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Mathieu Le Lay is a French cinematographer, based in Annecy, France. His passion for cinema and nature led him to study at IFFCAM, the French wildlife film school. He then graduated in wildlife conservation at Salford University in the UK and since 2008 he's been expressing his fascination for the relationship between man and the wild nature by filming documentaries, for which he has won 18 awards so far.

Le Lay's documentaries testify of his passion for nature and mysterious atmospheres surrounding. He connects the vast big world of wildlife with humans, by creating a contrast between the big force of nature and the smaller but very persistent, presence of humans. He seeks out ruthless, but beautiful circumstances and places to film his videos to show the great might of Mother Nature and still point to her precious gifts to the mankind, freedom being the most important of them all.

Film with natural sounds and music give another emotional dimension and this very emotion is what I want to share.

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Marta Bevacqua is an Italian professional photographer currently based in Paris. After started taking portraits of her sisters and friends, she got into the fashion photography with models in 2011.

Her personal artistic style represents the world where soft details meet dark surrealism. Each image portrays delicate, natural beauty with an emotive strength. Marta exposes viewers to this hauntingly romantic atmospheres using colour and contrast, and sets the mood within each frame:

Emotions and the power of telling a story.

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Mots is a filmmaking team from Germany founded in 2007. “A bit of out of this world” producer Daniela and director Octavian creates their movies from scratch, from writing stories, through planning productions, to shooting moving images and cutting takes. All that with one goal in mind, to make statements about life, people or everyday objects using video and film as means of communication.

Mots are mostly known for their fashion films and unique commercials, like the amusing Three Things About Macarons and Three Ways to Serve Tiramisu, but they also created their own lifestyle series #itsjustFYI, where we can also learn How to Eat Mussels in the South of France.

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Guille Cascante is a filmmaker from Barcelona. After he started to call his hobby a profession, it soon wasn’t enough for him to work as a cameraman and only participate in the creation of TV programs. Guille wanted to start a project of his own. So in 2005, the Goroka was born, with the aim of creating own content with a different look - The Goroka Look, as they call it.

Goroka is formed by a team of almost fifty people. This team of writers, producers, filmmakers, editors, journalists and assistants, makes it possible for the advertising and branded content projects, but also for the new TV formats to see the daylight.

Keeping the Goroka’s main motto “If it's not exciting, you're not doing it right,” in mind, in 2014 the adventure of "Sterna paradisaea" began.

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Born in 1985, French director and photographer Gioacchino Petronicce studied psychology and philosophy at the university in Toulouse. Later, specializing in Sound at Superior School of Broadcast, he developed an interested in experimental and ambient atmosphere. Working in commercials for many years, he is now creating short films, with his first feature film being on its way.

I think I am the same as all young directors. I have many dreams, fantasies, desires and frustrations as well. But for the moment, I’m focusing on small projects with an artistic dimension.

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Unreasonable is a film festival focused on boundary-breaking films, where six artists were chosen to take on the challenge of rethinking an entire genre of film.

Among these lucky creators, Swedes Johan Perjus and Freshteh Piltan were asked the question - what is the future of surf films and what could be done that had not been?

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Clemens Wirth is a director, motion designer and animator based in Austria. He graduated from the University of Applied Sciences FH-Salzburg with a degree in Multimedia Art and currently freelances in visual art. Clements also has a passion for macro photography, model building and title design. He amazes people with his lively work from miniature people to a different view of the real world:

I always loved it to experiment with things from nature as well as with everyday objects. Music and films, mother nature, people and animals, chemical reactions, physics and science are very interesting and inspirational for me.

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Daito Manabe is a skilled programmer, designer, DJ, VJ, and composer from Japan. In his work, he reinterprets familiar through a different viewpoint, and rather than using rich expressions with high resolution or realistic sensation, he focuses on simple observing. Daito mostly uses programming and interactive design, which lead him to participated in live performances in Japan and overseas. In 2011, he started to work with a multimedia dance company Elevenplay and together they create stunning performances using technology such as drones and robot arms.

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Wolfstreet is a creative agency based in Amsterdam. Because they are combining city’s finest strategists, creatives, producers and directors, they are able to be skilled in terms of cost-efficiency, effectivity, speed and flexibility. Continuously meeting new talents, they have an in-depth knowledge of the possibilities and limitations, which helps them to develop concepts and execute them in-house.

One of their many talents is Jurriaan Kamps, who is behind the short film Memoria, illustrating nostalgia of a great first love.

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