Time. I wanted to shine the spotlight exclusively on stories of people working in craft beer that look like me. Over the course of four years, my team and I observed how many of these brewers fought—and struggled—to create a new narrative for Blacks within the industry. This is a multi- billion-dollar American business. Yet, Black-owned breweries are earning less than 1% of the money and continue to face hurdles rooted in discriminatory traditions. These are alarming facts. Ultimately, I hope ‘One Pint’ will contribute to the ongoing conversations about the need to diversify craft beer. May this film act as a mirror and inspire breweries to take those actions necessary to make this industry one that is more diverse, inclusive, equitable and just. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1195/1195_source_L3.mp4 2021-09-02T20:11:49-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/parallax Parallax - Director Biography - Michael FlemingMichael was born and raised in Roanoke, Virginia. His two passions in life are tennis and film. He has always had a love for film since he was young. Making videos on his parents camcorders as little as 6 years old. Michael attended the University of Mary Washington with a business marketing degree. He is planning on going to graduate school for film in the next year. Director Statement I wrote and directed this short, Parallax, as a passion project. I wrote it in college, but wanted to keep moving forward and turning it to something real. I have always been inspired by Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan's ideas of a non linear story. I believe you can't tell a non-story correctly or well enough over any other medium than film. So that's exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted a story that was both concrete and vague at the same time. Giving the audience the idea of "what just happened" when it ends. This short will always be important to me because this is "the first". It also allowed me to learn. There were issues we had to tackle at each step along the way, but we fixed them and that makes this short that much more special. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/991/991_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T08:18:09-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/pinky-promise Pinky Promise One mother's story of survival - Director Biography - Katie DamienKatie Damien is an award-winning filmmaker with over a decade of commercial production and independent filmmaking experience, she has been awarded various accolades including eight Emmy Awards for her short form work, and both Gold and Mosaic American Advertising Federation awards. “Joint Effort” a short film she produced and directed won the grand prize in an international competition, the National Film Challenge and screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Her short film “Hope” garnered awards from multiplet film festivals. Her first feature film, “My Toxic Backyard,” also won Best Documentary Film at the Greenpoint Film Festival and received 4 Emmy nominations. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1256/1256_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T11:05:27-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/rescued Rescued STAYED TUNED AFTER THE FILM TO WATCH AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE FILMMAKER - Daljit Kalsi is a filmmaker from Greenville, SC. His films have screened in festivals all across the world and have claimed several awards. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/888/888_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-16T13:36:11-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/restoration-a-concert-film Restoration: A Concert Film - Black music and southern culture not only intersect with deep roots in hip-hop, gospel, jazz, blues, rock — they’re woven into the fabric of a rich, textured history, resiliency, and storytelling; Black music serves as accompaniment for questing, having a storied history in answering higher-callings in those who connect with them. The music created by South Carolina Lowcountry rapper Benny Starr (pictured right) and harmonious singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Rodrick Cliche (pictured left) is the same. Hailed for a live recording of Starr’s solo project A Water Album (featuring band The Four20s) at Charleston Music Hall, Benny Starr and Rodrick Cliche joined talents and birthed the innovative partnership, Native Son.Free Times historically named Benny Starr’s A Water Album “SC’s Best Album” in 2019. Starr is more than his musical accolades; he is someone who cares greatly about his community. He wants to be known as a truth-teller — one who stands on the side of people. Cliche, too, is no stranger to moving a crowd. He grew up playing in the church, and aligned with Raphael Saadiq through a close mentorship, where he was given opportunities to work and tour with artists like Joss Stone, D’Angelo, and Common (to name a few). Cliche’s debut album “Zero Point Energy,” was released this year. Formed in 2020, Native Son is redefining what it means to create music that captivates audiences, while engaging with beloved community. Their hope is that listeners feel both familiarity and inspiration; that their songs serve as soundtracks to experiences — providing the impetus to connect with cause, striving, and rootedness in deeper senses of self within the context of culture. Native Son’s music serves as a guide that navigates and catalogues histories, the beauty of their South Carolina communities, and the proximate and emerging possibilities of their people. Director