A man becomes quickly and uncontrollably obsessed with window cleaning in this delightfully silly short by Rosco 5 (previously featured here).

Starring
Jack Barry
Sabi Perez
Joe Mott
Stella Kamel

Written & Directed by Rosco 5
Produced by Rosco 5
DOP: Anthony Lucas
Asst Camera: Ashton Born
Asst Lighting: Simon Diaz
Production: Georgie Rowlands
Runner: Patrick Fraser
Sound Recordist: Theo Wyzgowski
Re-Recording Mixer: Aidan McCarthy
Colourist: Emma Johnson

This video was submitted by Rosco 5 and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Lovely video for Meryem Aboulouafa written and directed by filmmaking duo Zhang & Knight of Paris-based studio Birth. In “Deeply” Zhang & Knight invite us to escape into a different reality through their colour work and custom-made decor:

“We love exploring the emotions that spaces evoke, so designing this set was a wonderful process. As well as the physical dimensions, many days were spent considering how light and colour would then transform the world.”

Written and Directed by Zhang & Knight
Produced by Birth
CEO & Producer: Hugo Legrand-Nathan
Executive Production: Kristin Arakchieva & Alexander Kenanov (B2Y)
Line Producer: Thomas Aboulker
Junior Line Producer: Sarah Chayeb
Label Manager: Emmanuel Barron
Sound Producer: Para One
Cinematographer: Nico Poulsson
Production Designer: Sabina Hristova
Choreographer: Simon Donnellon
Stylist: Isabelle Bardot
Assistant Director: Boyka Pehlivanova
Head of Technicians: Dragomir Arnaudov
SFX Technician: Ivaylo Angelov
VFX Supervisor on set
Head of Post-Production: Morgan Mirza
Editor: Liam Bachler
Colorist: Daniel De Vue
Post-Prod Firm: Manuel Béard & Coralie Duarte
Post-Prod FIRM: Stéphanie Dubois Graphistes, Thomas Cureaux & Mickael Lauret
Post-Prod Eighty4: Nicolas Martinez
Freelance: Jerome Richou, Antoine Hache

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

Two UK police officers find themselves unfairly stopped and searched in this satiric short from London-based filmmaker Harry Jackson. As Jackson cautions, the events taking place in the States right now are an important reminder that racism isn’t just something that exists elsewhere:

“In the UK, there were 30, 608 stop and searches in April 2020 — despite us being in lock down. This is a massive increase on previous years. As we know this disproportionately affects black people who are 9.7 times more likely to be stopped and search. True to the statistics, sadly both actors Alessandro and Selom have been subjected to this humiliating experience. BAME people have also been 54% more likely to be fined under corona virus restrictions. It’s overdue, but the George Floyd tragedy has forced us to reexamine the problems we have at home.”

Starring
Alessandro Babalola
Selom Awadzi
Phil Barantini
Dean Kilbey

Written and Directed by Harry Jackson
Produced by Milly Upton
Director of Photography: Molly Manning Walker
Editor: Chloe Hardwick
Sound Design & Mix: Ben Goodall
Sound Recordist: Olly Gale
1st AC: Catharina Scarpellini
2nd AC: Billy Askew
1st AD: Joe Jones
2nd AD: Sam Heazel
Colourist: Jax Harney @ Cheat
Titles & Credits: Matt Gillman
Equipment: One Stop Films
Costume Hire: Lemon Casting
Thanks: David Young

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An intimate portrait of a young woman living in isolation from her immunocompromised husband. Directed, shot and edited by Jesse Hunt, “Meet Me At The Stairs” explores the anxiety that comes with being an essential emergency worker during a worldwide pandemic and coping with the sacrifices necessary to keep your family members safe. As Hunt states:

“Ten years ago at the age of 21, I underwent a procedure that saved my life. A kidney transplant. My father donated one of his kidneys to someone that neither of us knew for me to receive a healthy organ, from another party in return. Before that, I spent the majority of my life gradually progressing towards undetected renal failure which is ultimately what led me to a brief stint of dialysis and then the transplant….

Because of these somewhat defining experiences that come with a procedure such as an organ transplant, I have an appreciation for what living with a compromised immune system means. I also have an appreciation for how this daily challenge affects those closest to me, especially at a time like this.”

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

An Italian backpacker is confronted with a bizarre proposition at a remote gas station in this delightfully offbeat short by Australian writer-director Alex Feggans.

