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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: BEST FILM: FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MUSIC BEST DANCE FILM: NIOBE BEST MUSIC FILM: CLOUDS – MUSIC VIDEO BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: CASS & LEX BEST PERFORMANCES: DOWN BEST SOUND & MUSIC: STORM Theme of night: Connection found or lost. NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: December 12, 2020 Festival

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: BEST FILM: ASTRONAUT SPACEMAN BEST DANCE FILM: EMBRACE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 BEST MUSIC VIDEO: SPARE ME BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: TOUCH BEST PERFORMANCES: #METOO BEST SOUND & MUSIC: MUSICAL CHAIRS: A BATTLE ROYALE Theme of night: Death and Rebirth NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: November 14, 2020 (Los Angeles)

Daniel Finkelman is a director, producer and founder ofSparks Next, a boutique production house based in New York.Daniel has produced and directed a variety of feature length films,shorts, Music Videos, documentaries, and commercials.He has received industry wide recognition in the BestFirst Film category at the Independent Spirit Awardsfor producing “Menashe,” which premiered at the Sundance… Continue reading Director Biography – Daniel Finkelman (BENAYA’S DIARY)

In this Shadow Dance performance, Benaya, a young boy named after an Israeli fallen hero, recreates Benaya’s travels across Poland and creatively depicts the insights that propelled Benaya to fight for his homeland onto the Second Lebanon War.

Sarah Cole is a senior at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has worked on over thirty student films in her time at CU, and is looking forward to graduation and moving to Los Angeles. Her last film won a Virgil Grillo Award after being voted on by the class and reviewed by a panel… Continue reading Director Biography – Sarah Cole (EUTERPE: THE LOST MUSE)

In a quiet world, a girl who creates music with everything she feels must decide whether or not to embrace her gift; she risks being shunned or truly finding where she belongs.

Erwin Julierstersen Kopeng, born 1988 in Bandung, Indonesia, completed his study with major in 3D animation at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore in 2011. He then started his career in Singapore’s film & media industry as animator-compositor at Moving Bits. In 2016 he joined Invisible Artists as motion designer. As he decided to seek… Continue reading Director Biography – Erwin Julierstersen Kopeng ((SIC) – INFINITE ECHO)

A luminous matter containing remnants of life is drawn towards a supermassive black hole, setting off an unnatural cosmic reaction. Based on song written by [SIC] titled “Infinite Echo”, this portrayal of a hypothetical cosmic event centres on a luminous glass-like sphere in the mould of planet. Five satellites orbit the sphere, each showcasing the… Continue reading Short Film: (SIC) – INFINITE ECHO, 4min., Germany, Music

Zeynep Akcay is an animated filmmaker & scholar of Turkish origin. Focusing on the narrative strategies in different forms of animation, she is currently teaching at the Animation Program of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. After completing a BA degree in Istanbul Turkey, determined to be an animation artist, she moved to Montreal, Canada. Her… Continue reading Director Biography – Zeynep Akcay (KAM)

“Kam”, meaning “Shaman” in old Turkish, is a long exposure pixilation/2D animation film expressing the primal, potent energy of the female body. The film transforms dancer Sevinc Baltali’s improvisation into a fierce and exuberant dance flow to the formidable music of “Amolvacy”, an experimental band from New York. Project Links  Website