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CYRUS THE GREAT PRODUCTION LTD Presents
The 9th Sahar International Short Film Festival 2022 Official Selection
Thank you to distributors and Filmmakers for participating with us.
We are proud to announce the 9th SISFF Official Selection.
The management team are: Sahar, Mandana Ansari and Martin Gleeson.
Under The Blade(زیر تیغ) by Javid Farahani Country: Iran Duration: 15:00
AD 1202 by Tomislav Gregl
"Memories in three colors (Memorias En Tres Colores)" by Argenis Herrera Sanches
Divorce by Alberto Rivas
"Salem" by Sophie Beaulieu
Paper Carpenter (Carpinteria de Papal} by Ranaa Daniel Bueno-Medina
Tides(Mares) by Thais Helena Leite
Traverse (A Travers) by Marine Herve
Free Flow by Sam Mirhosseini
Shooting Stars by Karina Valencia
" The Traveller (El viajero)” by Gustavo Duc
Atavistic (ATÁVICO) by Raul Guiu
“Fox & Penguin” by DAVE Lojek
Our Own Ceylon -Bread of life(Pan de vida) by Sergio Luis Garcia Locatelli
“Experiment 1(Degradation)" - Flashbulb memories by Carlos Trindade
Inhospitable by Melissa Bolaños
The Road to Success(El Camino Del Éxito) by Fernando G. Pliego
An untitled Christmas story(Cuento de navidad sin título) by Mauricio Franco Tosso
Lyla June , Rebel Wise Make It Through and 2 more short films by Quincy Davis
" Homecoming (Rajaa) " by Selena Pizarro Gomez
“Planting of the trees(MBJELLJA E PEMËVE) " by Fabio Seferi
A breath of freedom( Un souffle de liberate) by Chloe Delest
"The Lens" by Aashit Chatterjee
The Soil by Amir Basir
"The ART and The WAY" by "Tatiany Furuse"
“THE RIGHT VINTAGE “ by Trace Winter
The escape of the century(Levison du siècle) by Renta~Daniel Bueno-Medina
“Children of May (Hijos de Mayo)“ by Dani Solaguren Ruiz
Lyla June , Rebel Wise Make It Through and 2 more short films by Quincy Davis
“ The song of crazy Ralph(La Cancion Del Loco Ralph)" by Alfonso Desentre
"Tina"(LA CUARTA VÍCTIMA) by Aleix Masferrer López
Just Because you don't film me while I was crying it doesn't mean you are not a filmmaker by Astrid Askberger
” The Grandmother (La Abuela)” by Maria Del Carmen Pandero Manjavacas
Ebony, cedar and mahogany by Nora Seilicovich
Twins(Gemelos) by Javier Medina
" By the Road " by Henry Dasca Bravo (Los Glosters team)
Aashit Chatterjee
"The Lens"
Aashit Chatterjee an Independent Filmmaker, Actor & Creative Professional.
He has been making Short Film, Music Video, Corporate Film, Ad Film, Documentary Film &
working on feature Film. His internationally acclaimed short films are “The Truth Behind”,
“Caution”, “The Lost Empire” & “The Lens”. He has worked in various creative and commercial
capacities in film world and theatre.
Year of Production.: 2019
Film Duration: 05 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: India
Synopsis:
An award-winning photographer Rafique Ahmed when visits his native place after winning an International Award for black & white Street Photography, his acquaintance with a senior journalist Neelkanth Pandey in a press conference changes his views towards life.
AMIR HOSSEIN BASIR
THE SOIL (KHAAK)
Master's degree in architecture, university teaching. He is an independent Iranian filmmaker.
Active in the field of performing arts in Iran
Year of Production.: 2022 Film (or Video)
Duration: 21:05 MIN
Fiction
IRAN
Synopsis:
In northern Iran, a landslide has caused the evacuation of a village. At this time, the eldest son of a family who have recently lost their father returns to the village to take
over his father's house, but his younger brother, who blames him for losing his father's inheritance, prevents him from entering the house.
A quarrel ensues between the two brothers, and each accuses the other, and unspoken words are
revealed that cause the family to break up and the women of the family to leave.
The village is empty but the two brothers stay to take their share by force in a face-to-face fight.
Alberto Rivas
Divorce
Alberto Rivas is an actor and director, known for Yo antes era bella (2009), Di Di Hollywood (2010) and Abrázame (2011).
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 08 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Aleix Masferrer López
"Tina" (LA CUARTA VÍCTIMA)
Aleix Masferrer López is an award winning filmmaker, studied the Degree in Audiovisual Realization at ITES in Barcelona. Master's Degree in Film Direction and Production at the
Polytechnic University., He started on 2009 directed many short films and video clips: "Ya no te quiero" , "Rosas Rotas" the Pride Barcelona 2014 official video clip of Olaya 'A new Illusion'. "Abril"
In 2013 he worked as a producer on 8tv, on the program of the journalist Josep Cuní., "La Otra" "Madre Reflejo"
. He also worked as Producer on the news of the national channel of T5
Currently, Aleix presents his new story "Tina The Fourth Victim" while working as Producer for
Globomedia Mediapro.
