March 2024 – SCIENCE & NATURE Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:

Best Short Form Short Film: A CACOPHONY OF SCALES
Best Long Form Short Film: MARION GRUBER: PREPAREDNESS IS PREVENTION,

A CACOPHONY OF SCALES, 6min., USA
Directed by William Thinnes
Music scales, weigh scales, and industrial scales converge to warn of the disasterous effects we are having on butterfly scales.

http://popdoves.com/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

MARION GRUBER: PREPAREDNESS IS PREVENTION, 30min. USA
Directed by Donald Rayne Mitchell
Dr. Marion Gruber is a world-renowned expert in vaccine development, regulation, and licensure. She worked at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for many years, serving as the director of the Office of Vaccines Research & Review (OVRR) from 2012-2021. In this short film, Dr. Gruber and several of her colleagues describe their efforts to ensure that life-saving vaccines were available during some of the most recent and well-known public health emergencies and why preparing for the next infectious disease threat is critical.

https://hillemanfilm.com/marion-gruber

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CRISIS, 6min,. USA
Directed by Patrick Wei
Set against the backdrop of a drought-stricken New York City, this gripping short film delves into the harsh realities faced by its residents as the government imposes a stringent water rationing measure, limiting each individual to just 1 gallon and 3 ounces of water daily. As tensions rise and survival instincts kick in, “Crisis” paints a harrowing picture of the potential consequences of our environmental actions and the lengths to which people might go when faced with the direst of necessities. 1

https://www.instagram.com/Ingenious96

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

BEYOND PROFIT: SEEKING SUSTAINABILITY, 25min., Canada
Directed by Nick Graham Ridley
Two students embark on a journey in search of sustainability in business, exploring questions of profit maximization and corporate social responsibility.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SWAMPS, 1min., Canada
Directed by David Convery
Bello takes a mystery trip through the wood wide web and lands in a swamp – nature’s water treatment plants.

https://futurechicken.com/
https://www.instagram.com/futurechickenofficial/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

THE ART OF PAIRING, 16min., USA
Directed by Jack Mortensen, Brenden Osborn
As a looming fire threatens Oregon wine country, we follow vineyard steward Jason Tosch as he finds purpose in nurturing and protecting the land that has been his home since childhood.

https://www.instagram.com/officialosmo

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

RETURN OF THE MANGROVES, 9min., UK
Directed by Leo Thorn
Return of the Mangroves follows the Mangrove Action Project (MAP) team to El Salvador to assess the health of mangroves in the Bay of Jiquilisco. MAP Co-Founder Alfredo Quarto and Jim Enright return to the bay 12 years after they conducted a mangrove restoration training, and with the help of Dr Laura Michie discover the impact of the training on the local people and the mangroves of the bay.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SINCE THE SPILL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Declan Lighthouse

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, 12min,. USA
Directed by John Concillo
Most likely, a young person today in the U.S. will finish high school and not know of William O. Douglas. For anyone familiar with his legacy, this is insupportable. His ideas and philosophies are fundamental wellsprings for a genuinely democratic society. The thoughts and values expressed by Justice Douglas should be passed on to a new generation and reiterated to all U.S. citizens.

http://williamodouglas.org/https://www.twitter.com/WODouglasfilm

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

A POSTCARD FROM ANTARCTICA, 3min., USA
Directed by Saam Gabbay
A chance scout on a zodiac opens the door to mystery and majesty as Antarctica reveals its many gifts.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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