2026 REELPOETRY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Check out the 2026 Festival Program! 

2026 Festival Program

SEPTEMBER 18-25

9/18 Friday - Reception At Moxy, Downtown Houston, 412 Main St.
9/19-20 Sat & Sun - Live: Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston
9/21-25 On-line only

NOTE: All times are given in Central Standard Time (CST)

Saturday, September 19

AFTERNOON PROGRAM - Part 1

(doors at 1:00 PM- ends 5:00 PM)

Welcome words from the founder and director Fran Sanders!

1:30PM | Welcome

  • "When A Black Woman From 5th Ward Dials 911" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Weldon Armelin | Poet: Marie Brown | Runtime: 3m 32s

“When a Black Woman from 5th Ward Dials 911”; addressing the Cancer-causing dioxin residue affecting Houston’s 5th Ward Neighborhood and other poems

1:45PM | Marie Brown : Spoken Word

Readings by Ukrainian children; Poems Not Bombs outreach in collaboration with Red NovaJazz Ensemble.

2:00PM | Jazz Music of Victory

  • "The Bilge Struck" (Australia)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Ian Gibbins | Runtime: 4m 23s
  • "God's Hurler" (Ireland)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Colm Scully | Runtime: 2m 23s
  • "What Breaks First" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Matt Mullins | Poet: Jynna Dillins | Runtime: 3m
  • "I am not ( ) enough" (USA)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Matt Mullins | Runtime: 2m 23s
  • "Mothen Misterie" (UK)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Sarah Tremlett | Runtime: 3m
  • "Blood Hearts" (Scotland)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Steve Smart | Runtime: 8m 56s
  • "Comma of Didymus" (UK)
    Filmmaker: Janet Lees | Poet: Michael Martin | Runtime: 2m 56s
  • "Utility Pole" (Canada)
    Filmmaker: Mary McDonald | Poet: Fiona Tin Wei Lan | Runtime: 2m 56s

International poetry films  and videos from some of the most exciting creatives today featured at REELpoetry; curated by Lucy English

2:15PM | Video Jukebox

  • "Joseph Merrick" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Matt Mullins | Poet: Chris Wise | Runtime: 13m

A crown of sonnets on the life of Joseph Merrick, known as The Elephant Man by Houston poet, Chris Wise, together with filmmaker, Matt Mullins

3:00PM | Joseph Merrick

  • "Free Words: A Poet from Gaza" (Turkey)
    Filmmaker: Adbullah Harun Ilhan | Poet: Mosab Abu Toha | Runtime: 15m
  • "They Promised Us a Future" (Mexico)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Laura R. Tolentio | Runtime: 9m 16s
  • "Find a Way to Meet Each Other" (Greece)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Tasos Sagris | Runtime: 7m 54s
  • "Primordial" (Greece)
    Filmmaker: Yiorgos Zorbas & Nana Papadaki | Poet: Nana Papadaki | Runtime: 12m 34s
  • "Whiteweight" (Iceland)
    Filmmaker: Alkstis Kafetzi | Poet: Hlín Leifsdóttir | Runtime: 4m 45s

International Poetry Films from Greece, Iceland, Mexico and Turkey curated by Sissy Doutsiou about the need for space-time to overcome obstacles and historical traumas.

4:00PM | Paradise Now

EVENING PROGRAM - Part 2

(doors at 6:30 PM-ends 9:30 PM)

A selection of poems that resonate with the times America as a nation is experiencing.

