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Making Kanaval from yacine helali on Vimeo.

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[Storyville] Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story from ndkendall on Vimeo.

Feature drama-documentary about how a group of passionate book lovers risked their lives to save the Gazi Husrav-Beg Library from destruction during the siege of Sarajevo. It's also a film about the importance of books, about how libraries are the heart of our cultural identity, repositories for history and memory. Winner of the Audience Award, Sarajevo Film Festival, and Tribecca Doha Film Festival. I was the soundman.

DP: Jeremy Pollard Dir: Sam Hobkinson Sound: Nathan Kendall Prod Co: Oxford Film & TV

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Samir T. Radwan's Editing & Directing Showreel from Samir T. Radwan on Vimeo.

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UMT(최첨단맨) - FLORIDA MV from JIMMY C on Vimeo.

UMT(최첨단맨) - FLORIDA MV

DIRECTED BY JIMMY C AND MOONMO YANG DOP / COLORIST JIMMY C SUB CAMERA MOONMO YANG STARRING LEE JINCHEOL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LEE SAMUEL

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She always gave herself good advice, though she didn’t follow them often from Moto_blonda on Vimeo.

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Untitled from Melissa Craig on Vimeo.

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Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity from Amnesty International on Vimeo.

DEMOLISH APARTHEID NOT PALESTINIAN HOMES

TAKE ACTION HERE amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

Millions of Palestinians live under Israel’s system of apartheid, and at the heart of this violently racist system, is the Palestinian experience of being denied a home.

For over 73 years, Israel has forcibly displaced entire Palestinian communities and demolished hundreds of thousands of Palestinians’ homes causing terrible trauma & suffering. Over 6 million Palestinians remain as refugees and today at least another 150,000 are at real risk of losing their homes.

Israel has created and maintains laws, policies, and practices that deliberately oppress Palestinians and work to ensure Jewish Israeli domination across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This includes racist seizures of property and planning laws and policies that make it impossible for many Palestinians to build homes. It also allows for mass demolitions of homes built without a permit, something that is routinely denied for Palestinians.

Apartheid is a crime against humanity and is committed with the specific intent of maintaining a cruel system of control by one racial group over another. Every week, the Israeli authorities displace Palestinians through demolitions or forced evictions, which shows how Israel deliberately disadvantages Palestinians, giving them inferior status to Israeli Jews.

With more stories coming to light and more people around the world mobilising against these injustices, now is the time for us to work together. As a first step, we must speak out for Palestinians living under Israel’s apartheid. We have the power to demolish this system even if it means one pillar at a time.

Take action against demolitions and forced evictions now by writing to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Call on him to immediately cancel all orders for forced evictions and home demolitions against Palestinians in Israel/OPT and to end the forced displacement of Palestinians.

TAKE ACTION AGAINST APARTHIED

HELP US DISMANTLE THIS OPPRESSIVE SYSTEM

FIND OUT MORE amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

#endisraeliaparthied #Israel #Palestine #amnesty #documentary #apartheid #humanrights #education #Gaza #explainer

*CORRECTION: the number of Palestinians in Israel is 1.9 Million and in East Jerusalem 350,000

More resources about Human Rights: amnesty.org/en/ Facebook: facebook.com/amnestyglobal/ Twitter: twitter.com/amnesty Instagram: instagram.com/amnesty/ For more from Investigating the Truth: youtube.com/playlist?list...

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Yacine Helali dans "Il était une fois Marseille" France 3 from yacine helali on Vimeo.

réalisé par Hugues Nancy et raconté par Clara Luciani

L'héroïne de ce film est immortelle. Elle a plus de 2600 ans. Voici l'autoportrait de la plus ancienne ville de France. Une ville dont les paysages portent les stigmates d'un destin qui ne lui a épargné aucune épreuve. Porte de l'Orient, carrefour de commerce et d'immigration, Marseille est une mosaïque aux 111 quartiers et 200 nationalités. Rebelle, chaotique, tour à tour désirée, déchirée, transformée, elle renaît à chaque fois de ses cendres. Incarnée par la voix lumineuse de Clara Luciani, Marseille raconte mieux que toute autre ce que fut l'histoire de France et elle éclaire sur ce qu'est la France aujourd'hui.

