A privileged place for meetings, exchanges and discovery, festivals provide a vibrant and accessible environment for the widest variety of talent, stories and emotions that constitute Europe’s cinematography.
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MEDIA is pleased to support the eight edition of IN THE PALACE FEST and we extend our best wishes to all of the festival goers for an enjoyable and stimulating event.
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l’EuropE aimE lEs FEstivals EuropéEns
lieux privilégiés de rencontres, d’échanges et de découverte, les festivals rendent vivante et accessible au plus grand nombre la formidable diversité de talents, d’histoires et d’émotion que constituent les cinématographies européennes.
le programme mEDia de l’union européenne vise à promouvoir le patrimoine cinématographique européen, à encourager les films à traverser les frontières et à renforcer la compétitivité du secteur audiovisuel. le programme mEDia a reconnu l’importance culturelle, éducative, sociale et économique des festivals en co-finançant 95 d’entre eux dans toute l’Europe en 2009.
Ces manifestations se démarquent par une programmation européenne riche et diverse, par les opportunités de rencontres qu’elles offrent au public et aux cinéastes, par leurs actions de soutien aux jeunes auteurs, par leurs initiatives pédagogiques ou encore par l’importance donnée au dialogue inter-culturel.
En 2009, l’ensemble de ces festivals soutenus par le programme mEDia a programmé plus de 20.300 œuvres européennes pour le grand plaisir de près de 2,9 millions cinéphiles.
mEDia a le plaisir de soutenir la 8 édition du intHE palaCE FEst et souhaite aux festivaliers de grands moments de plaisir.
Prof. Laurentiu Damian was born on 25th of January 1956 in Giurgiu, Romania. He was documentary film director at Al. Sahia Cinematographic Studio from 1980 to 1990. Since 1990 he is University Lecturer at the National University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art “I.L.Caragiale”- Bucharest (U.N.A.T.C.), Leader of the University programmes of Film & TV directing and Screenplay writing. From 1995 to 1999 he was Head of Department Film and Television Directing. From 1999 to 2007 prof. Damian was Vice-Chancellor at University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art “I.L.Caragiale”- Bucharest. Prof. Damian is member of U.N.A.T.C. Senate. He is also General Manager of Editura Video - Art Documentary Studio of Ministry of Culture, Director of Public Events and Festival Department, Director of Student Relationship Department (U.N.A.T.C.). Prof. Damian is author and director of more than 30 documentary award-winning films. Проф.
Al. Sahia Cinematographic Studio.
Ivan Bogdanov
Иван Богданов MINI
Ivan Bogdanov was born in 1973 in Sofia. He holds a BFA degree in Media & Animation from the Willem de Kooning Academy of Art and Design, Rotterdam in 2001. Since then he has been working as an independent animation director, illustrator and commix artist. Recently he is involved in the founding of Compote Collective - a platform for individual visual talents.
Иван
Willem de Kooning
обединяваща
изкуства.
MINI it Jury
Kate Taylor is a freelance programmer, writer and festivalist based in Manchester, UK. Her previous roles include Director of Abandon Normal Devices, Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture in Liverpool in 2009, and six years as Co-Director of the London Short Film Festival. As former editor of Northern Film Network, she championed emerging filmmaking talent from the North West of England, and she currently sits as an advisor on the boards of moves and the Flatpack Film Festival. Kate is a regular contributor to Electric Sheep magazine, a deviant view of cinema, and her film criticism has appeared in many magazines and periodicals.
Rainer Strecker Райнер
Reiner Strecker is a German actor, born in 1965 in Berlin. Strecker is a graduate of the School Falckenberg of Monaco in Bavaria. He worked for the theater from 1980 to 1994. From 1989 until 1994 he worked for the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He also worked in television, in productions such as ‘Musical Line 1’ or ‘Flim Klemperer’. He worked on the show ‘Special Squad Cobra 11’ in the role of Inspector of Police Ingo Fischer.
MINI it Jury
Vessela Dantcheva
Vessela Dantcheva was born in 1975. She was awarded a Cum Laude degree from the Rotterdam Art Academy “Willem de Kooning” for the film ‘Pull Over’. In 2001 she attended an exchange program with the School of Visual Arts in New York. Vessela Dancheva works as an independent film director & animator on her own animation films, as well as on commissioned projects. Her filmography includes ‘Anna Blume’ (2009), ‘Sometimes’ (2008), ‘Easy’ (2004), ‘Wish’ (2004), ‘Snowman’ (2002), ‘Wake up’ (2002), ‘Pull Over’ (2001).
Ivo Draganov is Bulgarian dramaturgist, media expert and university professor, member of the Expert Media Council (SEM) and the National Documentary Film Commission at EA “Bulgarian National Film Center”. He was born on the 19th of March 1951 and graduated from the National Film Academy (NATFIZ). Later on he attended additional professional training programmes in film and media in UK, France and USA. Ivo Draganov was executive director of TV Europe, as well as program director of Channel 1 (Kanal 1) and deputy director of Bulgarian National Television and Bulgarian National Film Archive. He was editor in the Documentary and Popular Films Studio “Vreme”. Ivo Draganov was also program director of the national Film Distribution Company, production manager and organizer at Boyana Film Studios, and member and Chairman of the National Radio and TV Commission. He is a Professor at NATFA ‘Kr. Sarafov’ and New Bulgarian University. Editor of popular films and TV program consultant. Author of documentary film scripts. He has more than 600 published articles.
SONY it Jury
Eldora Traykova
Елдора
Eldora Traykova is one of the leading contemporary Bulgarian documentary directors. She was born in 1956 in Petritch, Bulgaria. In 1979 she graduated in film directing from the National Film Academy (VITIZ). Since then she has made many successful films and TV documentaries. Among the films directed by Eldora Traykova are ‘UFO’s above Kliutch Village’ (1987), ‘A Long Film About Sex’ (1988), ‘Neon Stories’ (1992), ‘Zhivotoopisanie’ (1994), ‘Of Men and Bears’ (1997), ‘Born with the Century’ (1999), ‘Voices’ (2004). Her film ‘UFO’s above Kliutch Village’ was awarded at Montreal Film Festival. ‘Neon Stories’ won Grand Prize at Tampere and the award for documentary at the BBC Fest. Winner of Golden Rose National Film Award for ‘Of Men and Bears’.
Ivan Tsonev
Иван
Bulgarian cinematographer and director Ivan Tsonev was born on 12th of September 1931 in Gurkovo, Bulgaria. In 1954 he graduated from the National Professional School of Cinematography and Photo-technique in Sofia. He started his professional career in the newly created Youth Theatre in the middle 1950s. His filmography includes over 120 film titles, among which documentary portraits of Andrzej Wayda, Antonio Gaudi, Zahary Stoyanov, Luben Karavelov. The film-portraits he created are master pieces of photography. He is also one of the inventors of the new documentary style in contemporary Bulgarian cinema, together with Juliy Stoyanov, Nevena Tosheva, Eduard Zahariev and Oskar Kristanov. Ivan Tsonev is awarded with prestigious national and international film awards, from festivals such as Moscow, Leipzig and Lille.
SONY it Jury
SONY it Jury
Rumyana Petkova
Румяна
Roumyana Petkova is born in 1948 in Elhovo, Bulgaria. In 1973 graduates in film and TV directing from VGIK - Moscow. From 1993 she is Professor in film directing at South-West University ‘Neofit Rilski’ in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Her fiction film in 4 series ‘Burn, Little Flame, Burn’ was won the Critic’s Award at the national film festival ‘Golden Rose’ in Varna. In 1997 she made ‘A Talk with Birds’, which won the prestigious Liv Ullmann Award at Chicago IFF. In 2004 she finished ‘The Other Possible Life of Ours’ - a film, based on the story by Nevelina Popova. The film is the last part from trilogy that includes the films ‘Reflections’ (1982) and ‘Back to Earth’ (1986).
Vasil Zhivkov
Васил
Vasil Zhivkov was born in 1948 in Sofia. He graduated in film directing from VGIK, Moscow, in 1974. From 1991 until 1998 he is the director of the Bulgarian National Film Archive. He is a Professor in film directing at the Bulgarian National Film Academy NATFA ‘Kr. Sarafov’ and the New Bulgarian University. His films ‘Sheshkingrad’ and ‘A Fortunate Case’ are awarded with Golden Python for Best Bulgarian Documentary. In 2006 he co-directed with Ivan Cherkelov the omnibus film ‘Christmas Tree Upside Down’, which won the Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe and the Jury Special Mention. The film was also awarded with the Big Prize for Young EasternEuropean Cinema at Cottbus IFF.
SONY it Jury
Васил
Commercial & Music it Jury
Ji Lee
Джи
Born in Seoul, Korea, and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Ji Lee studied design at Parsons School of Design. He currently works as the Creative Director at Google Creative Lab in New York and teaches design at the School of Visual Arts. In the past, Lee has worked as the branding director at Droga5 and art director at Saatchi & Saatchi.
Ji Lee is the founder of the widely publicized Bubble Project and the author of two books: “Talk Back: The Bubble Project” and “Univers Revolved: a 3Dimensional Alphabet.”
Lee has given numerous lectures including Harvard University, MIT and MoMA. Lee’s work has appeared in ABC World News, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Guardian, Wired among others.
Atanas (Naso) Rouskov
Атанас (Насо) Русков
Atanas (Naso) Rouskov is one of the most popular Bulgarian musicians. Being a front man of two of the leading Bulgarian bands BABYFACE CLAN and IMBECILES & THE POISON UMBRELLA he has performed with world famous musicians such as Stereo MC’s, Molotov, Dead Kennedys, Asian Dub Foundation, Sheep on Drugs, Transglobal Underground, Secret Chiefs, Placebo, Ladytron, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Sohodolls, Blaine Reininger (Tuxedomoon), Lorraine, Colin Dale, Lene Lovich, D.A.F., White Rose Movement. In 1999 he started as a radio host of Rock-Radio Tangra (aka Tangra Mega Rock since 2008). From 2005 until 2006 he is also radio host in BBC Radio. He also presents an original radio program at Star FM radio, Bulgaria. Atanas Rouskov is also author of articles for the magazines Rolling Stone, Egoist, One and FourFourTwo.
Commercial & Music it Jury
Фронтмен
BABYFACE CLAN и IMBECILES & THE POISON UMBRELLA. Свирил е с имена на
Stereo MC’s, Molotov, Dead Kennedys, Asian Dub Foundation, Sheep on Drugs, Transglobal Underground, Secret Chiefs (като фронтмен
BABYFACE CLAN), както и с Placebo, Ladytron, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Sohodolls, Blaine Reininger (Tuxedomoon), Lorraine, Colin Dale, Lene Lovich, D.A.F., White Rose Movement (като
IMBECILES & THE POISON UMBRELLA).
(от 2008
Stone” и “FourFourTwo”.
Commercial & Music it Jury
Ivo Christov
Ivo Christov was born in 1961 in Sofia, Bulgaira. Since 1989 he works as graphic designer and musical producer. Until now he designed over 100 music albums and worked with famous Bulgarian and foreign musicians such as Theodosii Spassov, Milcho Leviev, Ivo Papazov, Arabel von Karayan, Anatliy Vapirov, Antonii Dontchev, Stoyan Yankulov and Elitsa Todorova, Lili Ivanova, FSB, Kameliya Todorova, Angel Zaberski , Silviya Katsarova, Tedi Katsarova, Irina Florin, Grapha, George Hristov, Kiril Marichkov, Stefan Vuldobrev and the bands SUPERMAX, SELIAH, STRANGERS, STONEHENGE, NEW GENERATION, TIBETIAN HEARTS (who’s albums he produced and published), SIGNAL, WICKEDA, BULGARO, ANIMACIONERITE, BLUBA LU, BULGARA, AKAGA, JP3 and many others. In 1999 he established his own music company, KUKER MUSIC, which produced and published some of the most popular albums of traditional and contemporary Bulgarian music, among which “Harmonies” by EVA quartet, “Ultramarine” by Teodosii Spassov, “House No13” by Antonii Dontchev and the music of the film “Gipsy Summer”, performed by Karandila Orchestra. Author of the radio programs TROPICALISSIMO (RFI-Bulgaria) and The Dilemma Studio Hour (Darik Radio).
it Fiction
MINI
Portugal, 2009, 10’
Португалия, 2009, 10’
Director: M. F. Costa e Silva
Writer: Luis Diogo
Cinematography: Francisco Vidinha
Composer: Fernando Rocha
Editor: Carlos Silva and Filipe Ribeiro
Producer: Antonio C. Valente
Cast: Paulo Freixinho, Diana Morais, Eder Neves, Jose Eduardo, Leonor Valente
1111
1111
There’s one clock, a bank card and a lighter. A promising meeting but where the clock, at last, makes his mark the hour in which someone dies.
M. F. Costa e Silva was born in Porto-Portugal, in 1954. He have study cinema in Porto Superior Artistic School (ESAP), and Multimedia in the Santarem Superior School (ESES). In the moment he prepares the Doctorate in Cinema, in the Tras-os-Montes/Alto Douro University of Portugal. He is Professor of audiovisual and screenplay in the Cine-Video and photography of ESAP, and Audiovisuals Technologies in the Jean Piaget Superior Institute. He is the director of the Oporto Superior Cinema School - ESAP.
5 Memories
5 спомена
Irma walks up and down the aisles of a market repeating a list of ingredients to herself. She can remember the first four but keeps forgetting the fifth ingredient. To retrieve the lost memory, Irma embarks on a journey to the deepest part of her consciousness.
Oriana Alcaine was born in San Sebastian in 1979. After obtaining a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Antonio de Nebrija University in Madrid, Oriana specialised in Film Direction at the Centre d’Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya (CECC) in Barcelona. She has been working in film since 2001. Alejandra Marquez was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 1982. She studied Film at the Centre d’Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya (CECC) in Barcelona. In 2006 she returned to Mexico where she works freelance developing, writing and directing audiovisual contents for a variety of formats.
Producers: Joan Borrell, Luis Fernandez Reneo, Louis Fazarri, Alex Bovicelli, Sergio Garcia Leaniz, Maria Beltran
Cast: Sierra Paris, Vicky Villalvazo
Based on a true story, ‘A Better Life’ is the faithful account of 3 Mexican children who got lost in the Sonoran desert while trying to cross the U.S. border. A history that repeats itself every week in the border towns of Mexico, feeding one of the most profitable illegal businesses: immigrant smuggling.
Luis Fernandez Reneo studied cinema in Los Angeles, where he wrote and produced two feature-length films and various short films that gained him several international prizes. He is currently developing projects for his own production company Altamira.
All Life Long
През целия живот
In the jumble of a flea market, a man’s heart is empty as his business. If we can choose those we love, we do not always decide who wants us.
Martin-Philippe Tremblay is passionated about the eclectic form of videoclip and shots a twenty of them. His work is broadcast on the Musique Plus and Much Music TV channels, and appears several times in the French Top 5. Tremblay also shows a sensitive and engaged side with his first short film, a social drama about racism and intolerance in North America. In 2007, he studied directing at INIS (Institut national de l’image et du son). His last short film shot at INIS won the Coup de cœur Price and the Excellence Award of Cine-Quebec.
Canada, 2009, 2’30’’
Канада, 2009, 2’30’’
Director: Martin-Philippe Tremblay
Writer: Mathieu Moreau
Cinematography: Jonathan Decoste
Composer: First Com
Editor: Francois Normandin
Producer: Marie Brissette
Cast: Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Pascale Montpetit
Serbia & Montenegro, 2010, 7’26’’
Сърбия, 2010, 7’26’’
Appetite
Апетит
Director: Irena Ristic
Writers: Irena Ristic, Milos Paunovic
Cinematography: Ivan Todorovski
Animation: Ana Radojicic, Ivan Todorovski
Composer: Ah. Ahilej
Editor: Ana Radojicic
Producer: Irena Ristic
Morning. They are both in the house. A big and taste breakfast is being prepared. Once it is served, something will have happened - a piercing female scream from the neighborhood. And then another one. And another one. Yet they will resist. They will eat out everything they see.
Irena Ristic is a theatre director and psychologist. Primarily, she is focused on research into creativity, and experimental approaches to the performing arts. ‘Appetite’ is her firs short film.
Aranceles
Обмитяване
The production of Latin American cinema is unknown even to the Latin Americans. The aranceles (tariff, duty, imposition) placed on the distribution set in jail all the creativity and virtuosity of the cinema most inventive and realistic of the world. ‘Aranceles’ is a panorama of Latin American cinema seen from a prison, as these films are jailed.
Melo Viana graduated Design at the Catholic University of Curitiba, Brazil and studies at the University of Cinema - CINETVPR, Faculty of Arts of Parana. As visual artist, he participated 8 times in the Paranaense Art Festival.
Jonash does not know what sunlight is. Jonash has never seen a tree, or the sky. He has never left his bedroom. He doesn’t need to. But one day everything changes...
Jota Aronak is a Spanish director and screenwriter.
Director: Jota Aronak
Writer: Jota Aronak
Asbestos
Азбест
An interior dialogue about consumption broadcasted through a broken TV.
Tommi Seitajoki is a Finnish freelance film director and screenwriter. He graduated as a film director from Arcada Polytechnics in 2006. He has directed several short films, documentaries and commercials as well as radio plays, music videos and experimental films. His short films have been shown on television and film festivals worldwide.
Finland, 2009, 7’22”
Финландия, 2009, 7’22”
Director: Tommi Seitajoki
Writer: Tommi Seitajoki
Cinematographer: Tommi Seitajoki
Composer: Tommi Seitajoki
Editor: Tommi Seitajoki
Producer: Tommi Seitajoki
Spain, 2009, 9’
Испания, 2009, 9’
Balcony Boy
Балконно
Balcony boy, poor balcony boy, this is the story of the Balcony Boy. His fault, having big ears. His bad habit, putting his head where he shouldn’t have.
Pilar Palomero was born in 1980 in Zaragoza. She is a Bachelor of Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza and a graduate from the ECAM (Escuela de Cinematografнa de la Comunidad de Madrid), in photography for film. Trained in script writing at Internacional Film and Television School in Cuba (EICTV) and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Master of Film and TV script). For some years she has worked as a freelance in adversiting and television. She presently works as a scriptwriter for television. Alter taking part in over 50 short films in the photography department, in 2005 made her debut as a director with the short film ‘Sonrisas’, awarded prizes in several festivals. ‘Nino Balcon’ is her second short film.
Beast
Звяр
Ten year old Benjamin and his mother, live on an isolated farm, under the violent reign of his father. The mother often takes the beating, and pretends the things are normal. But when Benjamin one day sees it all his suspicions turn out to be true. He requires his father to apologize. Naively, Benjamin believes that the words can set the problem.
Lars P. Arendt is an 32 year old director educated at Super8 - a film school in Aarhus, Denmark. He has made the award-winning short film ‘A Mind’s I’. Since 1999 he has made around 10 short films in the genre of drama, experimental, found- footage and horror. His short ‘Beast’, with the famous danish actress Anne Louise Hassing, who also starred in Lars von Trier’s ‘The Idiot’ was shot with completely professional cast.
Denmark, 2009, 14’
Дания, 2009, 14’
Director: Lars P. Arendt
Writer: Lars P. Arendt
Cinematography: Erik Zappon
Producer: Troels Faber
Cast: Lars Bom, Anne Louise Hassing, Frederik Tingsoe
Lithuania, 2009, 26’
Литва, 2009, 26’
Director: Andrius Blazevicius
Writer: Andrius Blazevicius
Cinematography: Audrius Budrys
Composer: Domas Strupinskas, Vainius
Sodeika
Editor: Mindaugas Sruogius, Andrius Blazevicius
Producer: Skaiste Matijosiute
Cast: Vidas Petkevicius, Marius Repsys, Ilona Kvietkute, Milda Stakenaite
Bergen
Берген
Two men meet in a shabby Vilnius restaurant - an old man and a young thug named Vytas. After a couple of shots the old man suggests that Vytas, who is leaving for Bergen the following day, would save the restaurant singer from hardships and take her away from Lithuania.
Andrius Blazevicius was born in 1985. He graduated with a BA in TV and Film Directing from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2009 and is currently pursuing an MA in the same subject.
Birdland
Бърдленд
A girl and a man - a duel and a duet. The girl with the saxophone has a dream: she wants to become a star, she wants the big show and the big breakthrough. But there’s this special guy with the saxophone getting in Sophie’s way, again and again. Who will win, who will lose?
Jimmy Grassiant studied film science at the Universite Lumiere in Lyon. During his studies he took over the student association Yobo - Support for artistic creation, from which numerous projects (photography, short films, plays) have emerged. After completing his bachelor, he gained practical experience in a French TV serie (France 3), at the Pro7 Sat.1 Media AG and at the film production Pandora Film. He visited the Screenplay School Wolfgang Pfeiffer in Berlin and took part at the Kodak Film Experience course in Paris.
Germany, 2009, 7’
Германия, 2009, 7’
Director: Jimmy Grassiant
Writer: Georg Tiefenbach
Cinematographer: David Rankenhohn
Composer: Tadeusz Jakubowski, Felix Behrendt
Editor: Nicolas Houver
Producer: Anja Schmuck
Cast: Sarah Alles, Patrick Heyn, Roberto Martinez
UK, 2008, 10’
Великобритания, 2008, 10’
Car Trouble
A man and a woman go for a drive - there are consequences...
Dave Hunt is a writer and director. At 41, he still loves getting his hands dirty.
Director: Dave Hunt
Writer: Dave Hunt
Cinematography: Jonathan Harvey
Composer: Evan Jolly
Editor: Ben Putland
Producer: Imogen West
Cast: Sian Breckin, Martin Hancock
Chang Juan
Чанг Джуан
A lonely man spies on the woman who lives with her lover in the apartment facing his own. Is he just a voyeur?
Claudine Natkin was awarded the SACD Prize for Best Short Film French expression for her film ‘Down But Not Out’.
France, 2009, 14’ Франция, 2009, 14’
But Not Out’.
Director: Claudine Natkin
Writer: Claudine Natkin
Cinematography: Julien Poupard
Composer: Alkis Argyriadis, Franck
Chapelat
Producer: Jean-Christophe Reymond
Cast: Alain Chamfort, Mai-Anh Le, Stephane Fourreau
Slovenia, 2009, 15’
Словения, 2009, 15’
Cloud Catcher
Year 2147. The Sun has dried the Earth. There is no water left, only few people still live in a deserted city that an ex- cloud catcher on the run visits and wallows in memories. It is the last day of the Earth and people await for the last sunrise.
Miha Knific was born in 1976 in Slovenia. After finishing sudies as sculptur in Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, he specialized movie at Royal College of Arts in Stockholm.
Director: Miha Knific
Cinematography: Vilko Filac
Producer: Janez Kovic
Cast: Emil Cerar, Boris Cavazza, Sebastian Cavazza, Elena Pecaric, Wale Ojo
2147
Cupid
Купидон
Since ancient times, Cupid, the God of Love, has ignited the spark of desire for all of humankind. Until one fateful night when he unwittingly falls prey to his own magic and is locked into a desperate contest for the heart of the beautiful singer Lauren.
Melvin J. Montalban is a filmmaker, illustrator, casual guitarist, coffee addict, optimist, reluctant traveler, part-time designer, wannabe drummer, theatregore, and also enjoys superfluous adjectives and long lists of half-truths. In 2008 he graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, completing a MA degree in directing for film and television.
Australia, 2009, 15’
Австралия, 2009, 15’
Director: Melvin J. Montalban
Writer: Trinni Franke, Melvin J. Montalban
Cinematography: Tania Lambert
Animation: Tom Hauville (3D), Scott Walmsley (2D)
Composer: Vicki Hansen
Editor: Ann Foo
Producer: Trinni Franke
Cast: Richard Brancatisano, Tahki Saul, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith
Spain, 2009, 9’
Испания, 2009, 9’
Daily Symphony
They are four persons who belong to worlds a priori very different. Of different ages, sex and social class seemingly they have nothing to do with. They wouldnever meet each other in normal circumstances. Nevertheless they are closer than they can imagine - they all have bland lives plunged in the banality.
Isaac Garcia studies cinema at Centre d’Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya.
Director: Isaac Garcia
Writer: Isaac Garcia
Cinematography: Ekhy Pinedo
Animation: Isaac Garcia
Composer: Arnau Bataller
Editor: Jimena Josue
Producer: Hector Faver
Deep Red
Тъмночервено
Nothing will stop Gur and Yuval to make enough money for a fresh start in Berlin. As they approach their goal, the tension is growing between the two, until an unexpected event causes Gur to question both their plan and their relationship.
Eddie Tapero was born in 1981 in Ashdod. Began his studies at The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem, in 2003. Initiated and produced the Seeing Pink screening series at the Jerusalem Cinematteque. ‘Deep Red’ is his graduation film.
When an astronaut is washed up on a beach on a distant planet after an unscheduled crash landing. Disserted and alone on the beach he is literally devastated. All he can do is wander and dream of getting home; until he stumbles upon by an inhabitant of his new home. In a moment of panic the astronaut strikes out at the stranger, killing it with its own gun. Now on the run his thoughts have gone from getting home to getting away from his hunters.
Ross Neil originally trained as a painter gaining an MA from the Royal Academy of Arts London. He currently works as an Art Director in a top London Advertising Agency penning many well known ad campaigns.
Diploma
Диплома
Hebron. The night of the Jewish settlement Masquerade. 15 year old Samer insists on taking his older sister Ayat to collect her diploma from the Palestinian University. Walking through the city rooftops and side narrow allies they must avoid the settlers, the army and the curious foreign news reporters.
Yaelle Kayam was born in 1979 in Tel-Aviv. Prior to her studies at the Sam Spiegel film school, Yaelle studied French at the Sorbonne in Paris, Anthropology in Tel- Aviv University and film at The Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne Australia. She was admitted to third year of the Sam Spiegel Film School. Her first film is ‘Parlines’. ‘Diploma’ is her graduation film which won the third prize award at Cinefondation, Cannes Film Festival, 2009.
Israel, 2009, 22’ Израел, 2009, 22’
Director: Yaelle Kayam
Writer: Yaelle Kayam
Cinematography: Ziv Berkovich
Editor: Or Ben David
Producer: Tal Siano
Cast: Osama Arbiaa, Youssra Barakat
Spain, 2009, 12’
Испания, 2009, 12’
Director: Koldo Almandoz
Writer: Koldo Almandoz
Cinematography: Javi Agirre, Angel
Aldarondo
Animation: Angel Aldarondo
Producer: Txema Munoz
Cast: Anade Ahate, Jesus Cuenca, Nagore Aranburu, Peru Almandoz
Duck Crossing
Suddenly, ducks cross the screen.
Koldo Almandoz was borin in San Sebastian in 1973. Being born, crying, eating, runny noses, sleeping, comics, Torrebruno, show, films, Arconada, learning, beach, travelling, dog, kisses, photos, friends, doughnuts, birds, night, motorbike, sex, filming, radio, windsurfing, clouds, tattoos, concerts, love, bucket, umbrella, drugs, separations, accidents, mountain cabin, beard, shortsightedness, smiles, grey hairs...
Eight9
Осем9
A story about the young Natan, Mateusz, Emil and Anna. They don’t know who they really are and what they want to do. They are lost, chasing for quick pleasure, wich does not give them happiness. Natan starts to shoot film about them all and the generation of people born in 1989. Thanks to the film Natan starts to discover the secrets of his friends.
Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan graduated in Cultural Studies from the Chair of Literary Theory Theatre and Audio & Video Arts at the University of Lodz, and film directing at the Krzysztof Kieslowski`s Radio and TV Department of the Silesian University in Katowice. He is author of shortstories published in literature magazines.
Poland, 2010, 30’
Полша, 2010, 30’
Director: Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan
Writer: Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan, Lukasz Ludkowski
Cinematography: Piotr Uznanski
Editor: Rafal Stos
Producer: Pawel Jozwiak-Rodan
Cast: Marcin Luczak, Justyna Wasilewska, Adam Ciesielski
Spain, 2009, 21’
Испания, 2009, 21’
Encounter Среща
A boy and a girl accidentally meet on the street three years after she broke up with him.
Nick Igea was born in 1974 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He travelled to Madrid to study cinema. Currently works as production manager in commercials and as a cinema teacher in the Complutense University, Madrid.
Director: Nick Igea
Writer: Nick Igea
Cinematography:
Adolfo Morales (Fofi)
Composer: Nick Igea
Editor: Azucena Banos
Producer: Nick Igea
Cast: Alex Garcia, Mar Del Hoyo
End Time
Оставащо време
What would it be like to know the date of your own death? This is exactly what happens to anti-hero Eric, who, along with everyone else on the Earth, learns the date of his death in a dream. As chaos breaks out Eric tries to keep the peace and save whatever he can.
Alexander Schulz: German writer and director.
Germany, 2010, 18’
Германия, 2010, 18’
Director: Alexander Schulz
Writer: Alexander Schulz
Cinematography: Conrad Lobst
Editor: Christian Abel
Producer: Fabian Schmidt
Cast: Martin Kaps, Stefanie Klimkait, Janina Werntges, Dustin Semmelrogge
Germany, 2009, 24’
Германия, 2009, 24’
Exactly the Same
The intimate relationship between the twins Alina and Andre is disturbed when Andre meets Anna and falls in love with her. Alina struggles to accept this and tries to keep Andre for herself. After a while she recognises that she still has one important lesson to learn.
Burkhardt Wunderlich was born 1981 in Berlin.
