New Me – dir. Chico Bennett

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Original Film Title: New Me

Director’s Name: Chico Bennett

Producer: Star Soltan

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 5 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

Star2 is a new man in this over-the-top music video “New Me,” which features performances from Soulja Boy and Luh Kel, directed by Chico Bennett and filmed by Hector Toro. Set in a sleek, multi-million-dollar, ultra-modern mansion with two Lamborghinis and a white Rolls Royce Cullinan SUV in the driveway, Star2 hosts a pool party with a backyard full of frolicking, thong-wearing beauties…spraying whipped cream on each other, splashing Luh Kel and Star2 in a Jacuzzi filled with $100 bills, and twerking beside Big Draco in his orange Lambo.
Star2’s new life includes living female “statues” adorning his hallways, and sexy French maids in fishnet stocking who feed him grapes and greet guests… including showing guest Soulja Boy to his in-house strip-club, “Club Star2” where Soulja and Star2 enjoy a private show and fire money guns filled with “Star2 Dollars” at the dancers.
An angry neighbor, who’s not too thrilled with his rap neighbor (Star2) appears at the beginning, but is later co-opted into the debauchery, getting lifted in the air by the sexy sirens. Bathing beauty Courtney Heagle is a standout in an orange and leopard bi-color bikini.
Star2 holds his own with veteran Soulja Boy and St. Louis R&B crooner and pretty-boy Luh Kel, who is releasing an EP with Star2 in 2024.
The song opens with a boisterous string section and chronicles Star2’s journey from rags to riches, “Back when I was broke, they didn’t even know me. Now I’m poppin’ like hella bitches love me…”
Says Star2, “making this song with Soulja Boy and Luh Kel was unreal. The set was lit with beautiful women, water-gun fights, whipped cream and hella dope cars.” Eyeing yet another thonged beauty walking past the pool Star2 notes, “this is every man’s dream.”
Indeed, Star2 began his life in a refugee camp in Thailand, abandoned by his teen-aged mother fleeing genocide from the Burmese army in Myanmar who, attacked their village and burned it to the ground. A lottery in the camp resulted in his passage to San Diego with his grandmother and her four children.
Star2’s new me began in San Diego as a young child and has continued into a promising hip hop career as a young adult.

POSSESSION – dir. Max Westwell

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Original Film Title: POSSESSION

Director’s Name: Max Westwell

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 10 seconds

Film Description:

Possession is a dance video that is a sensory experience, inviting spectators to lose themselves in the infectious pulse of the music and the artistry of movement. The choreography is reflecting the escalating energy of the beat which is synchronised seamlessly with the dynamic movements of the camera.

Tribute to Sergio Godinho – dir. Ana Delgado Martins

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Original Film Title: Tribute to Sergio Godinho

Director’s Name: Ana Delgado Martins

Writer’s Name: Ana Delgado Martins

Producer: João Pedro Sousa

Country of Origin: Portugal

Country of Filming: Portugal

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 5 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

Tribute to one of the most renowned artists in Portugal by 41 also known artists. Video created by the #1 radio station in Portugal.

ELECTRICITY – dir. Ludovic Verwaerde

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Original Film Title: ELECTRICITY

Director’s Name: Ludovic Verwaerde

Writer’s Name: Ludovic Verwaerde

Producer: Raphael Beau

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: Belgium, France

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 29 seconds

Film Description:

ELECTRICITY, directed by Ludovic Verwaerde, confronts constraint and freedom, embodied by a robotic pack pursuing a wild man. Through the metaphor of the structure of the hospital and that of
the patient, the video illustrates the absurdity of wanting to cage an untamable force at all costs. The music, composed by LAAKE is a dazzling tale where piano and orchestra clash with percussion, polyphonic voices, and organs in a march that is both mournful and luminous.

Rise Up – dir. Chus Sarrión

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Original Film Title: Rise Up

Director’s Name: Chus Sarrión

Writer’s Name: Francis Trachta

Producer: Fourtrac Creative

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

Freedom is a foreign word
When you’ve got nowhere to hide
Step back to take a look
Instead, you close your eyes

Shamanic Journey – dir. Julian Konczak

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Original Film Title: Shamanic Journey

Director’s Name: Julian Konczak

Writer’s Name: Julian Konczak

Producer: Julian Konczak

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

Shamanic Journey is a collaboration between filmmaker Julian Konczak and choreographer Sapphire Sumpter. The film incorporates ancient sites and the wildness of the West Penwith landscape with a choreographed dance sequence unfolding across underground caves and wide-open heaths. The camera remains static, allowing the performance to portray transitions into the archetypal spaces of shamanic journeying – the upper world and lower worlds of compassionate spirits that reveal elements of the soul to the self. The film draws on a distinct visual style that evokes the existence of the soul within multiple worlds and the magical properties of the elements.

Krug (The Circle) – dir. Ivana Radić

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Original Film Title: Krug (The Circle)

Director’s Name: Ivana Radić

Writer’s Name: Ivana Radić

Producer: Ivana Radić

Country of Origin: Croatia

Country of Filming: Croatia

Language: Croatian

Runtime: 4 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

The video and the song share
some kind of idea of insecurity, loneliness and wandering, that is, searching for security, finding faith in oneself and others.

The whole song is quite melancholic, wistful and I wanted to explore that theme (that’s why the action is on the open sea, where there is no one anywhere).

The repeating motif of the boat symbolizes turning in a circle, returning again to some uncomfortable period in life, when it seems that everything around you is completely foreign, you have no one and you need to get out of it, you need to find at least a small glimmer of hope that this time all will not be the same again and you will not return to that situation.
Sometimes, of course, it happens that someone offers that glimmer of hope unprovoked, and then you have to learn to accept it, because that’s what overcomes everything for good.

Heart Strings -dir. Alex Shamraev, Tim McMorris

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Original Film Title: Heart Strings

Director’s Name: Alex Shamraev, Tim McMorris

Writer’s Name: Tim McMorris

Producer: Elena Tepukhina

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

This is a small journey into the story of how something small, but sincere and pure can actually be a huge force capable to change fate and pointing the right way.