The 13th Annual New Media Film Festival® Los Angeles CA USA nominee tallies are in-125 New Media films and content from 29 countries: Australia, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Republic of, Lebanon, Malta, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Tahiti, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA
44 World Premiere, 6 US Premiere and 35 Los Angeles Premieres. With an astounding 85 Premieres out of 125 titles programmed, New Media Film Festival® is a must attend event.
Full details of all nominees https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/events/
For 2022 the festival judges are from some of the most notable places such as PBS, BBC, HBO, MARVEL, Rolling Stone, Simon & Schuster, ABC and more! Nominees are up for $45,000.00 in awards. Attendees get to network and engage with creators and influential people from the industry. On June 1 & 2 2022 at The Landmark, 10850 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90064. Screenings, Q&As, live music, and more can be experienced. www.newmediafilmfestival.com
Australia
Writer – Luciano Cavallaro
Country – Australia
Premier – World
Logline, One magical coin can change a life. Two can change the world.
Title, The Split
Writer, Nicola Green
Country, Australia
Premier, World
Logline, Based on true events, this is the story of three lives intertwined; a 1960’s London sporting hero turned gold thief, a sick child and a grieving daughter, determined to uncover her family’s secrets, finding far more than she ever could have bargained for.
New Media Film Festival® create a unique video to present scripts. There will be a Q & A for these writers as well.
Bangladesh
Director
Sundaram Tagore
Country
Bangledesh, USA
Logline, Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how the famed American architect built a daringly modern and monumental parliamentary complex in war-torn Bangladesh. This very personal fourteen-country odyssey delves into Bangladesh’s quest for democracy, how Khan brilliantly wove together Eastern and Western forms, and the power of great architecture to embody the highest ideals.
Belgium
Title, Paradisiac
Director, Quentin Dujardin
Country, Belgium
Premier, World
An elderly lady remembers the autumn mornings she spent on a vast river in the company of her friends, when they were children. In this immense setting, they rowed towards an island
they had named… Paradisiac.
Bulgaria
Title Happy Stones
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/happy-stones/
Date Wednesday June 1 online
Director Zoya Dimitrova
Country Bulgaria
Premier World
When you lose a child, you fall into despair or you start to build. The challenges of building a chapel high in the mountains as a unifying image of power, will, spirit of the ordinary man, and a monument for those who will always live in our hearts.
Canada
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/save-the-day/
Date Thursday, June 2 in person.
Title Save the Day
Artist Girlie Vasallo
Country Canada
Life goes on.
Cyprus
Title Codex Oros Edemos
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/codex-oros-edemos/
Director Akis P. Tix
Country Cyprus
Premier World
A mysterious wind blows on Earth and vanishes people randomly on a forgotten Mount called Edemos. People who find themselves there, seek ways to escape and their survival becomes their utter priority. In this story, we are following a survivor of this Mount, seeking his way to escape.
Title – Surviving 9/11 27 Hours under the rubble.
Director Chloé Rochereuil
Team Victor Agulhon
Country France
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/surviving-9-11-27-hours-under-the-rubble/
Featuring exclusive and never-seen-before archives of the World Trade Center remastered for virtual reality, this documentary offers a unique connection with the testimony of a survivor
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/voila/
Writer Mark Pomerville
Country US
PremierLos Angeles
After being forced into servitude sewing lace, a spunky young seamstress and a headstrong spectacles maker must rescue their humble village from a tyrannous, fashion-obsessed Duke.
Germany
Title Harold Halibut – https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/harold-halibut/
Director Onat Hekimoglu
Country Germany
Premier Los Angeles
Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship, and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean.
Title Mercury XX – https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/mercury-xx/
Date Thursday, June 2 in person.
Title Mercury XX
Director Miriam Kuhlmann
Country Germany & USA
Premier World
A science fiction short Film which tells the story of an all female space mission to draw the first breath on another planet.
Title frozen chaos
Date Thursday June 2 in person
Artist Lukas Atzert
International Art Exhibit
Country Germany
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/frozen-chaos/
This shot shows a frozen lake in Bavaria – Germany called “Eibsee”. It was taken at a 120m height with the camera tilted down at a 90° angle. The pattern of the frozen ice is probably the result of trapped air that was slowly released by submerged plants at the bottom of the lake.
Greece
Title Warriors of Hallan – https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/warriors-of-hallan/
Date Wednesday June 1, online
Writer Evi Photopoulos
Country Greece
Premier US
This Trilogy’s first book has a fast-paced amalgam of cult secrecy, sea-faring brigandage, love, sex, and high intrigue. The heroes have great adventures with mythical beasts and warriors, culminating in cataclysmic events in the salt mines of an ancient island.