Director: Burkhardt Wunderlich
Writer: Burkhardt Wunderlich
Cinematography: Alexander Bloom
Editor: J örg Schreyer
Producer: Burkhardt Wunderlich
Cast: Maria Magdalena Wardzinska, Andre Kaczmarczyk, Lukas Roppel
Eyeliner
Грим
Theatre Festival, Toulouse. At the exit of a play, two glances meet. The one of a young student, Clara: she is sharp, fresh, a little boyish, a little naive. And the one of one of the actors, Pierre: forty years, attractive, settled in his career, settled in his life. Clara manages to find him again later that night.
Cecile Rittweger is a passionate climber. While doing her degree in literature, she is training and travelling a lot. Climbing led her to filmmaking. She started doing documentaries about the sport, its philosophy, its practicers. She graduates with a MA in editing and cinematography from the University in Sheffield. Later she studies fim directing in France. Cecile is also a performing actress.
France, 2009, 30’ Франция, 2009, 30’
Director: Cecile Rittweger
Writer: Cecile Rittweger
Cinematography: Valerio Truffa
Composer: Nara Noian
Editor: Cecile Rittweger
Cast: Cecile Rittweger, Pierre Malet
Germany, 2009, 13’
Германия, 2009, 13’
Father Language
Director: Mirjam Orthen
Writer: Mirjam Orthen
Cinematography: Bernd Effenberger
Composer: Norbert B ürger, Robert Alonso
Editor: Mirjam Orthen
Producer: Mirjam Orthen
Cast: Merve Tapprogge, Mürtüz Yolcu, Sebahat Ünal
Leyla (18) feels kept away from her father’s Turkish culture. In her relatives’ visit from Turkey this evening she sees a chance to get to know more about this world which she wants to discover as a part of herself. But as she doesn’t understand the language, this won’t be easy...
Mirjam Orthen was born in Dachau, near Munich, Germany in 1984. She worked as a production assistant in the film companies Goldkind Film and Diana Film. Since October 2007 she is studying directing for narrative films at the University of Television and Film, Munich, Germany.
Free Fall
Свободно падане
“I do not know what I want, but I am sure of what I don’t and how to get cured from it all, I don’t know but I need it.” A young man works in road works, plays in a crappy rock band and has a woman that he doesn’t love. He knows he’s in a downfall but the fallin’ is what makes it easier to cope with life.
Rokas Eltermanas got bachelor degree in 2009 in TV and film directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Now he is a first year postgraduate student in TV and film directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. He is also the leader, singer and composer in music band Daddy’s Dolls.
Lithuania, 2009, 25’46’’
Литва, 2009, 25’46’’
Director: Rokas Eltermanas
Writer: Rokas Eltermanas
Cinematography: Linas Dabriska
Composer: Rokas Eltermanas
Editor: Rokas Eltermanas
Producer: Dagn ė Vildziunaite
Cast: Josif Baliukevic, Aiste Lasyte
Spain, 2010, 15’
Испания, 2010, 15’
Goodbye Doll Сбогом, скъпа
A car carrying a man and a woman is traveling down a desert road. The woman wants them to stop and to have a break. They do so next to an old ruined wall...
Director: Hugo Sanz
Writer: Hugo Sanz
Cinematography: Juan Hernndez
Editor: Augustin Hernandez
Producers: David Del Aguila, Alberto Gomez Uriol
Cast: Sara Casasnovas, Daniel Albaladejo, Alberto Ferreiro
Hugo Sanz Rodero was born in San Sebastian in 1973. After working as high school teacher for some years, he discovered his rather late vocation for cinematographic narration. He has written and directed five shortfilms (‘Los ojos de Alicia’, ‘El prestidigitador’, ‘No es una buena idea’, ‘Ya no voy a hablar mas’, ‘Adios, muneca’) and won 50 international awards.
Alicia’, ‘El prestidigitador’, ‘No es una buena idea’, ‘Ya no voy a hablar mas’, ‘Adios, muneca’).
Grandmothers
Баби
At his 10th birthday, Leo finds out that Monica Lewinski is Jewish, that Clinton is the president of America, that the numbers in his grandparents’ arms are responsible for him being chubby and that the old super 8mm camera that he got from his grandpa is worthless.
Michael Wahrmann was born in 1979 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 2002, he joined the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, where he discovered a passion for video and film. In 2004, he moved to Sao Paulo and received a scholarship to study film at the FAAP University. In 2009, he founded Sancho Films, with director of photography Lucas Rached.
December, the 25th. A hanged up man tries to remember the previous night’s events of a Christmas’s Dinner. For his astonishment, he discovers that he talked about a Christmas’s Even once lost in his memories. In a kind of journey into his self through an evasive, enigmatic, mysterious and poetic dialog with his wife, he rescues his own childhood and revalues his present.
Director: Rene Brasil
Writer: Rene Brasil, Bosco Brasil
Cinematography: Pedro Eliezer
Editor: Angelo Caopozzoli
Producer: Rene Brasil
Cast: Sergio Mastropasqua, Ana Maria Saad
Rene Brasil was born in Sao Paulo in 1976. In 1998 he went to college at “Fundaзгo Armando Бlvares Penteado - FAAP”, majoring in Cinema and graduating in 2002. Still in college, he started working as a producer in a TV series for children. Later he worked as a boom operator and sound recordist in some films. ‘Hangover’ is his fourth short film.
Harrow Island
Хароу Айлънд
Documenting a machine called the “Harrow” is the worst assignment as a photojournalist Simon has been given, and it’s quickly turning into the worst night of his life. But in the heart of the horror that he follow his camera into, Simon discovers something beautiful and it changes him.
Anja Marquardt is a filmmaker based in Berlin and NYC. After graduating from Berlin’s University of the Arts, she spent several years in development and production, and worked as commissioning editor at the Fiction Department of European broadcaster ARTE, France in 2006. Her short film ‘Our Lady of Mercy’ premiered in a screening at the Cannes Film Festival 2009.
Germany, 2009, 11’30’’ Германия, 2009, 11’30’’
Director: Anja Marquardt
Writer: Anja Marquard
Cinematography: Kristina Nikolova
Composer: Simon Taufique
Editor: Vincent Assmann
Producer: Josh Hetzler
Cast: Michael Medeiros, Bo Corre, Chad Hoeppner, Gerry Bamman
Spain, 2009, 14’
Испания, 2009, 14’
He’d never do that
Laura asks the Three Kings for a grandfather.
Anartz Zuazua was born in San Sebastian in 1973. He studied Image and Sound in Andoain (Gipuzkoa), and acting at the William Leyton Laboratory in Madrid and with Jacques Lecoq in Paris. In addition to working as a film, theatre and television actor, he has run various drama training courses in the Basque Country and currently directs television programmes for several production companies. ‘He’d Never Do That’ is his first short film.
Director: Anartz Zuazua
Writer: Anartz Zuazua,
Mikel Pagadizabal
Cinematography: David Azcano
Composer: Ignacio Perez Marin
Editor: Yago Muniz
Producer: Txema Munos
Horst
Хорст
In his web-profile the physically tattered, but mentally jolly pensioner Jennatschek has introduced himself younger than he actually is. His adored, Maria, wants more than virtual contact. And now, as there is no posiblity to get around a real encounter, he asks his best friend and neighbour, the faineant Horst, to date his netpal. Begrudgingly, but after all in spirit an adventurer, Horst rises to the challenge.
Wolf-Tassilo Sack graduated in informatics at the Technical University Darmstadt and later on Medien-Design at the University of Applied Science in Mainz. He is co-founder and second Chairman of the charity association Peng-Society for advancement of Design, Art & Communication e.V., and coowner of the program-cinemas CAPITOL and PALATIN in Mainz, Germany.
Micky is a twenty years old good and honest boy who’s quite insecure about his manner. When he gets in a cafe to buy an ice cream to his girlfriend, he bumps into two bullies he knowsBrando and Alex. That is just the beginning of a day he will never forget.
Roberto De Feo was born in Bari in 1981. In 2004 he graduated from the Genova Film School. His films won numerous international awards. ‘Ice Scream’ is his forth short. Vito Palumbo was born in Agropoli in 1974. He studied at the P.Scharoff Academy of Dramatics in Rome and then specialized in Film at the Nuct in Rome.
I-Do-Air
Въздух
Surrounded by divers and swimmers, a little girl feels humiliated by her fear of jumping in the water. She escapes the reality by holding her breath to ‘trip’ within her own head. But when she sees two unexpected creatures swimming beautifully and effortlessly underwater, would she beable to take the plunge into their magical world?
Martina Amati was born in Milan, Italy where she studied in Theatre Set Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Upon graduation she was immediately picked by MTV Europe to work in the team that designed and created MTV Italy. She then directed a variety of documentaries for TV. ‘I-Do-Air’ won the BAFTA 2010 for best short film and had its international premiere at the Berlinale.
UK, 2009, 7’
Великобритания, 2009, 7’
Director: Martina Amati
Writer: Martina Amati
Cinematography: Urszula Pontikos
Composer: Gunnlaug Thorvaldsdottir
Editor: Benedetto Lanfranco
Producer: James Bolton
Cast: Claire Harris
UK, 2009, 4’
Великобритания, 2009, 4’
In Frank’s Head
Frank, a mental patient receives his daily medication which causes him to run through the hospital causing chaos, but when he reaches the main gates he decides to make a break for the freedom.
Tim Rogg graduated from Bournemouth film school in the 90’s. He spent the next few years working as an editor. In 2003 Tim started working as a director for TV and made his first short film called ‘Supersound’ in 2006
Director: Tim Rogg
Writer: Tim Rogg
Cinematography: Marcus Domleo
Editor: Tim Rogg
Producer: Andy Kelleher
Cast: Jason Freeman
Inflatable Granma
Надуваемата баба!
Sometimes couples who have children miss Grandma... But only sometimes.
Telmo Esnal was born in 1966. After working as assistant director on various feature films, Telmo began developing his first projects with Asier Altuna. Recently he seems to have taken the leap to working on his own.
Ben’ s new baby may not live until morning. He has one night in the Emergency Ward to find the courage to love his child and discover what it means to be a dad.
Angus Stevens directs on-air online content for Australian broadcaster Austereo. He’s previously worked as a director, editor and directed a number of theatre productions. ‘Into my arms’ is his first fully financed short film.
Director: Angus Stevens
Writer: Samantha Jennings
Cinematography: Paul Howard
Composer: Jed Palmer
Editor: Rodrigo Balart
Producer: Belinda Mravicic
Isolation
Изолация
Isolation is an important document of the experiences of ex-soldiers told through the eyes of someone who knows.
Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull often examine hidden lives at the margins of contemporary British society. Born and raised in Essex they met at art college in East London. Their debut film ‘Male Caucasian’ premiered at Raindance in 2002, while their second short, ‘Lost & Found’, premiered at Edinburgh film fetsival in 2006. They have directed and produced critically acclaimed ‘3 Minute Wonder’ series for Channel 4 including ‘Handsworth Conversations’ in 2007 and SShorelines in 2008. They have directed numerous music videos including Duffy’s iconic ‘Rockferry’ video, and directed documentaries chronicling a diverse range of musicians from Tricky to the Last Shadow Puppets.
UK, 2009, 64’ Великобритания, 2009, 64’
Directors: Luke Seomore, Joseph Bull
Cinematography: David Procter
Composer: Luke Seomore
Editors: Joseph Bull, Luke Seomore
Producer: Hannah Lack
Northern Ireland, 2008, 17’
Северна Ирландия, 2008, 17’
James Джеймс
Young James struggles as the outsider kid at his school. His teacher, Mr. Sutherland, is the only person he feels he can connect with.
When James finally puts a voice to his feelings, Mr. Sutherland’s response isn’t what James had hoped for.
Director: Connor Clements
Writer: Connor Clements
Cinematography: Declan Keeney
Composer: Kasia Middleton
Editor: Kevin McDonald
Producer: Connor Clements
Cast: Niall Wright, Matt Jennings, Louis Rolston, Margaret Goodman
Connor Clements graduates from the Queens University Belfast with a Masters degree in film and visual studies. Later he studies at the New York Film Academy. He engaged critically with the rich traditions of film which helped him to develop his own practices as a filmmaker. Along with film theory he had the opportunity to use a wide range of production facilities to acquire the necessary technical, creative and critical skills to make his award winning debut film ‘James’. The film was nominated for Best International Dramatic Short at the 25th Sundance Film Festival in 2009.
Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness
One day Jonah left his wife and daughter. He gave no explanation and no goodbye, only a telephone number that redirected to an answering machine. High above earth in his homemade spaceship, Jonah records his family’s messages via a tin-can-phone with an extraordinarily long string. Drifting deeper into the abyss, his connections to time, reality and home are all falling prey to the vacuum of space. Is it too late for Jonah? Only home can save him now. Bryn Chainey was born in London in 1986. He graduated from Griffith Film School, Brisbane, in 2006. He was named ‘Best Director’ at 2007 Queensland New Filmmakers Awards; later received ‘Berlin Today Award’ at 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.
Germany, 2010, 13’ Германия, 2010, 13’
Director: Bryn Chainey
Writer: Bryn Chainey
Cinematography: Marc Achenbach
Composer: Ilja Coric
Editor: Courtney O’Brien-Brown
Producer: Anna Wendt
Cast: Jens Winter
The Netherlands, 2009, 10’
Холандия, 2009, 10’ Kiss Целувка
Bruno finds it very interesting that his father, Daan (35), shaves his beard and head before he leaves on a military mission.
When Dann offers his son to shave him, Bruno finds it an offer he can not refuse.
Joost van Gimkel studied audiovisual production at the Hogeschool Sittard.
After his studies he worked as assistant director on several TV-drama series.
Director: Joost van Ginkel
Writer: Joost van Ginken
Cinematography: Rogier den Boer
Composer: Jorg Kaaij, Amir Swaab
Editor: Bob Soetekouw
Producer: Gijs van de Westelaken
Cast: Koen Dobbelaer, Margien van Doesen, Thijis Romer
During the past twelve years, he worked for Dutch television. In 2008 Ginkel independently wrote, directed ang produced fis first short fiction film ‘Zand’, officially selected for the Venice Film Festival.
Life’s Hard
Животът е труден
A thief breaks into a young woman’s car when she stops at a traffic light, trying to steal her purse. He first decides to stay in the car because the traffic police arrives. After they drive away together, he decides to help the young woman to improve her driving style.
Gabriel Sirbu was born in Bucharest, studies computers in high school then biology, receiving a BA. He switches to film making, first studying video editing and then film directing, and graduating in 2000. He is a teachingassistant at the National University of Cinema and Theatre Arts, Bucharest and a member of the Romanian Filmmakers’ Union.
Romania, 2008, 20’ Румъния, 2008, 20’
Director: Gabriel Sirbu
Writer: Gabriel Sirbu
Cinematography: Marius Panduru
Composer: Dana Bunescu
Editor: Dana Bunescu
Producer: Vivi Dragan Vasile
Cast: Andi Vasluianu, Claudia Prec, Gabriel Spahiu
Spain, 2010, 13’
Испания, 2010, 13’
Lightness
Лекота
Sofia, who wants to be a director of family films, will soon discover that her teenage sister Lola wants to become a butterfly and “let herself be taken by the wind”.
Lucia del Rio is a Spanish writer and film director.
Director: Lucia del Rio
Writer: Lucia del Rio
Cinematography: Arturo Aldegunde
Composer: Pedro Barbadillo
Cast: Paula del Rio, Andrea del Rio,
Maria Morales
Little Secrets
Малки тайни
Little Secrets tells the story of a man who wakes up dazed, confused and tied to a chair in boxer shorts. Standing over him in the dark basement is his ex-girlfriend with an array of sharp tools. She wants him to answer why their relationship broke down.
Sascha Zimmerman begins his film carrier at the age of 21 as cinema manager in Germany. Later on he works as assistant director in the municipality theatre in Bremerhafen and in several film projects. Meanwhile he writes his firs film script and shoots the first of his short films. Later on he graduates in media design for cinema and TV & Sound in Hamburg Film Academy. He creates several successful short films among which ‘25 Cent’ which is nominated for the 25th Century Award and also at the Short Film Corner in Cannes 2009.
Germany, 2009, 17’
Германия, 2009, 17’
Director: Sascha Zimmermann
Writer: Sascha Zimmermann, Tommy Draper
Cinematography: Oliver Menebrucker
Composer: Jan Dugge
Editor: Sascha Zimmermann
Producer: Sascha Zimmermann
Cast: Paul Glaser, Fiana de Guzman
Italy, 2010, 5’
Италия, 2010, 5’
Loko Motiv
Локомотив
The Amerigo’s trip looking for a substitute of his disappeared noisy world.
Directors: Nicola Baldin,
Aischa Gianna Muller
Writer: Nicola Baldini
Composer: Paola Pennacchia
Editor: Aischa G. Muller
Producer: Nicola Baldini
Cast: Adil Demir Firat
Nicola Baldini begins his activity into the cinema in 2006 as director and actor in Florence at the School of Cinema Immagina, directed by Giuseppe Ferlito. In 2009 participates at the advanced stage of photography with director of photography Paolo Carnera at the Film Colleague in Prato. In 2008 he founded ONO SENDAI Movie Incubator, an independent movie production company. He has shot several short films, commercials and video clips both as a director and actor. Aischa Gianna Muller graduated as Stage designer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. She attended several photography stages and worked as stage designer and camera assistant. She was involved in film passion while studied music and photography and the art of painting.
Marina, the Fisherman’s Wife Марина, жената на рибаря
This is the fantastic story of Marina, a fisherman’s wife in a small town in the Colombian Pacific Coast, who lives in a humble house besides an immense and isolated beach near by. One day she wakes up by a dream she just had the night before and decides to go to the open sea, alone. She amidst the rain, taking with her just a small boat and the fish her husband had caught that day, to return it in the sea, giving the fishes back their life and freedom.
Carlos Hernandez is a film and TV director graduated from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, in 1993. He also studied Social Comunication at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and Specialized in Scriptwriting and Directing at the Escuela de San Sebastian. Having taken several courses in different audiovisual fields he has worked not only as director and scriptwriter but also as photographer, cameraman, editor and professor.
Colombia, 2009, 14’
Колумбия, 2009, 14’
Director: Carlos Hernandez
Writer: Carlos Hernandez
Cinematography: Mauricio Vidal
Animation: Juan Diaz, Bernardo Garces
Editor: Bernardo Garces
Producer: Diana Camargo Buritica
Cast: Pilar Alvarez, Artenio Quinto
France, 2010, 18’
Франция, 2010, 18’
Memoirs of a Disturbed Daughter
Lola (25) is still virgin and has no boyfriend. Her family and her entourage get involved... ‘Memoirs of a Disturbed Daughter’ is the story of a foolish pursuit for a politically correct defloration.
Marciano Keren graduated in cinematography from the master class of Sylvain Madigan and Alain Mining - Paris Film College. In 2006 he finishes the FEMIS training course of Bruno Nuytten. From 2004 to 2007 he studies at the THEATRALE Conservatoire National Superieur d’Art Dramatique under the direction of Andrzej Seweryn, Dominique Valadie, Daniel Mesguich, Murielle Mayett.
Director: Marciano Keren
Writer: Maeciano Keren
Composer: Marcianop Keren
Producer: Guerry Bertrand
Cast: Sara Giraudeau, Marie-Christine Barrault, Simon Hubert
Missing
Пропуск
A 7-year old girl is taken to school by her mother. Today the young girl will go on a school trip with her class. It is obviously that bringing her daughter to school isn’t a very ordinary occasion for the mother.
Jochem De Vries was born in 1979 in the Netherlands. He graduated in 2004 at the Utrecht School of the Arts. During his study he made experimental films and documentaries. In 2007-2008 Jochem attended a Masterclass at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Poland. His short film ‘Missen’ was nominated for a Palm d’Or at the 62e Festival de Cannes.
The Netherlands, 2009, 12’
Холандия, 2009, 12’
Director: Jochem de Vries
Writer: Jochem de Vries
Cinematography: Remko Schnorr
Composer: Jina Sumedi
Editor: Manuel Rombley
Producer: Reinette van de Stadt
Cast: Lotje Molin, Gitta Fleuren
Germany, 2010, 18’45’’
Германия, 2010, 18’45’’
Monday
Понеделник
It is Monday and the dissatisfying weekend’s parties are behind. This is the starting point for sensing each other, searching for weak points but also accessibility of the other. Longing is being masked with defense, feelings with macho gestures. The quest for physical proximity oscillates between aggressive eroticism and violence. Behind coolness lurks impotence.
Director: Christian Bäucker
Writer: Christian Bäucker
Cinematography: Maurice Wilkerling
Composer: Christian Obermaier
Editor: Christian Bäucker
Producer: Christian Bäucker
Cast: Karsten Mielke, David Zavodny, Eva Bay
Christian Bäucker was born in 1980 in Eisenhuttenstadt, Germany. He studies Art and Media on the UdK Berlin.
My Heart, My Bad
Мое грешно сърце
‘My Heart, My Bad’ is a comedy about sorrow. Young Woman Essi wonders should things that are found useless be tossed.
Mari-Kaisu Mononen wonders either the world’s f*cked up or she’s just old.
Finland, 2009, 24’31’’
Финландия, 2009, 24’31’’
Director: Mari-Kaisu Mononen
Writer: Mari-Kaisu Mononen
Cinematography: Arsen Sarkisiants
Composer: Alejandro Pedregal
Editor: Tuuli Alanдrд
Producer: Mari-Kaisu Mononen, Mikko Laine (Metropoliasta!)
Cast: Jessica Gravowsky, Minna Suuronen, Toni Rasimus
Bulgaria, 2010, 14’
България, 2010, 14’
Nina’s Window
12-year-old Nina lives only with her father. She likes to help him with the housework and they get along very well. But one day her father comes back home with his girlfriend and her son. Nina doesn’t want to allow the intruders on her territory and starts to play bad tricks to them. But one day she falls into her own trap.
Director: Oleg Kovachev
Writer: Roumen Nikolov
Cinematography: Yavor Kaloyanchev
Oleg Kovachev was born in 1955 in Shumen. Graduate in Film and TV cinematography at NATFA ‘Kr. Sarafov’ in 1980. In the summer of 1980 he began working as an assistant operator for ‘Vreme’ Studios for popular science and documentary films. In 1983 he started working for Boyana Film Studios. Since 2005 he has been a director at Bulgarian National Television.
Ninety-Two
Деветдесет и две
‘Ninety-Two’ doesn’t tell a story. It’s about the turning point of a story: The determinant. It’s the timelessness of an endpoint, the urgent need to end-up with something. Something that doesn’t matter because the past never says more than what the present suggests itself. ‘Ninety-Two’ sheds light (and shadow) over those stormy ties and condemning sins.
Martin Guido was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated as Film & TV Director from the Centre for Research and Experimentation in Video and Film (CIEVYC). He has worked as first assistant director in film and advertising between 2001 and 2006. In 2007 he moved to Barcelona, Spain. Currently works as a writer.
Spain, 2009, 10’ Испания, 2009, 10’
Director: Martin Guido
Writer: Martin Guido, Lucas Martin
Cinematography: Oscar Martinez
Chamorro
Composer: Juan Bouscayrol
Editor: Vanvelvet
Producer: Peter Keydel
Cast: Alba Yruela Xifro, Juan Jose Arjona
Germany, 2009, 5’
Германия, 2009, 5’
No Foto!
Без снимки!
A guide shows a charismatic statue to a group of tourists. Unfortunatelly he doesn’t allow them to take photos. The tourists are disappointed and one of them comes back after a few minutes. But the statue isn’t beaten yet...
Director: Andreas Scheffer
Writer: Björn Bethke, Jan Schneider
Cinematography: Björn Bethke
Animation: Jan Schneider
Composer: Florian Marquardt
Editor: Lale Özdonmez
Producer: Cristina Marx
Cast: Adolpho Assor, Tobias Kasimirowicz
Andreas Scheffer was born 1976 in Cologne, Germany. He studies in media management at the school of applied sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany. Later he studies at the filmschool E.S.A.V. in Toulouse, France, and directingstudies at the HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany. Since 2001 he is a freelance assistant cameraman at the ZDF.
On Leave
Отпуск
Yotam came back from the army. He met his dad and his mom. He tooks his girlfriend for a ride. Yotam came back home, but something went wrong on the way.
Asaf Saban was born 1979 in Israel and lives and works in Tel-Aviv. Recently he graduated from the film department at the “Midrasha” school of arts, BeitBerl College. “On Leave” is his graduation film.
Israel, 2009, 15’ Израел, 2009, 15’
Director: Asaf Saban
Writer: Asaf Saban
Cinematography: David Rudoy
Editor: Sivan Ben Ari
Producer: Ilan Jarzina
Cast: Daniel Bruk, Dana Keila, Irit Gidron, Dalik Volinitz
France, 2010, 14’
Франция, 2010, 14’
On That Day
On that day Francois died. On that day, Claire, who is an embalmer, decides to give treatment of his husband’s corpse. On that day, they are together for the last time...
Sandra Stadeli was born in Lyon in France in 1971. She worked as photographer and scriptwriter.
Director: Sandra Stadeli
Writer: Sandra Stadeli
Cinematography: Arthur Cemin
Editor: Francoise Tourmen
Producer: Emmanuel ABOUT
Cast: Laurence Cote, Eric Herson
Macarel, Satya Dusaugey
Ona
Она
‘Ona’ is a short tale about desire.
Pau Camarasa was born in Barcelona in 1975. He took a degree in Audiovisual Communication at the Ramon Llull University, continuing his cinema studies at the centre for cinematographic studies in Catalonia (CECC) and at the International School in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, where he shot his award-winning short ‘60 Seconds’.
Spain, 2009, 10’ Испания, 2009, 10’
Director: Pau Camarasa
Writer: Pau Camarasa
Cinematography: Marco Hermes Marco
Producer: Pau Camarasa
Cast: Silvia Mo, Viecenta Ayala
Germany, 2009, 5’48’’
Германия, 2009, 5’48’’
One Step Further
Small town cop Rainer is having trouble with his daughter. By bringing home her new boyfriend Marius she forces him to take a difficult decision: Marius is a wanted car burglar.
Director: Robert Kellner
Writer: Florian Kuhn
Cinematography: Sin Huh
Composer: Lars O. Dahlke
Editor: Nana Novosad
Producer: Stefan Gieren
Cast: Nils Duwell, Niklas Osterloh
Robert Kellner was born in 1977. He finished High School in Germany and the USA. From 1999 till 2003 he took part in several trainee programs and apprenticeships in different fields of film and television productions. Later on he made a MA in Audiovisual Anthropology at the L.M. UniversityMunich. Since 2008 works on his postgraduate film studies in directing at the Hamburg Media School.
Our Strategies
Стратези
Francesc and Ignasi are two brothers who fight against the depression of his mother. Together they will devise a series of strategies, with optimism and joy, to get his mother out of bed and leave the house.
Didac and Sergi Cervera: The Cervera brothers have always felt a calling to the cinema. Sergi, the older, was the first to start. He studied audiovisual realizations, in addition to being a dedicated actor from the age of 10. Didac, the younger, has characterized himself through his biggest specialization. He studied superior audiovisual studies and is, at the moment pursuing his degree at the film school ESCAC.
Spain, 2009, 19’
Испания, 2009, 19’
Director: Didac and Sergi Cervera
Writer: Didac and Sergi Cervera
Cinematography: Susana Ojea
Composer: Raffel Plana
Editor: Xavi Giner
Producer: Sergi Cervera
Cast: Emma Vilarasau, Pol Coma, Marc Coma
Germany, 2010, 23’36”
Германия, 2010, 23’36”
Out of the Dark
Nico didn’t expect to wake up after the party like that. The light blurs his eyes. But only where darkness is found new light can raise.
Director: Giuseppe Sacco
Writer: Fabian Schollenberger
Cinematography: Fabian Zenker
Composer: Stephan Rцmer
Editor: Giuseppe Sacco
Producer: Giuseppe Sacco
Cast: Nikolai Will, Gьnter Fleck, Astrid Feiner, Nadine Petry, Sarah Alles
Giuseppe Sacco: After several movie-workshops, university-movies and video-clubs Giuseppe Sacco reached the University of Applied Science in Offenburg, where he started to study Media and Information business. During this study he created one animation, one documentary and two short movies. He worked at the film production company V4-Media in Stuttgart and in the realization of a German TV series at Constantine Entertainment in Munich.
Over the Fence
Над оградата
Tomi (16) and Aino (12) are brother and sister and best friends, united by their love of football. Marjo, the mother of Tomi and Aino, makes her children’s lives difficult by her constant partying. Tomi is used to his mother’s unpredictable behaviour and only gets worried when he realises that his sister is changing too. Aino is no longer the sweet and harmless little sister who concentrates on football. Tomi tries to stop her but must finally face the fact that you cannot control another person by force. Hamy Ramezan is a Finnish-Iranian film director and scriptwriter. He has studied film in England and graduated in 2007. His short films were acclaimed at international film festivals.
In an ancient agricultural house, silence crushes the soul of an untamed eighteen year-old - Chiara. Tommaso, her beloved grandfather, lies dead in the bed of her parents. As family prepares for the conformist goodbye parade, Chiara turns against the vacuous play of pain and imposed roles.
Director: Laura Bispuri
Writer: Francesca Manieri
Cinematography: Vladan Radovic
Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli
Producer: Claudia Bonivento
Cast: Simonetta Gorga, Giorgio Colangeli
Laura Bispuri: Selected by producer Domenico Procacci to take part into the prestigious Fandango Laboratory, Laura Bispuri has worked for Fandango on several film sets. She also collaborated in the production of ten short films, produced by Fandango and Sky, and worked in the event management department of Fandango. In 2005 she organized Fandango’s first festival “Ci siamo tanto amati” programmed at the Politecnico in Rome. In 2007 she directed the play L’altra Met а Today Laura Bispuri is currently working for Current TV, a new television network based on the Sky platform and the internet.
