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MergingArts Productions produces cultural events and radio programming related to music and visual arts, reaching out to communities both locally and globally.

Short Short Story Film Festival

The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes.

The Festival is Underway!

The 18th edition of the festival has returned to celebrate brevity in film-making in a new way, starting Monday, 24th November and running through Sunday, 7th December.

Continuing with our approach from last year, this year's festival is a unique online event, with film makers across the globe participating in both exhibiting and reviewing films.

Festival Film Selections

With several hundred submissions from forty countries, it was difficult yet rewarding to select the best of the best.

In total, we accepted eighteen films, from a dozen countries on four continents. Almost all the films are US premieres or World premieres.

Touch here to see a list of festival films.

Two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, showcase films tightly sequenced in under ninety minutes total, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.

The Heartstrings program is a mix of live-action and animation, and this year, for the first time, the Headtrip program is entirely animated films.

Festival Awards

Each program has an award. The films will be reviewed by the participating filmmakers themselves, who vote for their favorites to continue having the filmmakers be part of the festival itself.

There is also an acclaimed, international jury panel of participants continuing our tradition from our Spoiler Alert Radio film program, who will review and select their favorites.

Winners receive commissioned custom art objects created by past festival participants. Scroll down to see some of last year's awards.

Music Charting

World Music

Toni (aka DJ Madame B) is a global music genre director showcasing sounds from around the world. She hosts Pacifica affiliate syndicated and regional world music shows.

She submits MergingArts Global Radio weekly charts to NACC (North American College & Community Chart) and RMR (Roots Music Report).

She is an active panelist of international charting organizations, TWMC (Transglobal World Music Chart)and RWMC (Russian World Music Chart), representing MergingArts.

Touch here to view weekly and monthly world music charts and adds.

Radio Syndication

World Music

Donne del Mondo showcases global music by women, celebrating musical women of the world. Available Saturday afternoons, it is distributed via the Pacifica Radio Network on select affiliates throughout North America.

Transworld Airwaves features a cross-cultural musical journey united in voices and rhythms. As well as syndicating on Pacifica, it broadcasts every other Sunday evening from 7:00 to 8:00 pm (US Eastern time) on WZBC 90.3 FM from Boston College in Newton/Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

You can hear more international sounds every Sunday from 8:00 am to 11:00 am Eastern, by tuning in to World Wide Waves, with rotating hosts. It can be heard on 90.3 FM WRIU, non-commercial radio broadcasting from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI.

Spoiler Alert Radio

Featuring conversations on the craft of filmmaking, Spoiler Alert Radio continues to syndicate weekly on selected Pacifica affiliates.

You can find out more about the show, including syndication information, by touching here, or visit our podcast and archive page by touching here.