Hong Kong
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/ruined-world-an-ai-elegy/
Date Wednesday June 1st is online
Director Zoran Poposki
Country Hong Kong
Premier World
Team Polyptech
Artificial Intelligence creates a visual poem about a post-apocalyptic world where human civilization has been erased by environmental collapse.
Israel
The Hitchhikers – https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/the-hitchhikers/
Date Wednesday June 1st is online.
Director Yair Agmon
Country Israel
Premier US
An Israeli Roadside Odyssey illuminates the complexities of Israeli society through each hitchhiker that we meet. In these short episodes, Agmon travels all over the country and picks up a diverse mosaic of Israeli characters.
Title, Second Wind- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/second-wind/
DateWednesday June 1st is online.
Director Guy Gazit
Country Israel
Premier US
Max and Dundi are childhood friends. Their relationship changes completely following a car accident where Max was the driver, leaving Dundi completely blind.
The Doubles – https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/the-doubles/
Date Wednesday June 1st is online.
Director Tal Michael Haring
Country Israel
Premier World
“The Doubles” takes us through the story of a nameless Jew, a survivor of World War 2, who aimlessly walks the streets of a ruined city, with no place to call home. Through an interactive timeline, we experience the many months of lost and despair, until finally salvation comes in the form of Jewish soldiers from the British Army – who are gathering refugees for a secret plan to bring them to Palestine.
Italy
Tempo Rubato Enigma – https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/tempo-rubato-enigma-an-argentinian-mozart-francesco-cordio/
Date Wednesday June 1 online
Director Cristiana Di Bartolomeo
Country Argentina and Italy
Premiere World
A great Argentine musician of Italian origin -from the early 20th century- mysteriously dies at an early age. Rodolfo Zanni was only 26 -credited with a prodigious career and an impressive musical production. At the time of his death, all his works, however, had vanished into thin air. His body was nowhere to be found.
Japan
Tops Of Memory Il Illusion
DateWednesday June 2nd
Event Type In Person
DirectorJialiang LIU
Country Japan
Premier Los Angeles
Hand-drawn animation using actual painting materials has a unique charm because of its a special texture or material feeling and unique sense of dynamism. Now with the help of VR video technical which broke the square frame of traditional film, it can let you experience the specially wonderful hand-drawn word through 360-degree view, give you the feeling that your body is just being in that fantastic space.
Hop Step Sing! Happy People
Director Hiroshi Chida
Country Japan
Premier Los Angeles
An interactive VR music video designed to deepen the relationship between VR idols and their fans and provide the ultimate fan interaction experience.
Korea
Title Strawberry Milk
Date Wednesday June 1st is online.
Director Ryan Taeck-gyu Kim
Country Korea
Premier US
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/strawberry-milk/
One day Jeong-jin bought a strawberry milk at the convenience store on the way to work as usual, and he fell in love with a part-timer with innocent and beautiful smile. From that day, Jeong-jin goes to the convenience store everyday to get a strawberry milk. He had been agonizing how to confess his love and decided to propose with flowers. Would Jeong-jin be able to deliver his message to her?
Title Across the Ocean- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/across-the-ocean/
Date Wednesday June 1 online
Composer Michael W. Choi
Country South Korea
Premiere World
A classical film score from South Korea.
Lebanon
Title My Journey: Georges Wassouf
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/my-journey-georges-wassouf-ep1
Date Wednesday June 1 online
Director David Oryan
Country Lebanon
Premier US
Renowned Arab singer George Wassouf recounts career-defining moments and reveals secrets he has never shared before.
Malta
Title, Monumental- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/monumental/
Date Wednesday June 1st is online.
Director Aleksa Ristovic
Country Malta
Premier Los Angeles
A deep spiritual journey starts in pursuit of the right place to leave a mark in the world we live in.
New Zealand
Black Sea Golden Ladder The Visual Album
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/black-sea-golden-ladder-the-visual-album/
Date Wednesday June 1, online. Directors
Nicole Horan, Xavier Horan, Dahnu Graham, Marara Katipa, Hayden Aull, Thomas Rose, Huhana Ruri-Panapa
Country New Zealand
Premier World
An exploration of the human experience that spans from childhood to death through the lens of seven Māori directors. A film that takes inspiration from the ten tracks on Black Sea Golden Ladder.
Title, Visiting Ben Shemen- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/visiting-ben-shemen/
Date Thursday, June 2 in person.