Pinchas
Пинхас
Nine-year-old Pinhas comes from a Russian family. He lives with his mother, who he rarely sees. On the third floor lives a religious family, Pinhas is drawn to the warmth and unity that characterize this family. There he meets a girl his age, and her older brother, who slowly introduces him to religion. The trouble begins when the two worlds - of his mother and his new father figure - collide. Pinhas must choose.
Pini Tavger was born at 1978 in Jerusalem, Israel. Graduate of the Nisan Nativ Acting Studio in Tel Aviv. Now living in Tel Aviv, Pini is a 4th year student at the Tel Aviv University Film & TV Department as well as a practicing actor.
Israel, 2008, 32’
Израел, 2008, 32’
Director: Pini Tavger
Writer: Pini Tavger
Cinematography: Gonen Shahar
Composer: Sharon Shama
Editor: Shai Rododgovsky
Producer: Rafi Barbiro
Cast: Anthony Berman, Michael Coresh, Evgenya Dogina, Jonathan Rozen
Bulgaria, 2010, 24’
България, 2010, 24’
Powder
Прах
Director: Martin Iliev
Writers: Todor Karagiaurov, Martin Iliev
Cinematography: Kalojan Nedelchev
Editor: Martin Iliev
Producer: American Foundation for Bulgaria
Cast: Silvia Petkova, Silvio Silvionov
16 year old Dara is coming back from 2 years passing alone in France willing to revenge on her mother for it. She embarks on dangerous “adventures”, common in her daily life. Drugs, thefts and aggression are her way to create emotions, to gain respect and to be noticed. In this confused world Dara finds a man who can take her out of this vicious circle.
Martin Iliev was born in 1985. From 2004 till 2010 he studies film and TV directing in NATFA “Kr. Sarafov”, Bulgaria.
Pretty Mouth, Green Eyes
Устата ми
How many lies do you have to ignore to become yourself? What should have become pleasant evening results in a psychological game between three friends, none of whom dares to tell the truth. They drag each other down in a whirlpool of cunning and deceit.
Sanne Kortooms is a 24 year old writer and filmmaker from the Netherlands. In 2009 she graduated as a director and screenwriter from the Utrecht School of Arts. Every weekday she posts self-written poems and short stories on her website SannQ.nl. In 2008 Dutch Bloggies nominated her site for ‘best written weblog literature’.
The Netherlands, 2009, 14’ Холандия, 2009, 14’
Director: Sanne Kortooms
Writer: Sanne Kortooms, Reinout Bos
Cinematography: Vincent Visser
Composer: Almar Kok
Editor: Dick Peterse
Producer: Sanne Kortooms, John den Hollander
Cast: Hugo Metsers Sr., Hugo Metsers Jr., Miryanna van Reeden
France, 2009, 17’40”
Франция, 2009, 17’40”
Remigration
Завръщане
Sofija and Miroslav are illegal immigrants living in France with their two sons. In order to avoid extradition, the State offers them money if they return to their country of origin, from where they had fled.
Director: Mohammed Latreche
Writer: Mohammed Latreche, Yves Caumon
Cinematography: Keo Kosal Nara
Editor: Andrкe Davanture
Producer: Karine Blanc
Cast: Mila Savic, Goran Kostic
Mohammed Latreche has been noticed with his first short film ‘Rumeur’, which has been selected at numerous festivals. He then directed the documentary ‘A la recherche de l’emir Abd-El-Kader’,that won a special mention at the African Film Festival of Rome in 2005. Mohammed Latreche is currently writing a feature film.
Rise and Shine
Бляскав изгрев
Unusual morning. Sanaa is looking for her last apparent keys! She had to go thought unpleasant moments she has been tried to forget! It’s really nice morning. Rise and shine!
Sherif El Bendary was born in Cairo in 1978. He works as a textile engineer. In 2007 he graduates from the High Cinema Institute.
Three short stories of revived love, innocent theft and a little bit of braveness. These stories meet on the road to the seaside.
Chavdar Chernev was born in 1979. During his academic education he has completed numerous short films and projects many of which were nominated or awarded in various international short film student competitions. ‘Road to the Seaside’ is his last project as student in the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts - Sofia, Bulgaria.
Rosenhill
Розенхил
Rosemarie moves into Rosenhill, a residential home for the elderly. She is very uncomfortable in her new surroundings and finds the other residents unpleasantly confused or unsociable. One night accidentally she discovers what the staff are up to and the nightmare truly begins.
Johan Lundborg was born in 1977. He graduated from the Film School at Gothenburg University in 2003. Also attended FAMU in Prague and before that studied Drama-Theater-Film at Lund University. Johan Storm was born in 1978. He graduated from the Film School at Gothenburg University in 2003. He worked as assistant manager at Davien Littlefield’s Management in New York and as a high school teacher of film/TV/video. Currently he is making commercials and information films.
Sweden, 2009, 28’30”
Швеция, 2009, 28’30”
Directors: Johan Storm, Johan Lundborg
Writers: Johan Lundborg, Johan Storm
Cinematography: Johan Lundborg
Composer: Adam Nordén
Editors: Johan Lundborg, Johan Storm
Producer: Anita Oxburgh
Cast: Margreth Weivers, Bertil Norström, Lisa Lindgren, Lena Granhagen
UK, 2009, 16’
Великобритания, 2009, 16’
Scent
Ухание
‘Scent’ follows the harrowing tale of John, an elderly man gripped with grief following the death of his wife Patricia. Unable to accept his loss John keeps her death a secret, choosing instead to keep Patricia’s body at home in bed. This quiet, sensitive film explores themes of love, loss and denial through a delicate observation of what is essentially a heart breaking, yet most intriguing situation.
Director: Darren Bolton
Writer: Darren Bolton
Cinematography: Sam Care
Composer: Mark Adair
Editor: David Brook
Producer: Emily Bignell
Cast: David Barnaby, Jackie Montem, Russell Richardson
Darren Bolton: After obtaining a first class degree in writing and Drama, Darren set up Shooting Fish Theatre Company in 2002, the first of two creative businesses. In 2004, addressing his long-standing passion for film, Darren launched Blueprint: Film and completed his first short film ‘Link’.
Silent Sea
Тихо езеро
After the death of his wife a man has to take care of his autistic son, who he doesn’t really know as yet. Peter lives with his son still in the house at the lake, where his wife was drowned. Peter can’t forget the day of the sorely accident and reproaches his son and himself. When he brings his new girlfriend along, the boy takes her for his dead mother.
Lena Liberta was born 1981 in Erfurt, Thuringia. She studied 2 years philosophy and art history. She worked as theatrical assistant director and TV journalist and studied visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Since 2008 she studies movie direction at the Hamburg Media School. Author of video art and short movies.
Germany, 2009, 7’
Германия, 2009, 7’
Director: Lena Liberta
Writer: Lena Liberta
Cinematography: Timo Moritz
Composer: Albrecht Ziepert, Samir el Borno
Editor: Anne Beutel
Producer: Anja Schmuck
Argentina, 2009, 1’
Аржентина, 2009, 1’
Director: Los Humus
Writer: Los Humus
Cinematography: Ber Chese
Animation: Pablo Diaz
Composer: Los Humus
Editor: Los Humus
Producer: Los Humus
Cast: Federico Barroso Lelouche, Natalia Santiago
Symphony for Raindrops in A Mayor Rain
A roof and a drain-pipe become perfect pretext to compose a symphony for raindrops.
Los Humus is a group of Argentinean artists who collaborate in creating films. They already have shot several award winning short films.
Someone Else’s Steps
Чужди стъпки
A woman in a rush breaks her heel in front of the shoemaker’s store. The cobbler can’t fix her shoe at the moment, and she is very late, so she convinces him to give her another pair of shoes. Before she leaves the place he warns her that someone else’s shoes might take her to someone else’s path.
Neda Alexander was born in 1990 in Bulgaria. She studied in Bulgaria, Russia, United States and Great Britain. Currently she studies Film Directing at Edinburgh College of Art in the UK.
Bulgaria, 2010, 4’ България, 2010, 4’
Director: Neda Alexander
Writer: Neda Alexander
Cinematography: Georgi Andreev
Composer: Dimitar Velitchkov - Schmidt
Editor: Alexander Etimov
Producer: Georgi Andreev
Cast: Kitodar Todorov, Mila Parusheva, Yana Titova, Bogdan Kazandjiev
USA, 2010, 3’
САЩ, 2010, 3’
Steenbeckstory
Стийнбек
The editing room is like a sanctuary. Every single filmstrip is sacred, whirring through a Steenbeck at 24 frames a second. But what happens if just one fraction of a second is lost? This short film inspects what may happen to the editor if in the process of piecing together a masterwork, a single frame is lost. What does he have to go through in order to find it and to fix the possibly colossal setback?
Director: Marie Dvorakova
Writer: Marie Dvorakova
Cinematography: Kristina Nikolova
Editor: Marie Dvorakova, Laura Belsey
Producer: Marie Dvorakova
Cast: Joel Brady, Michael Ingber
Marie Dvorakova was born in Czech Republic and graduated from Charles Univesity in Prague, where she received Bacchelor’s degree in Journalism. She studied documentary filmmaking at Prague Film School - FAMU and is currently enrolled at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she studies film directing. For her studies in US she was awarded Dean’s Fellowship by Tisch School of the Arts.
Summer Sunday
Неделен
‘Summer Sunday’ is the dramatic story of Bruno Hansen, a bridge guard of a huge lift bridge in Hamburg. As his 7-year old deaf son climbs down into the restricted area of the lifting equipment while a train is approaching, he has to decide whether to sacrifice his son or to let the fully occupied train drown in the river.
Sigi Kamml was born in Salzburg in 1967. He studied communication in Paris and Muenchen, as well as directing, writing and film production in L.A. After working for 3 years in Hollywood on his own projects and being assistant director, he became producer and manager of Nostro Film and Nova Film - companies based in Berlin. Since 2007 he works as independent producer mainly of TV films and series. In 2001 he became lecturer at Berlin Academy for Film and TV. He was also guest-lecturer at Humboldt University.
Germany, 2008, 9’45”
Германия, 2008, 9’45”
Director: Sigi Kamml
Writers: Fred Breinersdorfer, Sigi Kamml
Cinematography: Anton Klima
Composer: Gert Wilden
Editor: Tanja Petry
Producer: Fred Breinersdorfer
Cast: Axel Prahl, Janos Giuranna, Stephan A. Tulle
Italy, 2009, 4’
Италия, 2009, 4’ Taken
Отвлечен
A young man wakes up in an unknown place, held hostage. He will slowly realize where he is, facing a dramatic truth.
Director: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro
Writer: Fabio Guaglione
Cinematography: Fabio Resinaro
Animation: Fabio Resinaro
Composer: Luca Solbiati
Editor: Fabio Resinaro
Producer: Angelo D’Agostino
Fabio Resinaro and Fabio Guaglione are a special kind of filmmakers with a special talent for Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ever since, Fabio and Fabio’s trademark was the conceivement of entire worlds living around their own creations, shining with CGI and Visual FX’s that they always created by themselves. Their films won many prestigious awards at festival all around the world. Fabio & Fabio have directed several music videos and commercials between Italy and Switzerland.
The Balloon Trip
Пътешествието с балон
Vicky and Benita are two elderly ladies playing the Bingo every week. Soon after the grand prize of the year is handed out, a balloon trip together with the famous poet and lady’s man Victor Sjostrand, things start to go astray.
Jonas Kukkonen studies film directing at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. He has also graduated with a Masters degree as a classical pianist from the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.
Finland, 2009, 14’48’’
Финландия, 2009, 14’48’’
Director: Jonas Kukkonen
Writer: Jenny Dahlstrom
Cinematography: Paivi Kettunen
Producer: Eero Saarela
Cast: Cita Orndahl, Christina IndreniusZalewski, Dick Idman
Germany, 2007, 27’
Германия, 2007, 27’
The Big Garage
Behrens’ car breaks down somewhere on a deserted country road in the middle of the night. It’s raining and there’s no telephone for miles around. Suddenly a breakdown truck appears out of nowhere. The mechanic is an unfriendly and dangerous-looking guy. Without wasting any time, he tows Behrens and his car to a large repair shop somewhere in no man’s land.
Director: Uwe Nagel
Writer: Uwe Nagel
Cinematography: Eva Fleig
Composer: Ingo Frenzel
Editor: Robert Kummer
Producer: Uwe Nagel
Cast: G ötz Schubert, Julia Richter
Uwe Nagel was born in 1962 in Hildesheim. He trained as a photographer and studied Social and Economic Communication in Berlin and Barcelona. Producer of advertising spots, scriptwriter and director of documentaries. In 1998 he creates his own production company Casino Film. ‘The Big Garage’ is his first short fiction film.
The Blue Bus
Блу Бус
“Am I dead or does this only seems to be so?” Detective Wikkobus suffers from ‘the blues’. After fifty-five years of letting other people dictate his life, without having taken any initiative, only hanging around the blues cafe, drinking whiskey and searching for things that don’t matter anyway, he has had enough of it. Wikkobus decides to go and find himself because, as he knows: ‘Hell is what you make of it’.
Sanne Kortooms is a 24 year old writer and filmmaker from the Netherlands. In 2009 she graduated as a director and screenwriter from the Utrecht School of Arts. Every weekday she posts self-written poems and short stories on her website SannQ.nl. In 2008 Dutch Bloggies nominated her site for ‘best written weblog literature’.
The Netherlands, 2009, 30’
Холандия, 2009, 30’
Director: Sanne Kortooms
Writer: Sanne Kortooms
Cinematography: Ewoud Bon
Animation: Anton van Opstal
Composer: Luuk Bergervoet
Editor: Bram Corstjens
Producers: Sanne Kortooms, Jan Gerards, Samuel Prins, Ronald Kunneman
France, 2009, 15’
Франция, 2009, 15’
The Crossing
Every afternoon, Clara boards a river cruise boat to watch Jacques, the gruff, distant captain. When she learns he’s leaving and will be replaced by Sophie, it becomes urgent for her to talk to him.
Francois Tessier is French writer and director.
Director: Francois Tessier
Writer: Francois Tessier
Cinematography: Claire Mathon
Composer: Foreign Office
Editor: Franck Nakache
Producer: Benjamin Celliez
The Descent
Спускането
A family who lost its son goes to find a tombstone for his grave. The journey takes place in desert scenes of the craters region of the Negev, places that the son loved and used to visit, and awakens repressed feelings in the family
Shai Miedzinski was born in Born in Be’er Sheva in Israel in 1979. He attended a boarding school specializing in environmental studies in Sde Boker and then studied at the Sam Spiegel School for Cinema and Television in Jerusalem. He lives in Tel-Aviv.
A tale of rage, hate, love and passion. Of guilt and revenge. A middle-aged father lives with his daughter, whom he treasures more than everything else in the world. He has one aim in life: to protect her, whatever the cost. Anyone who dares approach her will have him to deal with. When a young tramp wandering the area with his dog dares just that and the girl and the youth fall in love, it means war...
Nikos Labot (alias Haralambopoulos) was born in Athens. He lives and works in the capital directing music videos.
Dna Lab Монтаж:
The End
Краят
A middle class American family must fight for survival in a nation being torn apart by the lack of water.
Eduardo Chapero-Jackson born in Madrid in 1971. He studied fine arts and filmmaking in New York. In 1996 he returned to Spain as a freelance and started exhibiting his artwork. From 1997 to 2004 he worked at one of Spain’s leading production companies, Sogecine. In the meantime, he studied for four years acting and directing. Left Sogecine in 2005 to continue his writing and directing career.
Spain, 2009, 28’
Испания, 2009, 28’
Director: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
Writer: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
Cinematography: Juan Carlos Gomez
Producers: Prosopopeya Producciones, Complice Films
Cast: Samuel Roukin, Natalie Press, Ewan Beatie, Charlie Creed Miles, Elieen Walsh
UK, 2009, 12’
Великобритания, 2009, 12’
The Fall Пропадане
A young man, Jason, looks after his mentally ill younger brother, Darren, and an alcoholic father and with the help of some graffiti characters coming to life on one strange night on a London council estate. Jason comes to realize he has to move on with his own life.
Director: Michael Chandler
Writer: Michael Chandler
Cinematography: Bruce Melhuish
Animation: King Bee Animation
Producer: Hazel Chandler
Cast: Leon Rainee, Zachary Momoh, Darren Clarke
Michael Chandler: ‘The Fall’ is Michael Chandler’s first film as writer director. He is currently directing a documentary ‘Stay Sailing’, as well as working on several scripts for dramas. Michael is DJ-ing in competitions and clubs across the UK. He produces music for soundtracks. Director of the charity WAYout, which uses arts, music and media projects to engage youth in Sierra Leone.
The Lock Keeper
Пазачът на шлюза
A lock keeper orchestrates the rise and fall of the barges with the help of an ancient wind instrument. With his goldfish he shares a little house inhabited by endless rain. People, dogs, seasons pass...
Nicolas Boucart was born in 1981 in Tournai, Belgium. He studies Cinema at the Institute of Radio Electronics and Cinematography in Brussels. His final graduation project it the short movie ‘Fernando’, inspired by Jacques Brel’s song. In 2005 he directs the short film ‘Autumn Is in Sad Summer’ that is in the official selection of few international film festivals.
Belgium, 2009, 27’ Белгия, 2009, 27’
Director: Nicolas Boucart
Writer: Nicolas Boucart
Cinematography: Bart Van Otterdijk
Composer: Boucart Nicolas
Editor: Boucart Nicolas
Producer: Anthony Rey
Iran, 2009, 19’
Иран, 2009, 19’
The Other Side
Young girl seems to receive letters from her fiancе living on the other side of the border, but it appears that he is not the one who is sending the letters.
Esmae’l Monsef is award winning Iranian director and editor of more than 30 documentary and short films.
Director: Esmae’l Monsef
Writer: Esmae’l Monsef
Cinematography: Ashkan Ashkani
Composer: Esmae’l Monsef
Editor: Esmae’l Monsef
Cast: Naser Ja’fari, Reza Eesapoor, Zhila Shahi
The Police Chief’s Son
The son of the police chief wants to become a rapper. A true story.
Raf Reyntjens graduates at the Brussels film academy in 1999 with the tragicomical short ‘About Love’. He teams up with Roel Mondelaers to direct a first professional short, the sci-fi fantasy ‘A Message from Outer Space’, which is a huge succes at numerous film festivals worldwide. In the epic historical war short ‘Tunnelrat’, he explores the unknown world of underground warfare during World War I. Nowadays Raf is concentrating on his first feature film project ‘Paradise Trips’, that he developed within the programme of the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam. Apart from his film work Raf is also an award winning commercial and music video director.
Belgium, 2008, 3’ Белгия, 2008, 3’
Director: Raf Reyntjens
Writer: Raf Reyntjens
Cinematography: Gerd Schelfhout
Composer: James Deano
Editor: Gerd Van Berckelaer
Producer: Gerda Coppens
France, 2009, 11’
Франция, 2009, 11’
Director: Vincent Diderot
Writer: Vincent Diderot
Cinematography: Guillaume Hoenig
Composer: Rim Laurens
Editor: Vincent Diderot
Producer: Stephane Kowalczyk
Cast: Bernard Laborde , Ali Challel, Mikaël Antoinette, Guy-Michel Carbou, Narith Kheav
The Revelation
Откритието
In a theatre a B movie is playing. The viewers seem captivated. On the screen, a spaceship captain is telling the world he has met aliens...
Vincent Diderot: After a degree in Arts, Vincent Diderot shoots two experimental short films: ‘Louise’ and ‘Sirene’. His third one, ‘The Revelation’, more narrative, becomes a success in France and abroad. Influenced by painters, Vincent Diderot develops fine-worked scenery and atmosphere, which recently led him to direct movie clips for record labels.
The Silence of the Sea
Мълчанието на морето
A man is struggling to make sense out of a series of peculiar events that happen to him. He asks for help to his psychiatrist but there is no use. He ends up down the river. As he keeps exploring he slowly discovers a new himself. Feeling the irresistible call from the water running toward the sea he follows his inner nature.
Tito Sacchi has worked in advertising and digital media for more than a decade. While studying for an MA at Central St Martins College in London he began collaborating on a number of film projects with some of his associates.
UK, 2009, 3’30” Великобритания, 2009, 3’30”
Director: Tito Sacchi
Writers: Tito Sacchi, Giacomo Sacchi
Cinematography: Jurdan Cushing
Composer: Giacomo Sacchi
Editor: Tito Sacchi
Producer: Tito Sacchi
South Africa, 2009, 25’
Южна Африка, 2009, 25’
The Tunnel Тунелът
Set during the 1980s in Matabeleland, ‘The Tunnel’ follows young Elizabeth, nicknamed Rabbit because of her love of making up tall stories. When she arrives at a guerilla camp desperate for help, Elizabeth must tell her greatest story of all - a story about her village, strangers, ghosts, and the day her father dug a tunnel to the city and her journey to find him.
Director: Jenna Cato Bass
Writer: Jenna Bass
Cinematography: Jacques Koudstaal
Composer: John Turest-Swartz
Editor: Jacques de Villiers
Producer: Jenna Cato Bass
Cast: Sibulele Mlumbi, Finch Moyo
Jenna Cato Bass was born in 1986 and has worked as a music video director, cinematographer, band photographer and magician. She has directed over ten short films and seven music videos. Her film ‘The Tunnel’ premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010 and subsequently in competition at the Berlinale 2010.
The Years of Silence
Години на мълчание
In the middle of the Spanish post-war period, a low murmur catches the attention of a little boy, who looks for his mother to find her looking anxiously at the window. Adults uncomfortably tell him that the strange sound must be from a distant storm, but he will soon find out the truth behind it, changing his life forever.
Marcel Leal started studying film direction at the CECC (Centre of Film Studies of Catalonia) after obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Graduate Qualification in Music, specializing in recorder.
Spain, 2009, 18’ Испания, 2009, 18’
Director: Marcel Leal
Writer: Marcel Leal
Cinematography: Inigo Zubicaray
Animation: Marcel Leal
Composer: Alejandro Civilotti
Editor: Aitor Guinea
Producer: Juan Ruiz
Cast: Mar
Ruiz, Pol Fernandez
UK, 2009, 16’
Великобритания, 2009, 16’
Things we Leave Behind
Whilst clearing the belonging of his missing father, Chris unearths some unexpected truths.
Director: Andrew Brand
Writer: Andrew Brand
Cinematography: Andy Parsons
Editor: Simon Ellis
Producer: Beth Sowersby
Cast: Jonny Phillips, Sam Heydon, Paul Codling
Andrew Brand: After completing a degree in Fine Art where Andrew specialised in video installations he moved into film. In 2004 Andrew made his directing debut with ‘To his Knees he Fell’ which was commissioned through the UK Film Council’s Digital Shorts Scheme. It was screened at numerous international film festivals. In 2008 Andrew collaborated with sonic artist Alison Ballard to make his experimental animation ‘Wires and Bows’. At the end of 2009 Andrew completed his 2nd UK Film Council commissioned short film through Screen East entitled ‘Things We Leave Behind’.
Threads
Нишки
‘Threads’ tells the story of Liam Jones, a mixed-race fifteen-year-old, who comes face-to-face with Steve Barker, a man who he believes is his father. As he works to uncover further information about Steve, and begin to feel connected to him, he discovers that he is a political candidate for the Far-Right party. Liam must then make a tough decision for a young lad.
Matt Taabu grew up in Kenya, but has spent the most of his life living in the UK, where he studied film. His shorts revolves around exploring issues of social and cultural identity, with an emerging track record that shows he is not shy of tackling difficult subject matter or opening it up to a wide audience. His films have won awards both in the UK and abroad.
UK, 2009, 12’ Великобритания, 2009, 12’
Director: Matt Taabu
Writer: Matt Taabu
Cinematography: Paul Wiseman
Composer: Stuart Earl
Editor: Anton Short
Producer: Rob Speranza
Cast: Reece Noi, Jamie Lomas
Germany, 2009, 12’18”
Германия, 2009, 12’18”
Tidelanders
Излетът
Director: Max Z ähle
Writer: Florian Siegrist
Cinematography: Sin Huh
Composer: Kriton Klingler-Ioannides
Editor: Oliver Gieth
Producer: Anja Schmuck
Cast: April Hailer, Uwe Rohde, Benjamin Kramme, Michael von Rospatt
The Kröger family has drifted apart. To bring everyone together again, mother Anne organises a family trip to the midlands for her husband’s birthday. However, mutual lack of understanding turns the trip into a bizarre odyssey, at the end of which the family pulls together in spite of all their differences... until the next fight breaks out.
Max Z ähle was born in Celle in 1977. After his graduation in 1997, he moved to Hamburg for a film internship. He worked as video operator, location manager, and first assistant director on various film sets. At the same time, he studied audio and visual media communication at the HAMM in Hamburg from which he graduated in 2002. Subsequently, he successfully completed an apprenticeship as film editor at the Handelskammer Hamburg.
Tomorrow is Another Day
И утре е ден
One girl, one school, one day. Jennifer is impelled by a longing for affinity and nearness that she can never allow. Only one important thing is left for her: Everything... But not as it is! Today’s basketball-tournament must bet he incident that will forever end her affliction.
Steffen Cornelius Tralles was born in 1978 in Hamburg. He graduated high school in USA and economical vocational diploma in Germany. After working in Spain and Austria he started working as a unit and production freelance manager and later as a first assistant director. Since 2005 he directed and wrote several shorts and documentaries. He is a graduate of the European Film College and now studies film directing at Hamburg Media School.
Germany, 2009, 12’30”
Германия, 2009, 12’30”
Director: Steffen Cornelius Tralles
Writer: Georg Tiefenbach
Cinematography: Jakob Süß
Composer: Gerd Gerdes
Editor: Lea Romer
Producer: Anja Schmuck
Cast: Yasmin Asadie, Jonas Nay, Susanna Meyer, Marie Abel
Spain, 2009, 13’
Испания, 2009, 13’
Director: Fernando Franco
Writer: Fernando Franco
Cinematography: Daniel Sosa
Composer: Manuel Campos
Editor: Ana Rubio
Producers: Samuel Martinez, Mario Madueno
Cast: Andres Gertrudix, Sarah-Laure Estragnat
Tu(A)Mor Любовен тумор
The sentimental relationship between Andres and Sara is a living organism.
Fernando Franco was born in 1976 in Seville. He graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Seville and in Editing at ECAM. He has worked as an editor on titles such as ‘15 Day With You’, ‘Cargo’, ‘Drop By’ and ‘Appeared’. ‘Voice Messages’ (2007), his first work as a director, won a dozen prizes, among them First Prize at the Malaga Festival of Spanish Cinema. He is preparing his first feature-length film, ‘The Wait’. He also works as a teacher and coordinator, specializing in Documentary Film, at ECAM.
Under my Garden
Под моята градина
Marco, a 10-year old boy, who has a passion for insects, is convinced that his neighbour has killed his wife and has buried her under his garden, the evidence being a large ant-nest he has been carefully examining for a while. He thus decides to carry out some investigations.
Andrea Lodovichetti was born in 1976 in Fano, Italy. He graduated in Film Directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - National Shool of Cinema in Rome. Since 2005 is assistant director for Paolo Sorrentino. His film ‘Under My Garden’ is the most awarded and screened Italian short movie ever. He won the “Looking for genius” prize in Babelgum Film Festival in Cannes, 2008 and the Golden Globe 2009.
An outsider threats the peace of an upper-class Finnish family. The stranger not taken seriously until he proves that he knows more than he should. The family must realize that they should stand united or their life together might collapse.
Director: Alejandro Pedregal
Writer: Alejandro Pedregal
Cinematography: Arsen Sarkisiants
Composer: Adolf Kastner
Editor: Maria Palavamдki
Producer: Mahsa Malka
Cast: Malla Malmivaara, Katja Kiuru, Robert Enckell, Enrique Alcides
Alejandro Pedregal is Spanish director and PhD student from the School of Film and Television, University of Art and Design, Helsinki. He has an MFA from Kuvataideakatemia, dept. of Time and Space (New Media), and an MFA and an Advanced Studies Diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University in Madrid. He’s director of Lens Politica festival and teacher in the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki.
War
Война
Italy, the summer of 1946. Paolo hopes to receive his pension from the trade unions. Luigi reminds him of his Fascist past. Their discussion becomes heated when Paolo loses at cards again. His little boy Antonio faces father’s humiliation in silence and finds a way to help him.
Paolo Sassanelli was born in Bari in 1958 and went on to become an acclaimed actor in the Italian theater, cinema and television. His roles in important television series made him popular in Italy. In the cinema he has worked under the direction of Matteo Garrone, Giuseppe Piccioni, Silvio Soldini, Cristina Comencini, Gianni Zanasi. He was co-scriptwriter of the film ‘Rosso come il cielo’ by Cristiano Bortone. ‘War’ is his first work as director.
Italy, 2009, 15’ Италия, 2009, 15’
Director: Paolo Sassanelli
Writers: Paolo Sassanelli, Antonella Gaeta
Cinematography: Federico Annicchiarico
Editor: Michele Sblendorio
Producer: Tommaso Arrighi
Cast: Dino Abbrescia, Toto Onnis, Angela Iurilli
France, 2009, 27’
Франция, 2009, 27’
Weaknesses
A young woman decides to go after the man she’s in love with...
Nicolas Giraud: French editor, writer and director.