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 16 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
A young woman wakes up on a bench in a square in Barcelona. She doesn't know who she is or how she got there.
Alfonso Desentre
“The song of crazy Ralph
(La Cancion Del Loco Ralph )"
Alfonso Desentre - Zaragoza (Spain), 1961 - With nearly forty years of professional experience in theater, film and television, and extensive training in both theater and other fields such as philology or audiovisual language, Alfonso Desentre is an actor of great versatility and unusual stage strength, stage director, author of texts and scripts. He recently debuted as a film director. With his previous short film, 'Intimidad', directed and performed by him, he won, among other awards, the Simon Award for Best Actor, awarded by the Academy of Aragonese Cinema. 'La canción del loco Ralph' is his second work in this field.
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration:07 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis
Ralph, whom everyone in town calls "the crazy one", is a lonely man who lives in a house in the mountains, with the only company of an old and sick dog. His life is the useless wait for the dreamed return of the woman who, twenty years before, left him forever.
Argenis Herrera Sanches
"Memories in three colors
(Memorias En Tres Colores)"
He studied at the Escuela Cine a Formation (Annaco, Venezuela 2013-2017) and the Diploma in Cinema at the Instituto de Altos Studios Audiovisuals of the University of O'Higgins (2019). He also has a degree in theater, acting mention, year 2000, graduated from the University Institute of Theater (IUDET, Caracas, Venezuela). As a filmmaker he has made 21 short films, having written, produced and directed 18 of them; In addition to 4 short films currently in pre-production His films have participated in various festivals in Venezuela, having obtained 36 national awards (Venezuela), and 15 International, including: - Best Spanish / Latin American Film of the Month - PickurFlickIndie Film Festival Monthly, February 2018. India - Best Regional Short Film 1st FECIRA - Rancagua Film Festival, Chile: “Leonardo's Telephone - Special mention - 2nd City Blue Film Awards. Alicante - Spain. January 2018 - Best Short 60 Seconds - VIII FIBABC - ABC Ibero-American Short Film Festival - Madrid, Spain, 2018 (Violence, a child ‘splay) - Couch Film Festival - Winter 2020 Edition, Toronto - Canada. December 28, 2020 Best Drama, 1:00 to 5:00 minutes Category. (Nightly) - Best director at: Spirituality Film Festival (FESCIVE), Puerto Ordos, Venezuela, 2015; Latin American and Caribbean student and community film festival “Clemente de la Cerda”, Puerto Pyrite, 2016; 5th Student Film Festival, FESTICINE CARORA, Lara, 2016 - Best script: Festival Between Long and Short of the East (ELCO), 2015 - Lechery; Latin American and Caribbean student and community film festival "Clemente de la Cerda", Puerto Pyrite, 2016 His short film has been an OFFICIAL SELECTION of 77 international festivals. He has been a FILM JURY at 6 film festivals.
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 13 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Venezuela - Chile
Synopsis:
A couple believes in pragmatic love and not in eternal love. She finds out that she has cancer and decides to separate from her husband, to prevent him from suffering at her side; She looks for the situation in Venezuela as an excuse to migrate to Chile. He refuses to leave. She hides her illness from him, lies telling him that she doesn't love him. After she is in Chile, he learns the truth; he calls her on the phone to tell her that she will go to her side.
Astrid Askberger
“JUST BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T FILM ME WHILE I WAS CRYING IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NOT A FILMMAKER”
Born 1979 in Stockholm. 2018 I took a Master of Film at the Academy Valant. In 2016, my full-length documentary Greta’s guide to the galaxy had its premiere. A movie exploring the concept of freedom and the consequences of breaking free. My latest documentary shorts are 28 Beanies (premiere GIFF 2020), I was there too (premiere GIFF 2018) and The Wall (premiere Tempo 2019) with a special mention and screening in about 40 different places since the premiere.
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration: 05 min
Genre: Documentary, Art
Country of Original Production Company: Sweden
Synopsis:
A documentary filmmaker with moral issues and creative block is crying behind the camera. A unique meeting between the participant and the filmmaker takes place and questions arise. About the documentary films' way of profiting from other people's feelings. About human value and about forgiving oneself when things are not going so well.
Carlos Alberto – Matos Trindade
Flashbulb memories
Born in OPorto, 1957. Degree in Fine Arts (Painting) by ESBAP (now FBAUP) in 1981. PHD in Contemporary Art by Universidade de Vigo, Spain (Sculpture Departement, 2014), Scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) between 2009-2012. He is Auxiliar Teacher at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), being one of its founders. As artist , began to exhibit in 1978: he did five individual exhibitions and took part in more than 150 collective ones, in Portugal and abroad. Between 1976 and 1981 he worked in animation films, included two 16 mm films financed by the Instituto Português do Cinema (IPC) , produced by Cinematógrafo - colectivo de intervenção.
