A stylish portrait of artist Carolina Murayama directed by São Paulo-based filmmaking duo Irmãos Meirelles. Inspired by recent turmoil in an artist’s life and its impact on her creative work, “Murayama” is an exploration of the hidden complexity inside seemingly irrelevant moments.

Featuring Carolina Murayama
Production Company: Cafe Royal
Directed by Irmãos Meirelles
DoP: Thiago Beck
Executive Producer: Moa Ramalho
Production Designer: Marilia Meirelles
Edit: Fabio Meirelles
Production Manager: Alex Missaka
Producer: Marcelo Colaiavoco
1° AC: Andre Salerno
2° AC: Tetel Paixão
Logger: Hugo Dourado
Gaffer: Carlos Alberto Ferreira
Key Grip: Izenilton “Zeni” Lima
Best boy electric: Francisco Manoel Alves, Rafael Santos
Sound Technician: Deby Murakawa
Beauty: Cristina Kunitaki
Wardrobe: Cotton Project
Post: The End Edit & Post
Color Grading: Cassi Umetsu
Motion Design: Smart Diseños
Graphic Design: Philipe Marques
Audio: Carbono Sound Lab

This is just one of the many creative submissions we’ve received in the past week. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Great cinematography in this video for Black Fly’s track “Green” by New York City-based director Patrick Golan (previously featured here). Tracking down unique locations around a city that has already been filmed so much, Golan somehow manages to capture a side of NYC we haven’t quite seen before.

Starring
Sarah Vanessa
Fallon Horvath
Christian Williams
Katya Meliton
Nirvaan Hillon
Michael Glover

Director & DP: Patrick Golan
Creative Producer: Alec Battistoni
Prod Supervisor: Jeremy Herron
Edit: Chiao Chen
Sound Design: Raphael Ajuelos
Color: Josh Bohoskey @ Mill NY
Big Thanks: Mayer Chalom, Marc Chalom

This video was submitted by Patrick Golan and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A young Muslim woman grapples with a life-changing decision in this wonderfully stripped-down short by Australian/Indian filmmaker Michael Gupta. The film was inspired by a newspaper article about the experiences of a Middle Eastern family and the mother’s fear of reprisal after learning her daughter had become pregnant out of wedlock. Working closely with collaborator Aanisa Vylet, Gupta offers an intimate portrait of a young woman torn between a sense of duty to her family and her own hidden desires:

“Asghar Farhadi is one of my favourite filmmakers, I admire the way he interrogates seemingly simple questions that slowly, slowly unravel like an onion. For Flower, the question became – If I show you who I am, will you accept me, no matter what? Of course, for us time was too limited for complete unravelling but I wanted the audience to wonder what might happen to this woman after the credits.”

Starring: Aanisa Vylet, Vaishnavi Suryaprakash, Joshua Mehmet
Writer/Director: Michael Gupta
Production Co: Middlechild
Cinematographer: Sam Phibbs
Production Designer: Bethany Ryan
Sound Designer: Nathan Ruyle
Composer: Ravi Gupta

This video was submitted by Michael Gupta and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A delightful documentary short by New York City-based filmmaker Jenny Schweitzer. Shot at the 2019 Elementary Chess Championships in Nashville, “The Magic of Chess” captures young chess players’ articulate and uninhibited insights about the game.

Director/DP: Jenny Schweitzer
Editor: Michael Mezzina
Producer: Jennifer Shahade

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Lots of lovely moments in this introspective video for George Gretton by London-based director Imogen Harrison. Building on the track’s themes of duality and juxtaposition, “Grey / Blue” explores the idea of being locked inside your own thoughts throughout the day but being free of those feelings at night. As Harrison explains further:

“George and I began creating this narrative of complete isolation in a usually chaotic landscape, which felt like a fitting visual metaphor. We knew the key to creating the pensive tension in this video was emptiness, so we spent a lot of time in the early hours of the morning, waiting for London’s roads to be empty and as we were shooting on film there wasn’t much room for error here, we did a lot more waiting than we did shooting, but I think it was worth the wait.”

