Category: ARFF Amsterdam 2024 – Best Music Video

Original Film Title: No Regrets

Director’s Name: Jimi Fritz

Writer’s Name: Jimi Fritz

Producer: Jimi Fritz

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 27 minutes 57 seconds

Film Description:

A 28 minute original composition/music video/art film

Original Film Title: I Praise the Dance

Director’s Name: Raehann Bryce-Davis

Writer’s Name: Raehann Bryce-Davis, Andrew Mangialino

Producer: Raehann Bryce-Davis, Jane A. Gross, Living Heritage Foundation, Rene Orth, Ocean Kelly, David Merrill

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 1 second

Film Description:

A woman wrestles with depression and has a decision to make in this dance anthem by Rene Orth performed, directed, and self-produced by opera singer, Raehann Bryce-Davis.

Original Film Title: Love Not War

Director’s Name: Yantra de Vilder

Writer’s Name: Yantra de Vilder

Producer: Yantra de Vilder

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 54 seconds

Film Description:

This is dedicated to the peace makers.
We are the same inside
We all still bleed
We all want love not war
We all want peace

Original Film Title: Thee Conductor with Bonnie Prince Billy – BIG MAN

Director’s Name: Cody Ground, Patrick Higgins

Writer’s Name: Cody Ground

Producer: Arts + Labor

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 15 seconds

Film Description:

“In the clever video of the opening song, a daughter drives her wounded and cast-covered father down the roads of life in a pick up truck, bumbling to try and take care of his needs, communicating the utter interdependency we have upon each other, and how ill-prepared we may be for the tasks ahead. It cuts to the heart, and the dream scene of her father to close the video communicates our need for catharsis, something that has typified Oldham’s career, a playfulness with very serious things”.

Original Film Title: Bibi Tureygua

Director’s Name: Nathalie Peña-Comas

Writer’s Name: Nathalie Peña-Comas

Producer: Nathalie Peña-Comas

Country of Origin: Dominican Republic

Country of Filming: Dominican Republic

Language: Other

Runtime: 4 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

BIBI TUREYGUA, in the Arawak language of the indigenous of the Hispaniola Island means “Infinite heavenly mother, Mother of God”, and is the inspiration and main composition for the lyrics writen in Arawak dedicated to The Virgin Mary of Altagracia.
The soprano Nathalie Peña-Comas becomes a representation of the past at the shore of the mythological river SANATE where pilgrims since the 1600 leave their burdens from the road, worries, and prepare for their arrival at the Sanctuary. Nathalie Peña-Comas leaves her heart in each intonation.

Original Film Title: Save Our Souls – phear

Director’s Name: Michael Cao

Writer’s Name: Michael Cao

Producer: Phear

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

We introduce Regan (young girl), who has been on all our album covers…. Regan is a teenage runaway, who finds herself living in an abandoned factory. She discovers a camera that is calling to her. It has a hypnotic green colour that she is just drawn to. Regan is unaware that the camera is a prison for the entity, who we like to call Phred, who has also been on our album covers. If she can capture 5 souls with the camera she will release Phred unto the world. Also, Regan is getting more possessed and powerful as she traps the members of Phear. At the end Phred is back in the real world, ready to unleash his unholy wrath for his imprisonment.

We hope to further develop Phred and Regan in more videos in the future.

After their amazing return to the live stage, on Friday, October 13th, Phear releases the first video from their new studio album, SAVE OUR SOULS. The album is set for release in spring of 2024. Phear has been recording this album over the last three years, mostly due to Covid restrictions. But now it’s time for these Canuck Metal heads to unleash the heaviest tracks so far in the Phear Catalogue!!

2024 will be all about performing these new songs live. If you have ever seen Phear in concert, you know that they deliver an arena show in a club. As stated by the band; “You haven’t seen anything yet!

Original Film Title: Brooke Josephson – Good Kinda Tired – Official Music Video – dir. Michelle Bossy

Director’s Name: Michelle Bossy

Writer’s Name: Michelle Bossy

Producer: Brooke Josephson

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

This music video features singer songwriter, Brooke Josephson as a 1960s house wife in a vintage nightgown and robe with her hair in curlers, ironing men’s dress shirts with a pile
of laundry on the sofa waiting to be folded with the TV on at night.
It’s the end of “her day” and she’s working after everyone has gone
to bed, treating herself to a martini and the “Ed Sullivan Show”.
Suddenly on the TV is Brooke as a 1960s rocker chic with her guitar
singing “Good Kinda Tired”. She jumps on the bed, throws the
laundry in the air, sings into her can of Faultless Ironing spray, gets feathers all over the bed…. Finally her husband comes home from a day of work with his briefcase and suit. He joins Brooke on the bed and they fall back, ending the night on a high note.
The visual is in line with Brooke’s message as an artist and will be
universally cathartic, taking the audience from being the “good
wife” who is longing for the other side to come out and play.

Original Film Title: Delingha

Director’s Name: Lu Li

Writer’s Name: Lu Li

Producer: Lu Li

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 5 minutes 52 seconds

Film Description:

The Journey of a Lifetime