Statement We approached the creation of Restoration with a deep love and sense of connection to our elders. By weaving together a musical love letter of lyrics, sounds, and textures, we aimed to honor the resiliency, self-determination, and spiritual fortification that our Black Farmers have always embodied— even in the face of injustice. In a sense, the stage became our acreage, allowing our collective of musicians to plant the seeds that would lift our Farmers' voices and connect the multi-generational thread of Black creative and agrarian genius. Our anger was expressed through drums and brass. Our empathy conveyed through keys and strings. The sins of this country continue to haunt its hollow rhetoric of freedom and equality. As first time filmmakers, we hope that what we created is as much of a coming together as it is an artistic offering. Our Black Farm Families can never be made whole again, and while their justice has been both delayed and denied, we are here walking with them on this journey towards Restoration. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/955/955_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-17T18:46:29-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/sabina---tortured-for-christ-the-nazi-years Sabina - Tortured for Christ, The Nazi Years The Heart of the Gospel is Forgiveness - Director Biography - John GrootersA uniquely gifted storyteller, John is among the most sought-after screen-writers and directors in the world of faith-based filmmaking. His work has inspired millions throughout the world in theaters, museums, festivals, trade shows, conferences, and on broadcast television, and includes everything from feature films, documentaries, teaching series and commercials.In addition to his original work, John has partnered with some of the world’s leading playwrights, theologians and scientists translating their work for popular consumption. His global travels and voracious appetite for the Word of God have afforded him a unique understanding of the context and culture of biblical teachings. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1148/1148_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T18:36:56-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/stupa https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/tangled-8 Tangled 8 Same story, Different story. - Director: John E SeymoreJohn is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and Emmy nominee, as well as an accomplished casting director, unit production manager, actor and director. His written and produced short film, "She Feast", won the Killer Film Challenge and best production at the Phoenix Short Film Festival. His Producer credits include the short films: "Come to Know", "Alone in the Dark", "She Feast" and "Speak To Me". His feature films include You Can’t Kill Stephen King, Blessid, Solitary Confinement, Drug Z and Tangled 8. John's feature directorial debut, Tangled 8, was released in 2015. John currently serves as President of Seymore Films and Studio Executive for The Maine Studios. In addition, he is the creator of the Scriptsation Screenwriting Competition, the Maine Summer Shorts Festival, the Bathhouse Shorts Film Series and a founder of the Fenix Theatre Company. John is also a manager for Global Integrated Distribution where we works in acquisitions for Short Films, Horror Films and Web Content. John's primary focus is in research and development of new projects. He works with both internal productions and outside collaborators to evaluate and choose the best productions for Seymore Films. John’s acting credits include: Tangled 8, The Final Shift, Thinking with Richard, The Water in the Bay, Blessid, Are You Mr. Lonelee?, Bizarro and Bitten. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1234/1234_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-16T13:04:03-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/tethered-are-we-the-experiment TETHERED, ARE WE THE EXPERIMENT? - Director Biography - Daniel GartzkeDaniel Gartzke is an alumni of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh's Radio/Tv/Film Department and an internationally, award winning Director. Dan is the winner of Best Documentary and Best Director awards in India, London, Paris, and Los Angeles for his debut documentary, Light in The Darkness. He brings expertise and vision to the important issue of companion animals and euthanasia in the six time Best Documentary International winner Rescue Story, Saving Companion Animals. This newest film nominated is Tethered, Are We the Experiment? created as an anthem of education and awareness in alignment with the Conscious Content Collective mission. Dan is a valuable contributor to this mission through Shaman Motion Pictures. Director Statement Technology has reshaped the way we live our lives. The internet has connected the world. Social media has changed the way we interact with each other. The speed of communication has reshaped the way we do business. So with more connections than ever before, why are depression, loneliness, and mental illness on the rise? This film seeks to discuss the issues caused by the digital integration of our society. The effects of the technology on our brains, the effects of exposing youth to this technology, and the changes to society as a whole are just a few of the many issues we will discuss. The troubling effects of this tech on us and our children raise some rather large questions. Technology itself is neither good, nor evil. It is a tool to be used in a positive, or negative way. One of the biggest questions this film attempts to answer is where the line between the