Great energy to this video for Kid Kapichi by London-based director James Green (previously featured here). “Thugs” explores political themes through a tongue-in-cheek narrative about a wealthy family preparing for their annual Fox Hunt.

Director: James Green
Director of Photography: Richard Bell
Producer: Dan Matthews
A Ramshackle Production
Camera Operator: Rory Tilford
Second Camera: Richard Bell
Focus Puller: Rory Hern
Gaffer: Mark French
Camera Assistant: Francesca Amoroso
Costume Designer & Styling: Philly Piggott
Casting: James Green, Dan Matthews, Lillie Pierce & Philly Piggott
Hair & Makeup: Aimee Looseley
HMU Assistants: Kim Smith, Alice Whitehill
Art Direction: Faith Powell
Catering: Jed Wrobel @ The Albion
Runner: Charlotte Hesmer
BTS Photography: Alice Denny
Editor: James Green
Assistant Editor: Henry Cramer-Todd
Grade: Marty McMullan at Silk (Bubble TV)
Colour Producer: Andrew Patrick
Horse Handler & Riding Co-ordinator: Sophie
Horses provided by Hyfield Riding School

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

A wonderfully subtle short written and directed by Berlin-based filmmaker and photographer Vincent Boehringer. “Sinners” tells the story of two young criminals who struggle with an incident that tests the bonds of their friendship. As Boehringer explains:

“We follow them on a trip through the periphery in order to sort out their problem. However one of them obviously is struggling more with what happened and keeps on craving for a better time and place, as a form of escapism.”

Starring Mike Kouhé & Sidney Lubwa
Writer & Director: Vincent Boehringer
Producers: Hannes Maar & Valentin Mogg
Cinematographer: Cedric Retzmann
Assistant Camera: Holger Wimmer
Editor: Hendrik Peter
Sounddesign: Marlon Beatt
Music: Luka Seifert (RIP Swirl)
Colorist: Lutz Forster
Lab: Andec & Postfactory
Special Thanks: Maximilian Pittner & Nikita Luennemann

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

The McMorris brothers share the idiosyncrasies of snowboarding in this instalment of their 3-part series by director David Ehrenreich (previously featured here).

Featuring:
Mark McMorris
Craig McMorris
Charles Beckinsale
Brock Crouch
Luke Winkelmann
Yuki Kadano
Takeru Otsuka
Jake Canter
Lyon Farrell
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Russell Chai
Judd Henkes
Sebastien Toutant

Director: David Ehrenreich
Producer: Adam Burwell
Executive Producer: Jasen Isaacs
Associate Producers: Mark & Craig McMorris
Director of Photography: Jeremy Cox
Additional Cinematographers: Zach Wilson, Russell Chai, Marcus Skin, Justin Eeles, David Ehrenreich
Production Sound: Dave Pullmer, Nate Evans
Editing: Graham Fortin, David Ehrenreich
Assistant Editor: Tim Thurmeier
Sound Supervisor: Humberto Corte
Dialogue Editor: Miguel Araujo
Sound FX Editor: Alex Lara
Colourist: David Tomiak
Online Editor: Ryan Mance
Graphics: Tylor Macmillan
Music: Lightning Dust, Linda Fox & many more!
Burwell Productions Inc.

We love featuring content that’s engaging, funny, innovative, beautiful and anything in between. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

A fun video for jazz hip hop seven-piece Poetic Thrust’s track “Artichoke” by New York City-based director Richie Ellis. Shot in 16mm on the streets of Harlem by cinematographer Sachi Bahra (previously featured here).

Director: Richie Ellis
DP: Sachi Bahra
Producer : Richie Ellis
Steadicam: Austin Castelo
1st AC : Brandon Yoon
Film Loader: Will Cherry
Colorist : David Mosqueda (White Chocolate)
16mm Film Processing & Scans: Metropolis Post

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

A meandering depiction of the people of Morongo by Blair Macdonald and Oliver Clark of London-based Novemba Films. After months of planning and pitching different projects in LA, Macdonald and Oliver were struck by an intense desire to just “get out there and film.” Heading out into the desert in a rental car packed with camera gear, it wasn’t long before they stumbled upon a small town just past Palm Springs:

“We pulled into the gas station to grab a cool drink. Outside we met a guy playing hacky sack with mesmerising skill and intensity. He introduced himself to us as J3, and said he’d glimpsed the fifth dimension…. As the sun began to set across the valley that day, we decided we might as well stick around Morongo Valley, population 3,552. There was just something about it. This film is a depiction of the next 4 days spent in the town.”

Check out “Morongo” above as well as some photos from the project below!

A Film by Novemba
Editor: Erin Nordstrom
Colourist: Jason Wallis
Music by 2WEI
Mixed by Mike Bovill
Thanks to: Electric Theatre Collective, 750mph, Spot Welders.

Novemba’s Website

Novemba on Vimeo

Novemba on Instagram

A lovely mix of visuals for Red Moon’s debut “Dogma” by London-based director Josh Thornton-Allan. Drawing on the track’s themes of living an unfiltered life, free of lies, prejudices, beliefs and social constructs, Thornton-Allan emphasizes the simplicity of feeling:

“Placing movement and choreography at the heart of the film, the bodies are removed from their physical presence and instead become symbolic. Along with choreographer Ricky Labib they built a physical language where each movement conveys certain emotions or themes and use this to create a journey as our characters learn to break down preconceived notions and become anew.”

