ONE HUNDRED MULES WALKING THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT -ARTIST'S CUT 2015

One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Artist’s Cut, 2015) is a documentary of a journey with a string of one hundred mules, that drew a line, between Los Angeles and a major source of its water in the Eastern Sierra.
This one-month meditation and artwork was undertaken by Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio to commemorate the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct on Nov. 5, 2013. Mules were an important component of the labor force that made the building of the aqueduct possible. This artist action paid homage to the quiet dignity of the mule and the patient pace of its progress across the western epic landscape.

Director: BRUCE DICKSON

After graduating from U.C Berkeley in film studies and ethnography, Dickson's interests focused on cinematography and documentary filmmaking. His professional experience brings confident and creative energy with a fresh, unique visual style that exposes an intimacy between the artist and his camera. Currently Producer/Director/DP for two time Emmy Nominated series: "Artbound" programming on KCET (www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/) Winner of three Golen Mike awards, Two L.A. Press Club Awards - 2012 & 2013 and voted LA Weekly Best Art & Culture Site in Los Angeles.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature, Other
Genres:Artist cut, environmental, documentary, experimental, art, animal, water, human rights, durational
Runtime:1 hour
Completion Date:March 2, 2015
Production Budget:75,000 USD
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:United States
Film Language:English, Spanish

The Hunting of the Snark

Based on Lewis Carroll's final poem, this is the story of a group of strangers that come together to hunt the mysterious Snark even though none of them know what it is or really have a hope of capturing it if they found it!

Director: Saranne Bensusan

Saranne’s creativity started with music as she learned to play the piano as a teenager before getting a job editing and producing radio commercials a Moray Firth radio.
A few years later she moved to Surrey and made an application to study geology at the University of London where she formed the band From the 3rd story, as a singer and guitarist until she graduated and took up a solo recording contract.
Once released from her contract Saranne started to compose music for films before making her first short film “The Shoe” in 2009, she started her first feature an animation “The Hunting of the Snark” a year later which she also wrote, produced, photographed and edited as well as did much for the animating for and as part of a small team had to learn how to design and build the puppets. In 2012 Saranne also made a mockumentary titled “inevitability”

Specifications

Film Type:Animation, Feature
Genres:children, animation, adventure
Runtime:1 hour 5 minutes 27 seconds
Completion Date:April 1, 2015
Production Budget:207,000 GBP
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Country of Filming:United Kingdom
Film Language:English

In the near future

Samy, a fifteen-year-old French boy of Algerian descent, drifts through his city . He engages in a dialogue with his conscience and attempts to portray his friends and their dreams for the future. His quest for answers about his origin, his place within society, his life to come takes him on a journey that could lead to new beginnings...

Director: Franck Frappa

After the Academy of dramatic arts of Nice France, Franck Frappa forms as an actor to the technique of Sandford Meisner to the William Alderson studio of New York then at the school of dramatic arts Florent in Paris. He begins then an acting career and plays at theater with following directors : Vincent Lacoste, Pascale Nandillon, Yvan Heidsieck, Robert Cordier, Nicolas Klotz, Hubert Colas, Frédérique Duchêne and he has been directed in movies by Pierre Merejkowsky, Yvan Heidsieck, Thierry Dejean and Pierre Beccu. To the theater, he approaches authors as Edward Bond, Didier George Gabily, Sarah Kane, Jean-Luc Nancy, Ibsen, Beckett, Koltès, Michaux, Shakespeare, etc. In 2006 he begins a new career as an assistant director for film and TV. During these years he develops at the same time as his activity of assistant director, workshops theater in Jail and he organizes since 2009 a theater workshop of contemporary authors with teenagers in partnership with several municipalities. In 2013 he directed his first two short films "Augustin" and "Comedy" with non professional teenagers. He directed two other short films in 2013 and 2014, "Wesh" and " A near future " according to the same principle to hand over to the teenagers through a film work.

Specifications

Film Type:Short
Genres:Drama, Adolescent, inmigration, reality recorder
Runtime:16 minutes
Completion Date:February 16, 2015
Production Budget:15,000 EUR
Country of Origin:France
Country of Filming:France
Film Language:French

 

THE SAME BLOOD

One day in the life of two brothers whose different views on life suddenly faced with each other in a battle for the truth.

