Lovely imagery in this poetic video for Orange Ocean by Melbourne-based director Yeoseop Yoon. Shot by Joey Knox (previously featured here), “DIG” explores the beauty that can emerge from experiences of pain and hardship. As Yoon explains:

“I wanted to paint a series of metaphoric images that mirrors the beauty of struggles we face. More importantly, it is not about the struggle but is about the emotional journey that often delivers something beautiful. I wanted each scene to be charged with a strong sense of ‘moving forward.’”

Starring Ruben Pandack
Directed & Edited by Yeoseop Yoon
Cinematographer: Joey Knox
1st Camera Assistant: Taylan Ceylan
2nd Camera Assistant: Anthony Taranto
Gaffer: Jayden De Oliveira
A&R: Loom Records

Yeoseop Yoon’s Website

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A beautiful testament to the power and necessity of collaboration and community from Brooklyn-based Reframe the World. Directed by Matthew Palmer (previously featured here), the film’s creation is itself an example of people coming together as all the footage and photos were generously donated by talented NY filmmakers and photographers. The voices similarly feature New Yorkers from around the 5 boroughs, recorded on the phone, and sent to be used in the project. Check out “And Now We’re Here” above and see full credits below!

A Reframe the World Project
Directed by Matthew Palmer
Produced by Michael Peay, Chelsea Franklin, Charlotte Traver
Edited by Matt Carter
Color Producer: Denisse Jimenez
Colorist: Alexia Salingaros
Composition, Sound Design, & Mix by Sam Costello

Footage and Photography by
Erik Bakshi
Nick Bowser
Jay Boyington
Joey Chavez
Ryd Cook
Datbikestar
Drew Dawson
Edgar Dubrovskiy
Prince Dudley
Optic Films
SJ Finlay
Miquel Guillaume
Bennett Johnson
Alexey Kosorukov
Michelle Nash
Omar Nasr
Jake Oleson
Sacred Pact
Taylor McIntosh
Tess Pereyo
Marco Porsia
Janssen Powers
Christian Ranby
Mac Saxton
Daniel Seiffert
Roberto Sermini
Roberto Serrina
Tim Sessler
Gautam Singhani
Zev Schmitz
Carmelo Varela
Chris Westlund

Voice Over by
Roxanne Artesona
Price Ave
Najeary Bennett
Catherine Bernath
David Cihelna
Alyce Cihelna
Grace Clarke
Veronica Diaferia
Prince Dudley
Stefano Ferrari
Scott Franklin
Anne Gordon
Jesse Grossman
Jessica Hodgson
John Hodgson
Peter Hodgson
Taryn King
Alexey Kosorukov
Woonjoon Kwan
Karen Lim
Caroline Madaio
Anne Miller
Maryann Minaesian
Ella Nuortila
TJ Stukes
Amy Xu

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

Great energy and creativity to this video for Lewis Del Mar by New York-based director duo Jason Sondock and Simon Davis aka rubberband. (previously featured here). Made in a single take over the course of 14 hours with a micro crew, “The Ceiling” offers a practical metaphor for the album’s dichotomy of nature and industry using a mix of old and new technology:

“We did two takes consecutively (a couple loopy back to back all nighters), the camera tracking from one window in Jason’s apartment (at sunset) to the other (at sunrise), traveling 43 feet in total. We used a MoCo rig that was shipped from LA to NYC and was fully assembled by Jason upon arrival. The entire rig was built in his apartment by us, with no grips. The resulting film was then animated over using clear inkjet film and scanned in frame by frame. We like to think of creativity like gas: it expands to fit the container it’s in. Further we like to think this video would’ve been an incredible piece of art even if it was made completely agnostic of the pandemic.”