Director: Nicolas Giraud
Writer: Nicolas Giraud
Cinematography: Benjamin Echazzareta
Composer: Claude Giraud
Editor: Nicolas Giraud
Producer: Jean-Christophe Reymond
Cast: Faustine Tournan, Nicolas Giraud
Wedlock
Брак
A man. A woman. A bridal gown. This is a sacred night. A wedding night. He is a handsome and remarkable man, she is a youthful and striking woman. The couple cross the threshold of a small hotel room and create an alternate reality for themselves, as if the world outside ceased to exist. The fallout of that night will be engraved in their hearts for eternity...
Itai Raziel: ’Wedlock’ is Itai Raziel’s first short film as a director. Itai is a graduate of the Film School of Tel Aviv (Israel). For over a decade, Itai has been working as a cinematographer for Israeli television and the Israeli film industry. His work includes dozens of films, several of which participated in international festivals and won significant prizes.
Israel, 2009, 8’22’’
Израел, 2009, 8’22’’
Director: Itai Raziel
Writers: Itai Raziel, Ofer Dori
Cinematography: Ofer Dori
Composer: Itamar Rotchild
Editor: Eran Jago
Producer: Itai Raziel
Cast: Rebecca Griffin, Guy Arieli
France, 2008, 24’30”
Франция, 2008, 24’30”
When Mommy’s Gone
Guillaume is a light mental deficient and lives with his mother. For some days, he follows a training period for a funeral home. From first care to the deceased to simulation of the ceremony, he tests the different aspects of this job.
Director: Christophe Monier
Writer: Christophe Monier
Cinematography: Keo Kosal Nara
Composer: Raphael Gesqua
Editor: Christian Cuilleron
Producer: Karine Blanc
Cast: Gregory Givernaud, Brigitte
Damiens
Christophe Monier was born in 1962 in Montpellier, France and grew up in Valence. He subsequently went to Paris to study cinema, but didn’t succeed to enter the IDHEC. Thus, he learned on his own and worked with Michel Deville, Claide Goretta, Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, Christiane Spiero on several films. In 2000, 2001 and 2004 he worked with Brigitte Jacquet for actors training. Thanks to this collaboration, he directed three average length films: ‘Dites-mos que je reve’, ‘Petites histoires’, ‘Florilege’.
White as the Driven Snow
Снежнобяло
A father, a son. A snowy retreat, once appreciated, in deep woods. A tete-a-tete which will change their life forever.
Genevieve Poulette: Awarded a diploma in directing at the INIS, Genevieve Poulette directed in 2001 the short film of fiction ‘Jingle’, which deserves the Prize of the public to the FFM. Her third short film, ‘Meet-Market.ca’, was selected in several International Festivals too, besides winning the Gold at WorldFest Houston. ‘White as the Driven Snow’ is her fourth short film, created in association with Joлl Melancon.
Canada, 2010, 17’53”
Канада, 2010, 17’53”
Director: Genevieve Poulette
Writer: Joël Melancon
Cinematography: Gabi Kislat
Composer: Luc St-Pierre
Editor: Joël Melancon
Producer: Genevieve Poulette
Cast: Andre Lacoste, Joël Melancon
Turkey, 2010, 37’
Турция, 2010, 37’
Wind, Carry My Voice
Director: Emre Sarikus
Writer: Emre Sarikus
Cinematography: Adem Erkocak
Composer: Erdal Guney
Editors: Enes Kokmaz, Erkan Tosun, Gamze Ogut
Narrators: Altan Erkekli, Altan Gordum, Engin Alkan, Hakki Ergok, Sungun
Babcan
When the South-East wind blew at nights on the desolated streets that they left, their howls were heard just like it used to be many years ago... People who succumbed to these voices, getting on boats went to bring some of them back secretly. However, when they drew near to the island, they saw something they could never forget. 80.000 dogs in exile were waiting for an unexpected guest to take them away from this arid piece of land in the middle of the sea.
Emre Sarikus was born in Istanbul in 1983. He was graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Sociology Department in 2007. He also got a Sports Communication certificate from Kadir Has University. His first documentary project ‘Sesim R üzgara’ was completed in 2010. Emre Sarikus also writes articles on newspapers, scripts and essays about soccer.
Wings & Teeth
Криле и зъби
12-year old Iiris is left to take care of her grandmother. She looks through the old family house and accidentally finds a hidden door to the cellar, where a boy at her age is chained to the wall.
Oskari Sipola studies film directing at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design.
Finland, 2009, 29’55’’ Финландия, 2009, 29’55’’
Director: Oskari Sipola
Writer: Ilja Rautsi
Cinematography: Joonas Pulkkanen
Composer: Pessi Levanto
Editor: Markus Leppala
Producer: Lotta-Kaisa Riistakoski
Cast: Carla Laine, Eppu Kiiskinen, Vieno Saaristo, Vilma Melasniemi
USA, 2004, 18’
САЩ, 2004, 18’
Winning the Peace
An Iraqi-American Marine returns to Iraq to redeem his place of birth only to destroy the very people he hoped to save.
Director: Eli Akira Kaufman
Writer: Eli Akira Kaufman
Cinematography: Vanessa Holtgrewe
Composer: Lee Curreri
Editor: Harry Yoon
Producer: Kori Shadrick
Cast: Don Hany
Eli Akira Kaufman: A graduate of Oberlin College, Kaufman completed his MFA in directing at The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2007. Kaufman has written and directed several award winning short films. He also directed live theater for The Francis Ford Coppola One Act Play Festival and was the recipient of the Jim Morrison Prize for directing. Kaufman currently works at FilmINDependent.org as the Senior Content Producer for the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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Yarning for Love
Любовна плетеница
A mysterious yarn appears out of nowhere and entangles a man and a woman into romance.
Masahiro Sugano was born in Osaka, Japan. He moved to the U.S. in 1990 and earned BA in philosophy and MA in film/video/animation. His film accolades stretch from Student Academy Award® nomination, Sundance Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, to most recently nomination for Golden Cow at Gstaad Film Switzerland.
USA, 2009, 4’5”
САЩ, 2009, 4’5”
Director: Masahiro Sugano
Writer: Masahiro Sugano
Cinematography: Masahiro Sugano
Animation: Masahiro Sugano
Composer: Laurent Ziliani
Producer: Masahiro Sugano
Cast: Kristina Wong, Dwight Sora
MINI it Animation
Germany, 2009, 12’30’’
Германия, 2009, 12’30’’
Directors: Ildiko Dietrich, Benjamin Haagen, Mariya Hristova, Thomas Schienagel
Writers: Ildiko Dietrich, Benjamin Haagen, Mariya Hristova, Thomas Schienagel
Cinematography: Ildiko Dietrich, Benjamin Haagen, Mariya Hristova, Thomas Schienagel
Animation: Ildiko Dietrich, Benjamin Haagen, Mariya Hristova, Thomas Schienagel
Composer: Stefan Wühr
Editors: Ildiko Dietrich, Benjamin Haagen, Mariya Hristova, Thomas Schienagel
Producer: Ildiko Dietrich
Cast: Thomas Witte
67°
On a lighthouse in the middle of the great wide ocean, in complete solitude lives Jouris, an old and infirm man with a small stature. The days go by and Jouris is waiting to espy a ship, and of course, he is waiting and hoping to be seen by a ship. But there are no ships at all. Then, a big storm is changing everything.
Ildiko Dietrich: From 1997 to 2005 worked as full time 2D/3D computer artist at Exozet Interact/Exozet Effects. Since 2005 he is a freelancer. Mariya Hristova: In 2005 had an internship at Claus Winter Bewegtgrafik. From 2005 to 2010 Maria studied at Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg. Thomas Schienagel: In 2004 he graduated with an MA in Art. In 2005 he had internships at Atelier König, PDNA, Kaller & Kaller. Since 2006 he works as freelancer.
About Animals and People
За животните и хората
Our smaller brothers have their own patrons and if people do not learn how to live in harmony with fauna surrounding them, it can disappear.
Alexey Zaitsev was born in 1972. In 2002 he graduated from the ”Applied computer science and computer design” faculty of MIDK. In 1999 he graduated from Professional Art Lyceum of animation cinematography on an artist - animator (Anatoly Petrov’s class). In 1996 graduated from the Academy of the International Cooperation at the course of the ”Photo artistthe advertising designer”.
Russia, 2008, 7’ Русия, 2008, 7’
Director: Alexei Zaitsev
Writer: Alexei Zaitsev
Animation: Alexei Zaitsev, Ekaterina
Volkova, Maria Belkina
Composer: Sasha Gusev
Editor: Alexei Zaitsev
Producer: Lyubov Gaidukova
UK, 2009, 2’19’’
Великобритания, 2009, 2’19’’
Director: Joao Lopes Da Silva
Writer: Joao Lopes De Silva
Animation: Joao Lopes De Silva, Philip Barker, Ibrahim Khan, Harjeet Bains, Mark De Winton-Gilbert
Composer: Nik Phelps
Editor: Raquel O. Couceiro
Producer: Joao Lopes De Silva
Baile
A young couple meets on a summer night. Propelled by the city and the music, they engage in a romantic dance.
Joao Lopes Da Silva is a young Portuguese animator who had his first contacts with animation at ETIC in Lisbon in a 3 year animation course where he directed his first film Desmarca-te. He recently graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth where he participated as an assistant animator on the graduation films ‘Favelados’ and ‘The Great Race’. He directed ‘Baile’ as his graduation film.
Birdy
Пилето
In this stop-motion film about power of dreams, a bird without wings wants to fly and is prepared to go to any lengths to do it.
Agnieszka Woznicka is an animation artist and director. She graduated from the National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland. Agnieszka works with traditional animation techniques, mainly focusing on stop-motion. Her work has been shown at international film and animation festivals and won many awards. Currently Agnieszka lives in Providence USA where she divides her time between making films and teaching animation at the Rhode Island School of Design.
USA, 2008, 7’20”
САЩ, 2008, 7’20”
Director: Agnieszka Woznicka
Writer: Agnieszka Woznicka
Cinematography: Agnieszka Woznicka
Animation: Agnieszka Woznicka
Composer: Roger Miller
Editor: Joshua Backer
Producer: Agnieszka Woznicka
Germany, 2009, 3’10’’
Германия, 2009, 3’10’’
Bob Боб
A hamster is chasing his love around the globe. Will he get her?
Jacob Frey was born 1984 in Germany. 2002-2004 he made a BA in art and design. Later he worked as a freelancer. Since 2007 Jacob Frey studies animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Director: Jacob Frey
Animation: Jacob Frey, Harry Fast
Composer: Jacob Frey, Harry Fast
Editor: Jacob Frey, Harry Fast
Producer: Anna Matacz
Broken Wave
Разбита
”Everything we have ever done or been involved in, is there in our memory somewhere, all you need is a trigger.” (Granddad)
Chris Allen is interested in animating the mind. He created several short animations about dreams and the thought of being trapped. Directing his film ‘Broken Wave’ in his final year of the Arts Institute at Bournemouth has allowed him to develop this theme by visually interpreting another’s thoughts.
UK, 2009, 3’ Великобритания, 2009, 3’
Director: Chris Allen
Writer: Chris Allen
Animation: Chris Allen, Tara Baker, David Abiose, Tim Grant
Composer: Kirstie Hewlett
Editor: Raquel O. Couceiro
Producer: Chris Allen
Russia, 2008, 6’
Русия, 2008, 6’
Cello
Виолончело
The story is about a small adventure that helps the boy which studies to play Cello to become fond of music.
Tatiana Kurnaeva was born in 1981. In 2000 she graduated from Art Lyceum of Animation Cinematography № 333. She is an animator.
Director: Tatiana Kurnaeva
Writer: Tatiana Kurnaeva
Animation: Olga Sivakova-Vasina, Viktoria Barmina, Tatiana Kurnaeva
Composer: Niccolo Paganinni
Editor: Tatiana Kurnaeva
Producer: Lyubov Gaidukova
Centipede Sun
Стоножно слънце
A mesmerizing video poem on transforming landscapes: series of metaphors of isolation, deconstruction and the limits of the inhabitable territory create an unique view of the contemporary environmental condition.
Mihai Grecu was born in Romania in 1981. After studying art and design in Romania and France, he has been pursuing his artistic research at the Fresnoy Studio of Contemporary Arts. Recurring topics such as environment, water, city life and war articulate the whole of his exploration of mysterious and subconscious beginnings. These visual and poetic trips, mix several techniques and styles and may be seen as propositions for a new dream oriented technology. His work has been shown in numerous film festivals.
France, 2010, 10’ Франция, 2010, 10’
Director: Grecu Mihai
Cinematography: Enrique Ramirez
Animation: Mihai Grecu, David Louis
Editor: Momoko Seto
Producer: Mihai Grecu
UK, 2009, 2’
Великобритания, 2009, 2’
Director: Michael Brady
Writer: Michael Brady
Animation: Michael Brady, Simon Ashbery, Ben Ridge, Nubian Greene, Mark Storer, Joe Heasman, Estefania Garcia
Composer: Tanuj Tiku
Editor: Michael Brady
Producer: Michael Brady
Clockwork Nights
Механични нощи
‘Clockwork Nights’ is a story about a girl, her clockwork crocodile, and the stars! Up on the hills Tulip and her clockwork crocodile, Tydactyl, look out for shooting stars to make wishes on, but problems arise when two villains start deliberately knocking stars from the sky for their own selfish wishes.
Michael Brady was born in 1986 in Chelmsford, Essex. He gained a place on the highly regarded BA (Hons) Animation Production course at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, graduating in 2009 with First Class Honours.
Ego Sum Petrus
Ego Sum Petrus
Petrus, an old poet, lives in the ”poetry shop” he closed a long time ago due to a lack of customers. Reclusive, he’s fixed to his typewriter in a dark and filthy room. But bitterness and hatred have paralised his inspiration...
Julien Dexant studied graphic design in the Parisian Art School Estienne, and then animation at the Laboratoire d’Imagerie Numеrique in Angoulеme, where he graduated in 2001. ‘Ego Sum Petrus’ is a personal project on which he has been working for 8 years, since 2002. Meanwhile, he collaborated as an animator on Jean-Christophe Lie’s short film ‘The Man in the Blue Gordini’, and on a few animated features.
France, 2010, 4’25’’ Франция, 2010, 4’25’’
Director: Julien Dexant
Writers: Julien Dexant, Alexis Ragougneau
Animation: Julien Dexant
Composers: Gwena лl Drapeau, Julien Dexant, Eric Proud
Editor: Jimmy Audoin
Producer: Olivier Catherin
Bulgaria, 2010, 1’40’’
България, 2010, 1’40’’
Visual interpretation of the saying ‘When two argue a third wins’.
Natalia Atanasova studies at New Bulgarian University animated film. Between 2007-2009 she worked for Fin Film studio. She took part in the Kulev Film production ‘Puk’ in 2010.
Director: Natalia Atanasova
Animation: Natalia Atanasova
Composer: Natalia Atanasova
Editor: Natalia Atanasova
Producer: Natalia Atanasova
Fragile
Чупливо
When the final piece of an old mans prize teapot collection is recklessly destroyed by a delivery driver, the old man turns to modern technology to gain revenge.
Richard Burnside graduated from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth in summer 2009 with a BA (Hons) degree in Animation Production.
UK, 2009, 4’
Великобритания, 2009, 4’
Director: Richard Burnside
Writer: Richard Burnside
Animation: Richard Burnside, Ricky Earl, Ben Ramasami, Peter Driscol, Huw Moorehouse
Composer: Holley Gray
Editor: Leila Davies
Producer: Richard Burnside
Poland, 2010, 3’
Полша, 2010, 3’
Hexaemeron
Хекзамерон
‘Hexameron’ is a short animation film created by four students joined by common passion. Using innovative 3D technology and custom tools ‘Hexaemeron’ was brought to life. This film was realized through synthesis of points in 3D space creating a new visual style. Inspiration came from the first pages of the bible which describe the creation of the world in six days.
Director: Marcin Dabrowski
Writer: Marcin Dabrowski
Cinematography: Marcin Dabrowski
Animation: Dawid Januszek, Artur Czemel, Michal Blakala
Composer: Mindthings
Editor: Marcin Dabrowski
Producer: Mariusz Korczak
Marcin Dabrowski: In 2008 graduated from the College of Computer Science in Lodz, Poland. Marcin was intern at Lightcraft post-production studio in Warsaw. Currently studies at Drimagine at School of 3D Animation and VFX based in WSB-National Louis University, Nowy Sacz.
Homba
Хомба
Strange pink creature named Homba, wakes up in spring after winter hibernation. Clean up hole, throw away winter rubbish and sow a seed on top of hill. Seed turn into tree. Homba all spring, summer and autumn take care of the tree.
Anton Kalchenko was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1976. In 2009 year he graduates from Saint-Petersburg’s State University of Cinema and Television.
Russia, 2009, 7’
Русия, 2009, 7’
Director: Anton Kalchenko
Writer: Anton Kalchenko
Animation: Anton Kalchenko
Composer: Anton Kalchenko
Editor: Anton Kalchenko
Producer: Anna Kalm
Spain, 2010, 5’7’’
Испания, 2010, 5’7’’
In Insomnia
Like any other night the man wants to sleep. In search of precious sleep he performs a sacred ritual, but insomnia is a very persistened condition.
Director: Jose Angel Alayon Devora
Writer: Jose Angel Alayon Devora
Animation: Juan Carlos, Sanchez Lezcano
Composer: Manu Conde
Editor: Jose Angel Alayon Devora
Producer: Katrin Pors
Jose Angel Alayon Devora graduates from EIVCT (Cuba) in 2003. Since then he has made numerous documentaries, short films and comercial. His Graduation film ‘Child with Rain’ was selected at numerous festivals and won many international awards. In 2005 made the short movie ‘Viento de Cuedat’. He is currently developing his first feature film ‘The Warm Bed’ and the shorts ‘A Day in Paradise’ and ‘Carried’.
Kroak
Крок
1. Fishing trip: Kroak goes fishing early in the morning. From its bundle, he takes whole panoply of tools, and waits for the fish that doesn’t come. When, finally, something takes the bait, it’s not a fish but a fridge that goes out from the sea, then a laid out table, and then a strange fish. 2. Return to bear: Kroak is looking for food, with a craving for a walrus for dinner. He digs into the ice and comes face to face with a bear.
Nicolas Bianco-Levrin was born in Paris in 1979. He studied at Graphic Art School Duperré, in Paris. He publishes books as writer and illustrator. With Julie Rembauville, he worked on many animation films. Julie Rembauville was born in 1982 close to Paris. She studied literature at La Sorbonne, and has a master in Audiovisual methods. She directed short films, especially animations.
France, 2008, 3’ Франция, 2008, 3’
Directors: Julie Rembauville, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
Writer: Nicolas Bianco
Producer: Ron Dyens
UK, 2009, 3’
Великобритания, 2009, 3’
Kung-Fu Romance
Кунг-фу романс
He is a martial arts student failing in his class. She is the beautiful daughter of the Grand Master. This is a story of how he finds inspiration in her to try overcoming his flaw and wins her heart. This is a story of one boy, one girl and one love that worths to fight for.
Director: Ben Ho
Writer: Ben Ho
Cinematography: Ben Ho
Animation: Yunde Jaji, Keith Rowsell, Tegan Jephcott, Hozen Britto
Composer: Veronica Chen
Editor: Toby Tomkins
Producer: Ben Ho
Ben Ho is a British-born Chinese who’s only talent at a young age was drawing and painting. He graduated in the BA (Hons) Animation Production course at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth where he directed his graduation film ‘Kung-Fu Romance’.
Lazy
Лениво
‘Lazy’ is a fantasy antidote to a busy life. A woman decides that her life can do without her for one day. Her bed transports her to a magical river, surrounded by singing flowers, birds, butterflies and jumping fish.
Ayala Sharot was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2002 she graduated from the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv. Her graduation film ‘Jabberwocky’, an animated short based on a poem by Lewis Carroll, was nominated for the best Israeli student animation for 2003. After her graduation she worked as an animator in Israel, and in 2004 she joined the animation team of MK 22. In 2006 she graduated a master degree in communication design at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. Since her graduation Ayala has been working in London as a freelance animator.
UK, 2009, 3’12’’ Великобритания, 2009, 3’12’’
Director: Ayala Sharot
Writers: Ayala Sharot, Juliet Russell
Cinematography: Gulsen Yanik
Animation: Ayala Sharot
Composer: Juliet Russell
Editor: Ayala Sharot
Producers: Ayala Sharot, Juliet Russell
Cast: Juliet Russell
UK, 2009, 3’
Великобритания, 2009, 3’
Director: Emiko Hiwatari
Writers: Stephanie Weldon, Emiko Hiwatari
Cinematography: Emiko Hiwatari
Animation: Liam Nunn, Stephanie
Weldon, Emiko Hiwatari
Composer: Kirstie Hewlett
Editor: Simon Scott
Producer: Emiko Hiwatari
Misiba Мисиба
The story of a girl who befriends a lion cub after his mother is killed in a hunt. After raising the cub in secret, they part ways but are eventually reunited a few years later.
Emiko Hiwatari: Originally from Japan. Joined the BA (Hons) Animation Production course at Art Institute at Bournemouth (UK) and graduated in 2009 after having directed graduation animation ‘Misiba’.
Missing
Липса
A window opens on a child who lives in a war torn area where he longs for his past peaceful life.
Tariq Rimawi is a Jordanian Animation Filmmaker born in 1980. His First degree in Graphic Design obtained in 2006 from Petra University, Jordan. In 2010, Tariq graduated with Master degree in Animation from the international film school of Wales, United Kingdom and made his major short film ‘Missing’ by using stop-motion animation techniques.
UK/Jordan, 2010, 3’
Великобритания/Йордания, 2010, 3’
Director: Tariq Rimawi
Writer: Tariq Rimari
Animation: Tariq Rimawi
Composer: Anna Lloyd
Bulgaria/UK, 2009, 4’30”
България/Великобритания, 2009, 4’30’’
Night Train
The uncomfortable journey of a passenger on a night train, who just wants to be able to sleep in solitude.
Director: Angel Yanakiev
Writer: Angel Yanakiev
Animation: Angel Yanakiev
Composer: Enrica Sciandrone
Editor: Angel Yanakiev
Angel Yanakiev was born in 1981 in a small town in Russia. Eight months later, he was brought to Bulgaria and lived the next 21 years of his life there. In 2001, one year after graduating high-school he went to study traditional fine art at the University of Veliko Turnovo ”St. St. Cyril and Methodius”. After his first year he flew over to England and also got accepted at the University of Westminster in London to study Animation. His graduation film ‘Night Train’ got him First Class Honours Bachelor Degree and his film was later shortlisted for British Animation Awards 2010.
Paper Love
Хартиена любов
A man and a woman actively live their 2 dimensional lives on a toilet paper roll. He is courting her, but will she be seduced? And what more is happening on the toilet in the background? A short stop motion love story becomes a tragedy in the toilet paper world.
Armin Mobasseri was born in 1981. He graduated in 2009 in Audiovisual Media.
Germany, 2010, 3’25’’ Германия, 2010, 3’25’’
Director: Armin Mobasseri
Writers: Armin Mobasseri, Philipp Röhl
Cinematography: Armin Mobasseri, Philipp Röhl
Animation: Armin Mobasseri, Philipp Röhl
Composer: Friedemann Kootz
Editor: Armin Mobasseri
Producers: Armin Mobasseri, Philipp Röhl
Cast: Daniel Megnet, Susanne Becker, Oliver Fuhrmann, Friederike Thate
UK, 2009, 4’
Великобритания, 2009, 4’
Director: Adrian Maganza
Writer: Adrian Maganza
Cinematography: Adrian Maganza
Animation: Adrian Maganza, Polly
Botham, Audun Gulliksen, Kit Man, Ben Doghue
Composer: Paul Oxby
Editor: Yasuyuki Otsuki
Producer: Adrian Maganza
Paradis
People go in and out of a mysterious doorway. A tramp, drinking on the doorstep, struggles to make his way inside. A few steps away, a rose seller seems to be the key.
Adrian Maganza was born in Brussels. He directed his first film ‘Paradis’ as part of his final year on BA (Hons) Animation Production course at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
Peoples’s Republic of Zoo
Народна зоологическа република
About animal’s world, inspired by Orwell George novel inspiration manufacture.
Sun Xun was born in 1980 in Fuxin, Liaoning Province of China. In 2001 he graduated from Art High School of China Academy of Fine Arts. In 2005 Sun Xun graduated from Print-making Department of China China Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006 he established ‘П’ Animation Studio.
China, 2009, 8’
Китай, 2009, 8’
Director: Sun Xun
Cinematography: Xu Chong
Animation: Sun Xun, Xu Chong, Zhu
Erya, Niu Shensi, Tang Bohua
Composer: Jin Shan
Editor: Xu Chong, Sun Xun
Producer: Zhou Lei
UK, 2009, 2’
Великобритания, 2009, 2’
Recognition
Разпознаване
A girl closes her eyes and starts to imagine. Whilst exploring she realizes her personal imagination and subconscious feelings are linked to the origins of human faith.
Yo Ikeya was born in Japan. While she was working as a graphic designer, she had an obsession to make a short animation film. That encouraged her to study in the arts institute at Bournemouth.
Director: Yo Ikeya
Writer: Yo Ikeya
Cinematography: Yo Ikeya
Animation: Kayvon Darabi-Fard, Yo Ikeya, Ryosuke Murahashi
Composer: Markus Popp
Editor: Ryosuke Murahashi
Producer: Yo Ikeya
Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society
Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society Ants gather sugar cubes in an icy marl cave in order to build a palace. This turns out to be a nursery to cultivate larvae. These grubs grow in a cave and reveal themselves as bizarre, marching gluttons called Cricusts...
Robin Noorda was born in 1959 in Laren, the Netherlands. Studied Audiovisual design, Photography and Animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. His traineeships were at the graphic department of the NOS - Dutch Public Broadcasting Foundation and the Toonder Animation Studios. Bethany de Forest was born in 1966 in Stoneham Mass, USA. She started making installations of surreal worlds and recorded those photographically. Bethany has been active as a visual artist, photographer, designer, VJ and art director, had many exhibits and published numerous works.
The Netherlands, 2009, 15’
Холандия, 2009, 15’
Directors: Robin Noorda, Bethany de Forest
Writer: Robin Noorda
Cinematography: Robin Noorda
Animation: Robin Noorda, Bethany de Forest
Composer: Phantom Frank
Editor: Robin Noorda
Producer: Erik Schut
Poland, 2009, 5’30’’
Полша, 2009, 5’30’’
Revelation
Откритие
All film scenes are hand drawn after Works was scanned and computer processed. In the foci of ‘Revelation’ are the time and ecology. The film main character exists in parallel dimension. There is a bridge between the time and nonmaterial. All dimensions are mighty, infinite but they are linked and easy to destroy.
Director: Krzysztof Matys
Writer: Krzysztof Matys
Cinematography: Krzysztof Matys
Animation: Krzysztof Matys
Composer: Krzysztof Matys
Editor: Krzysztof Matys
Producer: Krzysztof Matys
Krzysztof Matys: Polish animator, born in 1980. He graduated from Warmia&Mazury University with MA of Arts in 2005. Krzysztof Matys is interested in traditional animation. He works as a computer graphic artist, painter, illustrator, sculptor, art teacher and designer. Enthusiast of old school console games also non commercial old computer game maker.
Ru
Рю
Sexual fusion is not enough for Celine. She wants to know all about Matthew. Somewhere between a game and real uneasiness, the young woman seeks the answer to her questions. And if it was simply Ru?
Florentine Grelier graduated from high-school with a Bachelor of Literature and then headed to a Parisian Art School, Institute Sainte-Genevieve. She discovered a great interest in animating materials and stop motion. She graduated in June 2006 with the film ‘On m’a fait la haine’. Then, she continued film studies in the Paris 8 University, where she began directing ‘Ru’.
France, 2009, 9’
Франция, 2009, 9’
Director: Florentine Grelier
Writer: Florentine Grelier
Animation: Florentine Grelier, Julien Laval
Composer: Daniel Capeille
Editor: Florentine Grelier
Producer: Olivier Catherin
UK, 2009, 2’
Великобритания, 2009, 2’
Scrums and Scurvy
A tale of a pirate crew that just wants to have fun.
Director: Alexandros Kimonides
Writer: Alexandros Kimonides
Cinematography: Alexandros Kimonides
Animation: Alexandros Kimonides, Tom Jaques, Sam Turton, Betty Le Bon, Gary Fenn, Matta Frost
Composer: Jonny Lombard
Editor: Sophia Weller
Producer: Alexandros Kimonides
Alexandros Kimonides was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1985. He began BA Animation Production studies at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth in 2006 and graduated in 2009. Alexandros worked as team member on fellow students 2D animation shorts before directing ‘Scrums & Scurvy’ in 2009.
Sea Fever
Морска треска
As death approaches an old man struggles to recall the words of a forgotten poem. As the misplaced words return his mind is filled with lucid imagery, he is transported into a world of distorted memories and dreams.
Tom Masey and Daisy Gibbs met while studying animation at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Over three years they forged a strong friendship and good working relationship: of particular note was their shared love of Cornwall, its rugged landscape and its wild nature; and an exciting aversion towards commercial animation techniques.
UK, 2009, 3’ Великобритания, 2009, 3’
Directors: Tom Masey, Daisy Gibbs
Writers: Tom Masey, Daisy Gibbs
Cinematography: Tom Masey, Daisy Gibbs
Animation: Laura Roberts Tom Masey, Daisy Gibbs
Composer: Jeremy Howard
Editor: Quentin Van Der Bosch
Producers: Tom Masey, Daisy Gibbs
France, 2005, 2’
Франция, 2005, 2’
Slowsand
A bunch of light characters wasting time at night in their urban loneliness.