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Mon passage dans le film "Il était une fois Marseille" France 3 from yacine helali on Vimeo.

réalisé par : Hugues Nancy

raconté par Clara Luciani

L'héroïne de ce film est immortelle. Elle a plus de 2600 ans. Voici l'autoportrait de la plus ancienne ville de France. Une ville dont les paysages portent les stigmates d'un destin qui ne lui a épargné aucune épreuve. Porte de l'Orient, carrefour de commerce et d'immigration, Marseille est une mosaïque aux 111 quartiers et 200 nationalités. Rebelle, chaotique, tour à tour désirée, déchirée, transformée, elle renaît à chaque fois de ses cendres. Incarnée par la voix lumineuse de Clara Luciani, Marseille raconte mieux que toute autre ce que fut l'histoire de France et elle éclaire sur ce qu'est la France aujourd'hui.

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A Short Epic About Love - Making-of for the Official Soundtrack - Macedonia's Orchestra from yacine helali on Vimeo.

Against the backdrop of the famous love affair of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, a young woman finds herself behind the scenes during the final days of shooting the epic blockbuster Cleopatra in 1963.

This short film won the following awards:

- AFA Screenplay Award / Best Romantic Comedy Screenplay / Monaco International Film Festival / Monaco, 2016 - Maverick Movie Award / Best Costume Design: Short / Maverick Movie Awards, 2015 - Best Short Film / Carmarthen Bay Film Festival / UK, 2014 - Gold Award / Independent Short Subject-Films & Video - Dramatic-Original / WorldFest Houston, 2015

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Jazz vs Film CH from Chris Hajian on Vimeo.

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What's Jazz? from Chris Hajian on Vimeo.

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Field of Vision - Open Shutters from Field of Vision on Vimeo.

While reporting on the rise of spy cam porn in South Korea, a crime that affects thousands each year, a journalist discovers that she too is being watched in her own home.

She decides to speak out, joining a nationwide movement of women seeking protection from this frighteningly ubiquitous crime.

Directed by Youjin Do

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Exhausted from Tiffany Jiang on Vimeo.

Official Selection Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2022 Baby Teeth Film Festival 2022

Honorable Mention Local Shortiez 2021

Exhibitions POV Docs & Asian Mental Health Project: Art Show 2021 — When I recorded my nightly routine on the evening of the Atlanta spa shootings, I had no intentions of making my short film, Exhausted. I only knew I needed to visually document how drained I felt, both physically and emotionally, after hearing such devastating news following a string of attacks during an already difficult year spent in isolation. While social media provided a way for Asian Americans to connect in the aftermath while separated, it also showed just how many people said nothing at all or moved on from the tragedy within days. To call attention to this issue, I decided to use the footage in a film that acknowledges the bottled emotions so many of us suppress because we were taught as children to keep quiet and “not make a fuss.”

I purposely framed myself off to the side to make the point that Asian Americans often tell themselves they should not take up too much space, leading them to be overlooked or forgotten about entirely. We are not usually given opportunities to be front and center. I am only visible in the given space that the mirror allows which even cuts me off from view at some points. The bare walls are meant to evoke a sense of feeling trapped and isolated. At the time, I had been living alone in quarantine for a year, which was likely the case for many other Asian Americans when they heard about the news too. It has been exhausting to live in a constant state of fear, reading headline after headline about yet another senseless attack.

It pains me to know that countless other Asian American lives have been taken since this film was made back in March 2021. Even as I write this today, I mourn the loss of Christina Lee. My anxiety has reached a point where I no longer feel safe taking walks in the neighborhood, running simple errands, or taking public transportation. As Steven Yeun said, “Sometimes I wonder if the Asian American experience is what it’s like when you’re thinking about everyone else, but no one is thinking about you.” I hope this film provokes much needed conversations about mental health, transparency, and support for and within the Asian American community. It serves as a reminder that these attacks are still very much ongoing. The Asian American community grieves for one another and has been for many generations.

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Audio from CBS News (Fair Use): "Police face backlash over Atlanta-area spa shootings as suspect is formally charged".

