Awesome in Action


Tikkun Olam United States, 10min 30sec Director / Writer: Bob AhmedCast: Alexander Fox, Alexander Barnett “Tikkun Olam” (2021) is a short, fiction, film about an eight-year-old boy who encounters a homeless veteran in Washington, D.C. – a city that actually has the highest homelessness rate in all of America.
Not Worth Killing United States, 21:16 min Director: Eric M. IveyProducer: Paul Zehrer, John Mutz Not Worth Killing is a documentary short that tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Sister Lillian Oliver, IHM and Mitchell Rutledge, a convicted murderer serving life without parole in an Alabama state penitentiary. It is a story of…
Mural of Brotherhood United States, 3:30 min Director / Writer / Producer / Editor: Eli FénixProducer: Pedro Josué Juárez AtzinCast: Enrique ChiuDrone Pilot: Chris Maisoh Music: Scott Buckley “Mural of Brotherhood” is a short film that showcases the power people have to redefine the space they occupy.
The Seeds of an Uncertain Land United States, 30 min Director / Writer / Producer: Jake PriceWriter: Aris MejíasProducers: Tamara Ramos Crispino, John HernandezCast: Suley Angelica, Ian Pagan-Roig, Gabriel Delgado, Yami Callazo, Ivonna Ariana, Stephanie MonserrateScore: Yaitza Lopez With dirt under their nails, dedication, science and indigenous knowledge young Puerto Rican farmers return to their ancestral lands…
Rahmat Creel Iran, 1:40 min Director / Writer: Behzad AlaziProducer: Souson Salamat Rahmat Bagheri is a retired man that other people called him RAHMAT CREEL… every week he is going near a lake around the ZANJAN city to fish out as other hunters, but his hunt is different with others…
Valle del Silicio (Silicon Valley) United States, 9:10 min Director: James Michael DouglasProducer: Vince WilliamsDirector of Photography: Noah Amedick Silicon Valley follows the story of 12-year-old Wilson Chun who lives on the violent streets of Guatemala’s Zona 13. Wilson’s goal is to become a computer programmer to save his family from poverty. The one of…