Life is not a montage.

It is a thousand short films back-to-back that illuminate our victories, tragedies, and revelations. Each life intersects others until it becomes apparent that the whole of a person is not an abandoned room full of reels, but an epic. That's why the creative minds at Mosaic and Awaken are bringing you the 2009 Mosaic LA Film Fest (MOLAFF) where we are challenging visionaries with Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit, a theme that encourages artists to bring the broken things of the world to the cutting room floor and explore what remains: the raw, often-hidden beauty of the human story.

Our vision sprang from the need for truthful filmmaking and personal expression that is at once wildly imaginative and unflinchingly introspective. We want work that skims the surface but plunges unexpectedly into a story that speaks to the heart. We want to hear what an epiphany sounds like to a character who has never heard a word. We want to see the future in the flash of a child's eyes. We want to see what the hand shooting heroine would look like administering a vaccine.

We want to spotlight the storied potential of humanity.

At MOLAFF, we believe that everyone has the potential to lead a high-concept life. The festival is not only a place to showcase provoking art, but a public discussion, a catalyst for change where all participants will walk away with their passion for life re-ignited. The festival will give filmmakers the opportunity to engage their art, beliefs, and purpose to create inspired, meaningful films. MOLAFF will be a forum to unleash the potential of the creative genius inside because there are cravings within us all that long to be explored and unleashed, cravings of intimacy, destiny, and meaning.

Our theme Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit will focus on three main concepts: exploring our journey for intimacy, destiny and meaning. Using one or more of these concepts, this year's filmmakers are encouraged to submit projects that move us on a journey into our deepest longings, our desires, our needs, our cravings, our souls.

The search of your life is the search for your life...go ahead -- question everything.