A Series of Eight Tales
OUR STORY
We made a pretty cool movie, Tales from Dapple Creek. It’s won scads of awards—forty-three national and international ones to date (see list below), and now we’ve begun a second movie.
You know those ineffable moments when you can’t find the right word to say? You can feel it and sense its weight, but... A shrug of your shoulder or a tilt of your head best completes the message. The gesture conveys what words cannot say. That’s a vast part of how TDCconnects. It’s that and more—We Speak the Unspeakable.
Last Fall we presented Tales from DappleCreek at the Memorial Art Gallery as part of the 2025 Rochester Fringe Festival in Rochester, NY.
NOW, we will show some sections of it at the Transformations concert in Fairfax, VA on Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 7pm. (ET). Click here for more information.
Check out the list of Film Festival Awards below.
Enjoy these brief videos: the trailer and a 5-minute sample from four of the eight tales.
Trailer for Tales from Dapple Creek
Excerpts from four TDC tales.
More Story
Have you heard about our International Award-Winning movie, Tales from Dapple Creek (TDC)? We're extremely excited about how it's taken off! In case you haven't seen it, the work is raw, humanistic, and provides a unique movie of communication.
The copyright people in Washington, DC say this 27-minute movie is not "choreographic." They say it's a "dramatic work." And I say, "It's both." When you see it, I'm sure you'll agree with me.
The movie consists of eight tales. I have a few favorites, but like I tell most people, my favorite favorite is the last one, "Uncle Harold and Aunt Sue." We can discuss this and a plethora of other things at our Off the Marley sessions. You may have a different favorite.
A Couple of Images
kista holding Golden Leaf International Film Festival award certificate: best experimental short film
from “Careful what you wish for”
List of Awards
Tales from Dapple Creek
Film Freeway/Film Festival Awards
Stockholm Short Festival
Royal Wolf Film Awards
Roma Shorts
Golden Leaf International Film Festival
International Cosmopolitan Film Festival of Tokyo
8 & HalFilm Awards
Hollywood on the Tiber Film Awards
Experimental Film Festival Barcelona
Europa Film Festival
Santa Barbara Shorts Festival
Rio de Janeiro World Film Festival
Atlanta Movie Awards
Milan Arthouse Film Awards
New York International Women Festival
Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival
San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival
Texas Arthouse Festival
Sicily Art Cinema Festival
Munich Short Film Awards
Sydney Indie Short Festival (Experimental)
Sydney Indie Short Festival (First Time Movie Maker)
Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills
Paris International Short Festival
Palm Springs Shorts
Phoenix Shorts
Dallas Shorts
Washington Film Awards
Dallas Movie Awards Festival
Palm Springs Movie Awards
New Film Makers New Orleans
Swedish International Film Festival
Portland New Alternative Voices
4th Dimension Independent Film Festival
Beyond the Curve International Film Festival
San Diego Art Film Fest
The International Manhattan Film Awards
LA Independent Women Film Awards
Sweet Democracy Film Awards
Amsterdam Short Film Festival
Melbourne Lift-Off Film Festival
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from “Uncle harold and Aunt Sue”
from Uncle Harold and aunt sue