2023 Melrose Film Festival

The 2018-2023 Melrose Film Festival “Best of Retrospective” presents a special encore “Best of the Fest” in-person screening at the Melrose Center on Saturday October 7, 2023 from 1-5pm.

As Melrose Film Festival shifted to online screenings in 2020-2022, we’re excited to share award winners from all categories from 2018-2022 on the big LED screen. This includes documentaries, shorts, micro-shorts, music videos, and animation from around the world.

Details:
Date: Saturday, October 7
Time: 1 – 5 pm
Venue: Orlando Public Library, Melrose Center, 101 E. Central Blvd. Second Floor
Admission: FREE
Open to the Public

Program:
1:00pm – 1:20pm Micro Short Films

• How Bubbles Sound, Director - Melina Andrea Dulci
• Lou, Director – Jimmy Condaminas
• “Overthinking It", Director – Chen Sing Yap
• Gladiators, Director - Helher Escribano
• La Androgina - Director - Karla Noriega Pedroza

1:30 – 2:10pm Short Films

• Cuckoo! – Director, Jörgen Scholtens
• All the Time in the World, Director – Riccardo Menicatti & Bruno Ugioli
• “Rude Boys”, Director – Ken Hagen-Takenaka
• Trap Fishing, Director - David Helfer Wells.
• Misappropriation, Director - Ana Maria Ferri

2:15pm – 2:50pm Documentaries

• Tales of the Life Living in the Mangrove Heartlands – Dir, Sayan Sinha Roy
• The Farrier, Director – Moataz Khaled
• “El Chácharero”, Director – Krisstian de Lara
• The Bee Rescuer, Director - Bidit Roy
• The Monarch Initiative – Director, Colin Morris

3:00pm – 3:30pm Animation

• The Truth Within – Directors, Gaby Soto & Juan Rincon
• He, Director – Katarzyna Radecka
• “El Perro de Piedra”, Director – Brennan Brinkley
• Jericho, Director - Sarah Andrews
• Agatha’s Garden, Director - Laura Weimer

3:30pm – 3:50pm Music Videos

• Biplane Model Kit – Director, Tine Kluth
• Dormo Poco e Sogno Molto – Espana Circo Este, Director – Paolo
• “June & The Jones – In My Head” - D-Raphael Dussud Santamaria
• Welder, Director - Roos Mattaar
• Why We Run, Director - Andrew Seaton

4:00pm – 4:30pm Audience Choice

• Daisy – Director, Jennifer East
• A Day on Banana Island, Director – Anton De Bruin
• The Fox & The Pigeon, Director - Michelle Chua, Aileen et al.
• I Make Zoetropes!, Submitted by- Allen Paschel

4:30pm Anatomy of a Film Festival