7:00PM | Marie Brown Spoken Word

7:15PM | Sissy Doutsiou - Performance

  • "The Road Not Taken" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: Robert Frost | Runtime: 2m 59s
  • "mor säger att det är ett minne /mother says that it's a memory" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: Eva Ström | Runtime: 3m 04s
  • "How to Listen" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: Dave Bonta | Runtime: 2m 28s
  • "Halloween" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: Hugo Claus | Runtime: 2m 06s
  • "Five Miles (poem: Simple Brushstrokes on a Naked Canvas)" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: Howie Good | Runtime: 5m 27s
  • "Faites vos Jeux" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: Marleen de Crée | Runtime: 3m 06s
  • "Everything but the Sky (2 poems: No Code /I am Walking Beside Me)" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: David Tomaloff / Meg Tuite | Runtime: 5m 33s
  • "Drift (poem: For two NATO soldiers who drowned in an attempt to recover supplies from a river in the province of Badghis, Western Afghanistan, November, 2009)" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Poet: Paul Perry | Runtime: 3m 49s
  • "Cirkel / Circle (11 poems by 11 poets)" (Belgium)
    Filmmaker: Swoon aka Marc Neys | Runtime: 20m 33s

International Poetry Films (Belgium) Fast, cheap, fiercely independent videopoems created with relentless creative momentum from Marc Neys (aka Swoon)

7:15PM | Cheap and Fast: A Swoon Retrospective

  • "Introduction" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: n/a | Runtime: 2m 30s
  • "Poem Where the Violence Occurs Backstage (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Octavio Quintanilla | Runtime: 1m
  • "Poem Where the Violence Occurs Backstage (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Octavio Quintanilla | Runtime: 1m 23s
  • "Where There Is No Else (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Jane Creighton | Runtime: 1m
  • "Where There Is No Else (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Jane Creighton | Runtime: 2m 41s
  • "Boxes with Zero Content Sonnet 14 & Postscript Newsreel (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Emmy Pèrez | Runtime: 1m 30s
  • "Boxes with Zero Content Sonnet 14 & Postscript Newsreel (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Emmy Pèrez | Runtime: 3m 39s
  • "A Dam Is a Form of Failed Diplomacy (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Aliah Lavonne Tigh | Runtime: 1m
  • "A Dam Is a Form of Failed Diplomacy (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Aliah Lavonne Tigh | Runtime: 2m 5s
  • "Q & A with the Poets (recorded)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Quintanilla, Pèrez, Tigh, Creighton | Runtime: 15m
  • "Live discussion" (USA)
    Runtime: 25m

Poets Jane Creighton, Aliah Lavonne Tigh and Texas Poets Laureate Emmy Pérez and Octavio Quintanilla plus Q&A hosted by series filmmakers Jack Cochran & Pam Falkenberg

8:30PM | Made in Texas

Sunday, September 20

EARLY PROGRAM

(doors at 9:15 AM*-ends at 11:30 AM)

Sabina England and Heba Toulan showcase short videos (poetry, experimental, music) and live performances and presentations by deaf and hard-of-hearing creative people. All videos in ASL will have subtitles.

10:00AM– 11:30AM | ASL Poetry and Deaf Creativity (Interpreted in English)

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

(doors at 12:30 PM-ends 5:00 PM)

  • "Introduction" (Colombia)
    Filmmaker: Charles Olsen | Runtime: 5m
  • "Leer en la gotas de lluvia | Read in Raindrops" (Spain)
    Filmmaker: Charles Olsen and Lilián Pallares | Poet: Xisca Minart | Runtime: 10m 20s
  • "Espantamoscas | Shoo-flies" (Spain)
    Filmmaker: Charles Olsen and Lilián Pallares | Poet: Julio Alcalá | Runtime: 2m 50s
  • "Venus, Don't You Laugh at Me" (USA / Aotearoa New Zealand)
    Filmmaker: Cindy Stockton Moore | Poet: Sadie Yetton | Runtime: 1m 42s
  • "Mantis Religiosa | Praying Mantis" (Spain)
    Filmmaker: Charles Olsen and Lilián Pallares | Poet: Gabriel Merino | Runtime: 6m 37s
  • "El mar en calma | The Calm Sea" (Spain)
    Filmmaker: Charles Olsen and Lilián Pallares | Poet: Mia Gill | Runtime: 2m 36s
  • "Noho Mai | Sit Here" (Spain / Aotearoa New Zealand)
    Filmmaker: Peta-Maria Tunui, Waitahi Aniwaniwa McGee, Shania Bailey-Edmonds, Jesse-Ana | Poet: Peta-Maria Tunuil | Runtime: 5m 33s
  • "Acromegalia | Acromegaly" (Spain)
    Filmmaker: Charles Olsen and Lilián Pallares | Poet: Lara López | Runtime: 2m 45s
  • "Phantasmagoria, a sequence of dreams" (Aotearoa New Zealand)
    Filmmaker: Malcolm Doidge | Poet: Miranda Yuan | Runtime: 1m 39s
  • "Casas errantes | Wandering Houses" (Portugal / Spain)
    Filmmaker: Charles Olsen and Lilián Pallares | Poet: Lilián Pallares, Lauren Mendinueta | Runtime: 9m 30s