Director: Imogen Harrison
DOP: Simon Plunket
Editor: Blaine Pearson @ Ten Three
Colourist: Myles Bevan @ Time Based Arts

This video was submitted by Imogen Harrison and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A wonderful animated documentary by directors Valentin Riedl and Frédéric Schuld of German studio Fabian&Fred. “Carlotta’s Face” tells the story of an artist with a rare brain condition that prevents her from recognizing faces. Growing up at a time when nobody was aware of the syndrome, Carlotta turned to art as a way of coming to terms with it herself.

Director: Valentin Riedl & Frédéric Schuld
Animation: Frédéric Schuld
Script & Editor: Valentin Riedl & Frédéric Schuld
Producer: Fabian Driehorst
Sound/Music/Mixing: Simon Bastian
Production Studio: Fabian&Fred

This is just one of the many creative submissions we’ve received in the past week. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Great portrait of Australian photographer Tim Swallow directed and shot by Ed Triglone (previously featured here). Shot over a 6 month period in the lead up to his recent solo show, “Beautiful Mistakes” offers insight into Swallow’s creative workflow and compulsive nature as an artist striving to perfect his craft.

Photographer Tim Swallow
Director & DP: Ed Triglone
Colourist: Fergus Rotherham
Sound Recordist: Olly Dibley
Assisted by Mitch Parry
Editors: Ed Triglone, Aytan Lachish
Sound Mix: Olly Dibley

Music
“The Revealer” by Rick Snowden
“Going Steady” by Leroy Francis
“Bounce” by Leroy Francis
“The Poison Moth Kingdom” by The Uplifting Bell Ends
“This Is” by Rick Snowden

This is just one of the many wonderful submissions we’ve received in the past week. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A beautiful video for Black Pumas track “Colors” by New York City-based director Kristian Mercado (previously featured here):

“I really wanted to capture how powerful the sounds and vocals of Black Pumas are. We explore the idea of the Bronx as a living garden, always growing always moving forward, and finding a cinematic landscape in places people often ignore.”

Starring
Danai Mafararikwa
Christopher “Afrika” Quarles
Chaz
Bahiyyah Shakur

Director: Kristian Mercado
Editor: Reuter
Producer: Andrew Nisinson
Assistant Director: Alex Mercado
Assistant Director: Tiffany Stephens
Director of Photography: Rudolf Costin
Director of Photography: Carmelo Varela
Art: Samantha Alvarez, Kori Dyer, Kirsten Pincket
Casting: Kate Antognini
Casting Assistant: Peter Dolshun
Assistant Editor: Danny Weeks
Post Producer: Maggie Flatley, Will Mok
Colorist: Ayumi Ashley
ATO Records: Paul Dryden
Editbar: NTROPIC
Production Company: Pyramyd
Production Manager: Briene Lermitte
Production Assistant: Jeremy Berger

This video was submitted by Kristian Mercado and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A poetic visualization of loss, tragedy, and climate change by Los Angeles-based director Justin Tyler Close. “The Arrival” is based on the experience of renowned artist Lita Albuquerque, who lost her home-studio and archives dating back to the 1960s during the Woolsey Fires in 2018. The traumatic event coincided with the birth of her first grandson, Adé. Capturing the duality of life and death, the film features Lita’s daughter, Jasmine Albuquerque, as the Queen. As Justin explains:

“Through this visual opera, we created a surreal performance, dance, music art film, telling the story of Abe (Lita’s grandson) returning home for the first time. In many ways, all the characters are children, existing in this post-apocalyptic world awaiting the Queen (Jasmine) and her baby (Adé). These performers worship the child as if he will one day be king/rule the kingdom. We decided to document this moment through a choreographed performance amongst the ashes of this tragedy.”

Check out “The Arrival” above and see full credits below!

