Awesome in Action





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…


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.
Unspeakable BLM United States, 10min 30sec Director / Writer / Producer: Emmai AlaquivaProducers: Ya Momz House, Cydney Cooper, Amy Crawford, Danielle Filip, Greg Pollock “Unspeakable”, a :60 second PSA highlighting the voices of the Deaf community and their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Created by Emmy Award Winning Film Director Emmai Alaquiva. After a…

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…