Year of Production.: 2015
Film Duration: 3 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company:Portuga
Synopsis:
The title of the movie refers to a term introduced in scientific literature (1977) by the american psychologists Roger Brown and James Kulik, in a pioneering study about the relationship of memory with the emotions. The term appeared by analogy with photography, and with it the authors referred to the memories concerning the circumstances in which a person became aware for the first time of an very unexpected event, even shocking - both personal as well as fraternal -, with relevant consequences for her, arousing in any case strong emotions. After have been established, “flashbulb memories” would be practically permanent, because of the extremely vivid memories triggered by the occurrence that gave rise to them.
Carlos Trindade
" Degradation (Experiment 1)"
Born in Oporto, 1957. Degree in Fine Arts (Painting) by ESBAP (now FBAUP) in 1981. PHD in Contemporary Art by Universidad de Vigo, Spain (Sculpture Department, 2014), Scholarship from Fundación para a Ciancia e a Technologic (FCT) between 2009-2012. He is Auxiliar Teacher at the Escola Superior Artistical do Porto (ESAP), being one of its founders. As artist, began to exhibit in 1978: he did six individual exhibitions and took part in more than 160 collective ones, in Portugal and abroad. Between 1976 and 1981 he worked in animation films, included two 16 mm films financed by the Instituto Portuguese do Cinema (IPC) , produced by Cinematograph - collective de intervenor. Films: Flashbulb memories (2015); Clouds...Clouds (2018); Degradation (experiment 1), 2022.
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration:02 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Portugal
Synopsis:
This (experimental) animated film was started in 2015, and after a long hiatus due to numerous circumstances, it was only finished in 2022. It was started in reaction to the difficult period in which Portugal was subjected to an international financial assistance program, with the "Troika" (2011-2014) - the name given to the team composed of the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission - during which there was a major general degradation of the lives of the Portuguese; a period in which Pedro Passo Coelho was Prime Minister and Aníbal Cavaco e Silva President of the Republic. During the film, images (and texts) are subjected to a constant and continuous degradation.
Catharina Hamerle & Dave Lojek
“Fox & Penguin”
Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the most prolific and most often selected directors with over 1760 screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. graduated with an MA in English / American and Cultural Studies from Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin. His motivation for filmmaking is intrinsic. As independent producer, Dave created 178 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2022. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema Movement and annual film workshops called KinoKabarets with his initiative KinoBerlino. Dave works as film distributor and president of a Film Association. The productions of APEIRON FILMS and KinoBerlino have been broadcast weekly since 2008 (ca. 12.000 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.Film
Duration:13 min
Year of Production.: 2021
Genre: Fantasy Animation
Country of Original Production Company: Germany
Synopsis
Tagline: Dive into the privacy of German couples and experience animal pleasure. Logline: What do German couples talk about in private? How do disputes heat up and how do they reconcile? The filmmakers hold a mirror up to us with a smile based on fictionalized scenes with animal representatives, which were assembled over real life interview snippets. Synopsis: How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This docu-fictional hybrid production discusses such questions with the help of authentic interview snippets that were edited under the staged plot. We get an insight into the life of an animal couple, who experience typical everyday situations on behalf of us humans. At first, our fox is emotionally contained, while the penguin lady may get wild as hell. With a wink, the filmmakers hold up a mirror to the audience in the cinema.
Dani Solaguren Ruiz
Children of May (Hijos de Mayo)
Screenwriter/film director from Bilbao. In 2021, he graduated from ESCAC with a degree in Cinematography, specializing in directing. His Film: Hijos de Mayo ̈, a Queer-themed short film. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Film Directing at the MET Film School in London, where he is preparing his next short film.
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 19 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
Dani spends his last day before moving out of town with Roque, his best friend with whom he has been in love with all his life. Set in a sexually oppressive Spanish rural town, Dani and Roque find each other...and say goodbye.
Fabio Seferi
“Planting of the trees
(MBJELLJA E PEMËVE)
Fabio Seferi born (November 29, 1994) is an Albania filmmaker. He studied at the University of the Arts in Tirana. He began his career as an independent filmmaker known for “Dogma” (2018) short film at 48Hours Tirana and “The Planting of Trees” (2021) He won the award Best Use of Genre for Dogma.
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 30 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Albania
Synopsis:
‘Planting of the trees’ is a film that tells the story of a mother who lost her child and beyond any human trait, lost the right to bury and mourn.
Fernando G. Pliego
The Road to Success (El Camino Del Éxito)
Born in 1972, he works as programmer, but combines his job with a regulate career as amateur cineast since 2011. Graduated in Image and Sound at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1995, he has been camara operator in several Javier López Velasco shorts (Vivir soñando, Ansiedad Express). ¨The road to success" (El camino del éxito) is his ninth shortfilm. Between his previous works, more importants ones could be Do you hear me? (¿Me oyes?, 2011), Family portrait (Foto de familia, 2013), How do you like it? (¿Cómo te gusta?, 2015) and, especially, The ball (La pelota, 2017), best Iberia merican Short in Iberofest 2018 and Best International Short Film in XI Edizione Corto e Cultura Film Festival in Manfredonia, between other awards and more than 60 international selections.