two resides. While the technology seems to be giving us capabilities our ancestors couldn’t have dreamed of, it would seem these capabilities come with a capacity for harm. Is it worth it? Can a happy medium be reached? Are the tools and technology fundamentally changing us as a species? If so, is this a problem? Is it even possible to return to a more tech-less world? Would that be better, or worse? Are we connecting, are we tethered or are we the experiment? https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1122/1122_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T11:15:56-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-awakening-of-lilith The Awakening of Lilith - .Director Biography - Steven Adam Renkovish Steven Adam Renkovish resides in South Carolina. His love affair with the arts began as a young man and continues to this very day. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/assets/images/536_summernote_img.https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/assets/images/536_summernote_img.Adam is a film critic, as well as a screenwriter and filmmaker. He has written for The Easley Progress and Examiner.com, as well as his own site, HalloweenRetro101.Adam's award-winning films have been accepted to many film festivals, including the Tryon International Film Festival in Tryon, NC.Director Statement Grief is universal. At some point, we will all face it. It's how each individual processes it that interests me, because over the course of my life, each period of grief that I have experienced has been vastly different, with varying degrees of weight. The Awakening of Lilith explores this idea of the weight of grief - how some of us long to forget it the minute we feel it, the very second it shows its face, and how others almost see it as a comfort. Because grief tethers us to our loved ones for eternity, every time that we grieve for them, they are there, in some way or another. In this film, the character of Lilith suffers from the mysterious loss of a loved one. The pain is so great that she has chosen to live inside of it. I wanted to explore what that would look like, and how and why one comes to that place. That eternal night of the soul - not quite day and not quite night. Candlelight is abundant in the film. Burning and flickering in what is clearly midday or at the dead of night - Lilith does not differentiate between the two, such is the complexity of her grief. I hope that the experience of watching The Awakening of Lilith will initiate a conversation that needs to be had. I hope that, through the character of Lilith, people may see a bit of themselves. That is my hope. Making this film with a cast and crew of people that I love dearly has been a life-changing process for me. We have brought you a film that we are very proud of for many reasons. We hope that you will enjoy it, learn from it, and maybe see the shades of grace that are planted throughout. Thank you for watching. Please stay through the end credits to hear the original song, "Elegy for Lilith", written and performed by Brittany Renée - the actress who plays Lilith in the film. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/894/894_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-16T13:39:55-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-bench https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-book-of-babel https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-final-stand The Final Stand They fought for Moscow - Director Biography - Vadim ShmelyovVadim Shmelyov (imdb nm 1475358 ) was born on August 30, 1967 in the USSR. Graduated from LGITMiK (SPATI) with a degree in drama director (1990-1995). Director Statement “The fact that the film was shot on the actual historic location and with genuine WWII military equipment is very important. But I am absolutely convinced that no film can be a success without a tight-knit, professional team. And this film had exactly that kind of team.” – Vadim Shmelyov, Production Director “An exact replica of the 1941 Ilyinsky defense line was constructed a small distance away from the original site, which is now a residential area. The film set included an artificial river, village, pillboxes, a bridge and a section of the Warsaw highway. For complete authenticity the film set was created using archive materials including aerial photographs. Historians, historical reconstructors and archaeologists provided invaluable assistance in the recreation of the Ilyinsky defense line at the VoenFilm studio grounds near the town of Medyn. The screenplay, props and outfits were subjected to thorough scrutiny by a committee of WWII experts. Volunteers helped with set construction, and local residents took part as extras in mass scenes. Vadim Zadorozhny's Vehicle Museum provided many original Soviet and German tanks, all in full working order. The UMMC's Museum of Military Vehicles, the Padikovo Museum of Russian military history, and restorers from the Trophy Vehicles Project, Military Hangar Museum, and Motors of War Museum also provided invaluable assistance in the production of the film.” – Igor Ugolnikov, Producer https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1155/1155_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-20T17:10:56-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-girl-who-wore-freedom https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-hidden-trail The Hidden Trail Some things aren't meant to be hidden. - Cameron Wilson is the Founder of 276 FILMS. He is an award winning director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. Cameron has had a passion for the arts for years. He is a photographer, musician, and artist. However over the years, Cameron found his true creative voice in film. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1192/1192_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T07:56:54-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/httpstwittercomtgwwffilm The other side of the coin: Race, Generations & Reconciliation The other side of the coin: Race, Generations & Reconciliation - Director - Frederick Murphy https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/949/949_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-17T18:35:48-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-spirits-still-move-them The Spirits Still Move Them Everything we know about moonshine and moonshiners is wrong. - David Weintraub is an award-winning film director having produced over 40 films that have screened at film festivals around the world and on public television. He is the founder and director of the Center for Cultural Preservation that seeks to preserve mountain culture through a multi-county Mountain Elder Wisdom Project that has completed more than 400 videotaped oral histories with mountain elders in half a doezn southern states. Weintraub believes that understanding how people lived their lives before Walmarts and plastic devices ruled our lives is important to rekindle how WNC communities can find ways to live more resilient, more authentic lives. Weintraub has also published more than a dozen books, is a columnist with the Times-News and dabbles in law when he can find the time. As self-proclaimed environmental troublemaker for the area, Weintraub has worked with half a dozen environmental organizations including as director of the Environmental and Conservation Organization in order to create a better balance between development and protecting our natural inheritance. Finally, he is the owner of Weintraub Films, a boutique film production company, that produces documentary films for businesses and families that which to tell their story. Director Statement I was inspired by the first documentary I ever watched, the Edward R. Murrow gem, Harvest of Shame. Not only did it explain where our cheap food came from, but it chronicled the life of the farmworker and how our breadbasket was built upon the suffering of so many people. It taught me that not only how a documentary film could open our minds, but it could be a force for change. Harvest of Shame helped to changed conditions for farmworkers which ultimately led to Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers' efforts to change conditions for farmworkers for the better. For me, filmmaking is about telling the rest of the story. In today's world, with everything black and white, red and blue, right and left, there is no room for discussion because there's no one worth talking to who isn't on "our side." By humanizing history and culture, we see our world in a new light opening the possibility that we can find our back home as a community once again. I find myself at the intersection between preserving cultural legacies and reconnecting people to their natural world. That's where a whole new world is opened before our eyes. Although this film is not about social justice or environmentalism per se, it hopefully brings people closer to the roots of our country's history. If we can see our grandparents in there somewhere, then we can connect people to each other. To me, that's the most important thing a filmmaker can do. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/921/921_source_L3.mp4 2021-10-30T15:57:17-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/the-war-within The War Within - Director Biography - Javid FarahaniBiography: Born in June, 1987 in Qom, Iran. Javid Farahani graduated of BA in Cinema from Sooreh University. Filmography: His short films include The Soil (2017) and Under The Blade (2019). In addition Javid Farahani has worked as a actor in 24 theater projects, street theaters, short films, tele films and series… As well as camera working and film editing. Short films include "Dirt", "The House is Empty", "Laughter and Crying" and "Under the Blade"(2019) , which has participated in 53 international festivals and has been nominated for 24 awards and won 11 awards. Director Statement A look at capitalism, currency and the dollar, and the imperialism of the new system of the World Bank and the bourgeoisie. This film is about personal profitability in an unfavorable situation. The price of the dollar is directly related to the lives of the Iranian people. With the news of the Iran-US war and sanctions, the dollar is becoming more expensive. Meanwhile, some people are now buying and selling dollars The worse the situation and the greater the likelihood of war, the more they think about their own interests and the dollar, because they can get rich. A critical look at sanctions And that with these policies, only human beings who die and are satisfied with death, with war Meanwhile, as the dollar rises, people become poorer and more miserable, commodity prices become more expensive, and people come under pressure. . Selected for the 74th festival 74 ° INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SALERNO CINEMA in Italy Twenty-fourth edition of the festival NewFilmmakers NY in America Nominated for the 18th edition of the festival The Archeology Channel International Film Festival in America Twenty-third edition of the festival East Lansing Film Festival in America Nominated for the 10th festival awards WRPN Short, Tight and Loose International Film Festival in America Presence in the world film market and festival directors in the