Christophe Beaucourt has been created fixed and animated images since 1997, the year in which he started to work as a cameraman for snowboarding videos and as a photographer in the press. He made experimental documentaries on street art, videoclips and animation in music industry. His first short movie ‘Sombrero’ is a crossover between sci-fi and experimental.
Director: Christophe Beaucourt
Writer: Christophe Beaucourt
Cinematography: Christophe Beaucourt
Animation: Christophe Beaucourt
Composer: Jet Black Crayon
Editor: Christophe Beaucourt
Producer: Christophe Beaucourt
Sol
Слънце
Based on the Greek myth of Apollo and his son Phaeton and inspired by the modern world’s achievement of space travel.
‘Sol’ is a blending of these two worlds showing our connection through time, with humanity’s fascination with the stars, and a desire to explore the unknown.
Harry Wormald originated from Manchester and then moved to Bournemouth for the acclaimed BA (Hons) Animation Production course at The Arts institute at Bournemouth. He was the background painter for the multiple award winning student short animation ‘The Great Race’.
UK, 2009, 4’
Великобритания, 2009, 4’
Director: Harry Wormald
Writer: Harry Wormald
Cinematography: John Ray, Nick Herring
Animation: John Ray, Nick Herring, Mac Langan, David Delany, John Rocco Jennete, Aurorah Yarberry
Composer: Lila Senior
Editor: Raquel Couceiro
Producer: John Ray, Nick Herring
France, 2009, 4’05’’
Франция, 2009, 4’05’’
Stretching
Разтягане
‘Stretching’ is a peculiar display of urban gymnastics. An eccentric character concocts crazy, rhythmic exercises along the streets of Manhattan. The surrounding architecture mingles with his playful dance, joining in his merriment..
Director: Francois Vogel
Writer: Francois Vogel
Animation: Francois Vogel
Composer: Alain Cure
Editor: Francois Vogel
Producer: Francois Vogel
Francois Vogel’s crazy audiovisual inventions come from the experiments he has conducted with cameras and from his work in digital arts. He manipulates images and concepts, by twisting them like clay (Cuisine, Tournis, Trois petits chats), or by fragmenting them like crystal (Rue Francis, Faux plafond, Les Crabes).
Sub Human
Суб човек
He lives alone, upon a vast expanse of ocean. The man has and needs only a few possessions, just a weather-beaten boat and a metal object that he cherishes. His consuming endeavors are to redefine his limits and retrieve the object with a single intake of air. We are witness to one of his descents - a dive that propels him to a depth, to which he has never gone before.
Callum Strachan gained a degree at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Callum is eager to build upon his success and seeks a challenging and rewarding position within the creative industry.
UK, 2009, 2’
Великобритания, 2009, 2’
Director: Callum Strachan
Writer: Callum Strachan
Cinematography: Callum Strachan
Animation: Callum Strachan, MAtthew
Waldren, Margeurite Dumans
Composer: Peter Wormleighton
Editor: Simon Scott
Producer: Callum Strachan
UK, 2009, 5’50’’
Великобритания, 2009, 5’50’’
Director: Jessica Cope
Writer: Simon Cartwright, Jessica Cope
Animation: Jessica Cope, Steve Warne
Composer: Peter Wright
Editor: Adam Kirk
Producer: David Bunting
Narrator: James Caroll, David Bunting
The Astronomer’s Sun
A young man, accompanied by his mysterious mechanical bear, visits an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and to follow his Father on a journey into the unknown.
Jessica Cope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to the UK with her family in 1998. She graduated with a 1st class BA (Hons) in Animation at the Edinburgh College of Art. Nominations for her graduation film, ‘The Owl House’ include the 4 talent Awards 2008, Scottish BAFTA New Talent award 2008, RTS Awards and the McLaren Award. In 2009 she cowrote, animated and directed the 4mations Digital Short, ‘The Astronomers Sun’.
The Employment
Работа
An anonymous man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a world where the utilization of people as objects is usual.
Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso was born in 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained a Designer in Visual Communication degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Fine Arts, National University of La Plata (UNLP). Illustrator, animator and comic book artist. As animator, he has participated in several animated feature-film productions, both Argentinean and international. With his independent animated shorts he participated in many animation festivals and receiving more than 80 international awards. He currently lives in San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, working as a freelance illustrator and making independent animations.
Argentina, 2008, 6’20’’ Аржентина, 2008, 6’20’’
Director: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso
Writer: Patricio Plaza
Animation: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso, Patricio Plaza
Composer: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso
Editor: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso
Producer: Patricio Plaza
USA, 2010, 4’
САЩ, 2010, 4’
The Flower Цветето
‘The Flower’ contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The animation is a meditation on the social and economic costs of drug prohibition.
Director: Haik Hoisington
Writer: Haik Hoisington
Cinematography: Haik Hoisington
Animation: Haik Hoisington
Composer: Ion Furjanic
Editor: Haik Hoisington
Producer: Haik Hoisington
Haik Hoisington is a Brooklyn-based freelance animator. He strives to use animation to illustrate alternative perspectives of urgent social and political issues. His work has been shown in film festivals, broadcast on television and featured on-line and trough print publications. It includes award winning music videos for musical artists Eminem and the Coup, as well as animation for the feature length documentaries ‘American Blackout’ and ‘Lockdown USA’.
The Funk
Паника
Jack woke up in a funk one day. No one really knows how it started. Shot entirely on digital stills and then brought to life over a year of morphing, animating, compositing and editing on a computer that died shortly after the final output.
Cris Jones graduated from the VCA School of Film and Television in 2002. His short films ‘Excursion’, ‘The Heisenberg Principle’ and ‘The Exquisite Corpse’ have been screened at over 100 international film festivals, garnering countless awards both overseas and at home. In 2003, Cris received the Emerging Filmmaker Awards of both the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Australian Film Critics’ Circle. More recently, he has directed music videos for such bands as the Ang Fang Quartet and Floyd Thursby & the Definite Article. ‘The Funk’ is his latest short film.
Australia, 2008, 7’
Австралия, 2008, 7’
Director: Cris Jones
Cinematography: Yen Ooi
Writer: Cris Jones
Animation: Cris Jones
Composer: Paul Gillett
Editor: Cris Jones
Producer: Melanie Coombs
Cast: Steve Adams, Trudy Hellier
Narrator: Jacek Koman
2009, Finland, 7’20”
Russia , 2009, 13’
2009, Финландия, 7’20”
This film is about two sisters. They love each other dearly, but like many sisters, there are many problems in their relationship. The story happens in a fantastic India where it is still possible to meet a real Heavenly Elephant.
Director: Maria Kuznetsova
Writer: Maria Kuznetsova
Cinematography: Alexei Zaitsev
Animation: Alexei Zaitsev
Composer: Safety Magic Music Band
Editor: Alexei Zaitsev
Producer: Tatyana Mirzaeva
Maria Kuznetsova was in 1973 in Moscow. In 1993 graduated professional lyceum of animation cinematography. 1994 - 2001 worked in Soyuzmultfilm and Christmas Films Studio. In 2001 she graduated the Clinical Psychology faculty at the Moscow Institute of Psychology and Social Sciences. She works with children on fine arts. Maria Kuznetsova is a regular participant of annual exhibitions of artists advertise PEKSHOT. She directed the short animation ‘The Cat’s Kingdom’, 2007.
The Man Who Slept
Спящият
Sofia lives with her husband and really loves him. But he sleeps all the time and Sofia has to admit that he will maybe never wake up...
Ines Sedan was born in 1976 in La Plata, Argentina. She studied fine arts and graduated from La Plata Fine Arts School ”Francisco A. de Santo” in Artistic Drawing in 1995. At the same time, she studied clarinet at the National Music Academy. 1996-1998 she studied Animated cinema Direction at the National University, as well as Animated Cinema at Buenos Aires Film Institute. She arrived in France in 1999 and worked for Ellipsanime, Sabotage, No Brain, as a 2D and 3D animator.
The power of love lived by two machines. What’s the variance between humans and them?
Cyril Lottin studied Graphic Art between 1993 and 1995. He works as web designer.
Director: Cyril Lottin
Writer: Cyril Lottin
Cinematography: Cyril Lottin
Animation: Cyril Lottin
Composer: Julien Grigny
Editor: Cyril Lottin
Producer: Cyril Lottin
Cast: Prune Mascuro, Jerome Soufflet
The Pottery’s Tale
Приказката на грънците
Maryam Bayani’s animated film ‘The Pottery Tale’ uses what she identifies as the ‘motion potential’ in patterns on prehistoric pottery from different regions of the Iran Plateau (about 165 different pieces), then animates the motifs to music by Shirr Mohammad Espandar, inspired by the folk music of Baluchistan.
Maryam Bayani was born in Tehran in 1982. She graduated in both Graphic Design and Animation for her BA and MA, consecutively, from Tehran University, Fine Arts Faculty, and Art University. She experienced different styles in drawing which influenced her illustrations. Focusing much more in ancient Iranian arts, she discovered a powerful perpetual source of inspiration.
Iran, 2008, 8’34’’
Иран, 2008, 8’34’’
Director: Maryam Bayani
Writer: Maryam Bayani
Animation: Maryam Bayani
Composer: Maryam Bayani
Editor: Maryam Bayani
Producer: Reza Mosadegh
France, 2009, 3’25’’
Франция, 2009, 3’25’’
The Runaway Бягството
A character, trapped in a computer, is struggling to get free. Then, he thinks to print himself...
Melanie Gohin graduated from Art Prep School in Institut Sainte Geneviиve, Paris, France - DMA Animation. In 2008 she participated in the realization of the film ‘Azad’ (animation part) and in the realization of the short film ‘Duplication’. Currently she studies graphics, communication and animation in E-artsup - Paris, France.
Director: Melanie Gohin
Writer: Melanie Gohin
Cinematography: Melanie Gohin
Animation: Melanie Gohin
Composer: Melanie Gohin
Editor: Melanie Gohin
Producer: Georges Nawrocki
Cast: Christophe Pouvesle
The Stitches Speak
Шевиците разказват
The Stitches Speak is an animated documentary which celebrates the art and passion of the Kutch artisans associated with Kala Raaksha. The film traces multiple journey made by the participants towards defining their identities and towards forming the Kala Raksha Trust and the School for Design.
Nina Sabhani graduated from the Facultety of Fine Arts, Ms University, Vadodara and trained further at NID in Animation Film Design. She pursued her MA at the Newhouse School, Syracuse University, NY, USA, as a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship. She taught at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in the areas of Animation and Visual Communication until 2007.
India, 2009, 12’04’’
Индия, 2009, 12’04’’
Director: Nina Sabhani
Writer: Nina Sabhani
Animation: Sachin Datt, Juny K. Wilfred, Ketki Saxena
Composer: Juny K. Wilfred
Editor: Bharati Bahrani, Nina Sabhani
Producer: Judy Frater
Cast: Raniben Ratilal Bhanani, Megiben Rupa Meriya, Prakash Bhai
Germany/Singapore, 2009, 1’17”
Германия/Сингапур, 2009, 1’17’’
There’s Bliss in the Kiss Щастието
A princess on the lookout for Mr. Right is willing to give even the most odd and unlikely candidate a try.
Director: Melanie Beisswenger
Writer: Melanie Beisswenger
Cinematography: Melanie Beisswenger
Animation: Melanie Beisswenger
Composer: Alexandra Harwood
Editor: Melanie Beisswenger
Producer: Melanie Beisswenger
Melanie Beisswenger is a German director, animator and animation teacher. She has worked on a wide range of projects from 3D character animation on international feature films and TV commercials to TV show animation supervision. Her animation credits include the Academy Award winning feature film ‘Happy Feet’, the stereoscopic 3D animated feature ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ and the TV launch commercial for the blockbuster game ‘BioShock’.
Venus de Rabo
Венус де Рабо
Rabo’s program for the day? Just like yesterday! Wake up late, have breakfast, take a shower and then... work. Even though he is a free man, he has to go to work like everybody else!
Francois Bertin first studied Fine Arts, and than discovered animation in the School of Visual Arts of Poitiers and Angouleme, before graduating from ”La Poudriere” animation school in Valence, in 2002, with the film ‘Picore’. The film received several awards in festivals, including Best Animated Film in Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2003. Since then, Francois works for cinema and television. ‘Venus de Rabo’ is his first short film made in a professional context.
The music of a virtuoso street performer transforms a piece of the city into a stage for a vibrant mini-travelogue.
Nikolay Moustakov: Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, he graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. Since moving to London in 1996 he has worked on a variety of animation projects for film and TV, as well as making his own short films.
Director: Nikolay Moustakov
Writer: Nikolay Moustakov
Cinematography: Nikolay Moustakov
Animation: Nikolay Moustakov
Composer: Helmut Scholz
Editor: Nikolay Moustakov
Producer: Liz Rosenthal
There’ Wolf Down
Кумчо Вълчо, ще те изям!
A poetic film based on distorted versions of French kids’ riddle and proverb.
Stephanie Cadoret graduated at the Decorative Arts School of Strasbourg and then studied simultaneously animation at EMCA and new media arts at EESI, in Angouleme, France. She performes ”live animation” shows, where she experiments the notions of animated image, real-time, loop and desynchronization. In her film-making, she examines the notions of narration and archetypal representations.
France, 2010, 2’30’’ Франция, 2010, 2’30’’
Director: Stephanie Cadoret
Writer: Stephanie Cadoret
Animation: Stephanie Cadoret
Composer: Marie-Anne Bacquet
Editor: Stephanie Cadoret
Producer: Olivier Catherin
SONY it Documentary
Poland, 2009, 38’
Полша, 2009, 38’
10 Years to Nashville
Iza is a 33 year-old cleaning lady in a Polish railway station. Her friend Mariusz owns a railway toilet. Together, they dream of traveling to America, to Manhattan and then to Nashville, to see ‘country music USA’. Iza loves country music and dreams of performing in front of a Nashville audience. But she and Mariusz do not speak English and they are comically naive.
Director: Katarzyna Trzaska
Writer: Katarzyna Trzaska
Cinematography: Piotr Rosolowski
Composer: Czas Na Grass
Editor: Tymek Wiskirski
Producer: Agata Rzepka
Katarzyna Trzaska studied English literature, performed in amateur theatre and worked for many years in film production before she decided to study film direction at the Krzysztof Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television in Katowice. At the school she made short fiction films as well as short documentaries. ‘10 Years to Nashville’ was realized after graduation. Katarzyna is also an author of film and television scripts for the Polish Polsat Television.
100 Days
100 дни
Bela, a retired Hungarian bio-molecular scientist is waiting for death. In the meantime, he has some things to say.
Viera Cakanyova was born in 1980 in Bratislava. She studies film and TV at the Academy of music and dramatic arts in Bratislava. In 2009 she graduates with a MA in documentary film from FAMU, Prague.
Czech Republic, 2009, 22’ Чехия, 2009, 22’
Director: Viera Cakanyova
Writer: Viera Cakanyova
Cinematography: Vojtech Vancura
Editor: Viera Cakanyova
Producer: Marek Jindra
Bulgaria, 2010, 45’
България, 2010, 45’
A Cowboy in Bulgaria
A Flemish herdsman comes to live in the Balkan Mountains with its 240 cows, 18 horses and nine dogs without knowing a word in Bulgarian. A new outlook on life slowly and painfully begins its way in the village Leskovets. A clash of cultures, ideas and mentality is arising...
Director: Mariana Evstatieva-Biolcheva
Cinematography: Lyudmil Hristov
Editor: Stefan Boyadzhiev
Producer: Plamen Yordanov
Mariana Evstatieva-Biolcheva is Bulgarian filmmaker, author of many feature films and documentaries. She is a Professor in Film and Television Arts at New Bulgarian University, Sofia, and Head of the Film and Television MA Program at NBU. Her films won numerous Bulgarian and international awards.
A Road to Gandhi
Пътуване към Ганди
The documentary ‘A Road to Gandhi’ is based on long interviews with Late Herbert Fischer, a man who actually met Gandhi and spent many years in India.
Christian Troberg is German film director, writer and editor.
Germany, 2008, 27’ Германия, 2008, 27’
Director: Christian Troberg
Cinematographer: Volker Langhoff
Editor: Christian Troberg
Bulgaria, 2010, 48’
България, 2010, 48’
A Treasure Fountain
Archives of the traffic tells about the first museum robberies in Bulgaria in the very beginning of the 20th century. Among them the case of the son of a respected western diplomat stealing 1500 precious coins in 1901 in Plovdiv and the impressive hit of an ingenious thief from the Archaeological museum in 1925 in Sofia.
Director: Kanna Racheva
Writer: Kanna Racheva
Cinematography: Ivan Filchev
Animation: Le Chien Graphique
Composer: Stamen Yanev
Producer: Venelin Petkov
Kanna Racheva: Born in 1965, Kanna received her Bachelor’s degree in Slavic studies and Master’s degree in journalism and mass communication at Sofia University. In the years between 1990 and 1995 she worked for the newspapers Podkrepa, Dneven Trud, Jult Trud and Standart. From 1996 to 2000 Kanna was a reporter at NOVA Television. From 2000 she has been a legal and criminal reporter at bTV - Balkan News Corporation.
Amnesia
Амнезия
A year after the murder of the student Stoyan Baltov in front of the disco club “Amnesia” in Sofia Student’s town, the journalist Rossen Tsvetkov revisits the case. After tens of protests in front of the Bulgarian Parliament and the brave promises of the institutions, the Student’s town is still the town of sin. The crew looks for the answer why after so much public discontent, we forget again - we are in amnesia again.
Marta Ilieva was born in 1950 and her professional experience began in 1969 when she starts working for the Bulgarian National Television. She is the director of many documentaries, TV programmes and shows for the media.
Cast: Julie Roxburgh, Dr Jamie Ward, Tessa Verrecchia, Emma Suddaby
‘An Eyeful of Sound’ conjures up the fascinating visually complex internal world of audio-visual synaesthesia, where senses make unique connections the rest of us don’t experience. Synaesthesia is discussed, argued over, dissected and celebrated in this beautifully sensitive animated documentary.
Samantha Moore is an independent film maker who makes animated documentaries. ‘An Eyeful of Sound’ is her latest film. This year she is also a participant in the Berlinale Talent Campus 2010. She is senior lecturer in animation at the University of Wolverhampton and a member of CADRE.
Arcadia
Аркадия
In ancient Greece Arcadia was a place of simple pastoral life. This documentary explores a present day Arcadia represented by a hunting estate deep within the Flow Country of the Horthem Highlands - now at risk from proposed development 300-wind turbines.
David Graham Scott is a controversial Glasgow-based documentary filmmaker. His highly authored films are unique visions of the world he inhabits and the offbeat characters he encounters. He aims at creating a body of work that is both challenging and creative.
UK, 2009, 10’ Великобритания, 2009, 10’
Director: David Graham Scott
Cinematography: James Alcock
Composer: John Lemke
Editor: James Alcock, Richard Poet
Producer: James Alcock
UK, 2009, 28’
Великобритания, 2009, 28’
Awra Amba - Utopia in Ethiopia
40 years ago, an illiterate Ethiopian farmer created his own heaven on earth - Awra Amba: a remarkable, rural weaving community in the Amhara Region in Northern Ethiopia. It is a story of belief in a better, more equal world where humans don’t have to suffer, but live in peace and harmony.
Director: Paulina Tervo
Writer: Paulina Tervo
Cinematography: Susi Arnott
Composer: Alan Gibson
Editor: Catalin Brylla
Producer: Paulina Tervo
Paulina Tervo is a London-based documentary filmmaker of Finnish origin. She has made films for both British and international media, as well as NGOs and academic institutions. She also teaches filmmaking practice and leads participatory video workshops for marginalized communities.
But We Have the Music
Наша е музиката
Shot in Super 8, ‘But We Have the Music’ documents portraits of people taken in the same space: space of listening, space of black & white, featuring the music of Leonard Cohen, The Gun Club, Dion and The Beach Boys.
Shanti Masud is a French. She makes movies and also plays in movies. As a filmmaker she is very interested by music into cinema. She continued to work on portraits with songs, with her last and fourth movie ‘Don’t touch me please’. She works with the French production company La Vie Est Belle Films Associes.
France, 2009, 40’ Франция, 2009, 40’
Director: Shanti Masud
Writer: Shanti Masud
Cinematography: Shanti Masud
Editor: Shanti Masud, Roland Niviere
Producer: Benjamin Celliez
Italy, 2008, 45’06’’
Италия, 2008, 45’06’’
Cerveteri
Черветери
The necropolis in Cerveteri, also known as Banditaccia, consists of thousands of tombs, organized into urban like structure with neighborhoods, streets and small squares.
Alan Badel is Italian documentary filmmaker, who recently works for the Italian Association for Cultural Heritage Preservation.
Director: Alan Badel
Writer: Alan Badel
Cinematography: Max del Citto
Editing: Monja Storce
Dirty Martini
Дърти Мартини
Burlesque is the new punk rock according to Dirty Martini, who reveals some of the secrets of his art in night clubs and cabarets in New York’s Off-Off Broadway, where the revival of burlesque as a form of mass popular entertainment is exported to the rest of the world. Ladies and gentlemen, burlesque is back!
Iban Del Campo was born in 1971 in Mondragon. In 2001 he enrolled on the Artistic Documentary Master’s Course at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he worked as a producer for Canal Plus, Cuatro. In 2007 he returned to San Sebastian to direct a documentary series for Euskal Telebista. He simultaneously teaches documentary at Mondragon University. In the summer of 2008 he enrolled on a documentary course at New York University.
Four-year old Elena was already a migrant when her parents left Hungary in 1956. She became immigrant again when she returned in 1975 to communist Hungary, suspected then to be a spy. In 2008 she fell in love with 35-year-old Leo from Cuba. Leo followed her to Hungary but bureaucracy and prejudices made him leave soon. His forced departure turned them both into migrants.
Klara Trencsenyi is a freelance director and cinematographer doing creative and social documentaries. In 2005 she graduated from the Hungarian Film Academy, Budapest as Director of Photography. She has done extensive social and voluntary work with Roma, Irish travelers, and a photography course for Romanian orphans.
Etruscan Warriors
Етруски воини
Lances, swords, shields, armor, war chariots, Etruscan princes. This civilization that inhabited the area of Tuscany (Italy) in the first millennium BC has gone down in history for its fine art and its magnificent tombs. However, there are numerous archaeological evidences that points to the role played by the war and the army in ancient Etruscan society.
Alan Badel is Italian documentary filmmaker, who recently works for the Italian Association for Cultural Heritage Preservation.
Italy, 2008, 26’57’’ Италия, 2008, 26’57’’
Director: Alan Badel
Cinematography: Max del Citto
Editing: Monja Storce
Bulgaria, 2009, 49’
България, 2009, 49’
Gardens of Concrete
A two-part documentary which explores the consequences of overdevelopment of popular seaside destinations in Bulgaria and Spain. Part 1: ‘Sunny Beach’ is the story of one of Bulgaria’s most popular Black Sea resorts - its rise in the 1950’s and its fall in the late 1990’s in the years of chaos and crime that followed the collapse of the Communist system. Today most of the gardens and trees in sunny Beach are gone. And family entertainment has given way to alcohol tours for teenagers.
Director: Genka Shikerova
Cinematography: Boris Pintev
Composer: Stamen Yanev
Producer: Venelin Petkov
Genka Shikerova was born in 1978 in Panagyuriste. She graduated with a MA in journalism from Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’. She has worked for NTV and Channel 3. Since 2001 Genka Shikerova is a reporter in bTV.
Haiti... Still Waiting
Хаити... Все още в очакване
35 seconds on 12 January, 2010 turned Haiti into a geographical concept emptied of contend. The world united in an unprecedented humanitarian mission. The documentary disclose that most of the NGOs which are working in Haiti are spending the donation for themselves. Local people say that the corruption is everywhere. The documentary presents also an interesting point of view about the reason of interest of Haiti.
Genka Shikerova was born in 1978 in Panagyuriste. She graduated with a MA in journalism from Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’. She has worked for NTV and Channel 3. Since 2001 Genka Shikerova is a reporter in bTV.
Bulgaria, 2010, 49’
България, 2010, 49’
Director: Genka Shikerova
Cinematography: Boris Pintev
UK, 2006, 39’
Великобритания, 2006, 39’
Directors: Phil Grabsky, David Bickerstaff
Writers: David Bickerstaff, Phil Grabsky
Cinematography: Phil Grabsky, David Bickerstaff
Composer: David Bickerstaff
Editor: David Bickerstaff
Producer: Phil Grabsky
Half Life: A Journey to Chernobyl
On April 26th, 1986, reactor four at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes sending an enormous radioactive cloud over northern Ukraine and neighboring Belarus. The film tells the story of the people who dealt with the world’s worst nuclear disaster at ground level: the fire-fighters, the soldiers, the ‘liquidators’ and their families.
Phil Grabsky is an award-winning documentary film-maker. With a film career spanning 20 years, Phil and his company Seventh Art Productions make films for cinema and television. Phil is regularly involved as a judge for the EMMYS, BAFTA, RTS and One World Awards. David Bickerstaff is an artist and award-winning filmmaker who founded Atomictv in 1997 as an umbrella organization for developing digital art projects and collaborations.
Her World: A Life in L.A
Нейният свят: живот в Л. А.
A documentary essay, based on the life of Lillian Brown - a woman of modest means, infatuated with movie-stars. The narrative unfolds as family members tell Lillian’s story from their own vantage points, each discussing events from a slightly different perspective. What emerges is a study of a woman who was infatuated with glamour and lived in the twilight zone between reality and illusion.
Tova Beck-Friedman is a multi media artist working in film, video, photography and sculpture. Recipient of grants and artistic residencies, her work has been shown internationally in festivals, museums, galleries and on television.
Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov are famous figures in early 20th century Russian culture. Apart from his writing, Ilf was also an amateur photographer. Today, his photos have considerable documentary value. This film is made up of photos he shot all through his life. The commentary is taken from his notebooks.
Director: Galina Dolmatovskaya
Writer: Alexandra Ilf
Cinematography: Vladimir Lozovsky
Composer: Andrei Eshpai
Editor: Tatiana Naidenova
Producer: Ludmila Budiak
Galina Dolmatovskaya: After graduating from the Department of Journalism at Moscow State University she worked for nearly ten years as a correspondent on Literaturnaja Gazeta. She then joined the Institute of Cinema Arts, where she is now Head of the Documentary Film Department. Winner of the prize of the Moscow Government.
King Mathias
Крал Матиаш
Seppl has turned his back on his family and the conventions of society. Inspired by the legend of Kralj Matjaz, who ruled in Carinthia (Austria) in the Middle Ages, he is now setting out to save the world from Catholicism, Capitalism and the strata of society who are destroying everything, academics.
Milan Urbajs: After graduating from college for mechanical engineering he had changed interests and enrolled in theater, film and media sciences in Vienna. After three years he transferred to AGRFT in Ljubljana, where he is now studying film and television directing.
Slovenia, 2009, 26’44’’ Словения, 2009, 26’44’’
Director: Milan Urbajs
Writer: Milan Urbajs
Cinematography: Marko Kocevar
Composer: Milan Urbajs
Editor: Zvezdana Sabotic
Producer: Jozica Blatnik
Switzerland, 2009, 24’
Швейцария, 2009, 24’
Live Fast, Die Old
How to grow up when you are a punk? The film raises the question through the stories of Silvia and Gössi, who were part of the first and second wave of the punk movement in Switzerland. Silvia, the lead singer of the former Zurich band “Mother’s Ruin” is now living quite a bourgeois life while G össi still tours with his band “Moped Lads”.
Director: Martina Loher Rodriguez
Writer: Ursula Haas
Cinematography: Julie Fischer
Editor: Niccolo Castelli
Producer: Fabrice Aragno
Martina Loher Rodriguez was borin in 1977 in Zurich, Switzerland and currently lives and works in Berlin. She studied History and History of Cinema at University of Lausanne and was Erasmus student at Escola Massana in Barcelona. In 2008 she graduates with a MA of Arts in Film direction from Reseau Cinema CH in Switzerland.
Makomatica
Макоматика
“The most modern photographer of the world” said Andy Warhol about Christopher Makos, one of the most genuine representatives of the American Pop, resistant of the eighties style-life and a current component of The Hilton Brothers, a photographic command installed in a form of post-pop. This documentary travel through Makos’s itinerary, a creating and provoking machine from a personal style that never provokes so many admirations as contempt, but never indifference.
Avba De Lara Montalvo was licensed in Communication Audiovisual and titled with the Post-degree in Cinematographic Direction by the University San Pablo Ceu of Madrid.
Spain, 2010, 24’25’’
Испания, 2010, 24’25’’
Director: Avba De Lara Montalvo
Writer: Jose Ramon Da Cruz
Cinematography: Borja Pozueco Moreno
Composer: Eduardo Tarilonte
Editor: Gema Romera Sanz
Producer: Angel Garcia Quiros
Cast: Christopher Makos, Paul Solberg
Spain, 2009, 17’
Испания, 2009, 17’
Migrant Maps
‘Migrant maps’ is a review of migrations in Barcelona, from the years after the Civil War until nowadays, narrated through buildings and street furniture. ‘Migrant maps’ is an atlas, a set of maps drawn by the voices of migrants, whose past tales invite us to re-read present places.
Director: David Batlle
Cinematography: Carlos Vasquez
Editor: David Batlle
Producer: David Batlle
Cast: Ramon Molina, Griselda Martinez
Vicco, Yidir Ikabouren
David Batlle: A geography graduate from the Universitat de Barcelona in 2004, he studied for two years at the Barcelona Audiovisual Media School. Later on, he joined the 5th edition of the Master in Creative Documentary at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Since 2009, he is a member of the video streaming group formed at Visual Arts Production Centre in Barcelona.