Year of Production.: 2020
Film Duration: 16 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
A few days before an important race, the mother of a young and promising cyclist realizes her son takes pills to improve his sporting performance. Offended, moved by a sense of responsibility, the woman demands explanations from the club and gets an interview with the team coach. Not convinced by his arguments, she decides to take her son out of the club, but she doesn't expect that the biggest opposition for her intentions comes just from the young cyclist, who isn't willing at all to leave what he already considers his professional career. Due to the categorical refusal from his mother to allow him to compete, he escapes from home to keep on training to win... whatever the way, he needs to...
Gustavo Duc
"The Traveller (El viajero)"
Year of Production.: 2020
Film Duration: 28 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Argentina
Synopsis:
A man, recently a widower, is going through the last stage of his painful duel in a secluded cabin, with the only company of his dog. Who will be the link with an enigmatic traveler? Between the three a deep friendship will grow.
Javier Medina
Gemelos (Twins)
DIRECTOR/CAMERA OPERATOR :25 YEARS IN FICCIÓN TV SHORTS DIRECTOR: PIZZA-BLACK/RECUERDOS/GRACIAS/INVISIBLES/SÍ-SÍ-MY LOVE/ A BAILAR/ GEMELOS/NORMALIDAD
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration:07 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
A CLOSED DOOR-TWO TWIN BROTHERS!! EACH ONE, TO ONE SIDE OF THE DOOR!! THE ONE (OUTSIDE THE HOME) IS ALCOHOLIC AND OFTEN GOES TO HIS BROTHER´S HOUSE TO SEEK REFUGE AND HELP!! THE OTHER BROTHER, IS FED UP WITH HIM AND DOES NOT WANT TO CHANGE!!
Javid Farahani
Under The Blade (زیر تیغ)
Synopsis: The story of a woman director who wants to make her film but as there is a rape scene in her script and there are social red line and no actress is willing to play the role in her film just because they are afraid they might get into trouble by law and this is the beginning of the story...
Country: Iran
Duration: 15:00
Brief Biography:
Born in June, 1987 in Iran. Javid Farahani graduated of BA in Cinema-director, from Sooreh Arts University.
Karina Valencia Gonzalez
“Shooting Stars “Premier
Karina is Mexican 2D animator that strives to tell meaningful stories through my work, I hope people can see my art and enjoy it, the same way I’ve done for many other talented creators.
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration: 05’:45 ‘’
Genre: Animation – Action
Country of Original Production Company: Mexico
Maria Dil Carmen Pandero Manjavacas
” The Grandmother (La Abuela)”
Short film: "The story of life". 1914. Protagonist.
Short film: SOGG, 1919,
Short film: "La granny" shot in Los Campos de Níjar -Almería-
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 18 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
Grandmother Sophie (69 years old), lived alone in a farmhouse in the Cabo de Gate Natural Park (Almería), until the sudden arrival of her grandson Ismael, a 16-year-old teenager. As a result of the economic and social crisis, Ismael's father has gone to work in Germany. Having no news of him, his wife leaves to look for him, leaving Ismael with his grandmother. The coexistence between the two is very difficult, sometimes tense, at times funny, but both will come out stronger and more united, because Ismael will learn about aspects of the life of the grandmother that he did not know and she will tell him her great secret.
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Marine Herve
A Travers
Originally from Lyon, I have been living on the island of Reunion for 6 years. This island turned out to be my heartland where my desire and my practice of Cinema were born. My films are therefore intimately linked to this territory. In addition to writing, I work as a camera assistant on local and foreign productions shooting in Reunion Island, and I have been practicing colour grading for a few years now, a skill that is still absent in Reunion Island. FILMOGRAPHY 2019 " Program Meme " Short Fiction Film / 7 min Young audience workshop (14/26 years old) produced by Passers images Réunion Jury Prize - Festival " Ciné Marmaille " 2019 2018 " Fruit Defend " Short Fiction Film / 3 min 1st Prize in the Canal + Réunion competition as part of the International Fantastic Film Festival "Meme Pas Peur" organized by Aurélia Mengen 2017 " Banne " Short Fiction Film / 5 min Prison workshop in the Port prison produced by Passers images Réunion 2016 " Loin des yeux " Short Documentary-Fiction / 6 min Produced by the Lyon-based collective Washer Productions.
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration: 20 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: France
Synopsis:
Louise is in her 7th month of pregnancy when she is told that she will have to terminate her pregnancy for medical reasons. Accompanied by her husband, Pierre, she understands that the baby will not survive the delivery. In the hospital, from the day before the termination to the early morning of the fateful day, they will fight to survive this ordeal. How to mourn a child that they will not have? How to share these last hours with this child and accompany him one last time?