International Poetry Films by Charles Olsen and Lilian Pallares based around poetry competitions held in Spain and New Zealand

1:00PM | Palabras Prestadas | Given Words

International Poetry Films (Netherlands) Mother and son, Monique van Kerkhof and Bo Oudendijk, showing poetry and performances made in Holland and Japan.

2:00PM | Roads Connected

2:40PM-3:15PM | Break

  • "If You Knew Better"
    Howard McAfee | Runtime: 5m 59m
  • "Let The Screams Be Seen"
    Koomah | Runtime: 6m
  • "Field of Vision"
    Laurie Clements Lambeth | Runtime: 1m 32s
  • "Have you reckon'd the earth much?"
    Federico Bocanegra Monsalve | Runtime: 3m 53s
  • "INSTANTANEAS"
    Fabián Castro | Runtime: 2m 15s
  • "Play"
    Emmanuel Zapata Jr. | Runtime: 2m 17s
  • "A starchy Kind of Love"
    Margo Stutts Toomb | Runtime: 1m 47s
  • "Suspicious Minds At Half Time"
    T.Lavois Theobaud | Runtime: 1m 21s
  • "Wind"
    Yujin Huang | Runtime: 1m 28s
  • "Friday"
    Jacob Spooner | Runtime: 5m 48s

A Houston area poets and filmmakers showcase with poets reading their work, screenings and conversation with Alex V

3:15PM | Greetings From Greater Houston

  • "Marinating"
    Helmie Stil, Sjaan Flikweert | Runtime: 4m 17m
  • "A Tree Fell in the Woods"
    Rylee Hensen | Runtime: 3m 20m
  • "Value"
    Sidney Mallari | Runtime: 2m 26m
  • "Let The screams Be Seen"
    Koomah | Runtime: 6m 00m
  • "Black & White"
    Kovsar Gurban | Runtime: 1m 20m
  • "The Limits of Man"
    John Scott | Runtime: 2m 44m
  • "Who Owns Fire"
    Peter Whittenberger | Runtime: 2m 40m
  • "The Climate Change"
    Hugo Sindelar | Runtime: 4m 53m
  • "I only Spoke to see The Tree"
    Peter Wells | Runtime: 2m 40m
  • "Chamber Music XXXIV"
    Matthew Thompson | Runtime: 3m 05m
  • "Illusory Depths"
    Jane Glennie | Runtime: 3m 13m
  • "Late November"
    Alexander Flenniken | Runtime: 1m 38m
  • "Crossing Paths"
    Rebecca Goldsmith | Runtime: 4m 37m
  • "The Idealist"
    Adam Stone | Runtime: 1m 38m
  • "I Know Somebody"
    Ishvar Krishnan | Runtime: 2m 56m
  • "Eclipse"
    Johanna Latimore | Runtime: 1m 23m
  • "I Was Here"
    Martin Gerigk & Johanna Lattimore | Runtime: 5m 00m
  • "Nostalgia Is"
    Neelan Shah | Runtime: 1m 39m
  • "Peace"
    Fatima Chbibane | Runtime: 5m 00m
  • "Challenge"
    Fimmakers: Angie Contini, Penelope Daw, Joan Gillison | Poet: Rickety Kate (Minnie Agnes Filson) | Runtime: 3m 20m
  • "Bird on A Wire"
    Greg Roensch | Runtime: 3m 39s