Starring
Boris Brkic
Nicholas Burton
Manuel Caputo

Written & Directed by Alex Feggans
Producer: Megan Ayers
Director of Photography: Kieran Fowler NZCS ACS
Production Design: Simon Morgan
Costume Designer: Natasha Harrison
Sound & Music Producers: Michael Gie & Michael Szumowski (Rumble Studios)
Music Composed by Lance Gurisik
Original Song: ‘You Understand’ Composed, produced and performed by Josh Pyke
Vocals: David Cotsios
Casting: Toni Higginbotham & Antonia Murphy
1st AC: Charlie Whitaker
2nd AC: Michael Angelis
Fight Coordinator: Mike Yee
Gaffer: Miles Jones
Best Boy: Alex Murray
Key Grip: Damian Heckendorf
Sound Recordist: Mark Cornish
Make Up & Wardrobe: Margo Regan
Assistant Director: Max Lethem
Runner: James Choe
Sound Designer: Cam Milne
Online Editor Heckler: Greg Constantaras
Colour Grade: Matt Campbell

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

A nice reminder to have confidence in yourself for Role Model’s track “For The People In The Back” by Los Angeles-based director Dylan Knight (previously featured here):

“The video was originally written as a meta approach to a music video — Tucker (the artist) shoots his own album cover while energetically exploring his own set. To me, it took on a new context being released during the Covid pandemic. It feels even more like a special reminder that you’re enough and deserve to feel confident — even if it means making the (often scary) decision go it on your own.”

Director: Dylan Knight
EP: Todd Blumberg
DP: Ben Goodman
Production Designer: Brielle Hubert
Steadicam: William Christensen
1st AC: Karla Wilson
Gaffer: Adam Siler
Key Grip: Barret Nichols
Editor: Dylan Knight
Colorist: Matt Osborne
Production Company: The Resource Room
Producers: Rafael Thomaseto & Helena Sardinha

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

The unauthorized dominos pizza nightmare video we never knew we needed. Loving the weird energy director Cooper Vacheron pumps into these visuals set to new music from Tyler Monsein.

Starring Cameron Baston & Selassie Venable
Direction & VFX by Cooper Vacheron
Produced by Peter Ferris Rosati
DP: Roger JC Lee
3D & Colo: Loni Paone
Music: Tyler Monsein
Sound Mix: Mason Mutchnick

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Battle Of The Year winner Wilfried Ebongue of b-boy crew Legiteam Obstruxion shares the way he finds inspiration through movement in this short portrait by French director Franck Trozzo Kazagui. See full credits plus some behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot below!

Starring Wilfried Ebongue
A Film by Franck Trozzo Kazagui
Production Company: Modest Department
Post Production: E.C.R.
Cinematographer: Sebastian Beyrer
Focus Puller: Bastian Godoy
Still Photographer: Jill Bettendorff
3D: Ulysse Prom
VFX: Yohan Ayllon
Compositing: Clément Milot
Motion Design: Olivier Derieux
Titles Design: Martin Blin
Editor: Franck Trozzo Kazagui
Colorist: Szymon Ronowicz
Voice: Nicolas Dautherribes Mckerl
Original Score & Sound Design: Tempo Studio
Equipment Support: Modest Department & See You Rent

Special Thanks:
Gerrit Piechowski
Al Barbuto
Alise Muraševa

Franck Trozzo Kazagui’s Website 

Franck Trozzo Kazagui on Instagram

World-class musician, Nenad Bach, shares an unexpected discovery that helps alleviate his symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease in this uplifting documentary short by Brooklyn-based director Brandon Lavoie (previously featured here).

Director & Editor: Brandon Lavoie
Producers: Barbara Kopple, David Cassidy, Williams Cole
Associate Producer: Daniel Order
Cinematography: Jonah Markowitz, David Quateman
Sound Recordist: José Gorritti
Post Sound Engineer: Justin Enoch
Colorist: Mikey Pehanich
Title & Credit Design: Sophia Baraschi-Ehrlich
Music Licensing: Musicbed

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A short meditation on the peculiar times of living in confinement by director Marc Augey. Through an assortment of vignettes, five people share their personal response to the same question.

Great mix of visuals in this video for Drama by directors Scott Perry and Tucker Bliss aka justfriends. Inspired by their own recent breakups, “Forever And A Day” explores the feeling of paralysis and helplessness after the end of a longterm relationship. As Perry describes:

“You feel you gave every bit of your soul to saving something, but it just wasn’t possible. So of course, you spend the next few months of your life going over how you could have saved it. In this aftermath, life feels almost paused, we’re lost in thought, distracted, daydreaming, staring off into oblivion, plagued by inner monologue. Sometimes it’s sad, sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s just the way it is. So we wanted to make a film that focuses on this pause, where basic existence feels impossible, but you have to stomach it and ride it out.”

Directed by justfriends (Scott Perry & Tucker Bliss)
DP: Mika Altskan
Editor: Dylan Edwards
Producer: Josh Sondock
EP: Luigi Rossi
Colorist: Jacob Mckee
Art Direction: Sharon Vion
Wardrobe: Alexandra Bernabei
Sound Design/Mix: Nikolay Antonov
Casting by Nouri Hassan @Xyne
Film lab: Metro Post

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

Claire Franjola embarks on a time sensitive journey to preserve her family history in this delightful documentary short by New York City-based filmmaker Cody Ball. Through recording her mother, Grace Gervasi Franjola, as she goes about her daily routine, Claire seeks to prove that audio is the most intimate way of capturing a moment.