Director Miriam Harris
Country New Zealand and Israel
Premier Los Angeles
In 1946, three young Jewish teenagers met at the Ben Shemen school, in Palestine. Each had been traumatised by the Holocaust and World War II. These women, now in their late eighties – one of whom is the director’s mother – recount the ways in which Ben Shemen offered a healing and soul-nourishing refuge.
Poland
Title, Maharaja’s children. A Brave Bunch in India- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/maharajas-children-a-brave-bunch-in-india/
Date Thursday June 2 in person
Director Tomasz Stankiewicz
Country Poland
Premier Los Angeles
In the Easter of 1940 the boy, together with his mother and brother, was arrested by NKVD and deported to Siberia. He shared the dramatic fate of thousands of Polish deportees. His rescue arrived from the least expected direction. Maharaja of Nawanagar builds a refugee camp for polish children. At the end of war he also adopts all the minors from the camp, so they do not get under communistic jurisdiction of new polish government controlled by Stalin.
Singapore
Title, The Prism- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/the-prism/
Date Wednesday June 1st is online.
Director Eric Wong
Country Singapore
Premier Los Angeles
A Singaporean family downgrades from their luxury condominium to a small public housing apartment due to the father losing his job in the pandemic. In the midst of moving, they discover something special about their 9 year old autistic son.
Title CTRL https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/ctrl/
Date Wednesday June 1 online
Director Estovan Reizo Cheah
Country Singapore
A Chinese serial drama about a hacker who survived an accident when he was a child and how he became a very talented hacker.
South Africa
Title The Adventures of Zizwe-
Date Thursday June 2 in person.
Directors Robyn Stalson, Rox Dare, Kevin Johns
Country South Africa
Premier US
Aboriginal mischief-gods who are determined to incite chaos.
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/the-adventures-of-zizwe/
Spain
Title, Stranger at the Funeral
Date Wednesday June 1 online
Director Ana Maria Estrada
Country USA
Mayhem ensues when the family discovers who the stranger is at the funeral.
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/stranger-at-the-funeral/
Title, TXAC Planet
Date Wednesday June 1st is online.
Director Eterio Ortega
Country Spain
Premier Los Angeles
A TV series to approach the logic of computational thought and literacy in computer technology. Each episode presents a computational concept in an entertaining and intuitive format, reaching out to children and adolescents who can interact with it.
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/txac-planet/
Syria
Title, Goodbye Rosaline-https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/goodbye-rosaline/
Date, Wednesday June 1st is online.
Writer, Karen Lothan
Country, Syria
Premier, Los Angeles
Syria, 1920’s. Nawras is a village’s lord’s son, and his friend Nemer is a mayor’s son. Nemer, who is alwaysgetting Nawras in trouble, yearns to fight in the war, like his long lost elder brother Seif. Nawras falls in love with his maid Jamila, but his mother is against it.
Ukraine
Title, Honorable Lviv Lady- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/honorable-lviv-lady/
Date Wednesday June 1 online
Director Natalia Pasenytska
Country Ukraine
Crew
A modern, cultured woman Penelope, who lives in Lviv and works in an archive. A meeting of heroes leads to uncontrollable passion and crazy actions.
SCRIPTS
Title, Generation Z https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/generation-z/
Date, Thursday, June 2 in person.
WritersMyroslav Latyk, Oksana Ivanyuk
Ukraine
Premier, World
Eight friends try to survive in Mariupol during the first 10 days of the war between Russia and Ukraine. They try to survive but not all of them will do, as Mariupol is being wiped to the ground.
Title, Little Enchantress- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/little-enchantress/
Date, Thursday, June 2 in person.
Director, Oksana Ivanyuk
Country, Ukraine
Premier, World
Mariyka, 11 y.o. girl, dreams of becoming a Tik-Tok star. Her father Mykhailo works as a border patrol officer. Money is tight for him and he is unable to come to a decision – is he going to be a good officer, or a rich one.
United Kingdom
Title, Love Locked
https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/love-locked/
Date, Thursday June 2 in person
Director, Breanne Krause
Country, US
Premier, Los Angeles An escape room dating show where individuals are set up on blind dates in an escape room looking to find their true love. If couples are able to escape, there will only be one question left to ask; Do they ever want to see each other again?
Title, Morlock- https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/morlock/
Date, Wednesday, June 1 online
Writer, Anthony Povah
Country, United Kingdom
Premier, World
When a Russian bomber, pursued by an RAF plane, crashes on British soil, civilian air crash investigator Jayne Kendal is press-ganged into conducting an investigation that she knows should be military-led. Racing against her menacing Russian counterpart to seek out the truth, she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens global security. Inspired by real events.