finalists of the 11th festival Figari Film Fest in Italy And selected section of the festival's human rights TRYON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in America Attending the 11th edition of the festival San Bernardino Vally International in USA And attend festivals Fillum International (FISSF) in USA Film Olympiad in Greece And the winner of the festival Dreamer's Short Film https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1071/1071_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T10:02:27-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/to-eat-with-her-hands https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/ Upgrade to Premium from Basic - https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1035/1035_source_L3.mp4 2021-03-17T15:14:09-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 550.00 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/vinyl-nation Vinyl Nation A documentary dig into the record resurgence - Kevin Smokler is the author of three books about pop culture, including most recently Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to ’80s Teen Movies. He lectures and hosts events around the country, including many stints at SXSW Interactive. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s American Studies Graduate Program, he lives in San Francisco. Christopher Boone is a screenwriter and filmmaker based in Albuquerque. Vinyl Nation is his first feature documentary. He previously directed the narrative feature Cents from his Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist script. He is a contributing writer to No Film School and a frequent panel moderator for Austin Film Festival and its On Story series. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/934/934_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-17T18:35:47-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/wooden-sword Wooden sword - Director Biography - Behzad alavi , Sousan salamatBiography Sousan Salamat Date & Place of birth: 09/21/1980 – iran(Esfahan) Female _ Married Filmography BA in Film Directing -Directing “The Home is not Safe” Short Film Participation in “Herat” international women’s film festival , October 2015 Participation in competition section of national Short film festivals: “Khorshid”(December2013) -Directing “One Nice Day” short film Participation in competition section of international film festivals: (Insight half, india, August2014)(IFF san Francisco, September2014)(SquardiAltrove, Italy,March2015)(Kinolub, Poland, June 2015)(Insight curation scheme, England, June2015)(Syria, Spanish,November2015))Tehran,Iran, October2014))ParvinEtesami, Iran, October2014)(Roshd, Iran,November2014))Rouyesh, Iran, February2015)(100Second, Iran, February2016) Special Jury Award in “Zero Plus”Film Festival(Russia,November& December2016) Honor and Award in “ParvinEtesami” Film Festival, October2014 Condidate for Best Feature Film Award in “100 Second” Film Festival, February2016 _Directing "Woden Sword" Selected at the international film festival _IKFF international kids film festival _OREGON STATE international Film Festival _MY HERO International Short Film Festival _FIRST_TIME FILMMAKER SESSIONS International Film Festival Biography Behzad Alavi Date & Place of birth: 22/11/1988 – iran(zanjan) male _ Married Filmography BA in Film Directing -Directing “Rahmat Creel” documentary Short Film _Directing "Woden Sword" Selected at the international film festival _IKFF international kids film festival _OREGON STATE international Film Festival _MY HERO International Short Film Festival _FIRST_TIME FILMMAKER SESSIONS International Film Festival Director Statement Director’s Note This film is about the friendship of two little boys that their relationship, conversation, and generally their world are as green and simple as the atmosphere of location in which they are shown. On the other hand, we see the complexity of their guardians’ concerns that they are surrounded with. In the following, one of the boys unwilling gets involved in the adults world. Consequently, this film is about the difference between the world of children and adults, and the effects of parents behavior patterns on their children. https://media.festivee.com/tryoninternationalfilmfestival/item/1088/1088_source_L3.mp4 2021-08-18T10:26:43-04:00 https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/gallery 1.99 no https://tryoninternationalfilmfestival.festivee.com/writing-to-reach-you Writing to Reach You - Director Biography - Neil P GeorgeNeil George is a film professor, producer, and director of several award-winning documentary films. He was born and raised in Exeter, England and has been living in South Korea since 2011 teaching film production at a media university as well as producing documentaries related to Korean society. The producer and director of over 100 TV programs for Sky in the 2000’s he took the decision to move to Korea when offered an opportunity to teach documentary production at a media university near Seoul and has been there ever since. After moving to Korea he took great interest in society and culture and found a passion for human rights filmmaking. He produced the award-winning film, ‘While they Watched’ (2015), a film about North Korean defectors and then went onto to co-direct and produce the film, ‘Beyond the Picture; The story of Sohn Kee Chung’, a film about Sohn Kee Chung, the marathon runner who won the 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medal and the only gold medalist, to date, to never hear his own national anthem played whilst standing on the podium. 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