Dangerous Curves by Merete Mueller


In this short documentary, plus-size pole dancing performer and instructor Roslyn Mays navigates media attention and various types of public exposure.

Directed by Merete Mueller

Past screenings:
Best Short Documentary, Port Townsend Film Festival 2016
Rooftop Films 2016
New Orleans Film Festival 2016
Cucalorus Film Festival 2016,
Sidewalk Film Festival 2016
Athena Film Festival 2016
Montclair Film Festival 2017

Contact: meretemueller@gmail.com

Hippo Campus – Western Kids by Najeeb Tarazi


From their debut album, landmark. http://ift.tt/2tkHARy

Directed by Najeeb Tarazi

Read about it here:
http://ift.tt/2s6pwHz

DP – Hana Kitasei
Camera Operator – Thomas Wilhoit

Art Direction by Lindsey Cantrell

Shoot Produced by Devyn Isaacson

Post Production by Warm & Fuzzy

Animated by John Bashyam, Andrew Jerez, and Najeeb Tarazi

Special Thanks:
Clara Aranovich
Andy Roberts
Jen Herrera

Filmed on Kinect using DepthKit (www.depthkit.tv)

ASH TO ART – Animation by Sharon Liu


A charcoal animation using ash salvaged from The Mackintosh Building fire at The Glasgow School of Art. The film documents the Ash to Art project which transformed the worthless by-product of the fire into 25 priceless works of art.

In 2014, The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building, a symbol of British art, was reduced to ash.

25 world-famous artists including Grayson Perry, David Shrigley and Sir Antony Gormley were asked to turn a piece of charcoal salvaged from the Mackintosh Building fire into art. The work was auctioned at Christie’s to fund the rebuild.

The film was commissioned by J. Walter Thompson (JWT London) and produced at Jelly London.

Ash To Art animation is shortlisted in the Animation category at Cannes Lions 2017.

http://ashtoart.org/

http://jellylondon.com/

Nascent by Novo


A bloody civil war in Central African Republic has divided a once peaceful nation along religious lines. Two children, one Christian and one Muslim, seek answers in each other.

Directed by Lindsay Branham and Jon Kasbe

Produced by: Lindsay Branham
Executive Produced by: Jonathan Olinger

Director of Photography: Jon Kasbe

Edited by: Jon Kasbe
Assistant Edited by: Ora DeKornfeld
Additional photography by: Jonathan Olinger
Color correction: Nice Dissolve
Sound design: Defacto
Sound mix: Origin Of Audio

Special thanks to Bintou and Gaus and their communities in Central African Republic.

Made possible with funding by UNICEF.

Best Cinematography, Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Telluride Mountainfilm, 2016
Official Selection, Mill Valley Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Big Sky Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Raindance Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Crested Butte Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Nashville Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Indie Grits Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Annapolis Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Women Deliver Copenhaagen, 2016
Official Selection, Flagstaff Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Citizen Jane Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Marfa Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Washington West Film Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Lviv International Short Film Wiz-Art Festival, 2016
Official Selection, Take One Action Film Festival, 2016

Theory of Relativity by Visual Suspect


Reflection in photography is one of the most inseparable tool of the creator, disrupting the reality to create his own world. We screen how these reflections work in video and, more interesting, in motion.

There is no effect used, only camera movements together with stabilization techniques. The film has been shot in Hong Kong.

Inspired by the Theory of Relativity from Albert Einstein, this is a visual essay about perception and knowledge as reflection of our reality. Mass curves space and time, while the observer has his own perspective.

Broken Dreams // Sebastien Zanella by Gabriel Novis


BROKEN DREAMS – Sebastien Zanella

Director, documentary filmmaker and photographer, Sebastien Zanella creates provocative films and images that explore freedom of expression and the human condition in his environemment .
Zanella’s signature poetic style is at once haunting and captivating. His artistic approach to composition and use of natural ambient light results in truly stylistic and emotive storytelling that leave a lasting impression on the viewer. His short films have featured some of the biggest names in sport & artistic world, and gaining acclaim on festivals with regular awards and shared on leading publications.
Zanella is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Desillusion Magazine, an online and print publication dedicated to a youth who grew up on a skate or surf board.
As Sebastien travels the US, he shares his inspiration, working dynamic and general outlook on culture, art, and adventure .

A Documentary directed by Gabriel Novis

Supported by Eastpak

Starring:
-Sebastien Zanella
-Tom Erik Ryen
-Kassia Meador
-Lola Mignot
-Todd Blubaugh

Shot by:
– Gabriel Novis
– Sebastien Zanella
– Denis Carrion

Music by:
– Alex Kemp // Recorded at Wolf at the door

Sound Design and Mix:
– Mark Scearce

Slacker by Red Bull


Pushing limits is nothing new. That’s precisely how performance levels trend skyward. But what if we told you there was a place, deep in the deserts of Utah, where the lines of progressive sports blur while simultaneously apexing to new, unfathomable realities of what’s possible?

