Karl Ranseier…

Chau, a teenager living in a Vietnamese care center for kids disabled by Agent Orange, struggles with the reality of his dream to one day become a professional artist.

88th ACADEMY AWARDS® – Nominated: Best Documentary, Short Subject
Screened at the United Nations, NY (2016)
Screened at the United States Embassy in Vietnam, Hanoi (2016)
Screened at the United States Senate, Washington DC (2017)

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Short of the Week Selection
22nd Annual Austin Film Festival – Grand Jury Award Best Documentary Short Film
45th Annual USA Film Festival – National Jury Award Best Documentary Short Film
30th Annual Fort Lauderdale Int’l Film Festival – Grand Jury Award Best Documentary Short Film
5th Annual Irvine Int’l Film Festival – Grand Jury Award Best Documentary Short Film
40th Annual Cleveland Int’l Film Festival – Honorable Mention: Best Documentary Short Film

Official Selection Documentary Edge Film Festival
Official Selection Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection New Orleans Film Festival
Official Selection Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection Florida Film Festival
Official Selection Flickers: Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival
Official Selection DocsDF Film Festival, Mexico City
Official Selection St Louis Int’l Film Festival
Official Selection Crested Butte Film Festival
Official Selection Split Film Festival, Croatia
Official Selection Tallgrass Film Festival
Official Selection Loft Film Festival
Official Selection Port Townsend Film Festival – Women & Film
Official Selection St. Augustine Film Festival

Get a glimpse of the great outdoors on this spooky expedition.
Animation by Elenor Kopka // Sound + Music by Skillbard

MP and Jer are a couple of career pool cleaners who only care about two things in life: The perfect tan and the perfect girl.

Shot on Digital Bolex

Starring: Baby Darrington, MP Cunningham, Jer Jackson, and Luke Jackson.

Featuring: Joey Gibson as Donnie, Camilla Granasen as Mrs. Karlstrom, Paris Gibson as Corinne, Charli French as Mrs. Finnegan, and Heidi Edwards as Minty.

Directed by MP Cunningham
Written by Jer Jackson & MP Cunningham
Story by Luke Jackson, Jer Jackson, MP Cunningham
Producer: Tim Rowberry
Associate Producer: Courtney Webb
DP: Roman Alaivi
Colorist: AJ Molle
Original Music by Christian Blunda and Ryan Oxford
Audio Post Production by Ryan Oxford and AJ Molle
Boom operator: Yan Mikhno
Assistant Camera: Tenneson Smith
2nd Assistant: Cameron Jackson
Production Assistant: Alex Zlochevsky
Sound design: Daniel Petersen
Agua Donkey Logo Design by Abbi Ammon
Title Design by Liam Kaczmar
Edited by MP Cunningham

A young woman in search of a better life utilizes a Norwegian market ready to sell her goods.

Taxfree is a portrayal of the hidden human trafficking which is current in the outskirts of the big cities, showing how a woman entering prostitution is being transformed from a human being into a commodity.

CAST
Selome Emnetu
Anders Dahlberg
Terje Hartviksen
Turid Rivertz Vatne

CREW
Director: Henry K. Norvalls
Screenwriters: Line Dalheim & Henry K. Norvalls
Producer: Petter Onstad Løkke

Director of Photography: Åsmund Hasli
Editor: Thomas Grotmol
Decoration, costume and makeup: Sandra Krogh Rodum
Sound editors: Inger Elise Holm & Linda Torp
Colorist: Raymond Gangstad

FOLKEFIENDER (production company):
Facebook: facebook.com/folkefienderfilm

Invisibilia, NPR’s radio program and podcast that fuses storytelling with science, came to us with their very first animation assignment. The story of a woman who’s hand has a mind of its own. We paired the unpredictability of Karen’s experience with an unpredictable visual style.

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CREDITS
Client: NPR | Invisibilia
Directed by Giant Ant
Producer: Teresa Toews
Creative Direction: Jay Grandin
Storyboard: Sitji Chou
Art Direction: Rafael Mayani
Illustration: Rafael Mayani, Marion Bordeyne, Sitji Chou
Animation: Diego Maclean, Sitji Chou, Conor Whelan, Whitney Lam,
Clean up: Marion Bordeyne, Whitney Lam, Diego Maclean, Sitji Chou, Conor Whelan

Three states of matter – solids, liquids, gases
Project inspired by architecture and minimal design.

When Fannie offers to cut her father’s hair, he accepts. Alain knows that his daughter will do it carefully and thoroughly, as usual. But an outside incident changes their plans and confronts the precariousness of this shared moment. “The Cut” tells teh story of a father and a daughter, whose relationship fluctuates between proximity and detachment at the moment of a haircut.

‚La Coupe‘ is this week’s Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/la-coupe

Writer and director Geneviève DULUDE-DE CELLES
Producers: Fanny DREW, Sarah MANNERING
Starring: Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau and Alain Houle
Director of photography: Léna MILL-REUILLARD
Production designer: Jonas VEROFF BOUCHARD
Costume designer: Marie-Claude MARQUIS
Sound engineer: Laurent OUELLETTE
Sound designer: Marie-Pierre GRENIER
Audio mixing engineer: Geoffroy MITCHEL
Script consultant: Michel LANGLOIS
Production: COLONELLE FILMS