Director: Mitry Semenov-Aleinikov

Mitry Semenov-Aleynikov was born on 03.15.1990 in Minsk, Belarus. In 2011 he graduated from Belarusian State Academy of Arts (dramatic actor of theater and cinema). In 2013 he entered Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) (film directing and screenwriting department). Currently he works as a director and screenwriter.

Specifications

Film Type:Feature, Short, Student
Runtime:14 minutes 59 seconds
Completion Date:June 27, 2015
Country of Origin:Belarus
Country of Filming:Belarus

Legacy

To save his father's brilliant mind a young man is coerced into time sharing his consciousness. With two minds in one body, boundaries and relationships start to blur.

Director: Josh Mawer

Josh Mawer is a graduate in directing from the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS), with a decade in the industry from pre to post. He’s worked on award winning short films, features, commercials and webseries in Australia and the USA. He is drawn to cerebral science fiction and visual comedy.

Specifications

Film Type:Short, Student
Runtime:13 minutes 1 second
Completion Date:November 1, 2014
Country of Origin:Australia
Country of Filming:Australia
Film Language:English

A long time ago in Silesia

World War II is in progress. In a Silesian forest a Polish partisan called Rysiek gets an order to execute a German officer. The action does not seem to be a challenge for Rysiek, but how is he to know that thanks to that action the ghosts of the past will come to haunt him and the nightmare he was woken out of has not come to an end.

Director: Tomasz Protokowicz

Tomasz Protokowicz - born in 1975 in Poland. For 10 years he worked as areporter and broadcaster. Graduate Film School Mastershot Wroclaw, where since 2010 he studied film directing. Participated in the program in a scenario SCRIPT Wajda School. "A long time ago in Silesia" is his directorial debut.

Specifications

Film Type:Short, Student
Genres:Drama, Historical, Human Rights
Runtime:15 minutes 40 seconds
Completion Date:March 13, 2015
Production Budget:15,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Poland
Country of Filming:Poland
Film Language:Polish

Burden’s weight

Konrad shoots one of two man who robbed his jewelry store. He is released upon his right of self-defense. But as his personal guilt strangles him, he learns that the second offender is closer to him than suspected.
Based on a true story.

Director: Viviane Andereggen

Viviane Andereggen was born in 1985 in Zurich and raised in Switzerland and Hungary. At the age of 16, she left home to live in occupied houses. She worked as a photographer and realized many video projects in different theatres all over Germany and Switzerland (for e.g.: Gorki Theatre Berlin, Schauspiel Düsseldorf, - Hannover, - Basel). She also realized several TV adverts in Mozambique for the Mozambican ministry of tourism and transport. Viviane studied P.I. design at the Hyperwerk in Basel, where she also built her own theatre and founded her own theatre group. Viviane then proceeded to Hamburg where she started Film Studies at the University of Art. There, she directed her first short films (of which onealready won an award) before deciding to transfer to Hamburg Media School.
2014, Burden’s weight (short, HD), Hamburg Media School
2013, For Lotte (short, black&white, 35 mm), Dogwalker (short, HD) Hamburg Media School

Specifications

Film Type:Short, Student
Runtime:21 minutes 33 seconds
Completion Date:November 27, 2014
Production Budget:32,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Germany
Country of Filming:Germany
Film Language:German

The Choır

Mistake of living in three different monotheistic religions belonging to the people of brotherhood, coexistence in on peace and tolerance, the same water washing of live readings of the same street in the same school desks and sing hymns to songs of each other, was the person who adopts the fraternal life described on sections of life.

Director: Ahmet Bikiç

Ahmet was born in Mardin in 1980. He worked as a photographer and cameraman for many years. He got training on cinema at Mardin Kent Film Evi. He studied with full-fee schlorship at the department of Communication Design in İstanbul Kültür University and graduated in 2010. He started to work at the centre for research and development at the same university. He worked as the director and the director of photography for several documentaries and short films. He also designed personal exhibitions. He is a postgraduate student at the department of Communication Design in İstanbul Kültür University, Institute of Social Sciences. He is still working for on-going documentary and short film projects.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature, Short, Student
Runtime:20 minutes 32 seconds
Completion Date:April 11, 2015
Production Budget:3,000 USD
Country of Origin:Turkey
Country of Filming:Turkey
Film Language:Turkish