Mauricio Franco Tosso
" An untitled Christmas story (Cento de Navidad sin tituli) "
Mauricio is a Peruvian filmmaker based in Spain. I have much experience in management, production and post production film. I have worked on many film projects (also own), including short films, feature films and documentaries. Thanks to my experience working in different countries I have been able to develop my intercultural skills and English proficiency. I have a high technical and technological knowledge. My creativity helps me to be pro-active in decision-making, learn and adapt quickly to new situations. My empathy leads me to work efficiently in a group. I would love to work and contribute to your project.
Year of Production.: 2016
Film Duration:11 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain, Perue
Synopsis:
XV century, Sancho Panza unhinged by the absence of his partner Don Quixote falls into a deep sleep and wake up in Madrid in 2015.
Melissa Bolanos Carabali
Inhospitable (INHÓSPITO)
I am a graphic designer from Universidad del Valle, passionate by animation, drawing and artistic manifestations that allows me a deep connection with my inner voice. I have created three films on my own, one of these was selected at some film festivals. I have participated in a research project, animating characters within an experimental animated short film called: Habitografía (dos) directed by Mónica Bravo and Miguel Bohórquez. I have also participated as an animator in a collective project to be published in the magazine Ecphrasis called “Ensue no en Tierra de Promisión” directed by Tomas Wells.
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration:07 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Colombia
Synopsis:
The work exposes the different elements that pass through the author's dreamlike flow, leaving her Immersed in the mother's warm womb, a place that can become inhospitable when conceived from the confrontation of the different.
Nora Seilicovich
Ebony, cedar and mahogany
Argentinian born; she lives in Buenos Aires. Visual artist, architect and
designer. Exhibits individually and collectively in Argentina and abroad. Since 2015,
he has ventured into digital art. Since 2016 she has been a director of animation
shorts and video art. The first animated shorts that are gaining notoriety at Film
Festivals. 2022 with “Ébano cedary mahogany”, finished at the end of 2021.
Selected at the Santo Domingo International Short Film Festival, La Fila de
Cryometries Festival, Fem Mujuru Festival Festively, Spain, Cineflix Community
March2022 Argentina-Short-circuit Latino “The Latino Film fest New York.2019
Tres amigas in Istanbul” nominate 2019 International Film festival Milan 2019 6th
Americas Film Festival New York Tiffney Award. 2018 12th Months Festival Award
Toku Sai and the walker” 2019 awarded at the 12thMonth Film Festival.
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 10 min
Genre: Animation
Country of Original Production Company: Argentine
Synopsis:
This animated short animated film was made during the 2020/21, tells a story about a trip of three friends through Cuba to the beautiful city of Baracoa, an architectural heritage. The story begins like this” Upon hearing the cadence of that old t song, the three friends decide to go to Cuba …Story of friendship and solidarity This short lasts 9 minutes 60 seconds. Made entirely with the original drawings of the author and producer of the short the script belongs to Sylvia Lebedinsky, written in verse and respected in the short and with the original music of Victoria Odalis and Tavon Centurion, young and successful Argentine musicians and composers. This animated short film tells a story of a journey of three friends across Cuba to the beautiful city of Baracoa, an architectural heritage.
Quincy Davis
Children of the Sun - Premier
Rebel Wise - Make it Through (Music Video)
Rebel Wise - Make it Through (Documentary Short)
Lyla June - North Star feat. (Music Video)
Rebel Wise - Jewels (Music Video)
Quincy Davis has made an impact as a dedicated music producer, lyricist, recording artist and video producer based
in Portland, USA. Much of Quincy's work draws from life experience out of a self-destructive lifestyle to find his path, and he works with
the power of music, lyricism and visual storytelling to initiate personal and collective transformation. In 2021, he established Seven Vision
Studios, producing media intended to uplift our people and our communities and inspire the new paradigm.
‘Children of the Sun’
shines light on of the ills of growing up in a society with various forms of addiction and dealing with the pull of the shadows of 'the matrix' technological control system. We intend to offer a song of inspiration to the younger generation, with encouragement to listen to our hearts and be a part of the personal and collective healing necessary at this time, as we continue in our transition process into the new paradigm. Rebel wise featuring Quincy Davis and Mic Crenshaw Produced by Seven Vision Studios Cinematography by Simon Baum of Octavos Media and Alexandra Loves Sponsored by My Voice Music and NEAR Protocol
Year of Production.: July 2022
Film Duration: 05 min
Premier
1.Rebel Wise - Make it Through (Music Video)
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 03 min 48’’
2.“Rebel Wise”
Film Duration: 03 min 48’’
3.“Rebel Wise – Make it through”
Film Duration: 04 min 48’’
4.“Rebel Wise – Make it through Documentary”
Film Duration: 08 min 20’’
Genre: Music video
Country of Original Production Company: United States
Film Synopsis:
1. Music video featuring Kunu, Talilo, Toni Hill, Mic Crenshaw and Quincy Davis -- the stories of 4
artists representing 4 ancestral lineages, addressing the unification of our struggles, facing the past
to build a better future, and serving future generations. We are stronger when the hoop is whole.
2. In-depth documentary look behind the artists, their stories and inspiration for their lyrics weaved
into the powerful music video, ‘Make It Through’ addressing historical trauma through 4 different
ancestral lineages and generations.
