Documentary Competition Shorts

The Island Payers is a community theater organization that operates out of the oldest theater in Manatee County. Discover The Players’ origin as well as the 150-year history of the building they occupy.

Orandina and Angelina share a unique bond after growing up together in a home for orphaned and impoverished girls on a remote Portuguese island.

On Wednesday mornings at the Bonwood bowling alley in Salt Lake City, Japanese-Americans come together to show how youthful growing old can be.

A group of Tutsi and Hutu women come together to create a coffee co-op and heal from the Rwandan genocide. A STARBUCKS PRODUCTIONS ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY.

This docu-short follows four members of Success Academy’s first college-bound class, highlighting struggles and accomplishments of students brought up in a charter school system.

Three New Yorkers will stop at nothing to get Paul Giamatti his own wax statue at Madame Tussauds.

A young Palestinian horse breeder named Abdel Naser Musleh and his family navigate the difficulties of raising champion Arabian horses in the West Bank—where access to vets and training facilities always seems to be a checkpoint away.

After nearly a decade of conflict, Syrian refugee women have become some of the most vulnerable amid the crisis. Thousands have lost their families and husbands, and now must provide for their children, alone in an unfamiliar country. Hearing firsthand accounts of the refugee crisis in Jordan, we reflect on what it means to be a Syrian woman. We follow their experiences of survival – from displacement, danger, child-marriage, and trauma, to their resilience and hope to rebuild a better future for their children.

An American woman travels deep into to the Amazon jungle discouraged with her marriage & on a quest for adventure, nature and a new sense of belonging. She unexpectedly meets Noe, an amazonian painter who teaches what true belonging really means.

He calls himself Catman. Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. They are inseparable. As he yearns to become a father, he has his beloved Marmelade fertilized by an exclusive tomcat abroad.

Las Vegas Bender is a short-form documentary that follows Las Vegas native and neon artist Leticia Maldonado on her journey from a young girl enamored by the glitzy neon lights of Las Vegas Blvd to her inspired work as a neon bender.

This probing profile reveals how “Vietnam Veterans Against the War” were targeted/infiltrated by their government.

WNBA star Maya Moore pauses her career to advocate for the wrongfully imprisoned Jonathan Iron’s release.

Three friends bond over hot dogs and memories of their once industrial city: Paterson, NJ.

Anne, an artist with CP, annihilates assumptions about disabled individuals’ creativity, sexuality, and capacity for love.

Filmmaker Sophy Romvari processes intimate childhood photos, reflecting on familial losses, personal pains, and joyous memories.