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FRATERNITÉ from WASTED TALENT on Vimeo.

A) group of people sharing a common profession or interests.

B) friendship and mutual support within a group.

"The ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity"

For too long, surfing has been the preserve of the privileged. Those fortunate enough to reside on coastal regions. Those fortunate enough to afford boards and wetsuits. To be fortunate enough to have the surrounding infrastructure to train, to have others go before them. To be lucky enough to live in Southern California. In South West France. In Sydney. To be able to surf all day and not worry about providing for a family. To be home schooled and only focus on ‘pro’ surfing. Barriers to entry that those fortunate to do it wouldn’t even recognise existed; the statement “all you need is a board and a wetsuit” reflecting so acutely the nonchalance of the privileged few. 

And yet, we hope those days are behind us. With the amazing work of groups such as Postive Vibe Warriors, Black Girls Surf and Juju surf club to name but a handful. Barriers are being broken down and we hope, with fingers crossed and a collective goodwill in the right direction that not only are the barriers being lowered, but tossed aside as surfing provides a means of empowerment to those less fortunate. 

This movement is being lead by examples and role models the world over. Perfectly crystallised with the Billabong stablemates of Italo Ferreira, Cherif Fall and Joshe Faulkner. A far cry from your cookie cutter pro surfers, three real people with three real stories, role models and examples in their own right from their own communities right up to the world stage. 

We’d been to Senegal before. The friendliest place we’d ever visited. The nation state of fun waves and all time vibes. So when Billabong called the WT hotline, and rumour reached our ears of a return trip, it wasn’t a though process worth considering—before even asking why we were in. When the why came, on a surprise trip with the World Champ, gold medallist and all round now über superstar Italo Ferreira to visit our old friend Cherif along with Joshe Faulkner—we were in, hook line and sinker. Two weeks later, we land in Dakar, fresh PCR tests in hand. We’re met with by old friends at the airport, a sense of familiarity but ever the presence of the unknown. 

For the full story, cop a copy of our latest Print Volume. Wasted Talent Vol X. Available now. 

“We never thought we could make it surfing. We started with broken boards. Now, thanks to god there are a lot of young surfers coming up. The fact that Italo is here really shines a spotlight on the Senegalese surf scene. Me Joshe and Italo are all similar. We all grew up from disadvantaged backgrounds. We never had it easy, but nothing in our hometowns is easy for anyone. It makes us work harder. We want it more. There are so many people that say that we couldn’t surf. That we don’t have good waves. That surfing isn’t for Africans. Well despite our humble beginnings we’re here—ready to take it to the world” — Cherif Fall.

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Starr from Gabriel Crawford Connelly on Vimeo.

A single mother in the Bronx grapples with her passion for bike-life, an illegal lifestyle that’s nearly killed her. --- Featuring: Starr_10k Director: Gabriel Crawford Connelly & Alex Fischman Cardenas Director of Photography & Editor: Gabriel Crawford Connelly Producer: Adrian Sobrado Production Company: BrickHead Line Producer: Kristiana Priscantelli Additional B-Roll Cinematography: Isabella Granada 1st Assistant Camera: Isabella Granada, Matt Vasquez Gaffer, Key Grip & BTS Photographer: Declan Saint-Onge Production Design: Sophia Uehara Colorist: Joseph Bicknell Sound Design & Mix: Bobb Barrito Composer: Gavin Brivik

Shot on 4-Perf 35mm and 16mm

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Leon Bridges - "Motorbike" (2021) from Miles Trahan on Vimeo.

Music video for Leon Bridges' "Motorbike"

Starring Leon Bridges & Lexi Carter Directed by Anderson .Paak Production Company FreeNJoy Executive Producers Nathan Scherrer, Tara Sheree Producer Sarah Park Production Manager Sina Pars Production Coordinator Brennan Spillman Director of Photography Tehillah De Castro Production Designer Miranda Lorenz 1st AD Kenneth Arnold Taylor 2nd AD Gerald Hickman Edited by Miles Trahan Sound Designer Jhair Lazo Colorist Dante Pasquinelli Post Producer Miles Trahan VFX by Seth Josephson, Tom Teller & Enrique De La Garza