3. Through the challenges we've been facing due to the lockdowns, missing in-person community
connection, many of us have been struggling to keep up hope. Lyla June and Quincy Davis perform a
song about faith, transformation and liberation from toxic shame. Pleading to the Creator, the artists
sing, "Help me see me through your eyes, so my broken wings can fly." Both June and Davis have
both been caught up in the world of drugs and addiction and have experienced the profound change
that occurs when we hand over our life to higher powers.
4. "Liberation, One by One!" New music video featuring MC's AshEL SeaSunZ, Mic Crenshaw, Quincy
Davis shining light on societal ills and the crossroads we face as humanity, with reverence and
respect for our ancestral knowledge-ways. Special thanks to Huehca Omeyocan, cultural dance
group promoting the practices of the Anahuac (Mesoamerican) people.
Raul GUÍU LAPLAZA
Atavistic(Atávico)
A PERSONAL REVENGE (2020) - NIGHT TERRORS TRILOGY (2020) - OUT OF TONE (2019) • VIDEOSINGLE OF THE TWANGS & ESTHER (2016) • SELECTION OF PERSONNEL (2015) • THE EYES OF THE DEAD (2013) • THE CREATIVE PROCESS (documentary) (2012) • WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO TELL US? (2011) • LA MER (videominuto) (2009) • THE GIRL NO (2008) • A WALK THROUGH MANHATTAN (video creation) (2008) • THREE STORIES OF GYPSIES (documentary) (2006) • DUEL TO RENCOR (2003) • I AM FEO (2001) • WHAT IS EXPECTED FROM ME (2000) • YES, MOM (videominuto) (2000) • THE DOMINO EFFECT (1999) • SOMETIMES I AM A GOOD PERSON (1998) • A PERSONAL QUESTION (1997) • OF PRESENT BODY (1995) • UNTIL I GET TO EVA (1993) • IN YOUR SEARCH (1992)
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 04 min
Genre: Documentary
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
ATÁVICO (SUBTÍTULOS INGLÉS)
This year the return to class for Sara is going to be more distressing than the previous courses.
Renata Bueno and Daniel Medina
Paper Carpenter
(Carpinteria de Papal}
Daniel Medina, 52 years old. Graduated in Cinema from the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo, Brazil in (1994). In the same year he joined the animation production company PinGuim, where he worked as an assistant director and later as an animation director, which allowed him to experiment with a wide range of techniques in stop motion animation. In 1997 he founded, together with Renata Bueno, Gaiola Estúdio, executing projects in the areas of Design, Illustration, Graphic Projects, Storyboards and Board Games, as well as Animation, with emphasis on the cut-out technique. From 1997 to 2012 he developed numerous internal marketing jobs for multinational companies. Since 2007 he has developed several animation workshops and courses for young people and adults in schools, museums and other institutions. In 2015 he moved to Europe and since 2016 to Alentejo, Portugal, where he has already held a workshop and two very short animations, one of them participating in the Monstra 2018 festival. In 2020, together with Renata Bueno, he directs the short “Carpinteiro de Papel”, a documentary and animation of cutouts
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 13 min
Genre: Documentary
Country of Original Production Company: Portugal
Synopsis:
“Paper Carpenter” walks through the stories of a man who lives in a nursing home in Alentejo, Portugal. Joaquim Fernando Micael, eighty-two years old, shares his experiences narrating, singing and cutting out medicine boxes. Bringing his cut-out medicine boxes to life, his stories float in the film between his participation as a stage carpenter's assistant at the theater, his admiration for bullfighting when he was a kid and thirty years working at a gas station.
Jacques Micke
The escape of the century (Levison du siècle)
Filmography: 2014? ECOLO LE TAXI? FICTION-COMEDY 2015? SHE IS VERY LITTLE? ..FICTION-COMEDY?. RECEIVED THE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE (3rd) AT THE 11th INTERNATIONAL CINEMABRUT FESTIVAL in PARIS December 2016? 400 Directors? .23 Selected? 30 Countries represented?? 2016? HIRING OFFICE?? FICTION-COMEDY 2018? THE NURSE'S WHISTLE? FICTION-COMEDY 2018? EXCEPT AUX RIVERAINS? FICTION-POLICE OFFICER 2019? . SHE IS VERY LITTLE 3MN34 Trailer?? ... FICTION-COMEDY 2020? HECTOR'S WARMTH?? ..FICTION-COMEDY SINCE 1985 DIRECTION OF 244 SHORT FILMS IN VERSIONS: DOCUMENTARIES ?- REPORTAGES?- FICTIONS?. POLAR and HUMORISTICS FROM 1985 to 2000? ..Super 8 format FROM 2013 to the present day Digital format H.D. 264? ... 1920 X 1080
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 14 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: France
Synopsis:
A bit of Humorous history ....... In 1963, there was the American film "The Great Escape" by John Sturges with STEVE MC QUEEN and CHARLES BRONSON .... In 2013, there was the American film "Evasion" by Mikael Hafstrom with SYLVESTER STALLONE and ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. In 2021 there will be the French film "L 'Evasion du siècle" by Jack Mike "with JEREMY CONSTANT (Dann) and his dog JAZZ --- A. CELERIER (Autaire) and V. HARNISCH (Volution) ...? MALULF the oldest prisoner of RUSTAN prison in the Hautes-Pyrenes organize a next EVASION During an outing in the prison yard he recruits two other prisoners and explains to them an exceptional plan?? ..which he has been preparing for several years?. But Guardian DANN doesn't hear it that way? ...! Accompanied by his sniffer dog JAZZ.