Screenings and conversations with participating local, national and international winners with Alex V

4:00PM | Best of the Fest

Online Programs | September 21-25

(repeated twice each day for time zones)

Monday

  • "The Bilge Struck" (Australia)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Ian Gibbins | Runtime: 4m 23s
  • "God's Hurler" (Ireland)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Colm Scully | Runtime: 2m 23s
  • "What Breaks First" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Matt Mullins | Poet: Jynna Dillins | Runtime: 3m
  • "I am not ( ) enough" (USA)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Matt Mullins | Runtime: 2m 23s
  • "Mothen Misterie" (UK)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Sarah Tremlett | Runtime: 3m
  • "Blood Hearts" (Scotland)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Steve Smart | Runtime: 8m 56s
  • "Comma of Didymus" (UK)
    Filmmaker: Janet Lees | Poet: Michael Martin | Runtime: 2m 56s
  • "Utility Pole" (Canada)
    Filmmaker: Mary McDonald | Poet: Fiona Tin Wei Lan | Runtime: 2m 56s

International poetry films and videos created by prior REELpoetry curators and presenters, introduced by Lucy English

12PM & 7:00PM | Video Jukebox

  • "Suspicious Minds At Half Speed In Your Kitchen"
    Filmmaker & Poet: T Lavois Thiebaud | 1m 21s
  • "A Starchy Kind of Love"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Margo Stutts Toombs | 1m 46s
  • "10 Toes Down"
    Filmmaker: Jean Coleman | Poet: Sin à Tes Souhaits | 1m 10s
  • "Young Carer"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Shelley Tracey | 1m 17s
  • "Value"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Sidney Mallari | 2m 26s
  • "When The Rain Stopped - Immersive Version"
    Fiilmmaker & Poet: Meghan Ally Colovos | 2m 58s
  • "Leonard Cohen in the Eating Disorder Ward"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Lucas Crawford | 5m 00s
  • "Eclipse"
    Filmmaker: Johanna Lattimore | 1m 23s
  • "Saturday Night Blues"
    Filmmaker: Jean Coleman | Poet: Brontez Purnell | 2m 40s
  • "Still here"
    Filmmaker: Amaju | 3m 30s
  • "Challenge"
    Filmmakers: Angie Contini, Penelope Daw, Joan Gillison | Poet: Minnie Agnes Filson (a.k.a. Rickety Kate) | 3m 20s
  • "A Visual Meditation on Natural Gestures 2"
    Filmmaker: Willy Conley | 4m 56s
  • "Marinating"
    Filmmakers: Helmie Stil, Sjaan Flikweert | Poet: Sjaan Flikweert | 4m 17s
  • "Progress"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Ruiz Arellanes | 5m 24s
  • "The Ones Who Still Ask"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Anne Rosalind Blankson-Hemans | 1m 40s
  • "There are more people alive today"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Barry Hollow | 2m 20s

Open Call submissions curated by an international panel of five judges from England, Germany, Scotland and USA

1:00PM & 8:00PM | Juried Selections (1 of 5)

A 90 minute informal live zoom in real time to talk about the films screened this day, with the audience, poets, filmmakers and judges, hosted by Festival Director, Fran Sanders.

1:30PM & 8:30PM | REELcafé

Tuesday

Readings by Ukrainian children; Poems Not Bombs outreach in collaboration with Red NovaJazz Ensemble.

