Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Music Video: MARCYLINE – THE CLEARING MUSIC VIDEO
Best Experimental: SCAPEGOAT VENGEANCE
Best Fashion Film: LILIT
Best Direction: UNKNOWN ENTRY EVENT
Best Performances: RAIN TO REIGN
Best Cinematography: THE REVOLUTION
Best Sound & Music: THEY WAKE
Best Animation: OFF TO COLLEGE
Best Nature Film: I’M HUTCHTASTIC
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
OFF TO COLLEGE, 4min., Singapore, Animation
Directed by Susan Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
When a teenage girl takes her inanimate companion off a shelf of plush toys in her bedroom, and packs it into her bag as she prepares to head off to College, the moment is bravely cheered by the rest of the inanimates left behind, as one of them has made it off the shelf, and on to new beginnings.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THEY WAKE, 3min., USA, Music
Directed by Karla Puno Garcia
A community under a spell of slumber comes to life.
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LILIT, 2min., France, Fashion
Directed by July Preobrazhencki
Gathering her strength, she landed on her native shores. She’s still scared-she’s been through a lot-but she’s determined to move forward. Now her name is “Lilith”.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
UNKNOWN ENTRY EVENT, 6min,. Netherlands, Fashion
Directed by Roman Villevoye
Uknown Enrty Event is a fashion film for designer Maarten van Mulken it’s about a woman finding a unknown entry event in her logbook and sets out to join her friends to express themselves and their freedom one last time.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE REVOLUTION, 4min., France, Music
Directed by Jonathan Verleysen
Composition, arrangements and production by DOVE-I
THOMAS VEROVSKI & BASTIDE DONNY
Performed and written by RIOUX V (@A-Connection )
Performed by @Scoring Orchestra
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
I’M HUTCHTASTIC, 4min., USA, Music
Directed by Brittany Ballard
A water goddess decides to explore land for the first time, to be nature’s lover. After a surreal experience with new natural elements, haters come to attack her. But finding her strength and power in the elements, now a tree goddess, she turns her haters into worshippers. They beg her to stay as their queen, worshiping her all night, but by morning, she returns to her water home, and floats away back into her bliss.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
MARCYLINE – THE CLEARING MUSIC VIDEO, 4min., USA, Music
Directed by Margot Piorkowski
In this experimental music video for Marcyline’s debut single, moody visuals contrast the dark lyricism, portraying the fear of a dark presence following him.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SCAPEGOAT VENGEANCE, 4min, USA, Music
Directed by Simone Sello
“Scapegoat Vengeance” is a brief surreal adventure based on synesthetic elements. I assembled footage and images captured in random moments, mostly while traveling, and cut those to an original piece of mine. Some of the sounds featured in the composition are also taken from street recordings, and manipulated to fit the track.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
RAIN TO REIGN, 6min,. USA, Music/Experimental
Directed by Julie M. Wenah, Keturah King
5 women – most of whom have never met each other, are connected through one woman – Julie – who is bringing women of African descent together to explore how we prepare the next generation of women for ‘Rain’, and to ‘Reign’, through examining black womanhood via the Body, the Heart, the Land, and the Soul in the face of a post Obama-era where people of color are made to feel as if they do not belong.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
LOST AT SEA, 6min,. Germany, Music Video
Directed by Alex Sebastian
A fairy tale gone wrong: A woman between two men.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
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