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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.

Women ... Animation ... Womanimation!

Womanimation!

Womanimation! is a festival showcasing acclaimed animated short film stories created by women from around the world.

The thirteenth edition of Womanimation! takes place on Saturday 8th July at Greenwood Features in Bethel, CT, USA.

Festival Submissions Ending Soon!

Time is running out to submit your film for this year's edition.

There are only 7 days left to submit your film!

The submission deadline is Monday, 12th June, 2023.

We charge no fee to submit your film for consideration.

Click here to read submission requirements and fill out a form.


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), BWMC (Balkan World Music Chart), and RWMC (Russian World Music Chart), representing MergingArts.

Click 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 clicking here, or visit our podcast and archive page by clicking here.


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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 celebrates brevity in filmmaking, with films from across the globe, both live-action and animated.

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

For the first time in three years, the 15th edition of the festival returned to live audiences, taking place Saturday, 19th November at the Greenwood Features Cinema in Bethel, CT, USA.

Festival Films

To see the complete list of festival films, click here.

With over a thousand submissions from more than ninety countries, it was difficult yet rewarding to select the best of the best.

In total, we screened 34 films, from more than twenty countries on five continents, with 28 films making their US premieres, and six world premieres.

Festival History

After a Covid-induced hiatus in 2020, last year we presented a special All Stars edition of the festival, featuring films that had won awards between 2014 and 2019.

Click here for more information on that special edition of the festival.

To learn more about the festival concept and history, click here.

For requirements to submit to future editions, click here.

There is no fee to submit your film to the festival.

World Music Charts 


DJ Madame B

Global Sounds


SSSFF 2022 Heartstrings Jury Award

Jury Heart

A custom creation by Eric Giessmann


SSSFF 2022 Heartstrings Audience Award

Audience Heart

A custom creation by Éric Montchaud


SSSFF 2022 Petit Prose Award

SF 22 Petit Prose Audience

A custom creation by Anna Kadykova

Spoiler Alert Radio

A weekly broadcast and podcast featuring conversations on the craft of filmmaking.

For more information about the program, click here.

This week's episode:

Colin West - Writer/Director - The Long Slow Flight Of The Ashbot, We Were Not Made For This World, Pink Plastic Flamingos, Here And Beyond, Double Walker, and Linoleum

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SSSFF 2022 Headtrip Jury Award

Jury Head

A custom creation by Eric Giessmann


SSSFF 2022 Headtrip Audience Award

Audience Head

A custom creation by Éric Montchaud


SSSFF 2022 Minds Eye Award

SF 22 Minds Eye

A custom creation by Anna Kadykova


2022 Headtrip Audience Award

Fishing Animation

Thoughts on the (re)creative process by Davide Pellino