12PM & 7PM | Jazz Music of Victory

  • "Asylum Seeker"
    Muhsine Arda | Runtime: 2m 43s
  • "Peace"
    Fatima Chbibane Bennacar | Runtime: 5m 07s
  • "Epitaph"
    Hasan Erkek | Runtime: 2m 41s
  • "Jeanne of the Angels"
    Irene Santori | Runtime: 10m 35s
  • "The Planetariat"
    Francis Combes | Runtime: 2m 48s

Five poetry films from Turkey created and curated by Tuğçe and Hugo Dervisoglou (Whirling Dervish Films)

12:15PM & 7:15PM | Turkish Films

  • "Nostalgia is..."
    Filmmaker & Poet: Neelan Shah | 1m 39s
  • "Chamber Music XXXIV"
    Filmmaker: Matthew Thompson | Poet: James Joyce | 3m 05s
  • "The Offering"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Beto Garza | 2m 20s
  • "1837: Cold Magic"
    Filmmaker: Cabral Zimele-Keita | Poet: M. Nzadi Keita | 1m 39s
  • "Illusory Depth"
    Filmmaker: Jane Glennie | Poet: Toby Martinez de las Rivas | 3m 13s
  • "A SILENT ROW"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Carles Pàmies | 3m 32s
  • "Late November"
    Filmmaker: Alexander Flenniken | Poet: Kathleen Flenniken | 1m 38s
  • "A Blackbird Named Sunny"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Rebekah Rodriguez | 4m 00s
  • "Friday"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Jacob Spooner | 5m 48s
  • "An apartment like mine but with other people"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Juan Nasra | 5m 20s
  • "Crossing Paths"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Rebecca Goldsmith | 4m 37s

Open Call submissions curated by an international panel of five judges from England, Germany, Scotland and USA

1:00PM & 8:00PM | Juried Selections (2 of 5)

A 90 minute informal live zoom in real time to talk about the films screened this day, with the audience, poets, filmmakers and judges, hosted by Festival Director, Fran Sanders.

2:00PM & 9:00PM | REELcafé

Wednesday

  • "If You Knew Better"
    Howard McAfee | Runtime: 5m 59m
  • "Let The Screams Be Seen"
    Koomah | Runtime: 6m
  • "Field of Vision"
    Laurie Clements Lambeth | Runtime: 1m 32s
  • "Have you reckon'd the earth much?"
    Federico Bocanegra Monsalve | Runtime: 3m 53s
  • "INSTANTANEAS"
    Fabián Castro | Runtime: 2m 15s
  • "Play"
    Emmanuel Zapata Jr. | Runtime: 2m 17s
  • "A starchy Kind of Love"
    Margo Stutts Toomb | Runtime: 1m 47s
  • "Suspicious Minds At Half Time"
    T.Lavois Theobaud | Runtime: 1m 21s
  • "Wind"
    Yujin Huang | Runtime: 1m 28s
  • "Friday"
    Jacob Spooner | Runtime: 5m 48s
  • "Introduction" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: n/a | Runtime: 2m 30s
  • "Poem Where the Violence Occurs Backstage (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Octavio Quintanilla | Runtime: 1m
  • "Poem Where the Violence Occurs Backstage (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Octavio Quintanilla | Runtime: 1m 23s
  • "Where There Is No Else (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Jane Creighton | Runtime: 1m
  • "Where There Is No Else (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Jane Creighton | Runtime: 2m 41s
  • "Boxes with Zero Content Sonnet 14 & Postscript Newsreel (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Emmy Pèrez | Runtime: 1m 30s
  • "Boxes with Zero Content Sonnet 14 & Postscript Newsreel (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Emmy Pèrez | Runtime: 3m 39s
  • "A Dam Is a Form of Failed Diplomacy (recorded spoken poem)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Aliah Lavonne Tigh | Runtime: 1m
  • "A Dam Is a Form of Failed Diplomacy (film)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Aliah Lavonne Tigh | Runtime: 2m 5s
  • "Q & A with the Poets (recorded)" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Cochran/Falkenberg | Poet: Quintanilla, Pèrez, Tigh, Creighton | Runtime: 15m
  • "Live discussion" (USA)
    Runtime: 25m

Screening the films shown in Greetings From Greater Houston & Made In Texas without the readings and discussions