Nikola Pikolo. The Unwalked Path Никола Пиколо. Неизвървяният път
Nikola Pikolo - an eminent and sophisticated man and his achievements and creativity are immersed. In order to avoid the formal tone of historical account in the appraisal of Dr. Pikolo, it was necessary to transcend the national borders and present it against the background of European culture.
Rumyana Angelakova graduated from the University of Cinema and TV in Sankt Petersburg in 1991 with a degree as a sound editor. In 1996 graduated from the Southwestern University with an MA degree as a TV director. She has been working for the TV center in Blagoevgrad since 1992.
Bulgaria, 2009, 39’ България, 2009, 39’
Director: Rumyana Angelakova
Writers: Valeri Yakov, Krasimir Kushev
Cinematography: Luben Pankov, Feodor Surgov
Producer: RTVC Blagoevgrad, BNT
Spain, 2008, 26’
Испания, 2008, 26’
One Goal
Football and Peace, when passion joins dreams. War icons turned into symbols for hope. The journey of the amputees football team from Sierra Leone looking for their self-respect.
Sergi Agusti has developed his projects mainly in Africa, in countries such as Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Congo. What captivated him the most about a documentary is the opportunity itself to tell stories. His work is focused on social subjects, but always embracing a close, optimistic, vivid view of reality, far from the usual prejudices about Africa.
Director: Sergi Agusti
Writer: Sergi Agusti
Cinematography: Pep Bonet
Producer: Sergi Agusti
Editor: Aurora Reinlein
Peter in Radioland
Питър в аналоговия свят
63 year old Peter is on sick leave and spends most of his time alone, in his bedroom, contemplating his past. Little makes sense to him anymore in a world made up of zeros and ones. He finds modern technology difficult and prefers to retreat into his analogue world, made up of his old vinyl records, projectors and long-wave radios.
Johanna Wagner grew up in Sweden. Having completed a BA in English Literature and a year long course in documentary making in 2005. In 2008
Johanna moved to Scotland to complete a Masters degree in Film Directing at Edinburgh College of Art.
UK/Sweden, 2009, 10’
Великобритания/Швеция, 2009, 10’
Director: Joanna Wagner
Writer: Johanna Wagner
Cinematography: Johanna Wagner
Composer: Johanna Wagner
Editor: Mark Jenkins
Producer: Rebecca Day
UK, 2009, 10’
Великобритания, 2009, 10’
Pollphail
Полфейл
Creative documentary painting a starling portrait of a village in limbo through the eyes of a property dealer and an artist who share an obsession with the strange place. Combining unusual use of archive with stunning photography and a haunting soundscape, ‘Pollphail’ unravels the unique and unsettling history to reveal a very different future than was planned for the village.
Director: Mathew Lloyd
Cinematography: Minttu Mantynen
Composer: Mike Gallagher, Neil Simpson
Editor: Timo Langer
Producer: Carina Wilson
Mathew Lloyd has worked on Scottish film productions in various roles for over a decade. Mathew was short film programmer for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2004-2008, and co-director in Inverness Film Festival 2006-2008. In 2008 he produced the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousin’s festival in North East Scotland.
Round and Round and Hand it Over...
Музиката на танца
How a percussionist dance? How sounds a body dancer? End of 2001, a percussionist-composer Camille Rocailleux and a dancerchoreographer Thomas Guerry decided to invent a strange journey and fouillent the delicate relationship between music and dance. After six months of creating born “Echoa” show. In “Echoa”, dance becomes music and the music is also intended to be seen.
Guerry Bertrand: During a twelve year, he was first Assistant Director of cinema and led trays of filmmakers as Ga лl Morel, Philippe Grandrieux, Jean Pierre Sinapi, Gerard Jugnot... He himself made two feature film, three short films, commercials and documentaries.
France, 2010, 45’ Франция, 2010, 45’
Director: Bertrand Guerry
Writer: Bertrand Guerry
Composer: Bertrand Guerry
Editor: MITIKI
Producer: Ga лlle Venuat
Cast: Eleonore Guisnet-Meyer, Thomas Guerry, Camille Rocailleux
Bulgaria, 2010, 14’
България, 2010, 14’
Run, Evil, Away
12-year-old Stanislav loves to go to his village, where his grandparents live. Many of his friends live there too. Together they make masks - “lizi” for the festival of “Surva”. Every year Stanislav takes part in a group celebrating this winter festival, when the evil spirits are banished from the houses.
Director: Vanya Ivanova
Writer: Pravda Dalekova
Cinematography: Miroslav Gaidoshik
Vanya Ivanova graduates in 1982 from the Pedagogical Institute with Major in Pre-school Pedagogy and from Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ with Major in Pedagogy. In 1991 she graduates from NATFA ‘Kr. Sarafov’ with Major in Directing. She is assistant professor in Theatre Pedagogy and director at the Bulgarian National Television.
Sailbreak
Крушение
Moving freely in time and space, the film is a mental journey through states of mind, through rugged visions and forgotten memories.
Eeva Siivonen studies documentary film at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design.
Finland, 2009, 9’40’’
Финландия, 2009, 9’40’’
Director: Eeva Siivonen
Writer: Eeva Siivonen
Cinematography: Pietari Peltola
Composer: Svetlana Marash
Editor: Matti Nдrдnen
Producer: Kirsi Hatara
Finland, 2009, 12’37’’
Финландия, 2009, 12’37’’
Santa Maria Del Buen Aire
Impressionistic film about a city, which got its name because of “good air” (Buenos Aires). People of the city tell legends and walls have a voice of those who have disappeared.
Oliwia & Jerem Tonteri: Oliwia Tonteri studies documentary film and Jerem Tonteri film editing at the Universiti of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design.
Directors: Oliwia & Jerem Tonteri
Writers: Oliwia & Jerem Tonteri
Cinematography: Oliwia & Jerem
Tonteri
Producers: Oliwia & Jerem Tonteri
Sinking
Потъване
On 5 September 2009, an excursion of a Bulgarians group to the Ohrid lake, finished with an unexpected end. The ‘Ilinden’ ship sank and 15 people died. 40 days after the tragedy, Rossen Tsvetkov, journalist from BNT, looks for the reasons through the eyes of the people who survived, of the relatives of the victims and of the people investigating the case.
Marta Ilieva was born in 1950. Her professional career started in 1969 when she starts working for the Bulgarian National Television. She directed many documentaries, TV programmes and shows for the media.
Bulgaria, 2009, 24’
България, 2009, 24’
Director: Marta Ilieva
Writer: Rossen Tsvetkov
Cinematography: Lyubomir Stanoev, Lachezar Orakov
UK/Malaysia, 2010, 44’
Великобритания/Малайзия, 2010, 44’
Spirit
In the jungles of Borneo, an Iban father on the cusp of old age begins a river journey to seek help for his sick child. Troubled by recurring and uncanny visions, which inhabit the bizarre world of the rainforests, father and son are drawn into a final ‘encounter’ deep inside the jungle.
Director: Chu-Li Shewring
Writer: Adam Gutch, Chu-Li Shewring
Cinematography: Adam Gutch
Composer: Mat Davidson
Editor: Chu-Li Shewring
Producer: Adam Gutch
Cast: Tambi Anak, Kasi Delly Anak, Tambi Ujan, Anak Paing
Chu-Li Shewring and Adam Gutch have been collaborating since 2007. A series of their short films have been screened on Channel 4 and at the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival. After graduating from the National Film and Television School, UK, they formed Flying Ant Films Production Company.
Thank You Skinhead Girl Благодаря
A documentary detailing the filmmakers experience of being in care and becoming a skinhead girl during the late 70’s early 80’s. It gives insight through a female perspective into a sub-youth culture that has been one of the most misunderstood, of the youth groups.
Sharon Woodward is an Independent Freelance Filmmaker, Media Tutor and Project Manager. She trained at Newport Film School, The National Film and Television School and in the cutting rooms of BBC Wales and Tyne Tees Television. In 1996 Sharon formed Mischief Pictures with Producer Richard Duriez to make micro budget productions on digital video.
UK, 2009, 45’
2009, 45’
Director: Sharon Woodward
Cinematography: Richard Duriez
Editor: Sharon Woodward
Producer: Sharon Woodward
UK, 2009, 12’55’’
Великобритания, 2009, 12’55’’
The City with a Dirty Face
A portrait of a society that suffered through the demise and fall of the Soviet Union. Isolated both physically and mentally, the people of Karosta have lived through times of lawlessness and chaos, forging their own lives amongst the madness.
Director: Peter King
Producer: Rowland Kimber
Director of photography: David Procter
Composer: Richard Canavan
Editor: Peter King
Peter King began his career within the world of short fiction, writing and directing several successful short films before expanding into the world of documentary. His shorts have screened in major festivals in over forty countries including screenings in major festivals such as Short Shorts Tokyo, Cork and Raindance.
The Dam
Язовирът
In 1946 one of the most colossal projects ever undertaken in Europe was begun: the construction of the Salime reservoir in a remote mountainous part of Asturias. Joaquin Vaquero Turcios was 22 when he arrived at the site to paint the mural in the turbine hall, a life-changing experience that marked his subsequent personal and artistic career.
Jorge Rivero was born in 1975 in Mieres. He studied Film at the University of Ovideo from 1995 to 1997 and then from 1998 to 2002 produced various audiovisuals for the fields of industry and advertising. In 2000 he joined the staff of the film magazine “Video Actualidad”, occupying the post of chief editor until 2009. He has been the director of the Mieres Short Film Festival “Cortomieres” since the first edition in 1999.
Spain, 2009, 16’
Испания, 2009, 16’
Director: Jorge Rivero
Writer: Jorge Rivero
Cinematography: Juan Luis Ruiz
Editor: Nacho Martin
Producer: Txema Munoz
Finland, 2010, 6’40’’
Финландия, 2010, 6’40’’
The Eye of the Eye
A cleaning lady has something to say to the habitants of a dream world reflected on the silver screen. That other worldly world and her own dependent from each other. There can be no observer without the observed and vice verse. The name of the film is taken from a passage in the Upanishads, in which consciousness itself, the Brahman, is defined as being the eye of the eye, the mind of the mind and the life of the life.
Director: Tuomas Kaila
Writer: Tuomas Kaila
Cinematography: Juice Huhtala
Producer: Tuomas Kaila
Tuomas Kaila has an MA degree in film directing and editing from UIAH, ELO.
The Hillside Crowd
Тълпата
A makeshift gold mine on the remote Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has attracted a swarm of gold-diggers and dynamite blasters, healers and dealers, vendors and prostitutes, children, holy men and barbers. Living in the promiscuous closeness of a crowded and improvised gold town, these men and women are recklessly determined to find the gold that will change their lives.
Berni Goldblat was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. He was a Jury member at the 2008 and 2009 Africa Movie Academy Awards in Nigeria, as well as at the 2008 and 2010 Image Sante International Film Festival in Liege, Belgium. He is also a founding member of the CINOMADE association.
Switzerland/France/Burkina Faso, 2009, 72’
2009, 72’
Director: Berni Goldblat
Writer: Berni Goldblat
Cinematography: Michel K. Zongo
Composer: Pierre Omer
Editor: Francois Sculier
Producer: Cedric
Bulgaria, 2010, 26’
България, 2010, 26’
The Impudent: Account Closed
A story about the considerable blow, which the investigative authorities in Bulgaria stroke on organized criminal activity at the end of 2009. ‘The Impudent’ are a very well organized criminal gang, which over a two-an-a-half-year period kidnapped 19 people in this country. Millions of Euros of ransom were transferred to the bank accounts of the ‘Impudent’. Some of the hostages were found dead.
Director: Elvira Ilieva
Writer: Nadya Obretenova, Yordan Dimitrov
Cinematography: Nedyalko Danov
Elvira Ilieva was born in 1963. She is a director of television programmes at the Bulgarian National Television. She participated in the filming of television theatre productions, various kids’ programmes, music shows, concerts, news bulletins, and others. She is director of BNT’s documentary series ‘Close-Up’.
The Nasca Plain
Платото Наска
An attempt at revealing the secret of the pictures and geometric figures of the Nazca Plateau in Peru, which can be seen only from bird’s-eye view, as well as a story about Maria Reiche’s work - a remarkable woman, who dedicated 40 years of her life to study them.
Simeon Idakiev graduated in Bulgarian Philology at “St.St. Cyril and Methodius” Veliko Tarnovo University. Simeon Idakiev is an author, director and cameraman of over 500 documentaries from the rubric ‘One Man, Onе Camera’, filmed during his journeys in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Antarctic.
Bulgaria, 2009, 26’
България, 2009, 26’
Director: Simeon Idakiev
Writer: Simeon Idakiev
Cinematography: Simeon Idakiev
UK, 2009, 10’
Великобритания, 2009, 10’
The Space You Leave
Each year an estimated 200,000 are reported missing in the UK alone. But when a loved one goes missing, the space left behind in their families can mean a future trapped in a tortured present, one obsessed by the past.
Director: James Newton
Composer: Chris White
Editor: Kristian Hove
Producer: Anna Higgs, Gavin Humphries
James Newton studied for a Fine Art Degree with a specialism in documentary photography but always felt that in a photograph you never really get a true impression of the subject. This led him to become interested in documentary. His graduation film ‘Homeless Me’ won numerous awards and was screened at festivals all around the world.
Tomorrow’s Fairground
Утрешната сцена
A retiring showman tries to pass on traditions of a travelling fun-fair to his daughter. Will Victor ever let go of family business?
Peter Gerard: A multimedia visionary, he has made numerous short films, designed award-winning websites, and exhibited his photography in the US and Britain. Peter migrated to Scotland in 2000 and established Accidental Media to produce award-winning documentaries, fiction films, music videos and interactive media.
UK, 2009, 9’50’’ Великобритания, 2009, 9’50’’
Director: Peter Gerard
Cinematography: Leo Bruge, Grant McPhee
Editor: Andy Green
Producer: Noemic Mendelle, Sonja Henrici
Germany, 2010, 80’
Германия, 2010, 80’
Transit
Транзит
May 1968: The student protests in West-Berlin are in full swing when Reinhard relocates to East Germany - a complete scandal. Eight months later, in January 1969, Reinhard is found dead. His suicide is baffling. What drove him behind the Iron Curtain, and what happened to him there?
Director: Angela Zumpe
Writer: Angela Zumpe
Cinematography: Peter Petrides
Composer: Ilja Coric
Editor: Regina B ärtschi
Producer: Holm Taddiken
Cast: Salomea Genin, Henriette Schulz-Molon
Angela Zumpe was born in Berlin. Since 1998 Angela Zumpe Professor for Audiovisual Media at the Anhalt University, Departement of Design in Dessau. She had various Art Exhibitions, also worked as creative director for mayor german TVstations (n-TV, MDR, RBB, RIAS TV/Deutsche Welle, SAT1).
Май 1968.
Unearthing the Pen
Изравяне на писалката
Locheng, a young goatherd in northern Uganda yearns to be able to read and write. But the odds are stacked against him. Forty years ago, tribal elders buried a pen, placing a curse on the written word. ‘Unearthing The Pen’ is an intimate portrait of a boy’s struggle to reconcile tradition with his desire to learn.
Carol Salter is a graduate of the National Film and Television School. Since then she has worked as a freelance director and film editor. For the last fifteen years she has combined her passion for editing on various award winning shorts, features and documentaries with directing her own films.
UK/Uganda, 2009, 12’
Великобритания/Уганда, 2009, 12’
Director: Carol Salter
Writer: Carol Salter
Photography: Carol Salter
Editing: Carol Salter, Emiliano Battista
Sound: Carol Salter
Production: Carol Salter
Italy, 2009, 19’37’’
Италия, 2009, 19’37’’
Vinum Wine’s History in the Ancient Italy Vinum -
Journey
to the discovery of wine in Italian Etruscan and Roman...
Maurizio Pellegrini was born in Rome.He graduates in business administration, photography, graphical design and archeological photography. 1977-1982 he is a free lance photographer and is the only Italian photographer in Iran during the “revolution” of 1979. Since 1980 he is official of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture. Currently he is head of the Laboratory of Visual Education and Promotion Superintendence of Archaeological Heritage of Lazio. He organizes and produces video and multimedia productions, organizes educational projects and simulated excavation for schools.
Director: Maurizio Pellegrini
Where I can be Myself
Където да съм себе си
A story about a twenty-year-old boy from eastern Bosnia who stands at the crossroads of life and the choice of opportunities. Should he build his life on the foundation of his broken childhood or should he lay new foundations in a new (foreign) environment?
Rudi Uran was born in 1961 in Ljubljana. After finishing the Designers school in Ljubljana in 1980, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana where he graduated in 1985. He is a member of Slovenian Fine Artists Society since 1985.
Slovenia, 2010, 32’
Словения, 2010, 32’
Director: Rudi Uran
Writer: Elvis Selimovic
Cinematography: Rudi Uran
Animation: Rudi Uran
Composer: Andrej Veble
Editors: Rudi Uran, Samir Kucanin
Producer: Irena Kramberger Uran
Bulgaria, 2010, 19’42”
България, 2010, 19’42’’
White Pirin - Dance with the Clouds
Traveling the white trails of Pirin is actually a journey to myself.
Boyan Balev was born in the town of Yambol in 1969. He studied piano at the Music School and graduated Shumen University with Major in Musical Pedagogy.
Director: Boyan Balev
Cinematography: Rusi Dimitrov
Producer: Boyan Balev
Yelda, the Longest Night
Йелда, най-дългата нощ
Creative documentary that tells the brief story of an Afghan boy whose family finds itself seeking sanctuary in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Roberto Lozano is born in Valladolid in 1968. In 1990, he begins working as a writer in the newspaper “El Mundo de Valladolid”, at the same time working for “Onda cero radio” and other stations while also studying Philology at the University of Valladolid. In 1996, he made his first contact with film-making/ TV when he joined Castilla Y Leon Television, as a journalist and presenter of news, programmes and as an executive producer. That same year, he founded Cesna Productions an independent production company.
Spain, 2009, 12’ Испания, 2009, 12’
Director: Roberto Lozano Bruna
Writer: Roberto Lozano Bruna
Cinematography: Roberto Fraile
Composer: Eduardo Tarilonte
Editor: Andoni Jaen
Producer: Roberto Lozano Bruna
Cast: Haroon Khan, Churtiar Khan, Taoos Bibi, Mariam Khan
Commercial and Music it
UK, 2009, 1’15’’
Великобритания, 2009, 1’15’’
17th Raindance Film Festival Trailer
A man stands transfixed, his hair blowing in the wind...
Directors: David Procter, Peter King
Writers: David Procter, Peter King
Cinematography: David Procter
Composer: Richard Canavan
Editor: Tom Herington
Producers: Andrea Farrena, Rowland
Kimber, Mervyn Lewis
David Procter and Peter King: David and Peter formed London based Agenda Collective in 2006, producing shorts, documentaries and commercials internationally. Having co-directed various projects in the early days David moved into directing photography full-time whilst Peter concentrated on directing and editing. The controversial Raindance trailer sees the pair re-united as a writer/director team, the film being instantly banned nationwide in the UK causing a media frenzy.
1989 - 2009
1989 - 2009
November 9th, 1989: a date to remember in the history of mankind. The Berlin Wall falls and, with its fall, creates a new breath of freedom. The hero of the film was born on November 9th, 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled. He is named Marek and today is going to celebrate his twentieth birthday.
Dan Botbol is Belgian director, working for the European Commission - DG Communication Department. 9-ти
Belgium, 2009, 3’ Белгия, 2009, 3’
Director: Dan Botbol
Producer: Gilles Dubois
France, 2008, 4’
Франция, 2008, 4’
After the Rain
From her little paper-made house, the singer opens the window and sings: ”After the rain the temperature dropt and covered in ice was my window top...” A strange group of snails supporting paper screens comes by...
Director: Francois Vogel
Writer: Francois Vogel
Animation: Francois Vogel
Composer: Little Dragon
Editor: Francois Vogel
Producer: Francois Vogel
Francois Vogel: his crazy audiovisual inventions come from the experiments he has conducted with cameras and from his work in digital arts. He manipulates images and concepts, by twisting them like clay (Cuisine, Tournis, Trois petits chats), or by fragmenting them like crystal (Rue Francis, Faux plafond, Les Crabes).
Airport Tunnel
Тунел на летище
A magical journey through the sound of the OliveTreeDance recalls the street as the free stage of all the artists that beautifies our everyday life.
Vitor Hugo was born in Espinho, Portugal in 1972. Studied Drawing in the Porto Superior Art School. Member of the Animation Cinema Workplace at Cinanima from 1995 until 1999 where he developed a few animation works. Worked for 3 years in Cine-Clube of Avanca studios making animation for nearly 15 episodes of the TV series ‘Estorias a passo de cagado’ by Artur Correia and drawing backgrounds for ‘Until the Top of the World’.
Portugal, 2009, 5’
Португалия, 2009, 5’
Director: Vitor Hugo
Writers: Vitor Hugo, OliveTreeDance
Animation: Vitor Lopes, Vitor Hugo, Joao Paulo Dias
Composer: OliveTreeDance
Editor: Vitor Lopes
Producer: Vitor Hugo
Bulgaria, 2009, 4’
България, 2009, 4’
Angel Sky - So Be It
Music video for the band Angel Sky.
Vladimir Mihailov is singer, songwriter, actor and director. His first stage performance was at the age of at 2. At the age of 13 he started playing guitar. Vladimir took part as an actor in more than 20 USA movie productions.
Director: Vladimir Mihailov
Cinematography: Alexander Stanishev
Angel Sky.
Below It
Отдолу
‘Below it’ is the first official music video for Peter Broderick. It was shot on a windy day in the very north of Germany.
Ralph Etter was born in Solothurn, Switzerland Studied directing at Filmschool (ZHDK) in Zurich and work as independent director and scriptwriter in Berlin now.
Germany/UK, 2009, 4’
Германия/Великобритания, 2009, 4’
Director: Ralph Etter
Writer: Ralph Etter, Nora Schmidt
Cinematography: Mario Henke
Composer: Peter Broderick
Editor: Ralph Etter
Producer: Nora Schmidt
The Netherlands, 2009, 4’
Холандия, 2009, 4’
Blonde Redhead Meets Gainbourg
Jеrоme Schlomoff used a pinhole camera to make a music video of their song “Spring & by Summer Fall”. The video combines outdoor shots with concert footage recorded during the “Blond Redhead meets Gainsbourg” tour in Paris in October 2008.
Director: Jerome Schlomoff
Cinematography: Jerome Schlomoff
Editor: Jerome Schlomoff
Producer: Jerome Schlomoff
Jеr оme Schlomoff was born in 1961 in France. He studied photography at the Audiovisual Institute in Paris. Since 1984 Schlomoff has worked mainly as a photographer. He is known for his portrait series of contemporary artists. In 1996, his interest in architecture enabled him to make the series ‘Stenopes d’Architecture’.
&
Summer Fall”
Boxing Girl
Боксьорка
A woman tries to fight against something. A dark force hits her back many times and she seems to be defenseless. At some point, looks like she is giving up but instead of that, suddenly, takes a deep breath and hits it with all her strength: she has defeated the tobacco addiction.
Eduardo Troconis Rodriguez was born in 1976 in Caracas. He got a college degree in Sciences of Communication, at Universidad Central de Venezuela. He started his career as editing assistant, working in several educational documentaries. In 1997, he moves into advertising world, at the beginning as junior editor and some time later makes editing for several directors. In 2007 directed his first short film. Currently he is a freelance director and prepares a new short film called ‘Finale’.
Venezuela, 2009, 40’’
Венецуела, 2009, 40’’
Director: Eduardo Troconis
Writer: Eduardo Troconis
Cinematography: Pascual Bindo
Animation: Chigüire Animation Studio
Composer: Eduardo Troconis
Editor: Maikel Jimenez
Producer: Milka Chulina
Cast: Pilar Seijo
UK, 2009, 6’58’’
Великобритания, 2009, 6’58’’
Chalk Stars
A love story is told within the confines of a lighthouse. A man and women sit facing each other at a table. Thread is drawn on the back wall behind them explaining the story of how they both met on the small island. As the music builds, a giant tanker approaches from outside as the couple build a lighthouse on the table between them to warn off the approaching tanker.
Director: Thomas Hicks
Writer: Thomas Hicks
Cinematography: Thomas Hicks
Animation: Thomas Hicks, Paddy Molloy
Composer: Animal Kingsdom
Editor: Thomas Hicks
Producer: Thomas Hicks
Thomas Hicks graduated from Kingston University in July 2004 with a degree in Illustration and Animation. In February 2005, he won a commission to make a music video for Warp Records for their artists Gravenhurst, for the track ‘I Turn My Face to the Forest Floor’. The video won best music video in the Holland Animation Festival in 2006 and best experimental film at The International Festival of Cinema and Technology in New York.
Chasing Waves
Гонейки
‘Chasing Waves’ is visual music composed in real-time using voltage controlled video synthesis. A metaphoric search for a place of tranquillity free from the extraneous noise of contemporary life. Like watching an electronic version of the patterns created by waves lapping along a sea shore. Constantly changing but always the same.
Ocusonic aka Paul O Donoghue is an Irish composer and audio visual artist based in Dublin. He has released music under a number of pseudonyms for a variety of labels including Six Degrees San Fran and Plant NY, and his audio visual work has been screened internationally at numerous festivals.
Ireland/USA, 2009, 5’05”
Ирландия/САЩ, 2009, 5’05”
Director: Ocusonic
aka Paul O Donoghue
Animation: Ocusonic
aka Paul O Donghue
Composer: Ocusonic
Editor: Ocusonic
Producer: Paul O Donoghue
Brazil, 2009, 3’
Бразилия, 2009, 3’
Cursed
A dark liquid slowly takes over the band, at least they drown completely in their love humbles.
Director: Felipe Mattar
Writers: Felipe Mattar, Alexandre Barcelos
Cinematography: Alexandre Barcelos
Animation: Felipe Mattar, Alexandre Barcelos
Composer: Leonardo Ramos
Editor: Felipe Mattar
Producer: Lorena Louzada
Felipe Mattar is Graphic Designer in Federal University of Saint Spirit, Brazil. Work with video since 2005, and now with the Collective “Expurgacao” developed many artistic works.
FFF2010 Opening Title
Трейлър
Monsters invade Bologna during the Future Film Festival.
Marco Marchesi started to make music videos and animation films in 2006, during his Electrical Engineering studies. He works worldwide, using almost all techniques, from 2D traditional animation to 3D, from stop motion to live action, on digital and film support. In 2008 won the Italian Music Video Award (PVI) as “Best Subject”, in 2009 and 2010 made the Opening Titles for Future Film Festival, the most important event in Italy about the new technologies in movies and joined the “Animatti” team with animation world masters Fusako Yusaki, Paul Wells and Peter Hodges.
Italy, 2010, 31’’ Италия, 2010, 31’’
Director: Marco Marchesi
Writer: Marco Marchesi
Cinematography: Marco Marchesi
Animation: Marco Marchesi
Producer: Marco Marchesi
Norway, 2009, 4’
Норвегия, 2009, 4’
Half Past Dead
NASA can only watch when Martians take control of the Rovers.
Rune Eriksson has a BA degree in animation from Edinburgh College of Art (1998-2001). After graduation Rune Eriksson teamed up with Erik Eriksson and started Tanjetsfilms. Erik Eriksson has gained his animation skills with Tanjetsfilms.
Director: Rune Eriksson
Writers: Rune Eriksson, Erik Eriksson
Cinematography: Rune Eriksson
Animation: Rune Eriksson, Erik Eriksson
Composer: Backstreet Girls
Editors: Rune Eriksson, Erik Eriksson
Producer: Erik Eriksson
Backstreet
Highlight Kenosis - Flying Machine Хайлайт
‘Flying Machine’ is an animated story of a trip round the world.
Valentin Partenie graduates from A.T.F. - TV Film Direction. He now manages a company called Mega Show that specializes in TV direction.
Romania, 2009, 4’54’’
2009, 4’54’’
Director: Valentin Partenie
Writer: Valentin Partenie
Cinematography: Valentin Partenie
Animation: Valentin Partenie
Composer: HIGHLIGHT KENOSIS
-romanian rock group
Editor: Valentin Partenie
Producer: Valentin Partenie
Mega Show.
Cast: HIGHLIGHT KENOSIS
UK, 2009, 3’
Великобритания, 2009, 3’
I’d Rather be with You
A love story is told within the pages of a well-travelled journal. Lyrics of the song are written within the pages of the book with the feeling of being just jotted down with the artwork. The film documents the loneliness of the two characters in their separate lives to them meeting and falling in love.
Director: Thomas Hicks
Writer: Thomas Hicks
Cinematography: Thomas Hicks
Animation: Thomas Hicks
Composer: Joshua Radin
Editor: Thomas Hicks
Producer: Thomas Hicks
Thomas Hicks graduated from Kingston University in July 2004 with a degree in Illustration and Animation. In February 2005 he made the music video ‘I turn my face to the forest floor’. The video won best music video in the Holland Animation Festival in 2006 and Best Experimental film at The International Festival of Cinema and Technology in New York.
Knives-Knives
Ножове-ножове
Strange occurrence in the school #38.
Maksim Lushchyk is student of the Saint-Petersburg University of Cinema and Television.
Russia, 2009, 3’50”
Русия, 2009, 3’50”
Director: Maksim Lushchyk
Writer: Maksim Lushchyk
Cinematography: Maksim Lushchyk
Animation: Eva Degtjareva
Composer: Kesha Spechinsky
Editor: Maksim Lushchyk
Producer: Maksim Lushchyk
Bulgaria, 2009, 50”
България, 2009, 50”
Lab 63
Lab 63
An add for Bulgarian rakia ”Burgas 63”.