Raza Mallal
"Espresso Yourself"
An award-winning visionary writer/director. Raza has a Diploma in TV Production. And has worked in corporate video for a number of years. His short films Easy Money and Checkmate have received several international awards, including the Jury Grand Prize, Amiens, Bronze Dragon, and Cracow. He recently wrote, directed and produced the short films “Holding On To Nothing", the romantic drama "Our Day", and the black comedy” Dumb Decisions" and has just completed the martial arts short "Help Wanted"
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration:06' min 57''
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Two modern day singles, looking for love, are having their regular espresso at their local coffee shop. Having found each other on a dating website, they each nervously wait for the other to make the first move. But maybe there’s more to one of them than meets the eye and will the fear of rejection end a relationship before it’s even begun?
Rikki Beadle Blair
'The Passion of Alexander'
Biography:
Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a writer, director, composer, choreographer, designer,
producer and performer working in the film, theatre, television and radio. Having written and directed
40 plays over the last 20 years along with several feature films, shorts and tv episodes and series, he has won several awards including the Sony Award, the Los Angeles Outfits Screenwriting and Outstanding Achievement awards. Rikki’s passion for encouraging wellness, creativity and business
sense in others has made a committed and effective mentor to a great many writers, actors, composers and directors around the world.
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration: 4 min 58’’
Genre: Fantasy
Country of Original Production Company: UK
Synopsis: The Passion of Alexander is an original short film that explores Alexander the Great’s
bisexual attraction to both his wife and male lover and presents a complicated relationship dynamic that tore him apart more than any conquest, battle or war
Sam Mirhosseini
" Free Flow"
Sam grew up in Iran. When he reaches his twenties, he flew over to Thailand where he ends up World Champion of Thai Boxing. Five years after his title, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion as a parachutist. Joining the French Army makes him a traitor: he is now forbidden to go back to his home country. He settles in France as a professional diver, before becoming an actor. In 2016, he is nominated as Most Promising Actor of the César Awards, for the movie “Ni le ceil in la Terre”, directed by Clément Cogitate. Free Flow, supported by Pictavo, Arta, and the CNC, is his very first short movie as a director. He is currently writing his first feature film.
Year of Production.: 2020
Film Duration:29 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: France
Synopsis:
Zak works as a deep-sea diver in Dunkirk’s dock’s waters. Immigrant from Iran, he arrived in France ten years ago, and got the French nationality after two years enlisted in the Foreign Legion. Keevan also is Iranian. Part of the stream of migrants that just grounded on the French coast, he hopes to reach England and its supposed freedom. Keevan tries to take advantage of Zak’s privileged access to the docks, yet is Zak going to accept to help his compatriot?
Selena Pizarro Gomez
" Homecoming (Rajaa) "
The short documentary "Rajaá" is her first film.
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration:29 min
Genre: Political Docudrama
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
Rajaá (homecoming) depicts a stage in Mai Al Bayoumi's life journey. She is a Palestinian woman born in Rafah (one of the largest refugee camps in Egypt) and lives currently in Vallecas (Madrid) for ten years now. Always intending to return to Gaza to her family.
Sergio Luis Garcia Locatelli
" Our Own Ceylon "
Lima Perú 1978. Graduated from the School of Communications at the University of Lima. Diploma in Screenplay and Direction of Documentary Film by the Madrid Film Institute (NIC). Screenplay studies at the School of Writers. Director of the documentary Internal Outskirts (2009), It's in your Eyes (2011), 9546 km. (2013), Our Own Sri Lanka (2015), Solari (2016) and Bread of Life (2016). All his films have received awards at international festivals and have been broadcast on TV in Spain, Italy and Brazil. Currently he is carrying out the documentary project "Take a Walk" in advanced development. This film has participated in Meeting Doc Buenos Aires, Bolivia Lab, Talents Buenos Aires, Santiago Alvarez in Memoriam and in the Laboratory of FICBAQ Festival of Barranquilla
Film Duration:14 min 34’’
Genre: Biographical Documentary
Country of Original Production Company: Sri Lanka
Synopsis:
The trip as a search of a couple trying not to see local reality as foreign. Observation in order to try to understand how Sinhalese people live from respect and admiration
“SOLARI”
Year of Production.: 2015
Film Duration: 07 min
Genre: Documentary
Country of Original Production Company: Peru
" Bread of life
(Pan de Vida)
Year of Production.: 2015
Film Duration: 07 min
Genre: Documentary
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
Alejandro seeks for happiness. In that search, can´t think about love without religion. Since he left the guilty, lives his identity fullness.