12PM & 7:00PM | Texas Roundup

  • "Gros Topos"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Anne Ciecko | 1m 00s
  • "风 - Wind"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Yijun Huang | 1m 28s
  • "The Hebridean Crab Apple"
    Filmmaker: Savannah Acquah | Poet: Marjorie Lotfi | 2m 36s
  • "I Never Thought of Phoenixes"
    Filmmaker: Courtney Taniguchi | Poet: Yan Sham-Shackleton | 2m 00s
  • "Who Owns Fire?"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Peter Whittenberger | 2m 40s
  • "Field of Vision"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Laurie Clements Lambeth | 1m 32s
  • "Ars Animalis for Troubled Times"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Anne Ciecko | 3m 44s
  • "Bird on a Wire"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Greg Roensch | 3m 59s
  • "SWINGS"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Madara Gruntmane | 3m 33s
  • "Have you reckon'd the earth much?"
    Filmmakers: Federico Bocanegra Monsalve, Kacey Perez-Foss | 3m 53s
  • "The Climate Change Volumes: Fall"
    Filmmaker: Hugo Sindela | Poet: Travis Truax | 4m 53s
  • "I only spoke to see the tree"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Helen Wells | 3m 39s

Open Call submissions curated by an international panel of five judges from England, Germany, Scotland and USA

1:00PM & 8:00PM | Juried Selections (3 of 5)

A 90 minute informal live zoom in real time to talk about the films screened this day, with the audience, poets, filmmakers and judges, hosted by Festival Director, Fran Sanders.

2:00PM & 9:00PM | REELcafe | REELcafé

Thursday

  • "Marinating"
    Helmie Stil, Sjaan Flikweert | Runtime: 4m 17m
  • "A Tree Fell in the Woods"
    Rylee Hensen | Runtime: 3m 20m
  • "Value"
    Sidney Mallari | Runtime: 2m 26m
  • "Let The screams Be Seen"
    Koomah | Runtime: 6m 00m
  • "Black & White"
    Kovsar Gurban | Runtime: 1m 20m
  • "The Limits of Man"
    John Scott | Runtime: 2m 44m
  • "Who Owns Fire"
    Peter Wittenberg | Runtime: 2m 40m
  • "The Climate Change"
    Hugo Sindelar | Runtime: 4m 53m
  • "I only Spoke to see The Tree"
    Peter Wells | Runtime: 2m 40m
  • "Chamber Music XXXIV"
    Matthew Thompson | Runtime: 3m 05m
  • "Illusory Depths"
    Jane Glennie | Runtime: 3m 13m
  • "Late November"
    Alexander Flenniken | Runtime: 1m 38m
  • "Crossing Paths"
    Rebecca Goldsmith | Runtime: 4m 37m
  • "The Idealist"
    Adam Stone | Runtime: 1m 38m
  • "I Know Somebody"
    Ishvar Krishnan | Runtime: 2m 56m
  • "Eclipse"
    Johanna Latimore | Runtime: 1m 23m
  • "I Was Here"
    Martin Gerigk & Johanna Lattimore | Runtime: 5m 00m
  • "Nostalgia Is"
    Neelan Shah | Runtime: 1m 39m
  • "Peace"
    Fatima Chbibane | Runtime: 5m 00m

12PM & 7:00PM | Best of the Fest

  • "Black & White"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Kovsar Gurban | 1m 20s
  • "American Cheese (1994)"
    Filmmaker: Jean Coleman | Poet: Kate Durbin | 4m 13s
  • "The Limits of Math"
    Filmmaker & Poet: John D. Scott | 2m 44s
  • "I'm Goin' the Other Way"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Marco Espirito Santo | 3m 18s
  • "CumLaude"
    Filmmaker: Julian Ellenzweig McGill | 3m 37s
  • "The Idealist"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Adam E. Stone | 2m 38s
  • "Mother of Exiles"
    Filmmaker: Owen Patrick Logan | Poet: Emma Lazarus | 3m 55s
  • "If You Knew Better"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Howard Lawrence McAfee | 5m 59s
  • "Let The Screams Be Seen"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Koomah | 6m 00s
  • "I know someone"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Ishvar Krishnan | 2m 56s

1:00PM & 8:00PM | Juried Selections (4 of 5)

Open Call submissions curated by an international panel of five judges from England, Germany, Scotland and USA

A 90 minute informal live zoom in real time to talk about the films screened this day, with the audience, poets, filmmakers and judges, hosted by Festival Director, Fran Sanders.

