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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Short Film: VILDÁ – Utsjoki disco Best Feature Film: WHERE LOVE LIVES Theme of night: Life NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: VILDÁ – Utsjoki disco, 6min, Finland, Music Video WHERE LOVE LIVES, 54min., USA, LGBT… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: July 2021 MUSIC Festival

The gift is a dance performance to express the beauty inside all of us.

Directing duo Katie Beard and Naomi Turner, make up LeMoon; a performance and film collective based between Exeter and London. Katie and Naomi began making work together after graduating from the University of Exeter in 2015, where they both studied a degree in Drama. Initially creating multimedia and physical theatre work they realised their common… Continue reading Director Biography – Katie Beard, Naomi Turner (SCAPELANDS)

Scapelands is a short dance film that explores our primal connections with nature and the effect of urban living on the human mind. With countries in lockdown due to the current global pandemic, the psychological impact of our physical environments is being felt more significantly across the world than ever before. Scapelands was commissioned by… Continue reading Short Film: SCAPELANDS, 4min., UK, Dance

Born in 1979 in Volvic in the volcanic region of France, Bastien spent several years as a successful designer, marketing and communications expert in France, before spending this last decade in experiencing a life that conveys meaning.In 2010, he sold his communications agency to travel extensively in Asia in order to disconnect from the busy… Continue reading Director Biography – BASTIEN SOLEIL (TANG’O)

Sometimes, art is doing something simply because we know it will be beautiful.With the combination of water, lighting and dancer Ariadna’s talent, TANG’O offers the viewer an innovative take on underwater videography and art in general.In my eyes, beauty and joy are related. This is why we choose such powerful, dynamic and lively music and… Continue reading Short Film: TANG’O, 3min., France, Dance

This is a dance film, created in response to the concept of the past overwhelming the present – the idea that we can drown in the ink of past journal entries. And then, when we are ready, we separate the turbid from the clear, allowing the ink to find its home back in the past,… Continue reading Short Film: INK, 4min., USA, Dance

Sonia Gemmiti is a Montreal-based filmmaker and multimedia installation artist. In 2019, she received the Cayle Chernin Award for Media Production for her script Outside My Window. With the support of the CCA and mentor/Associate Producer Guy Maddin, Sonia went on to produce and direct a narrative short film based on her award-winning script—an expressionist… Continue reading Director Biography – Sonia Gemmiti (OUTSIDE MY WINDOW)

An expressionistic exploration of agoraphobia and isolation. A young woman stares outside her window, summoning the courage to step outside.