Winner Profile: Richard Recco

Italy’s Emanuel Exitu, director of “GREATER – Defeating Aids” talked to us after picking up the Documentary Award from Spike Lee.

Promoting young talent is what the Babelgum Online Film Festival is about. “That’s what young artists need more than anything else”. Take Spike’s word!

We talked to Andrea Lodovichetti (Italy) about what the Babelgum Online Film Festival meant to him – his short film “Sotto il mio giardino (Under my garden)” won the Looking for Genius Award.

The Worlds Shortest Film Festival – Part 1: Dramas, thrillers, comedies, love stories. 40 short films - in under 15 minutes. Enjoy!

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Winner of the Short Film Award. Once a practicing catholic, Vincent has become a vigilante cop in the NYPD who robs and kills drug dealers. When his son is almost killed in a hit and run, Vincent sets out to find the one responsible. As clues bring him closer to his mark, Vincent's tortured past comes back to haunt him and what should be nothing more than a routine dose of street justice, might not be quite that simple.

Tommy, an unhappy seven year old boy, becomes obsessed with the moths that flitter around the street lamp outside his bedroom window. Their ‘magic dust’ sparkles with the promise of flight and Tommy sees this as the only way to escape the conflict around and within him.

With the internet and with film festivals like the Babelgum Online Film Festival, young people can get their work seen”.

A documentary on the 15th Raindance Film Festival by award winning director Jonathan Caouette.