2:00PM & 9:00PM | REELcafé

Friday

  • Introduction to Matwaala Poetry Films (USA)
    Filmmaker: Kashiana Singh and Pramila Venkateswaran | Runtime: 15m
  • "From the Afterlife" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Haoshu Sascha Deng | Poet: Kirun Kapur | Runtime: 2m 54s
  • "Ghazal for the Diaspora" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Felipe-Barkin | Poet: Faisal Mohyuddin | Runtime: 2m 40s
  • "Clubs, my Sinful Dance Muse" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Anita Nahal and Deepti Pradhan | Poet: Anita Nahal | Runtime: 3m 30s
  • "Mandalas: Portals of Earth and Ether" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Nirmal Raja | Poet: Usha Akella | Runtime: 2m 14s
  • "Live from the Bathtub" (USA)
    Filmmaker & Poet: Kiran Bath | Runtime: 1m 51s
  • "Gunpowder Tea" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Mike Kelly | Poet: Shadab Zeest Hashmi | Runtime: 2m 43s
  • "Partition" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Faroukh Virani | Poet: Sehba Sarwar | Runtime: 4m
  • "Limbed" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Anjali Pulim | Poet: Ravi Shankar | Runtime: 1m 34s
  • "Satyagraha" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Chip Williford | Poet: Pramila Venkateswaran | Runtime: 2m 07s
  • "Love Poem for America" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Sharanya Bannerjee | Poet: Lopamudra Bannerjee | Runtime: 4m 02s
  • "Hands" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Ger Killeen | Poet: Sophia Naz | Runtime: 2m 31s
  • "Seed or Tree" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Ravi Akella | Poet: Usha Akella | Runtime: 1m 27s
  • "In a World Without Time" (USA)
    Filmmaker: Nazia Parvez | Poet: Nazia Parvez | Runtime: 52s

12PM & 7:00PM | Maatwala South Asian Poetry Collective

A selection of poetry videos curated by Usha Akala, Pramila Venckateswaran and Kashiana Singh

  • "Wondermiss"
    Filmmaker: Ružica Nikolić | 1m 08s
  • "FAST SLOOOOOW"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Helen Wells | 1m 07s
  • "Dublin Dust"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Polina Cosgrave | 1m 34s
  • "INSTANTANEAS"
    Filmmaker: Fabian Castro | 2m 15s
  • "Play"
    Filmmaker: Emmanuel Zapata Jr. | 2m 17s
  • "Ingestion"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Vanessa Zimmer-Powell | 2m 15s
  • "Ready For De Road"
    Filmmakers & Poets: Johann Cornielle, Jherelle Benn | 3m 27s
  • "Mirrors"
    Filmmaker & Poet: David Dephy | 1m 41s
  • "The Countess Of The Wheel"
    Filmmaker: Noel Brady | 4m 05s
  • "Kaprekar's Constant"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Aaron Garcia | 4m 20s
  • "A tree fell in the woods."
    Filmmaker: Rylee Henson | 3m 20s
  • "the morning godless"
    Filmmaker & Poet: Patrick Moser | 2m 55s
  • "I was here"
    Filmmaker: José Crúzio, Martin Gerigk | Poet: D. H. Lawrence | 5m 00s

1:00PM & 8:00PM | Juried Selections Part (5 of 5)

Open Call submissions curated by an international panel of five judges from England, Germany, Scotland and USA

A 90 minute informal live zoom in real time to talk about the films screened this day, with the audience, poets, filmmakers and judges, hosted by Festival Director, Fran Sanders.

2:00PM & 9:00PM | REELcafé

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