Sophie Beaulieu
Salem
Sophie Beaulieu was born in 1981, and spent her childhood between Lyon, Paris, London, and New York. She was admitted to the Ecole Normale Superieure, passed the Agregation in English and taught linguistics at La Sorbonne and English in a public school in St Ouen. Then, she wrote a trash and feminist show, and directed three short films she wrote and produced. I didn’t Shoot Jesse James was her produced film. She explored the Western manly myths. In Salem, she denounces the conservative and comfortable values of the French upper class, thanks to a quirky female character. Her universe can be qualified as off-the-wall and subversive humor.
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 15 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: France
Synopsis:
A family weekend in the family house. The men of the family are self-satisfied and the women are efficient. There’s no reason for changing the order of things. Yet, one of the uncles of the family has a new wife who might stir up trouble.
"Tatiany Furuse"
The ART & The WAY (Mim”)
TATIANY FURUSE is director, screenwriter, executive producer and actress. She began her professional career in
the arts in 1993, at the age of 14, as the protagonist of a revolutionary play for the time. Since then, she has
produced and/or acted in numerous films, advertising campaigns, series, soap operas, cultural events and
festivals. In 2014, she produced her first fiction feature film, “Sobá, Trilhos e Silêncio”, in honor of Japanese
immigration in Brazil, where she also wrote the screenplay in partnership with the film's director, co-
director and executive producer. His most recent work is the autobiographical short film “O Que a Arte Faz por immigration in Brazil, where she also wrote the screenplay in partnership with the film's director, co- director and executive producer. His most recent work is the autobiographical short film “O Que a Arte Faz por
Year of Production.: 2022
Film Duration:15 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Brazil
Synopsis:
It ́s about the Tatiany life as an artist, who, due to her lack of her neurodiversity
knowledge, deals many social barriers, which aggravate her health, but she finds through art and knowledge a chance to overcome it.
Thais Helena Leite
Tides(Mares)
Professor and writer of Brazilian History.
At the age of 49, he entered university to make cinema. Now 60 years old, this is his first
documentary. Like Mercury, he has wings on his feet, carries his bag closed by a thread and a
caduceus... and reads: every day we have something to learn. Aeternum
Year of Production.: 2020
Film Duration: 16 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
Marés (2022) is a documentary that reports the experiences and memories of three fishermen, Adão, Pepeu and Baianinho and one of the last shipwrights in the capital of Espírito Santo, Seu Zé Adega; interspersed with the story of a “sea monster” that appeared in Vitória Bay in 1984, told with animation and staging. Like all fisherman stories: it's all true.
Tomislav Gregl
AD 1202
He is working as a cameraman and master of trick photography, he was involved with a large number of artistic films financed by the Croatian Ministry of Culture. He has worked on animated feature films SNOWCAP (1989) and AMAZING ADVENTURES OF APPRENTICE LAPICH (1996). Filmography: LONGING (2005) MALFORMANCE PERFORMANCE (2007) UP IN THE GALLERY (2009) ZULEJKA (2013) EASYGOING TEDDY (2017) AD 1202 (2020)
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 19 min
Genre: Animation
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
This animated short is based on the book AD 1202 by Frane Herenda and it depicts the real events of Crusaders siege of Iadera (Zadar) in the same year. It`s a fusion of real and fictional characters and events, filled with action and forbidden love games within the monastery walls. The short comes alive through stylised clay backgrounds and hand drawings.
Trace Winter
The right vintage
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 04 min
Genre: Fiction
Country of Original Production Company:
United States
Synopsis:
Tagline: Aged to Perfection. Logline: A conman reaches his 100th birthday and is released from prison to enjoy the time he has left, starting with a dram of his favorite whisky. Synopsis: Notorious for committing multiple cybercrimes, Sonny Marcato has served his sentence in a prison stationed on the edge of a black hole, where time is essentially frozen. For his release, Sonny requested nothing more than to enjoy his favorite whisky on his way back to Earth… to celebrate what is to come.
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HENRY DASCA BRAVO (Los Glosters team)
" By the Road "
23 years. Higher Cycle of Animation at the Tarragona School of Art and Design (2016 - 2018).
Film Special Effects degree at the FX Animation Academy in Barcelona (2018 - 2021).
Internship in the audiovisual company Monsuton de Tarragona, collaborating in a 3D mapping for the Diputación de Barcelona (2018).
Subsequently, collaboration again with Monsuton in a 3D mapping for the 2018-19 year-end chimes for the Tarragona City Council.
2021 Begins internships (on-line) at Onírikal Studio
Year of Production.: 2021
Film Duration: 2 min 24 seconds
Genre: Animated Music Video
Country of Original Production Company: Spain
Synopsis:
An animated music video detailing the adventures of the Spanish band Los Glosters on the road. The young Henry Dasca mixes the animation video made by “Digital Gordon” in Mexico, with the live recording of “La Produktiva Films”.
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