Petar Angelov was born in Sofia. He is student in NATFA from 2008.
Director: Petar Angelov
Writer: Tanya Ilcheva
Cinematography: Petar Angelov
Composer: Teodora Kostova
Editor: Teodora Kostova
Producer: NATFA
Mary Wanders through the Thorn Мария
Mary wanders through the thorn, that seven long years no bloom hath borne. What clasps she to her breast so close? An innocent child doth there repose. Fair roses bloom on every tree, as through the thorn-wood passed she.
Frauke Striegnitz was born in 1976 in Berlin. She graduated with a BA from the Art School Kassel. Since 2007 she is a free lanced film maker, animator and illustrator. She also works as part time graphic designer. Since 2009 she is a MA student at Art School Kassel.
Germany, 2008, 3’40”
Германия, 2008, 3’40”
Director: Frauke Striegnitz
Animation: Frauke Striegnitz, Helene Tragesser
Bulgaria, 2009, 3’41”
България, 2009, 3’41”
Milena Slavova – Mici Doll
Милена
– Mici Doll
Following the shaking anniversary concert of in Universiada Hall, that brought back the memory of the best years of Bulgarian Rock, Milena Slavova presents her newest music video - Mici Doll. The video combines the look of a classic animation, collages, green-screen shooting and all that in 3D medium.
Director: Andrey Hadjivasilev
Animation: Evgeni Vacov
Editor: Revive Vision Film Studio
Producer: Toxity Records
Andrey Hadjivasilev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1985. In 2004 he graduated from the National Professional High School of Photography. Later on he studied directing and cinematography at the New Bulgarian University - Sofia. In 2009 made a specialization in Prague’s Film Academy FAMU in Cinema & TV directing and producing. In 2007 he joined Revive Vision film studio as a director and executive producer.
Phenomenon - Baga Riffu
Феноменон - Бага Рифу
Flying in high...
Valentin Partenie is a graduate of A.T.F-Film and TV Direction. Since 2008 he manages his own video production company Mega Show.
Полет
Mega Show.
Romania, 2009, 3’23’’ Румъния, 2009, 3’23’’
Director: Valentin Partenie
Writer: Valentin Partenie
Cinematography: Stefan Melinte
Animation: Valentin Partenie
Composer: Phenomenon
Editor: Valentin Partenie
Producer: Valentin Partenie
Bulgaria, 2010, 2’42’’
България, 2010, 2’42’’
Pistamashina Пистамашина
This is The Mashine, and it’s mine...
Momchil Tasev is born in 1985 in the town of Gorna Oriahovica. He studies fine arts at the National School of Fine Arts in Sofia and continues his education at the NATFA ‘Kr. Sarafov’ where he earns a degree in Design for Film and Theatre.
Director: Momchil Tasev
Cinematography: Petko Lungov, Svetoslav Mihaylov
Pretty Boy Floyd
Флойд Хубавеца
Video clip of the last title of Kid Loco, ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’, inspired by Klimt works and by the common dream world of children tales.
Olivier Chabalier was born in 1980 and studied cinema at La Sorbonne, Paris. He directed various video clips. In 2002, he co-created the Moontrack group and worked on the organization of numerous cultural events like Paris de courts, Paris Short Film International Festival, V.O.S.T., Contemporaneous Art Night, Peanuts Butter, Concert of French New Music.
France, 2008, 4’ Франция, 2008, 4’
Director: Olivier Chabalier
Producer: Ron Dyens
Bulgaria, 2009, 4’
България, 2009, 4’
Rage of Mine
The collaboration of Konstantin Timoshenko and Mariy Rosen Started in 2003 during a media-art workshop in Poli Talu Art Center, Estonia where they started to experiment on live sound performances. As composer and director they released several theatre projects. The last two years Rosen/Timoshenko are working as song writers for their own musical project ‘Help Me Jones’. ‘Rage of Mine’ is their newest music video.
Director: Maria Arangelova Campbell
Cinematography: Vladimir Zenkevich
Composer: Help Me Jones
Editor: Zlatka Kaloyanova
Producer: Help Me Jones
Maria Arangelova Campbell graduated the National Film and Theater Academy in 1999.
Rainbows in the Eyes
Дъга в очите
Music video of Guiye Frayo.
Los Humus is a group of Argentinean artists, who create their common films. The group has already several award winning short films. Видеоклип
Argentina, 2008, 4’ Аржентина, 2008, 4’
Director: Los Humus
Writer: Los Humus
Cinematography: Ber Chese
Animation: Los humus
Composer: Los Humus
Editor: Los Humus
Producer: Los Humus
Netherlands, 2008, 4’
Холандия, 2008, 4’
Running with the Beast
‘Running with the Beast’ is the title of the new album of the Amsterdam based rock band zZz. Roel Wouters made a music video, the artwork and a series of posters. The project is about two artists who have created the conditions to capture rage in a systematic way. In the video, two colored cocks print their fight on a sheet of paper.
Director: Roel Wouters
Cinematography: Sal Kroonenberg
Writer: Roel Wouters
Editor: Jurriaan van Nimwegen
Producers: Ivo de Jongh, Jack Kuiper
Roel Wouters was born in 1972. He works as graphic designer and film director. He runs his own studio named Xelor since 2002. For the past few years Wouters has been teaching interactive and graphic design courses at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the Sandberg Institute and at Yale University School of Art.
Skater
Водомерка
The light water skater sits on the calm water surface and through the wind blow is forced to a movement. Suddenly some colorful traces appear from the water ripples. This incidence brings him to the next movement and to the rhythmic dance.
Maryna Shchipak was born in Ukraine in 1983. After a year of studies at the National Academy of Art in graphic design in Kiev she moved to Switzerland and began her studies in Fine Art at the Bern University of the Arts. At the time she found herself in animation media and after graduation she enrolled at the Filmacademy Baden-Wurttemberg in 2006 to study animation. At the moment she is directing her own shorts and has 6 films already made. Apart from Animation she is interested in illustration and drawing.
Germany, 2009, 1’
Германия, 2009, 1’
Director: Maryna Shchipak
Cinematography: Maryna Shchipak
Animation: Maryna Shchipak
Producer: Alena Jelinek
Canada, 2009, 4’32”
Канада, 2009, 4’32”
Spacious Thoughts
A junkyard city becomes the playground for an ominous cloud and its multi-personality host.
Fluorescent Hill is a Montreal based collective consisting of Mark Lomond and Johanne Ste-Marie. Starting out in the music video and short film worlds, they have recently immersed themselves in advertising.
Director: Fluorescent Hill
Animation: Mark Lomond, Johanne Ste-Marie, Jacques Khouri
Composer: Nasa featuring Tom Waits and Kool Keith
Producer: Fluorescent Hill
Star, Dust
Звезден прах
We are stardust. Almost all the atoms that make up our bodies were once forged in stars that exploded in supernova. Using still images from the 1970s (on which much dust had settled), this short video explores a constellation within.
Karen Hanson’s first film, ‘Three Lives of Kate’, won several awards including a Gold Medal at Brno 16 International Film Festival. Narrated by Sandra Oh, the film screened at over 35 festivals. ‘Star, Dust’ is part of a series of linked shorts including ‘An Even Briefer History of Time’, which has screened at festivals worldwide.
Canada, 2009, 1’46’’ Канада, 2009, 1’46’’
Director: Karen Hanson
Writer: Karren Hanson
Editor: Marcus Moore
Producer: Karren Hanson
The Netherlands, 2009, 3’
Холандия, 2009, 3’ Stay Остани Music video for the Belgian act Butsenzeller.
Directors: Tijmen Hauer, Regina Kelaita
Cinematography: Regina Kelaita, Tijmen Hauer
Animation: Regina Kelaita, Tijmen Hauer
Composer: Butsenzeller
Editors: Regina Kelaita, Tijmen Hauer
Tijmen Hauer was born in 1977. Since having graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2005 his work has been presented at film festivals and exhibitions around the world. With his short films Hauer is developing a direct and catchy vew which reflects on contemporary society and the place of the individual within it. Hauer also works as a guest curator for the Filmbank, the Media Art Friesland Festival and Theater Zeebelt and also as a freelance director and editor.
Regina Kelaita was born in 1979 and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She works as a freelance photographer and video artist.
The Face
Лицето
A fantastic voyage of a kid with his dog through the ‘Swinging’ London and the 20’s.
Marco Marchesi started to make music videos and animation films in 2006, during his Electrical Engineering studies. He works worldwide, using almost all techniques, from 2D traditional animation to 3D, from stop motion to live action, on digital and film support. In 2008 won the Italian Music Video Award (PVI). In 2010 he made the Opening Titles for Future Film Festival, the most important event in Italy about the new technologies in movies and joined the ”Animatti” team with animation world masters Fusako Yusaki, Paul Wells and Peter Hodges.
Italy, 2009, 3’51” Италия, 2009, 3’51”
Director: Marco Marchesi
Writer: Marco Marchesi
Cinematography: Marco Marchesi
Animation: Marco Marchesi
Composer: Le Braghe Corte
Editor: Marco Marchesi
Producer: Marco Marchesi
Germany, 2010, 4’10”
Германия, 2010, 4’10”
The Greatest Wave
The video ‘The Greatest Wave’, animated by the German artist Runa Rosina Menges, visualizes the same named song by the upcoming indie-pop band Pillow Fight Club. The song was released by the label ‘Hazel Wood Vinyl Plastics’ and already got many positive critics. The story is about a love that gets tested by the element water.
Director: Runa Rosina Menges
Writer: Runa Rosina Menges and the band
Cinematography: Runa Rosina Menges
Animation: Runa Rosina Menges
Composer: Pillow Fight Club
Editor: Runa Rosina Menges
Producer: Runa Rosina Menges
Runa Rosina Menges was born 1982 in Offenbach am Main, Germany. She studied Fine Art at the Academy of Art and Design, Offenbach, Germany. Currently she is a free lance artist and lecturer for 2D Animations at the Academy of Art and Design Offenbach, Painter.
The Long Goodbye
Дългото сбогуване
It’s not easy to start over again, to break with the past and to take decisions.
Alvaro de la Hoz was born in 1977 in Santander. He studied History in the University of Cantabria and graduated in Film Edition by the School of Film and AudioVisual of Madrid (ECAM). Alvaro de la Hoz made his first short film Morbo in 1998. Besides directing four other short films, Alvaro de la Hoz has collaborated in several projects as editor, director assistant and musician. He is a associate founder to the production company Burbuja Films, where he has directed works like the short film ‘Banda Sonora Original’ or the documental features ‘Cuando yo me haya ido’ and ‘Donde Aprendiste a Vivir’.
Spain, 2010, 6’ Испания, 2010, 6’
Director: Alvaro De La Hoz
Writer: Pedro Pablo Picazo
Cinematography: Lucia Venero
Composer: LAZY
Editor: Alvaro De La Hoz
UK, 2009, 1’42”
Великобритания, 2009, 1’42”
Two Rays
Ray Winstone plays an aggressive parent at a school football match. While he rants his cool alter ego explains the damage such behavior is doing to kid’s football.
Director: Theo Delaney
Writer: Theo Delaney
Cinematography: Catherine Derry
Editor: Simon Hargood
Producer: Linsey Romano
Cast: Ray Winstone
Theo Delaney is among the UK’s leading commercials directors. He won a Silver Lion for his first commercial and followed it up with the Best New Director award. He set up Hotspur and Argyle Film Company in 2002 with producer Danny Fleet. In addition to his prolific, award-winning commercials work he made the acclaimed short ‘The Call’ and also works in documentary and new media. His recent Coca Cola campaign scooped seven diplomas at the 2008 British Television Awards.
Western Ballad
Уестърн балада
Challenge surreal chess men dressed in white and men dressed in black. Every mistake is a round of Russian roulette.
Leone Orfeo has graduated in cinematography from the National Film Academy in Rome.
Italy, 2009, 4’ Италия, 2009, 4’
Director: Leone Orfeo
Writer: Marco Fommei
Cinematography: Leone Orfeo
Animation: Andrea Santoro
Composer: Andrea Santoro
Editor: Andrea Santoro
Producer: Marco Fommei
The Netherlands, 2010, 4’
Холандия, 2010, 4’
Wildeman
Дивак
The music video Wildeman is part of a video triptych about human growing wild (again).
Director: Floris Schönfeld
Writer: Floris Schönfeld
Cinematography: Aage Hollander
Composer: Project Wildeman
Editor: Floris Schönfeld
Producer: Floris Schönfeld
Floris Schönfeld was born in 1982 in Houston. He is a visual artist and filmmaker working in Amsterdam and The Hague. He studied time-based arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and has recently completed a MA at the Interfaculty Art Science at the Royal College of the Arts & Royal Conservatoire The Hague. In his film and performance work he is primarily concerned with the awesome power of fiction and its effects on humanity.
Winkie: Truth it is
Уинки: Истината е
A music video for the electronic-rock duo Winkie, ‘Truth it is’ tells the story of a woman who is purged of her guilt (literally) from a marital indiscretion when she discovers her husband has also been having an affair.
Paul Natale: For over 15 years Natale has worked steadily in the film and television industry while studying film production in the USA and France, and acquiring a European Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in directing from EICAR: The International Film School of Paris. His short films have screened and won awards in festivals around the world.
USA, 2010, 5’45”
САЩ, 2010, 5’45”
Director: Paul Natale
Writer: Paul Natale
Cinematography: Sean King
Composer: Paul Natale
Editor: Paul Natale
Producer: Barbara Mignot
Filmer Forge
June 19-26, 2010
Cultural Centre “The Palace”, Balchik
19-26 юни, 2010
Културен център “Двореца”, Балчик
Sea It
SEA IT is a training initiative, part of the educational program FILMER FORGE of FILM PALACE FEST, Balchik. The programme aims to encourage the Bulgarian authors to professionally develop and shoot their works from the very beginning. The programme gives the participants the chance to work with experienced foreign professionals and to learn by practice how to shoot short etudes as part of the training. This year the SEA IT trainees will learn how to make a music video. In the end of the course a jury of 5 members, including experienced musicians, music producers and the SEA IT trainers will choose the best video. The participants will have to work in a small groups containing of director, cinematographer and editor.
SEA IT is common initiative of Format SFF Foundation, the Cinema and TV Department of NBU, the Film and TV Editing Department of South-West University Blagoevgrad, the Screening Arts Department of NATFA and Art College.
Faisal Qureshi
Файсал
Faisal A. Qureshi got his first taste of film making at the age of 19 when his treatment was commissioned by Channel 4 and made into a short award winning documentary. Later on he studied editing and sound design at the Northern Film School, UK while also helping with the making of the critically acclaimed 8 hour documentary about Stanley Kubrick ‘Stanley & Us’. Since then Faisal has worked for broadcast and production companies as a writer and development advisor on many feature projects and TV series. As a director he has directed various short films and is now working on a feature. He is also a part-time lecturer and is regular visitor at the Escula Internacional Cine y TV in Cuba, Salford University and Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK. He has also worked for the British Council on the ‘I, Belong’ project in Pakistan and the ‘Film ON’ project in Uzbekistan.
Alex Kalymnios
Алекс
Alex Kalymnios began her career working for the BBC. Aged just 30 she has directed 17 episodes of the hugely popular Channel 4 series ‘Hollyoaks’ as well as three hour-long specials of ‘Hollyoaks Later’. Alex’s other television credits include lead director on BBC NI’s ‘Seacht’ (Series 2), as well as BBC’s flagship drama ‘Eastenders’ and BBC’s ‘The Cut’ (Series 2), which she recently opened. Alex has directed four short films, which were screened at numerous festivals across the world, including Cannes SFC and LA Shorts Film Festival. A graduate of Bournemouth University, Alex has received bursaries and awards from Film London as well as international representation from British Council for her short films and was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2005. Last year, Alex was selected for the prestigious BBC Directors Academy. Alex is currently developing a slate of film, television and online projects. In 2009 she was selected as one of Broadcast Magazine’s Hotshot Directors, a feature that recognizes the best up and coming young talent in the British Television industry. Alex is currently attached to direct her first feature film ‘Viv’ written by Abby Ajayi.
Stephanie Hardt
Стефани
Stephany Hardt is an award winning cinematographer who has worked on projects ranging from promos, virals, commercials and independent features to documentaries and TV series. Her work on ‘Wolf in an Arran Sweater’ earned her the ARRIFLEX AWARD for Best Camera and Lighting. She has been nominated for the Broadcast Young Talent Award twice and the Coke virals she shot last year have won 7 British TV Advertising Awards. Also released last year was ‘Heavy Load’ - an award winning feature documentary which benefits at every turn from Stephanie Hardt’s gorgeous cinematography.
Germany
е номинирана за Наградата
June 19-26, 2010
Cultural Centre “The Palace”, Balchik
19-26 юни, 2010
Културен център “Двореца”, Балчик
Beach it
BEACH IT is a five-day training on how to pitch an original film project. The course will deal with some of the qualities a filmmaker needs to develop in his/her projects in the international market place. It includes training in writing an original dramatic film treatment, as well as improving confidence in expressing a movie idea to a potential financier/distributor/TV/Internet Executive. There will also be discussions on development, financing, and marketing.
Specifically, during the five-day course the participants will pitch their treatments to industry members present at the Festival, who will select the best project out of all the participants. This will result in writing 5 scenes out of the selected treatments, no longer than 3 minutes.
BEACH
Barry Hanson
Бари
Producer Barry Hanson has been at the cutting edge of film and TV production in the UK for over 30 years. He won the prestigious award Prix Italia for drama with ‘The Naked Civil Servant’ in the late 1970s. His movie from the early 80’s ‘The Long Good Friday’ has been described as the “Best British film ever”. He has been responsible for over 100 hours of TV Films and Series and 5 Feature Films. He currently is a Consultant producer for the Independent Film company Dan Films and teaches Film & TV Production at London University. He is the author of many papers for academic books and journals, published both in the UK and internationally.
UK
June 19-26, 2010
Cultural Centre “The Palace”, Balchik
19-26 юни, 2010
Културен център “Двореца”, Балчик
Reelism
REELISM is an unique programme, that gives the young filmmakers and students from different disciplines, like cinematography, film directing and editing, an opportunity to get to a closer look and experience specific aspects of filming process, combining lectures and practical modules. Thus the training aims to help young and emerging filmmakers to find the most suitable means of expression for their own films. In the five days training the young filmmakers have the chance to develop their professional knowledge by working with award-winning cinematographers, representing the two leading tendencies in cinema - the Russian and the American. The programme aims to help the participants - cinematographers and film directors - to find the most suitable way to visually create and present the emotion of their original ideas. As part of the training programme the latest generation of 5213 KODAK Vision3 35 mm & 16 mm film stock will be available for the participants, who will have the possibility to learn more about the shooting and post-production capabilities of the Kodak material directly from Jesus Haro, Technical Manager of KODAK for Iberia and Easdtern Europe.
Sandi Sissel
Санди
Sandi Sissel was born on August 9th 1949 in Paris, Texas. One of the very few world-famous women cinematographers, she entered the big cinema in 1974 and until now has more than 50 films as director of photography and over 40 films as second unit cinematographer or camera operator. She worked as director of photography for some of the biggest film studios in the United States - Disney, Universal and Polygram, as well as for TV companies such as BBC, Channel 4 and NOVA. Her films won twice the Academy Award® and were twice nominated for the Academy Award, 6 EMMY Awards, a Camera D’Or (Cannes), BAFTA Award and BAFTA Nomination. In 1994 Sandi Sissel becomes member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). In 2006 she was invited to join the Oscar® Cinema Award Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
Sandi Sissel is a Professor at New York University’s Tisch School of The Arts Graduate Program.
Russia
Sergey Astakhov Сергей
Sergey Astakhov is a cinematographer of more than 40 feature and TV films including films from directors Sergey Selianov, Aleksey Balabanov, Pavel Lungin. In 1980 he graduated from Russian State Institute of Cinematography. Since 1982 he has worked as a cinematographer at the Lenfilm Studios. He is a winner of many prestigious awards, such as BAFTA, Golden Camera and Golden Ram. In his vast documentary and feature shooting practice Sergey Astakhov demonstrates remarkable visual mimicry. Astakhov believes that a professional cameraman must “retreat from his own personality” to achieve his goal, and he has always followed this motto. He is owner of one of the leading Rental House Companies in Russia Act Film.
Jesus Haro
Хесус
Since 2005 Jesus Haro works for Kodak Entertainment Imaging as Technical Manager with a key role in different aspects like training and technical consultancy for Labs, Post companies, Cinematographers and Production Companies. He has a deep background in Cinematography as he is a former DoP before joining Kodak, having been employed for a main TV channel in Spain for 10 years shooting drama and different music shows and then, working as a freelance DoP for Commercials and music videos for 5 years. Jesus Haro has also shot a couple of long feature films and dozens of short films. He has an understanding on all the aspects of the workflow both in film and digital, from shooting to any sort of deliverables. In 2007 he was in charge of the designing and building of a new digital and traditional Lab facility in Alicante, Spain for Kodak and now he is part of the team leading the digitization and setting up of the Kodak facilities in Eastern Europe. He also collaborates as a trainer for different schools of cinema and writes technical articles for film magazines in Spain.
June 19-26, 2010
Cultural Centre “The Palace”, Balchik
19-26 юни, 2010
Културен център “Двореца”, Балчик
Move it
A course of lectures on promotion, distribution and marketing strategies, organized in collaboration with the Black Sea Region Festivals Network and South East European Cinema Network (SEECN). The programme is available for all who would like to improve their knowledge on how to sell and present successfully their films and ideas. Some of the themes discussed in the course are:
Elena Guiffrida: Promote culture and cultural exchange, despite and against all obstacles.
Bernd Buder: Selling the cliché? Politics in recent eastern European cinema. Luciano Gloor: Selling at all? The options for film distribution and marketing for filmmakers from the Black Sea Region.
Tudor Giurgiu: Film distribution strategies - how an artist should make his/ her film so that it is an attractive product for TV broadcasters. What types of films do TV broadcasters prefer?
Olga Zhurzhenko: Film marketing strategies. Best practices filmmakers can borrow from the business world.
Bernd Buder
Бернд Будер
Born 1964 in West Berlin, he studied Political Sciences at the Freie Universitat Berlin. 1996-2005 programme director of the Berlin art film cinema Berliner Filmkunsthaus Babylon. Consulting several film festivals, among them the goEast Film Festival (Wiesbaden), where he co-initiated the website ‘Seedox’ on South Eastern European documentary film, the DokumentArt film festival (Neubrandenburg/Sczesczin) and the Film Festival Cottbus with which he is collaborating since 1997. In 2007, he curated the regional focus on the Adriatic region and in 2009 a focus on the Black Sea region. At the moment, he prepares the festival’s focus ‘Global East’ on the impact of Eastern Europe’s cinema on the international film as well as the Polish-German youth film competition. Since 2005, Buder is consultant of the International Forum of New Cinema section of the Berlin Film Festival for South Eastern Europe. As a film journalist and a critic he reports focusing on film festivals, events and films from South Eastern Europe for the film magazine ‘Filmdienst’, the weekly ‘Freitag’ and - irregularly - the dailies ‘Berliner Morgenpost’ and ‘Frankfurter Rundschau’.
Germany
Германия
Italy
Elena Giuffrida
Born in Bologna, Italy. Lives and works in Trieste. She has studied Modern Literature at the University of Trieste, and graduated in Film History with a thesis on the Trieste Film Festival and the film productions from Central Eastern European countries. She has been working for the Trieste Film Festival since 1998 in various positions and recently has been appointed Deputy President of the Association Alpe Adria Cinema running the festival. She is in charge of the organizational part of the festival, as so of the fund raising. Elena Giufrida is now part of the Selection Committee for the International Competitions of the Trieste Film Festival. She is responsible for the International Short Films competition since 2008. In 2009 she started the Eastweek, a project for film masters, new talents, devoted to the creation of a link between the Film Schools and Academies of Eastern Europe. So far six countries are participating in the Eastweek project - Serbia, Albania, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Croatia. Starting from the 21st edition of the TFF, she coordinates the international production meetings When East Meets West: a two day cross-border meeting gathering producers, broadcasters, markets and funds representatives from Friuli Venezia Giulia, Eastern Europe and a few western European regions.
Ji Lee
Джи
Born in Seoul, Korea, and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Ji Lee studied design at Parsons School of Design. He currently works as the Creative Director at Google Creative Lab in New York and teaches design at School of Visual Arts. In the past, Lee has worked as the branding director at Droga5 and art director at Saatchi & Saatchi.
Ji Lee is the founder of the widely publicized Bubble Project and the author of two books: “Talk Back: The Bubble Project” and “Univers Revolved: a 3-Dimensional Alphabet.”
Lee has given numerous lectures including Harvard University, MIT and MoMA. Lee’s work has appeared in ABC World News, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Guardian, Wired among others.
USA
Германия
Luciano Gloor
Born in 1949 Luciano Gloor studied German Literature, Mass Media and Economics with a focus on Marketing. He has been a producer in Switzerland and Germany since 1985 and has produced and co-produced a large slate of feature films for the international market. Most of them premiered at the festivals of Cannes, Berlin or Venice and have received many international awards. Luciano Gloor founded and managed an international sales company, which in the 80s and 90s represented films from among the best directors all across Europe, Africa and Asia and which at that time left its stamp at major film markets, like Berlin and Cannes.
As a consultant and trainer, Luciano Gloor led the creation, strategic planning or reconception of a number of Swiss film institutions, like the Swiss Film Centre, the marketing arm of Swiss Cinema, and FOCAL, the Swiss foundation for professional training. Within the last 25 year, he has been an initiator or a founding trainer of a number of producer’s training and project development programmes, like EAVE for Europe, AVEA for Southern Africa, and IFA-SC for the South Caucasus. Luciano Gloor lectured at film schools in Germany, Denmark and Cuba. He has been in charge of consulting mandates for institutions, like the Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Swiss Development Agency, as well as for production companies. Luciano Goor is a member of the European Film Academy and of the German Film Academy.
Olga Zhurzhenko
Олга Журженко
Over the last year Olga Zhurzhenko has worked with producers teams at several feature film projects, and also has developed and produced three shorts herself. She has also worked for FilmMaker ltd. (Kyiv) as line producer, being responsible for managing the development of film scenarios, calculating budgets for upcoming projects, searching for financing and sponsors, gathering creative teams, facilitating and managing preparation of filming, planning and organizing filming period, supervising editing and final cut of projects.
Recently, she started her own company OZ Group, with plans to engage in wide variety of film-related activities, including advertising and distribution, besides film development and production. Since 2008 she is a co-founder of the NGO Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation.
Olga currently studies in Kyiv University of Theatre, Cinema and TV (Institute of Arts for the screen) majoring in Producing. In 2004 she graduates Odessa National University with degree in Psychology. She has also attended several European educational programmes, including EAVE Film Finance Forum in Luxembourg, TrainEastFilm in Tbilisi, Georgia, Connecting Cottbus and Berlinale Talent Campus 2010.
Ukraine
предстоящи проекти, набиране на финансиране
на творческите звена,
Georgia
Tamara Tatishvili
In 2010 Tamara was appointed a Director of Georgian National Film Center with a responsibility of providing state support for the development and promotion of Georgian Cinema. She has co-authored Georgian Film Strategy 2010-2012.
Prior to her appointment, in 2008-2009 Tamara was based in London and worked as a consultant for BOP Consulting (www.bop.co.uk) - research, strategy, planning and evaluation for culture, media, digital industries and innovation. At BOP Consulting Tamara worked on number of projects for UK Film Council, Film London, NESTA, Northern Film and Media.
In 2004 Tamara Co-founded and served as an Executive Director of Independent Filmmakers Association - South Caucasus. She built an extensive network of film professionals to promote the South-Caucasian cinema on Regional and International levels.
Tudor Giurgiu
Тудор
Founder of the production company Libra Film, the distribution company Transilvania Film and the film and music magazine ‘Re:publik’; co-founder of Cityplex - local cinema chain with 8 screens. Tudor Giurgiu is also founder and President of Transilvania International Film Festival - the 1st and the most important International Festival for feature films in Romania and of Romanian Film Promotion - organization dealing with promotion of Romanian films abroad. Between 2005 and 2007 he was a President-General Director for SRTV Romanian Television - the Romanian public broadcaster. Tudor Giurgiu initiated the GOPO Awards - Romanian national annual awards for best achievements in local filmmaking. Member of the European Film Academy and a 2008 EAVE graduate. He was Creative Director for Atomic TV between 1998 and 1999. In 2000 he directed the documentary ‘Hausmeister’, awarded at several international film festivals. His short ‘Popcorn Story’ was selected for Berlinale 2002. His directorial debut ‘Love Sick’ was selected in Panorama section of Berlinale 2006 and was presented in more than 30 film festivals all around the globe. ‘Love Sick’ was also the Romanian box-office hit of 2006. He co-produced Fanny Ardant’s debute film as a director ‘Ashes and Blood’, shot in Romania and presented in the official programme of Cannes 2009.
Plug in
PLUG IN is a programme, dedicated to the ‘at the edge’ cross-art formats in cinema. In 2010 the programm will include a Master Class on the new forms of documentary filmmaking, presented by prof. Laurentiu Damian and an Israeli Video Art programme from the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Yael Eilat Van-Essen.
In the frame of the master class Prof. Laurentiu Damian will share experience as general manager of Editura Video Art Documentary Studio and experienced director of over 30 award-winning documentary films. A full description of the documentary development and filming will be made during the course: starting with the idea, development, financing and realization of the project to the distribution and exploitation of the film.
