Audience Award Winner
2016 Online New England Film Festival | New Hampshire Film Festival | Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Drama | Maine | New Hamsphire | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Signing
A heartwarming, teenage love story about trust and accepting others for exactly who they are. Noah begins to fall in love with his new neighbor Becky, only to find out she has a secret.
2015 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | New Hampshire Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival | Drama | Maine | Massachusetts | New Hamsphire | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Rocketship
Rocketship is a 15-minute family drama in which an unlikely bond is forged between a lonely boy and an elderly man claiming to be a former astronaut. Together, they transform a vintage vacuum cleaner into a rocketship for a surprising journey. The film is inspired by the rocketship sculptures of artist David Random. Rocketship was an Official Selection of the New Hampshire Film Festival (Jury Award for NH Film of the Year), SNOB Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival (Winner, KidsEye Award), Mill Valley Film Festival sponsored by the California Film Institute, LA Shorts Fest, Boston Film Festival, Louisville’s Festival of Films, Northampton International Film Festival, Coney Island Film Festival, Knoxville Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival, where it was named one the CIFF’s 20 “Must See Films” out of 345 films (180 features and 165 shorts) screened over 12 days. The CIFF review said, “It’s magical. It’s epic. The little boy who plays the lead is fantastic.” In June, 2014, Rocketship was featured at the 17th Dances With Films in Los Angeles, one of the film industry’s premier showcases for emerging talent. Starting in February, 2015, Rocketship is being featured inflight on Virgin Airlines worldwide.
2015 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | Woods Hole Film Festival | Documentary | Maine | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Liz
Homeless at 13, Liz Leddy lived a tragic life of despair. Her battle with addictions and raging behavior led to a brutal fight of survival on the streets. Filmed over four years, in Portland, Maine, we follow Liz as she reclaims her life from desperation to a place of love, forgiveness and hope. Her dreams manifest as she becomes a favorite for competition in the 2012 Olympic sport of boxing.
2015 Online New England Film Festival | 2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | New Hampshire Film Festival | Thriller | New Hamsphire | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
The Routine
Capturing the unsettling essence of a Twilight Zone episode and the sci-fi tone of a Ray Bradbury story, this reflective short film casts a bleak look at how technology can backfire at bringing us closer together, unintentionally creating more isolation and loneliness than ever before, sometimes leading to harrowing and tragic results.
2015 Online New England Film Festival | WAM! Boston | Music Video | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
Underwater
Underwater was shot in the waters of Cape Cod in Provincetown, Massachusetts as a collaboration between video artist sam smiley and musician and performer Zoe Lewis. smiley’s cinematography takes the viewer on an underwater tour in and through the water as Zoe performs her music.
Shot completely underwater by sam smiley, it is a mesmerizing and beautiful adaptation of Lewis’s song. It features tidal pools, angry crabs, inquisitive fish, and Zoe, effervescent, with her cardboard ukelele. “Underwater” is a musical selection from Lewis’s latest album, “Rotary Phone”. Rotary Phone celebrates the simpler side of life with 10 great songs full of gypsy and brazillian grooves, a touch of french flair, a little swing and even a taste of India!
For more info about Zoe Lewis, go to http://zoelewis.com. For more info about smiley’s underwater video work, go to http://aquaportrait.com.
2015 Online New England Film Festival | Green Mountain Film Festival | Comedy | Vermont | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Whaddya Gonna Do with All Those Zucchinis?
Sunburned face, scratched up knees; my garden’s choked with zucchinis! Every August, Vermont gardens go viral with gigantic zucchinis. Hidden under enormous leaves, they grow so fast in summer’s heat that they become oversized and tough before gardeners know they’re there. Free zukes can often be found at the ends of people’s driveways. But what if all your neighbors have the same problem? What if nobody wants them? And what if you forget to, say, lock your car? Desperate times call for desperate measures!
2015 Online New England Film Festival | Green Mountain Film Festival | Vermont International Film Festival | Animation | Maine | Vermont | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
11 Paper Place
11 Paper Place is a love story about two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper that magically transform into paper people as they are spit out of a malfunctioning printer into a recycling bin.
2014 Online New England Film Festival | Boston International Film Festival | Drama | Massachusetts | | Audience Award Winner | Jury Award Winner
The Theft
Set against the backdrop of modern day India, The Theft is the story of four people caught in a situation that sets the stage for the induction of innocent young minds into a class and caste based society. Seven-year-old Arjun and his mother Ira have just moved from the US to Mumbai, India. Pandu, is their new servant and shy eight-year-old Bhima is Pandu’s son. One afternoon, a large sum of money goes missing from Ira’s home and they are all thrown into a storm of revelations when Ira accuses Pandu of the theft. Will they find the truth?
2014 Online New England Film Festival | Woods Hole Film Festival | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
The Watershed
For decades, nutrients from human waste have been seeping out of septic systems and into the groundwater. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus now threaten a majority of Cape Cod’s estuaries, endangering critical ecosystems, the shellfish industry, and tourism-reliant economies.
In revealing portraits of the people affected by nutrient pollution, THE WATERSHED brings this mostly-invisible problem into sharp focus. For shellfisherman John Perry, algae has choked out the once-abundant quahog habitat in his backyard estuary, putting his livelihood at risk. Emma Jo Mills is a Wampanoag artist who grew up eating fish from Santuit Pond. Thirty years later, the algae pollution is so bad she no longer can eat the fish and rarely ventures out to kayak.
With input from scientists, aquaculture experts, and local oyster farmers, this short documentary offers the natural filtering capacity of shellfish as a partial solution to the problem. But despite the promises of aquaculture, is it too much to ask Mother Nature to solve the problems of over-development?
2014 Online New England Film Festival | Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival | Music Video | New Hamsphire | Watch Online Now | Audience Award Winner
Denali – “Live Free or Die” Ft. Ron Paul
Revolution is among us all; but will it lead to another world war, or will it be a spiritual revolution of true human intelligence and enlightenment?