A film by Justin Tyler Close
Choreographers: Nina McNeely, Jasmine Albuquerque
Music: Lo Fang
Poem Written & Read by Lita Albuquerque
Cinematography: Jeremy Cox
Editor: Matt Hollis
Producer: Jessica Law
Producer Assistant: Jax Tranchida
Director Assistant: Matea Friend
First AC: Mike Lemnitzer
Titles: Eric Peschel
Calligraphy: Emily J Snyder
Sound Design/Mix: Dayana Capulong
Colorist: Sam Gilling
PA: Dan Vjdani

Performers:
Adé Albuquerque Simmons
Brooke Sheppard
Courtney Scarr
Danny Axley
Erin Murray
Jasmine Albuquerque
Kenzie McClure
Lisa McNeely
Maija Knapp
Tomek Sadursky
Ty Wells
Ryan Spencer
Shakti Mitsuko Orismekusa
Ves Phillippi
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Thanks to Sirreel Studio Rentals, Keslow Camera, Jon Orner,
Metropolis Post, Ian Bostick, Sweat Spot, Kodak

This is just one of the many creative submissions we’ve received in the past week. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Lots of lovely shots in this short by Brooklyn-based writer-director Haya Waseem. Shot on 65mm film by cinematographer Christopher Lew, “The Ballad” explores the intimacy between real couples without comment or narrative influence. The cast and crew all volunteered their time over three days of shooting. Watch above and see full credits below!

Written & Directed by Haya Waseem
Producers: Haya Waseem, Christopher Lew, Maddy O’Shaugnessy
Associate Producer: Ben Robinson
Cinematographer: Christopher Lew
1st AC: Michael Narimalla
2nd AC: Alastair Sinclair
Production Designer: Dialla Kawar
Original Composition: Spencer Creaghan
Production Coordinator: Josh Barsky
Set Photographer: Brendan McNeill
Production Assistant: Nick Julian
Color: Alter Ego
Colorist: Wade Odlum
Fotokem Lab Services
General Manager: Bill Roskilly
Fotokem Creative Services
Dailies Colorist: Willie Lawton
Dailies Producer: Mary Chamberlain
Scanning Operator: Les Meek
Scanning Producer: Jason Pelham, Filipe Lopez
Distributed by H624 Distribution

This video was submitted by Christopher Lew and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A powerful dance piece from Montréal-based director Vincent René-Lortie and dancer-choreographer Brittney Canda (previously featured here). Set to the music of Sheenah Ko, “Wrap Me Up” follows a diverse group of people who gather in a dingy community hall in search of an intangible sense of meaning. As the leader, Sheenah begins to sing, casting a spell on her audience that sparks a violent frenzy.

With Alisia Pobega, Andrea Ward, Chad Erick Concepcion,
Jérôme Simard, Holly Greco, Karl Abraham,
Lola Ryan, Miranda Chan, Elizabeth Powell,
Sheenah Ko, Brittney Canda, Nicolas Boivin, Roya The Destroya

Directed by Vincent René-Lortie & Brittney Canda
Produced by Samuel Caron
Production Company: Telescope Films
Production Manager: Félix Cayer
Cinematographer: Alexandre Nour
Choreographer: Brittney Canda
Choreographic Assistant: Susannah Haight
1st Assistant Director: Cassandre Émanuel
1st Camera Assistant: Kevin Gourvellec
Steadicam Operator: Benoît Gauthier
Production Designer: Geneviève Boiteau
Art Assistants: Sophie Valcourt & Mérédith Gonzales
Make Up Artist: Carole Methot
Gaffer: Pierre-Luc Jobin
Key Grip: Alain Tremblay
Set Photographer: Eve B-Lavoie
Production Assistant: Marc-André Thibault & Evangelos Desborough

Music Written & Performed by Sheenah Ko
Sound Design: Nataq Huault
Color Grading: Simon Bøisx
Editor: Vincent René-Lortie
Graphic Design: Simon Dubois

This video was submitted by Vincent René-Lortie and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A whimsical short written and directed by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Grace Kim. “Loveseat” tells the story of a lonely man who sets out in search of his soul mate after receiving an unexpected call through a banana.

Written & Directed by Grace Kim
Starring Victor Cruz
Schann Mobley
Cinematography by Woonjae Park
Production Design by Simon Schabert
Edited by Emily Chao
Original Score by Benjamin Furman

This video was submitted by Grace Kim and selected by our team. Consider participating here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!