100 Films Retreat #6 was held Saturday, August 17, 2024

for the first time ever outside of Rancho Cucamonga, California USA.

Below is a video report of that filmmaker gathering.

Films screening in competition during 100 Films Retreat #6 were: Constantine Balabanidis' Nikolai Nikolayev 1973 from Greece, Brian Sherman Ekoh's Catch It Up from the United Kingdom and I-Jien Jane Kou's Soul from Arcadia, California USA (pictured with Founding Curator Phillip E. Walker in the above video's thumbnail)

NON-SCREENING 100 #6 SELECTED FILMS

AZERBAIJAN Army Men Majid Farzolahi

CANADA Miss You Mom Steve Sugarman

CHINA Who Care? 思语 高

HONG KONG Crushing Maya Barreto & Ema Poposka

INDIA In Your Language: Sustainable Future Ram Gayathri Krishna

POLAND Inner Cat Julia Parfieńczyk

USA Shepards Haoyun Zhang

Pictured above on the 100 #6 Red Carpet and Hapless Revenge's Aurene M. Harris, Maree Klér and ___________.

NON-SCREENING PREVIOUSLY SELECTED FILMS

ALGERIA's Just A Show Mustapha Benghernaout

ANTARCTICA's The Perfect Shot Quinn Halleck

ARGENTINA's Ruinae Marcelo Cugliari

BAHRAIN's In My Shoes Loay Tattan

BANGADESH's Happy Anniversary Pronab Nath

BELGIUM's 1813 Mateo Fromont

BRAZIL's The Invisible Guga Lemes

CANADA's Mr. Vaxt's Venture Nina Berionni

COLUMBIA’s Earth Man Manuel Jose Martinez Arcos

THE CZECH REPUBLIC's Fantastic Adventure of Lint from Bellybutton Gabriela Cizkova

EGYPT's The Happy Farm Ghadir Fahim Eid

ECUADOR's The Kid Who Played in the Corn Fields Grupo Combo Stands {10:00}

GHANA's Coming Home to Ghana Hope Denise Williams

INDONESIA's Loma Della Ayu Kartika

IRELAND's Never Alone Christian Gerring

ISRAEL Unconsensual Ido Fruchter

KAZAKHSTAN's Knowledge Шерхан Жиенкул

KENYA's Mercy Zippy Kimundu

KOSOVO's Eternally Child Lorena Sopi

KYRGYZSTAN's Traces on the Wall Asel Abakirova

LITHUANIA’s Rescue Ivan Shalaev

MADAGASCAR's Blue Dance Elya Randrianaivo

MALAWI's Crimes Against Children Dr. Lisa Spencer

MEXICO's Causes Ed Vela {12:05}

MOROCCO's Scenes from Salé Imrane Rahani

THE NETHERLANDS's Words Like Violence Arjan Gebraad

NEW ZEALAND's The Choices We Make Joachim E.H. Lang

NIGERIA's Haven Deborah Victor-Okhai

PERU's Mamapara - Mother Rain Alberto Flores Vilca

THE PHILLIPPINES' Stray Salaysay Originals

RWANDA's Dark Falls Nsabimana Eleazar

SOUTH AFRICA's The Last Night of Lockdown Lukas Potgieter

SYRIA ARAB REPUBLIC's Fish Dance Rama Abdi

TANZANIA's Ukungu Johannes Horak

TURKEY's Black / White and "Other Colours" Doğa Yılmaz

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES' ReMember Better (Shanghao) Hao

UKRAINE's Choice 2023 Andrii Vasylovych Komakha 

VENEZUELA's The Light Bulb German L Ramos Briñez

100 #6 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE

 6:00-8:00pm SATURDAY AUGUST 17, 2024

Futuristic Oasis @ Bella Strada in Fontana, California 92336 USA

OUTDOOR RED CARPET FILMMAKER ARRIVALS

IRAN'S Hapless Revenge followed by a Juneteenth Holiday Discussion

COMMERCIALS RECEPTION

WineGameMovie.com & EJ Gallo Wine's Clos du Bois Live A Little

plus 100 #6 Production's COMMERCIALS

SHORT FILM SCREENINGS

USA's SWEETEST VACATION

USA's ON THE ROCKS

UK's CATCH IT UP

Greece's NIKOLAI NIKOLAYEV 1973

USA's SOUL

INDOOR RED CARPET PHOTOS

AWARDS

Phillip E Walker Acting Retrospective Series

USA Outside of Competition Productions Screened During 100 Films Retreat #6

Kicking-off 100 #6 was the Southern California Debut of the Original Juneteenth Tale Hapless Revenge. With is Screenplay written by Iranian Sasan Golfar, that screening was followed by the 3rd ever Juneteenth Holiday Discussion. Also as a part of PEWARS, the 41st John Michael Elfers memorial screening of Sweetest Vacation appeared that evening, along with the 2023 Rancho Cucamonga 48 Hour Film Project's On The Rocks horror micro short film. Furthermore, the above mentioned WineGame plus Live A Little commercials rounded out this quarter's PEWARS offerings.

OSCAR NOMINATION QUALIFYING RUNS

2024 Academy Award® Nomination Qualifying Standard Theatrical Runs in Beverly Hills, California USA are available for your film's Registration until September 6th at https://filmfreeway.com/FilmsRetreat

Now Independent Movie Debase (IMDB.com) qualified,100 Films Retreat is currently listing therein, awardees from its first year. Going forward will be listed future 1st thru 3rd place winners of the May 2024 Retreat and beyond, if said winning productions have an IMDb page.

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