Director: Josh Thornton-Allan
Producer: Jake River Parker
Exec: Ben Mealing
DOP: Henry Gill
1st AC: Kai Newton
Makeup: Victoria Haffner
Wardobe: Azura Lovisa
Choreographer: Ricky Labib
Editor: Zoe Desgraupes @ Flock Edit
Grade: Jonny Thorpe @ Glassworks

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

London/New York-based writer and director Hannah Berry George delves into issues of mental health specific to the drag community in this stylish documentary short centred around NYC drag queen Blackie O.

Featuring Blackie O
Director & Producer: Hannah Berry George
DOP & Producer: Andrea Gavazzi
Composer: Tom Haniff
Runner: Martin Reyes
Editor: Samuel Marr
Edit Producer: Jennifer Jayne
Edit House: The Quarry
Colourist: Thomas Mangham
Colour Producer: Charles Morris
Post House: The Mill
Sound Recordist: Youmin Kang
Thank you to Gotham Sound and Metropolis Post for their support.
Special thanks to Lips Restaurant and all the Queens who work there.

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

A beautiful portrait of the secluded lives of Patagonian cowboys (Gauchos) by Australian-Chilean filmmaker Matias Bolla. Living in isolation at the ends of the world, “Campesinos” explores the sacrifice, tradition and endurance required to survive such extreme conditions as well as what it truly means to be alone.

Director & Editor: Matias Bolla
Director of Photography: Miller Best
Music: Darren Lim
Colour Grade: Matt Fezz

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

Something really satisfying about this video for Metronomy by directors Sam Davis and Tom Andrew. Produced by London-based DadBod Films, “Whitsand Bay” follows a retro disco light as it finds a home across the most unreachable and unwanted places to party.

Production Company: DadBod Films
Directed by Sam Davis & Tom Andrew
Executive Producer: Rob Wildsmith
Producer: Jack Bingham
DOP: Yannick Hausler
Gaffer: Hélio Ribeiro
Lighting Design: Brendan Clarke
Location Manager: Steve Mason
Location Assistant: Ed Mason
Editor: Joe Walton
VFX Producer: Alasdair Patrick
Lead Flame Artist: Mark Chapman
Colourist: Connor Coolbear
VFX Supervisor: Nick Turner
Director Rep: Claire Stubbs

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

London-based director Brock Neal-Roberts asks “why do we stop being young?” in this modern twist on Grimm’s fairy tales. “Fables Of An Aged Youth” presents three vignettes inspired by true stories of moments when youth felt lost or taken. While in classic fairy tales children are constantly threatened with the mysticism of ghouls and monsters, here Neal-Roberts suggests that losing our belief in those fantastical dangers is the scarier thing.

Starring
Kit Holloway
Arthur Salisbury
Jamila Martin-Wingett
Sidonie McClaren

Production Company: Blink
Director: Brock Neal-Roberts
Cinematographer: Alistair Little
Music Composer: Alex Teller
Editor: Brock Neal-Roberts
Grade: Jessica Vile @ Framestore

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

A long, dull wait at the hospital becomes an interminable ordeal for a woman in need of help in this moving short by Brooklyn-based writer-director Samantha Scaffidi. While the reason for her visit is unclear, the few nurses on staff tend to people with more visible injuries, giving viewers an intimate perspective into the experience of sexual assault survivors awaiting forensic exam. “Wait” was originally released as a PSA with RAINN. With this version of the film Scaffidi hopes to continue drawing attention to the obstacles faced by those seeking care and justice:

“Due to a shortage of nurses trained to collect forensic evidence, survivors of sexual violence may have to travel long distances, sometimes even out of state, to find a hospital that provides sexual assault forensic exams (commonly known as a rape kit); some wait hours for an exam.”

Starring Christine Spang
Director & Writer: Samantha Scaffidi
Producer & Co-founder: Patrick Milling Smith
Co-founder: Brian Carmody
Line Producer: Alyson Latz
Editor: Exile – Stephania Dulowski
Sound Design: Q department – Drazen Bosnjak
Colorist: Company 3 – Sofie Borup
DP: Maceo Bishop

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

Nice director’s cut of Black Marble’s “Private Show” by Los Angeles-based director and cinematographer Ben Joyner. The concept was born out of Joyner’s personal relationship with the Neshoba Country Fair in Mississippi, as he shared with us:

“It’s the United State’s largest campground fair, an abandoned southern shantytown that comes to life for one week every year at the end of July. It’s a really wild place that feels almost frozen in time. And while it’s very unique and special, it also carries some historical tension that is palpable.

The music provided a rich emotional landscape to explore the place and the people that inhabit it. The track had this immense emotional weight to it, but also felt really fun. The goal was to craft something that reflected that feeling. I loved the idea of bringing Black Marble to the fair and sort of dropping him into the middle of the spectacle.”

Watch above and see credits below!

Directed by Ben Joyner
DP: Hayden Mason
Edit/Additional Camera: Ben Joyner
Colorist: Kaitlyn Battistelli
Process/Scans: Metropolis Post NY

Special Thanks:
Karen Kilgore Crantford
Julie Kilgore Joyner
REEL GOOD Film
Ethos Studio
Lightstone Rentals
The Band U.S (cover band featured in the video)
Andy King
Forrest Johnson
Amber Joyner
Sam Joyner
Mary Marchand
Taylor Alley
Andrew Litten
Daniel Henry
Bobby Moser
Brandon Kapelow
Jacob Kirby
Kevin Clark

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