2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 13, 2023

The Wolf Music Video

Stacy’s casual dinner party takes a dark turn as she is thrown headfirst into a PTSD episode, navigating the night trigger by trigger.

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The Mud on Their Hands

Tyronne Edwards is a pastor and a 5th generation resident in a small, southern Louisiana town. His ancestors fought for the right for his family to live in the town of Phoenix, so when Katrina devastated the community, it became Tyronne’s mission to rebuild. But building houses and churches was just half the battle. After […]

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This Wild Abyss

*WRITER/PRODUCER IN ATTENDANCE* A former cowboy turned janitor with an eighth-grade education, Milt Humason forms an unlikely friendship with astronomer Edwin Hubble and assists him at Mt. Wilson Observatory, a partnership that leads to their discovery that the universe is expanding.

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The Bad Trip Home

Elliot’s plan was simple: take an edible, get some snacks, and get home before the drugs kick in. However, when his car breaks down leaving him stranded, Elliot must navigate his way home before he is too high to function. Will Elliot find his way home safely? Or will he break his brain and be […]

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Spiritual Warfare

*FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE* This Cinematic poetry project walks through an emotional journey. First the subject explores her anger. Then she decides to face her internal conflicts. She ends with resilience, as she learns to face her fears.

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Unfinished Business

A surreal and lyrical reflection on a past relationship.

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The Voice in Isabel Fleiss’s Office

A woman with an unusual malady–cobweb buildup in the throat–receives an even more unusual treatment in this adaptation of a surreal poem by North Carolina writer Virgil Renfroe.

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Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo and Juliet?, a tragicomic melodrama, presents the personal stories of its actors on the background of the inception of a modern retro-noir adaptation of a classical work. Individual images composed of separate footage, which precedes the shooting of the film itself, use the detailed view of the actors’ performance to shatter the illusion of […]

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Kumina Queen

Imogene “Queenie” Kennedy was a contemporary priestess in post-colonial Jamaica who catapulted her African spiritual practice into renown. But after centuries of erasure, what remains of the dance between the living and the dead? In the wake of the loss of her mother, the filmmaker travels into the heart of the Jamaican countryside to research […]

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Jesse Northey – Picking The Numbers

Official music video for “Picking the Numbers” by Toronto-based artist, Jesse Northey. Shot on Super 8 film by Laura La France in Las Vegas, Nevada.