Enter G.G.B.Y. (Gobble, Gobble, Bitches, Yeah). The informal, annual gathering at the aptly named Fruit Bowl, outside Moab, organically draws envelope-pushers of all shapes, sizes and disciplines. Event co-founder Terry Acomb takes us through his role in the slacklining/highlining community and gives us a look at the people who make GGBY so incredible.

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Zain’s Summer: From Refugee to American Boy by Joshua Seftel


With the help of Jay-Z and Michael Jackson, a Pakistani refugee tries to blossom in his new surroundings.

Made in partnership with the International Rescue Committee (https://www.rescue.org).

Official Selection:
IFFBoston, Audience Award Winner
Heartland Film
BendFilm Festival
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Nantucket Film Festival
Telluride Mountainfilm Festival
Prescott Film Festival

Production Company: Smartypants Pictures (http://ift.tt/2s8VgiJ)

Executive Producer Cathe Neukum
Produced by Joshua Seftel, Anna Bick Rowe
Director of Photography Stephen T. Maing
Editor Amanda Larson
Associate Producer Amy Drakeman
Assistant Editors Steve Benjamin, Olaf Steel
Post Finishing Facility Modulus
Color Correction Erich Gilbride
Sound Re-mixing Damon Addleman
Finishing Supervision Kristen Clifford

Special Thanks
Refugee Youth Summer Academy
The International Rescue Committee
The Naz Family
Kira O’Brien
Erica Silverman
Sara Rowbottom
Kulsoom Rizvi
Avigail Ziv
Erika Frankel
Marc Vives
Roger Ross Williams
Jon Levin
Eric Masunaga
Clarissa Sosin
Jaclyn Biskup
Eric Nichols

Tough by Jennifer Zheng


Some things can only be understood with maturity.
New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.

Awards:
BAFTA Nominated Animated Short Film 2017
Best Animated Documentary at KLIK Amsterdam 2016
Audience choice for Best Animated Documentary at LIAF 2016
Jury Award for Best Short Film at 10th British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin 2017
RTS London Student Awards, Best Undergraduate Animation 2017
RTS National Award for best Undergraduate Animation 2017
FANtastische Award at ITFS 2017
Best Director in the Short Documentary category at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2017

Screenings:

Tough premiere at Encounters 22nd Short Film and Animation Festival 21st Sept 2016
FAFF factual animation film festival London, 30th sept- 1st October 2016
Primanima, budapest, 19th-22nd October 2016
KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 25th-30th October 2016
Crystal Palace international FF Sat 29th Oct- 19th Nov 2016
Manchester animation festival 15th-17th November 2016
Grafixx 25-27th Nov 2016
Two Short Nights Film Festival 2016
LIAF 2nd-11th December 2016
Animated Dreams 16-20th Nov 2016
Animateka 5-11th Dec 2016
With the Late Night Work Club + Friends Sceenings
LSFF 6-15th Jan 2017
‚British Shorts‘ FF Berlin 12-18th Jan 2017
North American Premiere at SUNDANCE 19-29th Jan 2017
Void international FF Copenhagen 26th Jan- 4th Feb 2017
Anima 25th Feb – 5th March 2017
GLAS Animation Festival 2-5th March 2017
SXSW 10- 19th March 2017
Tricky Women 15-19th March 2017
Monstra 16-26th March 2017
Holland Animation Film Festival 22nd-26th March 2017
Ciné Court Anime 20-26th March 2017
DIFF, 30th March- 9th April 2017
LA Asian Pacific FF, 27th April- 4th May 2017
Anifilm, Czech Republic 2nd-7th May 2017
ITFS, 2-7th May 2017
Pictoplasma, 10-14th May 2017
The Chicago critics FF, 12th-18th May 2017
Cardiff Animation Nights 25th May 2017
Telluride Mountainfilm 26th-29th May 2017
Kortfilm Festivalen, Norway, 14th-18th June 2017
VIS, Vienna Shorts, 1-6th June 2017
SUNDANCE London 1st- 4th June 2017
Animafest Zagreb, 5th-10th June 2017
Sheffield Doc Fest, 8th-14th June 2017
Annecy, 12th-17th June 2017
Short Sighted Cinema: Shortest Nights screening 18th June 2017
Edinburgh International Film Festival, 21st June- 2nd July 2017
La Guarimba International FF 7th-11th August 2017

My 2016 graduation film from Kingston University London.
Original score by K. Preston Merkley

For more gifs showing the process behind making the film look at my website here:
http://ift.tt/2taxCBK
With an original score by K. Preston Merkley
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