Directed by rubberband.
Creative Direction: rubberband.
Producer: Luigi Rossi
Cinematographer: Patrick Golan
1st AC + Associate Producer: Sarah Penson
Animation Lead & Art Director: James Siewert
2nd Unit DP: Kao Cheng Kai
Additional Photography: Kate Koeller
VFX: Max Colt, Frender
Color: Aubrey Woodiwisss
Post Producers: Laurie Adrianopoli, Briana Brackett, Ale Amato
Head of Music for SMUGGLER: Elizabeth Doonan
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This video was submitted by Jason Sondock and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Former world tour surfer Ricky Basnett shares his 8-year struggle with alcohol abuse in this hybrid music video for JONAH by South African director and cinematographer Jason Hearn. Known for his ability to capture intimate footage of people’s relationship with the sea, the band asked the now London-based filmmaker to adapt his short film, “No Regrets,” for their track. As Hearn reflects on the project:

“It has been great to repackage the story of my friend Ricky Basnett into a shorter format… The story has helped so many people and to see it now being reborn into a music video with an amazing song, we hope that more people will be inspired to turn around their lives for the better.”

Featuring Ricky Basnett
Directed by Jason Hearn
Cinematography & Editing by Jason Hearn
2nd Camera: Paul Daniel
Drone: Helio Imagery
Sound Design: Adam Layland
Art Director: Angelo Mammone

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!

Love this documentary short by directors and cinematographers Helki Frantzen and Thomas Torres Cordova. “L.A. Roll” documents the challenges faced by a crew of dance roller skaters when their beloved hometown rink closes, forcing them to find a new space to continue their shared passion.

Directed by Helki Frantzen & Thomas Torres Cordova
Cinematographers: Thomas Torres Cordova, Helki Frantzen
Editors: Arshia Haq, Eric Pritchard
Music: Wynne Bennett & Guillermo Brown

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

A surreal short by Los Angeles-based director Andy Trimbach. Inspired by the words of Walt Whitman, “Grounded” follows a young hunter’s strange encounter in the woods.

“Now I see the secret of making the best person:
it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth”

Written & Directed by Andy Trimbach
Director of Photography: Michael Ormiston
Produced by Kyle Moore
Music: “Absence” by Slow Meadow

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

Another great project from Montréal-based director Vincent René-Lortie and dancer-choreographer Brittney Canda (previously featured here). Set to Owen Pallett’s track and filmed during the beginning of quarantine measures, “A Bloody Morning” sees Vincent and Brittney invite friends and family to dance from behind the windows of their homes. The piece contains footage from 14 consecutive evenings, rain or shine, as a way of showcasing the range of emotions experienced by those coping with the pandemic in their city:

“This project was meaningful for us and our community. We are grateful to be in a position where we could give our friends, family, and colleagues an opportunity to look forward to, when all other opportunities to perform had been canceled, and everything seemed so bleak for us artists. Hope it also makes you want to dance!”

Directed by Vincent René-Lortie & Brittney Canda
Produced by Samuel Caron
Production Company: Telescope Films
Cinematographer: Vincent René-Lortie
Editors: Guillaume Marin & Vincent René-Lortie
Color Grading: Simon Bøisx
VFX: Emile Massie-Vanasse

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!

Two lonely romantics go to absurd lengths to be anyone but themselves in this fun sci-fi short by Toronto-based director Ethan Godel of JnE Films.

Starring Tim Blair & Kasi McAuley
Directed by Ethan Godel
Written by Filip Lee and Ethan Godel
Produced by Ryan Bobkin
Director of Photography: Diego Guijarro
Production Design: Hannah Garcia
Audio: Alex Gluch
Score: Aaron Cheung

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

An uplifting documentary short from London-based production company 3angrymen. Directed by Danny Baldwin, “Sunnyside” is a moving portrait of loneliness, grief, and the redemptive power of companionship, told through the stories of ‘Shedders’ Gerry, Steve and Howard. Watch above to see how their shared shed in East London becomes a place of solace, skills and community.