The collection of contemporary Israeli Video Art that will be presented at PLUG In, reflects some of the conflictual issues which Israelis, as a society and as individuals, are facing today in relation to the current political climate, the complexities of social dilemmas and demographical concerns. These difficulties are examined in relation to the hegemonic narrative of the founding of the Israeli state, which relates to historical memories, Second World War trauma and the power of religious traditions in structuring collective and individual identities.
Prof. Laurentiu Damian
Проф.
Prof. Laurentiu Damian was born on 25th of January 1956 in GiurgiuRomania. He worked as documentary film director at Al. Sahia Cinematographic Studio from 1980 to 1990. Since 1990 he is University Lecturer at the National University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art “I.L.Caragiale”- Bucharest (U.N.A.T.C.), Leader of the University programmes of Film & TV directing and Screenplay writing. From 1995 to 1999 he was Head of Department Film and Television Directing. From 1999 to 2007
Prof. Damian was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art “I.L.Caragiale”- Bucharest.
Prof. Damian is member of the U.N.A.T.C. Senate. He is also General Manager of Editura Video - Art Documentary Studio of Ministry of Culture, Director of Public Events and Festival Department and Director of Student Relationship Department (U.N.A.T.C.). He is an author and director of more than 30 documentary award-winning films. Проф.
Israel Израел
Yael Eylat Яел
Yael Elyat Van-Essen is the head of the Art & New Media Department at the School of Arts & Technology in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a graduate of the Fine Art Department in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and has a Master’s degree from Tel Aviv University in New Media Theory. She has worked for various media projects such as installations, performances, video-art and documentaries. Lately her work is concentrated on the theoretical aspects of New Media.
A hole in the Fence
в оградата
Between Abu Dis and Jerusalem lies a separation fence, which divides what once was the main street of one town. The locals removed one of the fence bars and in the middle of the day men, women, children, businessmen, workers and students, cross the fence with slight discomfort.
Israel, 2005, 5’42’’
Израел, 2005, 5’42’’
Artist: Dana Levy
Автор: Дана Леви
Ad Matay
In this work the artist is shown singing (playback) a song by a famous eastern Israeli singer Zohar Argov, asking God “until when am I going to be left alone”. Holding a small scale puppet of his own image, he touches the complex conflict in the Israeli society between Eastern and Western Jews.
Israel, 2002, 4’20’’ Израел, 2002, 4’20’’
Artist: Boaz Arad
Автор:
Israel, 2001, 1’52’’
Израел, 2001р 1’52’’
Artist: Sigalit Landau
Автор:
Israel, 2004, 11’39’’
Израел, 2004, 11’39’’
Artist: Sigalit Landau
Barbed Hula
The powerful image of a naked artist doing the hula-hoop with a piece of barbed wire on an Israeli beach refers to the sacrificial practices dating back to the origins of religions: rituals, stigmata, propitiations, indelible markings. In contrast to the naive childhood game, this work can also be seen in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Holocaust trauma.
Dead See
In this film, a cord connects five hundred watermelons, creating a six-meter, spiral-shaped raft on the salt-saturated waters of the legendary Dead Sea. Secured within this sculptural configuration, the artist floats with an arm outstretched toward a collection of “wounded” fruits, their intensely red flesh revealed. The nautilus form gradually unfurls, leaving the surface of the water a nearly monochromatic azure and the artist’s body exposed.
Gordon and I
Гордън и аз
An intimate relationship between man and animal, one propped up by the other. A comic situation in which a rooster is standing on the artist’s head, illustrating a possible way of co-existence.
Israel, 2002, 4’20’’ Израел, 2002, 4’20’’
I was called Kuny Lemel
Kuny Lemel is the legendary “schlemiel” hero of Jewish shtetl fables. In the video, a sedentary band is seen while overlaid Yiddish song can be heard. The song describes the hapless, orthodox protagonist being surrounded by a band of foreigners claiming to be him.
Israel, 2008, 4’15’’
2008, 4’15’’
Artist: Roee Rosen
Artist: Boaz Arad
Israel, 2002, 4’
Израел, 2002, 4’
Independence Day
Independence Day Celebrations at Rabin Square, mirror the violent political situation in the country. The children playing with the snow spray mimic the body language they see daily on the news.
Israel, 2003, 7’30’’
Израел, 2003, 7’30’’
Artist: Yael Bartana
Kings of the hill
This video revolves around Israeli cultural symbols and rites of socialization. Taking the position of an anthropologist this work observes a particular sector of the upper-middle class male population of a Western culture. Reading the work in a local context, the viewer is given a focused glimpse of the forces and myths underlying Israeli society and of its norms and values.
Artist: Dana Levy
Mary Koszmary
Мари Кошмари
Until the Second World War Poland had the largest Jewish community in the world. In the post-war period, many of the survivors chose to emigrate from communist Poland. The film is sets in an abandoned stadium in Warsaw, using propaganda films style, calling for three million Jews to return to Poland. The protagonist is Slawomir Sierekowski, a young radical polish, who claims for a radical change in his country.
Israel, 2007, 10’30’’
Израел, 2007, 10’30’’
Artist: Yael Bartana
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day was a special day, celebrated in the old days in kibbutz Kinneret. On that day all women went out to Spa and the children were left with their fathers to take care of them. This fictional work is based on 8 mm film shot by an anonymous kibbutz member, found in the kibbutz’s archives. The work is part of longer film named ‘Mom’s Island’.
Israel, 2003, 8’20’’ Израел, 2003, 8’20’’
Artist: Zamir Shatz
Israel, 2008, 7’13’’
Израел, 2008, 7’13’’
Artist: Nira Pereg
Israel, 2007, 17’40’’
Израел, 2007, 17’40’’
Artist: Guy Ben-Ner
Sabbath Шабат
The work documents the closing down of the ultra-orthodox neighbourhoods in and around Jerusalem on the eve of the Sabbath. In most cases, public access to these neighbourhoods is blocked by means of temporary barriers, which stay put for 24 hours - thus creating an artificial border between these areas and the rest of the city. Although the value of these somewhat rickety barriers may appear above all symbolic, their presence is a source of friction and conflict.
Stealing beauty
‘Stealing Beauty’ was shot without permission at IKEA stores around New York, Berlin and Tel Aviv. In the movie the director’s family quite naturally inhabit idealized showroom interiors, while the father offers life lessons on the subjects of economic exchange, meaning of private property, ethics, and family love. Despite its direct reference to global processes that IKEA stores so evidently represent, it reflects also on the “provinciality complex” of the Israeli society.
Summer Camp
Летен лагер
‘Summer Camp’ documents the activities of the ICAHD (Israeli Committee Against House Demolition) on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. Activists from different countries gather together with Israelis and Palestinians to build up a demolished Palestinian home. Their action is largely symbolic - a physical resistance to the occupation undertaken as a constructive activity, recalling the images of Jewish pioneers building homesteads in early 20th century Palestine.
Israel, 2007, 12’ Израел, 2007, 12’
Artist: Yael Bartana
Trembling Time
‘Trembling Time’ was filmed from a bridge over one of the most central highways leading in Israel, as the siren sounded at the start of the National Memorial Day for fallen soldiers. During the minute the siren sounds, everyday time comes to a halt: it is pulled taut, and appears to tremble. As drivers are trapped in a time capsule, the routine time-flow of busy highway that traverses Tel Aviv is transformed before our eyes.
Israel, 2001, 6’20’’ Израел, 2001, 6’20’’
Artist: Yael Bartana
Perforge
PERFORGE
PERFORGE is an eight-day educational program, targeting young musicians from Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine. The program, which is part of the international IN THE PALACE FEST, is organized by foundation Format SFF in partnership with BUSHO (Hungary), Wiz-Art (Ukraine) and SKC Kragujevac (Serbia). The program presents trainings in music management, as well as master classes in sound mastering, sampling, live sound, mixing, and recording. Funded by the “Youth in Action” Programme of the European Commission, PERFORGE gives the participants the chance to become part of the master classes, jam sessions and the live performances of IN THE PALACE FEST, playing with the headliners of the musical programme of the festival.
PERFORGE
SKC Kragujevac (Сърбия).
Youth in Action Programme of the EU (2007-2013) Програма “Младежта в действие”(2007-2013)
Youth in Action Programme is а successor of Youth programme of the EU. Its goal is to develop cooperation between young people in the EU by providing them with the possibilities for group exchanges and voluntary work, as well as by supporting a range of activities in favour of the youth. The objectives of the programme are:
l promoting young people’s active citizenship
l developing solidarity and tolerance
l fostering mutual understanding
The programme is aimed at participants aged from 15 to 28 and is open to the EU and EFTA Member States, EU candidate countries and the countries of the western Balkans, Switzerland.
National Centre
“European youth programmes and initiatives”
75, Vasil Levski Blvd.
Sofia 1040
Tel.: (+359-2) 930 05 35; 981 75 77
Fax: (+359-2) 981 83 60
E-mail: youth@youthsport.bg BG001@eurodesk.org
Contact person: Ivan Modev - Director
Hungary
Унгария
BEAT DIS
Four years after their debut album “Genetik Gift”, Beat Dis come out with another one - “Keep Still”. The Band, who originates from Szombathely in Hungary, could be classified as a trip-ho/rock/hip-hop formation. Touring trough Hungary they have played with artists such as Zihan & Kamien, DJ Vadim and Little Axe, proving that they sound magnificent not only on record, but also live on stage. The video of their song “Just Like” was one of the first videos to be showed on Hungarian MTV and reached no.1 in the national MTV and radio charts.
Gift”,
POZVAKOWSKI
The first CD of the band “Sinus” came out in 2002. In 2004 they published their second album “Transistor”, playing experimental rock - a style completely innovative for Hungary at that time. The band presented the album along with an unique visual show during a tour in Russia, Germany, Holland, Slovenia, Serbia, Austria, Italy and Romania.
Following the success of “Transistor” the Pozvakowski introduced “Microtron” in 2007, which was nominated for the “Hangsuly Metal Award” in 2 categories - Live performance of the year and Album of the year. Pozvakowsky have played with outstanding underground artists such as Mono, Guapo and The Living Jarboe.
Serbia
Сърбия
BLIKS
Bliks was founded in Kragujevac, in 2009. The band is inspired by music styles such as blues, slow jazz, drum & bass and ethno music. Members af the band are Milos Petrovic - as music and lyrics, and Tijana Radojevic - lead vocal. Currently members of Bliks are Milos Petrovic (bass, acoustic guitar), Tijana Radojevic (lead vocal), Aca Pejcic (piano, keyboard), Sasa Rankovic (drums, percussions).
Bliks
CONTRADICTA
Anticapitalistic, socially committed, with left-wing orientation, the urban rock band from Kragujevac is formed in 2006. Their music is a unique mix of different genres like hardcore, hip-hop, blues and funk. Through the sound and lyrics of their songs, Contradicta and its members are striving to present the spirit of the Serbian young people. The band’s members are Marko Jovanovich (drums), Stanko Milachich (bass), Darko Batich Djordjevich (guitar), Bogdan Tsvetkovich (vocal).
Ukraine
Украйна
2SLEEPY
2SLEEPY is electronic duo based in Kyiv, Ukraine. After their debut album “Fragments of Sleep” in 2006 the band gained a reputation of being the most interesting member of the independent Ukrainian pop-consortium. Audiences and critics warmly welcomed their second album “Art Fraud” (2008, ya-ok music), which was appointed to be one of the best albums of 2008 according to “Glavred” magazine. 2SLEEPY participated in the international festivals of experimental electronic music “Detali Zvuku” and “Koktebel” Jazz Festival and performed gigs with “Dolphin”, as well as with German electronica project “SWOD”.
2SLEEPY
“Fragments of Sleep”,
ANDRIY PROKOPENKO - Lecturer, sampling
АНДРИЙ ПРОКОПЕНКО - лектор, семплинг
Founder of the electronic duo 2SLEEPY. Andriy is a professional computer scientist, that specializes in working with different kinds of musical software and hardware.
Андрей Прокопенко е основател на електронното дуо 2SLEEPY. Toй е професионален компютърен специалист,
музикален софтуер и хардуер. .
SEVA SOLNTSEV - Lecturer, mixing
СОЛНЦЕВ - лектор, миксиране
Mixing engineer, producer, songwriter, keyboardist, member of the electronic duo 2SLEEPY. Author of the feature material ‘Loudness apocalypse’ for “Moloko+” magazine (11.2008), dedicated to the overcompression of modern music. He is teaching Electronic Music Production at the CTSschool. Seva Solntsev has worked with such renowned DJs as Dj Pierre(USA) and Niels Von Geyer (Germany).
Сева Солнцев е миксинг инженер, продуцент,
Ukraine Украйна
Ukraine
Украйна
DIANA MIRO & THE BAND
Diana Miro & The Band is a new stage name of Irina Kustovska previously known as Hvoya.
After having got classical music education, Irina started her independent electronica career in 2007. As a result of her creative work, an unusual mix of a vibrant feminine vocal, refined idm-beats and romantic acoustic melodies appeared. During the last two years Diana Miro has got on well in recording collab album with several musicians worldwide as “Hvoya”. Among them are ukrainian chill-out project Zymosis, Jukeen in Slovenia, the Portuguese project Hexagon Heaven and Know How Project (Italy).
Diana Miro & The Band
ИВО
IVO HRISTOV - producer, publisher
Ivo Christov was born in 1961 in Sofia, Bulgaira. Since 1989 he works as graphic designer and musical producer. Until now he designed over 100 music albums and worked with famous Bulgarian and foreign musicians such as Theodosii Spassov, Milcho Leviev, Ivo Papazov, Arabel von Karayan, Anatliy Vapirov, Antonii Dontchev, Stoyan Yankulov and Elitsa Todorova, Lili Ivanova, FSB, Kameliya Todorova, Angel Zaberski , Silviya Katsarova, Tedi Katsarova, Irina Florin, Grapha, George Hristov, Kiril Marichkov, Stefan Vuldobrev and the bands SUPERMAX, SELIAH, STRANGERS, STONEHENGE, NEW GENERATION, TIBETIAN HEARTS (who’s albums he produced and published), SIGNAL, WICKEDA, BULGARO, ANIMACIONERITE, BLUBA LU, BULGARA, AKAGA, JP3 and many others. In 1999 he established his own music company, KUKER MUSIC, which produced and published some of the most popular albums of traditional and contemporary Bulgarian music, among which “Harmonies” by EVA quartet, “Ultramarine” by Teodosii Spassov, “House No13” by Antonii Dontchev and the music of the film “Gipsy Summer”, performed by Karandila Orchestra. Author of the radio programs TROPICALISSIMO (RFI-Bulgaria) and The Dilemma Studio Hour (Darik Radio).
Камелия Тодорова, Ангел Заберски, Силвия Кацарова, Теди Кацарова, Ирина
Флорин, Графа, Георги Христов, Кирил Маричков, Стефан Вълдобрев,
групите SUPERMAX, SELIAH, STRANGERS, STONEHENGE, НОВА
ГЕНЕРАЦИЯ, ТИБЕТСКИ
Serbia
Сърбия
MILOS MARKOVIC - Оwner of sound recording studio
Milos Markovic graduated in direction of AVT (Audio Video Technology). He is one of the owners of the sound recording studio “Wild Cat”, founded in 2004 in Kragujevac, Serbia. It provides rehearsals and recording serveces and works with music festivals. Currently “Wild Cat” is one of the leading sound recording studios in Kragujevac.
STOYAN DENCHEV - Musicial Producer
Stoyan Denchev graduated from the Musical High School “Philip Kutev” in Kotel, specializing in Tambura. He received his higher education at the Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv where he studied Band Management. In 1996 he joined the Mystery of Bulgarian Voices as a guest musician and toured with them to Hong Kong.
His career as a producer started with the TV show “Congratulations” aired on Veselina TV and in 1999 he started working for Sunny Music. His portfolios of artists he managed and produced include some of the most popular pop folk singers.
Since 2003 he manages Maxim Goranov’s record studio based in Sofia, working with some of the most tallented Bulgarian performers.
Hungary
Унгария
BUSHO
BUSHO (Budapest Short) was established in the autumn of 2004 by a group of young Hungarian filmmakers. The festival became an international breakthrough in an exceptionally short period of time. The festival presents festival screenings, selections of film academies, feature films, conferences, film-, and artworkshops.
It aims to give the young artists the possibility to prove their talent in an international environment. Beyond the outings of individual filmmakers BUSHO has screenings of the winners of international film festivals and dscussions on the situation and the possibilities of cooperation of young European filmmakers.
SKC KRAGUJEVAC
Student Cultural Center is an institution that complements the content of a university such as Kragujevac. It is a specific institution that offers a range of programs related to all forms of art and creativity. SKC has contributed to spreading knowledge and educating students and other citizens of Kragujevac. Since its establishment in 1977 the Student Cultural Center offers activities, that cover the entire spectrum of cultural events: concerts of classical, rock and pop music, exhibitions, panel discussions, literary promotion, film programs, theater, folklore, publishing.
Ukraine
Украйна
WIZ- ART
Wiz-Art is an International festival of short films and visual art, that takes place in Lviv, Ukraine. It presents the best works of modern cinema and visual art. The festival accepts short films and visual art works produced up to 2 years before festival and not longer than 30 minutes. The previous editions of the festival presented an unique selection of short films: fiction, documentaries, animation, videoart and experimental films by young directors and videoartists. The Festival tries to present the latest tendencies in cinema. The festival selection committee gives a preference to works with an extraordinary vision in portraying reality. In the Art Palace in the very centre of Lviv, one finds the best place to discover, to discuss, to learn, to meet, to create, to change, to submit, to have fun, and finally to win the main prize of the Festival!
Martk It
SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN CINEMA NETWORK
MEMBER STATES
ЮГОИЗТОЧНА ЕВРОПЕЙСКА
ДЪРЖАВИ-ЧЛЕНКИ
ALBANIA
Albanian National Centre of Cinematography
Albafim Studio, Rr. Aleksander Moisiu 77, Tirane, Albania
ЕА “Bulgarian National Film Center” operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and has as its main aim the distribution and administration of state subsidies for film production. The funding is allocated as advance payment against future profits and may amount up to 80 per cent of the project’s budget. Support is granted for development and production of feature, documentary and animated films. 9-member experts’ committees take the decisions for the allocations of project subsidies. In 2009 the NFC had a budget of approximately 12 200 000 BGN (6,224,490 EUR).
The Film Center has a public register of distributors, producers, exhibitors, cinema halls, international film productions and visas (rating certificates). Committees of experts determine the category of each film to be distributed in cinema halls and/or on DVD.
The Bulgarian National Film Center represents the country in international organizations such as Eurimages, the European Audiovisual Observatory, the SEE CN, the EFP. Since 2002, BNFC operates with MEDIA Desk Bulgaria.
The National Film Center is the organizer of the Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film “Golden Rose”, the National Festival for Documentary Films “Golden Rhyton” and the International Festival of European Co-productions.
2A Dondukov Blvd., last floor
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: + 359 2 988 38 31
Fax: + 359 2 987 36 26
E-mail: nfc@nfc.bg http://www.nfc.bg
KIMUAK
KIMUAK (“shoot”, in Basque language) is a programme born in 1998 and organised by the Basque Government (Northern Spain) whose aim is the diffusion, promotion and distribution of Basque short films all around the world. Nowadays, this programme is managed by Euskadiko Filmategia-Filmoteca Vasca, the Basque Film Library.
Every year, the Culture Department of the Basque Government calls the Basque short filmmakers to present their works for KIMUAK, and some of them are selected to take part in the programme. Then KIMUAK publishes a folder containing a DVD with the selected short films subtitled in English, French, Italian and German, an informative leaflet for every short and a CD containing information on each selected film. KIMUAK sends this file to TV channels, journalists, public and private institutions, and most importantly, to more than 700 festivals all around the world for pre-selection.
Since its beginning in 1998, KIMUAK changed a lot, and became one of the more successful programmes of diffusion of short films in the world. KIMUAK has been presented twice at the Academy Awards Ceremony. Their films have been awarded at some of the most important festivals in the world - Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Aspen, Mйliиs d’Or, Gijуn, Sitges.
Txema Muсoz, Charged of KIMUAK programme
Euskadiko Filmategia-Filmoteca Vasca
Avda. Sancho el Sabio, 17 - trasera
20010 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain
Tel.: +34 943 115 511 / +34 639 775 104
Fax: +34 943 469 998
E-mail: kimuak@filmotecavasca.com www.kimuak.com
CLERMONT FERRAND FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET
The Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand has coloured the cinema world for 32 years now and is considered the largest event in the world for the short film. At the last edition of the festival 145,000 spectators and 3,000 professionals worldwide discovered nearly 500 films screened in 14 venues throughout the city. There are three competitions (national, international and lab) and numerous retrospectives devoted to different countries and themes. “Sauve qui peut short film”, the association which organises the festival, promotes the idea that cinema is an art as pluralistic festival programming is very diverse: from classical narrative to experimental extreme lovers of cinema will find their account. At the same time the festival is an important market for film or television buyers, distributors, publishers, talent scouts, where they can meet the directors and producers of over 6,000 film-entries. It is in this very market that many professional meetings take place such as buyer presentations and as important as pitch projects.
Moreover, the association organizes throughout the year various educational activities to images, home and travel shooting films in France and abroad. The Festival of Clermont-Ferrand is supported by the National Center of Cinematography and the Media Programme of the European Union.
Over the past 16 years MEDIA - the EU’s support programme for the European audiovisual industry, has supported the development and distribution of thousands of films, as well as training activities, festivals and promotion projects throughout the continent. From 2001-2006 more than half a billion euros were injected into 8,000 projects from over 30 countries.
The new MEDIA 2007 programme (2007-2013) is the fourth multi-annual programme since 1991 and has a budget of 755 million Euro.
Independent production and distribution companies can apply for development or distribution funding in the form of grants and interest free loans. Financial assistance is available for training providers and organisers of markets and festivals. Individuals may also benefit from subsidised places on training courses and international markets. The programme is opened for practitioners in the audiovisual industry such as producers of film, television, animation, new media companies, distribution and sales companies and also ‘enabling’ organisations such as training bodies or film schools, promotional events or festival organisers.
MEDIA DESK - BULGARIA
2A Dondukov Blvd., last floor 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Premium Films has been created in 1998. We always try to offer the best visibility for the short films.
The short film market constantly increases, supported by the new technologies and media development (internet, vod, mobile) and the nedd of having the best strategy to sell a short film constantly grows!
Today we manage a catalogue of more than 500 short films, animation & fictions of 230 producers and interfnational film schools.
Each year, Premium Films takes part at the festival markets in Cannes, Valencia, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs, Toronto, Santiago, Aix en Provence, etc.
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MUSIC PALACE FEST
АПО & НЕВЕНА /България/
Тандемът Велизар Ангелов (Апо) и Невена
Колева е въплъщение на стил и контрастна смесица от звуци. Музиката и аранжиментите са дело на Aпo, а Невена стои зад текстовете и
вокала.
APO & NEVENA /Bulgaria/
Apo & Nevena are a combination of stylish and contrasting mixture of sounds. The music and arrangement are made by Apo. Nevena stays behind the lyrics and vocals.
BABYFACE CLAN /България/
Babyface Clan - едни от родоначалниците
на родната алтернативна сцена ще взривят
на Film Palace Fest, Балчик със свойте
парчета.
BABYFACE CLAN /Bulgaria/
Babyface Clan - one of the founders of the alternative Bulgarian stage will make the audience of FILM PALACE FEST, Balchik explode with their new songs.
BGz /България/
BGz /Bulgaria/
Walking through different styles of music brought us somewhere between reggae, ska and funk, but don’t be surprised if you feel also pop, soul, swing, rap, and some frank elements of metal sound in our songs”.
БЛУБА ЛУ /България/ Блуба Лу /Константин
BLUBA LU /Bulgaria/
Bluba Lu /Konstantin Katsarski and Dimiter Paskalev/ very recently issued their last project “QUADROTOPIA”. The most common comments about them are “Pink Floyd in drum and bass version” and “The Sofian Massive Attack”. The remixed version of their quadrophonic concert in a light-sound-multimedia show will be presented in Balchik.
ДАРИНКА
DARINKA PROJECT /Bulgaria/
Maestro Milcho Leviev called Darinka Tzekova “one of the most original events in Bulgarian music”, by comparing her talent with that of musicians such as Ivo Papazov, Theodossii Spassov and Yildiz Ibrahimova.
DJ ILKO /България/
DJ Ilko заема
DJ ILKO /Bulgaria/
DJ Ilko takes his deserved place among the best representatives of the electronic music in Bulgaria by conquering our taste with his funky, jazzy, groovy, deep and tech house style.
GROOVY BONE CRUSHER /България/
Groovy Bone Crusher /Нуфри (вокали, китара, програминг), Даката (барабани), Фичо (клавишни), Пeтко (китара)/ представя основно авторски материал, издържан в различни стилове - от джаз и фънк до електронен дъб.
GROOVY BONE CRUSHER /Bulgaria/
Groovy Bone Crusher /Nufri (vocals, guitar, and programming), Dakata (drums), Ficho (keyboards), Petko (guitar)/ presents mainly original materials created in different styles - from jazz and funk to electronic dub.
IMBECILES & THE POISON UMBRELLA /България/ Електронната музика, която създават Imbeciles & The Poison Umbrella е танцувална, но същевременно и агресивна, с елементи на рок и пънк. IMBECILES & THE POISON UMBRELLA /Bulgaria/ Electronic music created by Imbeciles & The Poison Umbrella is for dancing, but also aggressive - with elements of rock, punk and trash.
KARANDILA JUNIOR /България/ В “Карандила
KARANDILA JUNIOR /Bulgaria/
In the band “Karandila Junior” are playing Roma children, successors of the huge orchestra “Karandila” with music director is Angel Tichaliev.
KOTTARASHKY LIVE BAND /България/
KOTTARASHKY LIVE BAND /Bulgaria/
Kottarashky /Nikola Gruev/ with his debut album “Opa Hey” stays for 5 months in the European chart for ethno music - World Music Charts Europe and is announced as album of the month by Charlie Guillait /BBC music journalist/. Kottarashky Live Band is formed with the idea to perform the music from the album with a different sound and new arrangements.
PHUTURE SHOCK /България/
Phuture Shock / Деси (вокали),
(китара)/
PHUTURE SHOCK /Bulgaria/ Phuture Shock /Desy (vocals), Ficho (keys and machines), Dean Dragiev - Dakata (drums) and Petko Drenikov - Peko (guitar)/ are the favourites of the Bulgarian underground and club scene. Their distinguished style is a combination of Acid Jazz, Soul and Funk with a little touch of electronics and something more.
L.A. Prostitutes /Fussy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Morten (lead guitar, backing vocals), Jack Andy (drums, backing vocal), Kim (bass, backing vocal) /is a rock band playing uncompromising and high energy rock with a strong focus on modern cool grooves and catchy melodies. They love to play live and prefer to play as loud as possible.
PANIKAN WHYASKER /България/
PANIKAN WHYASKER /Bulgaria/
For over 10 years Panican Whyasker has been mixing Rock / Alternative / Indie which has resulted in 2 MMTV awards for Best Rock Album.
PISTAMASHINA /Bulgariа/
No one knows who exactly Pistamashina are, but we know that they have unique sound and revolutionary image.
SASKIA LAROO /Холандия/
SASKIA LAROO /The Netherlands/ Saskia Laroo, also known as “Lady Miles of Europe”, is one of the few women trumpet stylists. She combines today’s music by uncontrived romps into new styles, eagerly limned as “nu jazz” or “swingin’ body-music”.
THE BELLRAYS /САЩ/
The Bellrays /Боб и Лиса/ комбинират всичко,
знаят за the Beatles, Steve Wonder, The Who, The Ramones, Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, Led Zeppelin, за
неустоима.
THE BELLRAYS /USA/ Тhe BellRays /Bob and Lisa/ combine everything they know about the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones, Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, Led Zeppelin to gather it into the energy ethat made their music so irresistible.
THE BULLETS /Гърция/
невероятен начин разнообразието на влиянията и
начина на звучене на бандата.
THE BULLETS /Greece/
The Bullets music is rock’n’roll, which covers a wide range of music styles such as teddy boy rock, neorockabilly, surf, doo-wop and desperate rock’n’roll demonstrating in a unique way the diversity of the bands’ sound and influences.
ТЕОДОСИЙ СПАСОВ И НЕБЕСНИ СТРУНИ /България/
Стилът му е уникален, смес от фолклор и джаз. В
проекът с Небесни струни, събира в себе си нюанси от европейската класическа музика и балканския
фолклор, преплетени с новаторски аранжименти в
духа на джаза.
THEODOSII SPASSOV AND HEAVENLY STRINGS /Bulgaria/
His style is unique blend of folk and jazz. In a project with Heavenly Strings, he collected shades of European classical music and Balkan folk mixed with innovative arrangements in the spirit of jazz.
TRI O FIVE /България/ Всяко изпълнение
TRI O FIVE /Bulgaria/
Each Tri O Five gig is a unique blend of sampling, beats overdubbing and real-time FX along with real-time sax, keyboard, guitars and vocals. The members of
the group are: Ilin Grivishki - DJ Ilko, Dessislav IvanovDesso, Antony Rikev - Wah Tony and Michael Fleming. Their music can be emotionally defined as “funky, groovy and sexy beats”.
WALDECK /Австрия/
разцъфтяваща, електронна сцена, Waldeck са защитници на Vienna Sound - един великолепно красноречив микс от турбулентни битове с дъх на
се, разкошни мелодии, извиращи от дълбоките корени на музиката.
WALDECK /Austria/
A driving force in his native Austria’s burgeoning electronica scene, Waldeck is a proponent of the Vienna Sound - a smoky, gorgeously eloquent mix of deeprooted, turbulent beats and soaring, luxurious melodies.
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