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Spanish filmmaker and traveller Enrique Pacheco was working as a video producer for more than 12 years. His path changed when he moved to Iceland, where he discovered time-lapse and DSLR cameras - all while exploring the raw landscape of the country, shooting volcanoes, glaciers and waterfalls. Enrique spoke about the beginnings in an interview for Timelapse Network:

My professional life changed when I captured the volcano eruption in Iceland, those were my first timelapse shots, kind of experimenting, but after watching the results I realized that timelapse is a powerful tool that can help me express my vision. I never really planned to become an expert in this field, it just happened by chance.

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Jack Harries is a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in London. As a teenager, he began making videos through Jacksgap - and that made his name progressively famous among Youtube viewers. Successively, a couple of world-renowned companies such as Skype, Google, WFF, The School Fund etc., established cooperation with Jacksgap - and the result was worth it. The content of the videos dealt with social issues and drove attention to problems that matter. Currently, Jack focuses on raising awareness of issues about migration, and most importantly, climate change - just as we can see in Our Changing Climate.

Headed East introduces, however, a different topic. It is a film which documents a trip of two young men, Jack and Frasier, driving on motorcycles all the way from London to Budapest and back. This journey takes two months, crosses 10 countries and covers a distance of 10,000 km. What is its purpose?

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Maroš Milčík is a young self-taught film-maker from Slovakia who shoots quality advertisements for top regional brands and agencies. Nevertheless, his short film Sonja is a proof of his capability to also show passion in a non-commercial film area. Sonja is a portrait of a sightless artist Sona Zeliskova, who despite her health obstacles managed to find happiness on her life journey again.

What is happiness? For me it is not a matter of destiny but a matter of my decision.

The poetic portrait culminates throughout the whole video thank to the atmospheric setting and very significant melancholic music tones, which like a storm let emotions run away with the viewer and afterwards result into a meditative calmness. It is parallel to Sonja's path to inner peace.

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Bastien Internicola is a French filmmaker based in Paris. Currently a freelancer, Bastien has produced various short films for fashion brands, musicians or sportsmen.

Each of his campaigns for Printemps, a large departments store for fashion, luxury and beauty is an individual, well-crafted story rich in details - somewhere between a commercial and creative narrative. His series of teasers for Thibault Cauvin's Vivaldi album paints an intimate portrait of the renowned guitarist, revealing the creative process, hard work and the artist's dedication.

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Marko Roth is a German filmmaker and "media addict" who loves to chase the world. He illustrates content about travelling and diverse cultures, as well as narrates stories about the people behind these scenes. Originally from Frankfurt am Main, Marko travels to seek authentic encounters and capture emotional moments.

His work was shown in National Geographic, GEO, Lonely Planet or Spiegel Online and his current reel features clients such as Mercedes Benz, Air New Zealand, National Geographic or GoPro.

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Marc-André Girard is a young Montreal-based film director and creative who works on commercials, TV shows and wrote two theatre plays, 40 OUEST and Presto. He is an author of several short films including Mauser, YUL and 12 Weeks - a short which is expressing the unspeakable loss experienced by a mother who suffers a miscarriage in a mall’s restroom. 12 Weeks was selected at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and has been acquired and broadcast on Air Canada flights as part of the "Québec Gold" category.

In his recent work, 8328 short film / court métrage, the author tells a simple yet powerful story of two characters, all in a seemingly ordinary setup:

For Raymond, the house at 8328 seemed like one of the others ... until he knocked on his door. Meeting a little boy dressed as Spiderman and a man with a heavy past, two people to whom life does not make gifts. Apart from small wooden sculptures!

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Mark Szalai is a talented cinematographer from Hungary. He earned his master’s degree in 2016 after studying Cinematography and Film/Video Production at the Budapest Metropolitan University of Applied Sciences. Despite his young age, Mark is an author of several short films - both school assignments and personal projects: his work typically features great lighting, dramatic camera movements and a bit of mystery. Mark spoke about his inspiration in an interview for his alma mater.

We all want to express ourselves. Our imagination, observations about the world, feelings, there is always something we would like to show to others, something we can't express with words - only with senses and sound. In a way, this is why is everyone making films.

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Mount Everest, the tallest and most famous mountain in the world attracts an increasing number of climbers, some of them being highly experienced mountaineers. There are two main routes, from Nepal and from Tibet - and while these routes don't pose a substantial technical climbing challenge, not everyone reaches the summit. Harsh weather conditions, altitude sickness and avalanche hazards are some of the main reasons that stop climbers.

Award-winning filmmaker and photographer Elia Saikaly has been on seven Everest expeditions, failed twice just before the top, survived two avalanches and an earthquake and stood on the top of the world twice, in 2010 and 2013. He began his adventure filmmaking career on the slopes of Mt. Everest, where he set out to honour the life of his fallen mentor:

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Casey Warren and Danielle Krieger, the duo behind the award winning Mindcastle studio, builds its films on powerful emotional storytelling. Passionate about photography and design, they both developed their cinematic eye and specific style, which can be seen in their work for Canon, Elle Magazine, Microsoft, The New York Rangers or Patrón, among others. Mindcastle has also received numerous awards, including the One Club’s Young Guns award, Cannes’ Young Director’s Award, One Screen Festival’s Emerging Writers Award, and a Sports Emmy.

Krieger and Warren are known for creating a “world” for their films where they build scenes and hand-create elements: they made more than 100 basketball team branded mixtapes for their film Mixtape for ESPN as well as did complex location scouting with detailed planning for their film The Journey.

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