A 3angrymen Production
Director: Danny Baldwin
Producer: Kezia Clark
Director of Photography: Charles Harrison Mori
Editor & Colourist: Jon Beagley
Executive Producers: Thom Wood, Guy Saville
Shedders: Ray Farress, Gerry Bell, Howard White, Steve Thompson
Special Thanks: Alias Kit Hire, Mind – Tower Hamlets,
UK Men’s Sheds, Sunnyside Men Shed

This video was submitted by 3angrymen and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A simple-yet-moving spot by Brooklyn-based director Samantha Scaffidi (previously featured here). Made with the support of Healing Tree, “Bound” uses recut footage from a film made two years ago to help raise our awareness of domestic violence in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The clip features Mick Flannery’s track, “Run A Mile,” which has been released with all profits going toward Women’s Aid.

Director: Samantha Scaffidi
Music: Mick Flannery, Recorded by Christian Best
Editor: Ryan Ohm
Post Supervisor: Filip Ilic
Cinematographer: Jeff Melanson
Talent: Mitzi Akaha|
Production Comapny: Voyager Creative
Executive Producer: Andrew Hutcheson
Head of Production: David Brickel
1st AC: Kali Riley
2nd AC: Sam Porterfield
Gaffer: Shane Moore
Dolly Grip: Steven Stauffer
Grip: Joe Cozza
Art Direction: Madeline Porterfield
Special Effects Makeup Artist: Damien Leone
Sound Mix: Charles Frank
Color: Company 3 – Jenny Montgomery

This video was submitted by Samantha Scaffidi and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project

A poetic dance piece by Madrid-based filmmaker Mikaela Guariniello. “Para una imagen rota” (“To a broken image”) explores the pressure placed on women to meet contemporary beauty standards through elaborately choreographed movement expressing the fear, pain, and feelings of suffocation associated with how unachievable self-expectations affect a woman’s relationship with her own body.

Dancers
Natalia Lis
Andrea El Ameri
Asia Zonta
María Bernardo
Lucía Martínez

Director: Mikaela Guariniello
Executive Producer: Mikaela Guariniello
Director of Photography: Alana Mejía González
Art Director: Andrea Gandarillas
Line Producer: Joaquin Pinedo
Director Assistant: Sofia Café, Gloria Alonso
Editor: Giacomo Prestinari
Colorist: Nadia Khairat
Music Composer: Ell Kendall
1AC: Jorge Rico
2AC: Daniel Bato
2nd Unit Camera: Rigel Pomares
Gaffer: Elena Fernandez
Electrician: Kike Azzolini
Set Dresser: Patricia del Moral, Denitsa Georgieva
Makeup Artist: Vanessa Rivero
Makeup Assistants: Ana Rancier, Andrea Gomez
Script: Guillermo Ruiz
Graphist: Rubens Ziontifik
Runner: María Panadero

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

Nice retro look to this video for Yellow Days’ track “Love Is Everywhere” by New York City-based director Kevin Lombardo (previously featured here).

Director: Kevin Lombardo
Producer: Becky Hearn
Production Manager: Matthew Cheaton
Production Co.: Henri Collective
PA: Maurice Pena Ochoa
PA: Eric Blanco (Jango)
PA: Stefan Mihailovic
Director of Photography: Mike Simpson
Editor: Matt Carter
Steadicam Operator: Davis Baldwin
1st AC: Jacqui Carriere
Gaffer: Steve Forbs
Key Grip: Stu Brumbaugh
1st AD: Art Brainard
2nd AD: Leland Smitts
Production Designer: Carson Giles
Stylist: Harper Slate
1st Assistant: Sophia Alverez
2nd Asssistant: Sofia Sperling (Fii)
Casting: Kate Antognini & Damian Bao
Colorist: Asa Fox @ Encore Hollywood
Titles: Phil Brooks at Significant Others
Sound Design: Sam Costello
Special Thanks: Brick House Studios, Steven Sawyerr,
Alex In The Kitchen, Kat & Damiean, and Sparta Grip.

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