Category: BEST MUSIC VIDEO ARFF Paris 2023

Original Film Title: A Name in Your Book

Director’s Name: Elizabeth Mantia

Writer’s Name: Allen Ling, Elizabeth Mantia

Producer: Allen Ling

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 29 seconds

Film Description:

This is the second part of a trilogy conveying the heartbreak of when a romantic relationship ends . Singer Songwriter Allen Ling tells his story through lyrics, music and film. “A Name in Your Book” is about a special kind of journal his lover keeps, and what happens when his lover tires of him and moves on to her next adventure.

Original Film Title: The Other Side of Shanghai

Director’s Name: Ringo Ye

Producer: Johnny Lu, Lucy Xu

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 4 minutes 47 seconds

Film Description:

The year 2022, which has just passed, is undoubtedly “extremely unusual and extraordinary” – striving to win the Great Shanghai Defense War, fully promoting economic recovery and revitalization, and fully implementing major national strategic tasks. In this year of ups and downs, every step has not been easy, affecting all walks of life to some extent. In order to awaken the enthusiasm of the Shanghai people for life, and consolidate the emotional connection between the world and Shanghai, To enhance the consumer confidence of Shanghai citizens and retrieve the long-lost fireworks, led by the Propaganda Department of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, and in collaboration with Shanghai Oriental Entertainment Media Group Co., Ltd, EWDFILM, and the Shanghai Rainbow Indoor Chorus, the MV “The End of Shanghai” was created.

Original Film Title: M Huncho – Doomsday 

Director’s Name: KC Locke

Producer: Lewis Nicholson

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 55 seconds

Film Description:

FOR THIS VIDEO I REALLY WANT TO TAP INTO HUNCHO’S IDENTITY, SOMETHING HE’S ALWAYS BEEN VERY ILLUSIVE. I WANT TO REVEAL HIS PERSONALITY IN A WAY WHICH IS RESPECTFUL TO HIS LEGACY BUT GIVES THE AUDIENCE AN INSIDE PERSPECTIVE THEY HAVEN’T SEEN BEFORE.

OPENING ON HUNCHO’S WISE WORDS AND LIFE LESSONS AS A SPOKEN WORD PIECE BEFORE TRANSITIONING IN A DREAMLIKE MANNER REVEALING AN EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE ELEMENT THAT WILL NEED TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN LIVE AND MUSIC VIDEO TO CO-EXIST WITHIN THE AGENDA FORMAT AND M HUNCHO’S WORLD.

THERE IS AN HEIR OF MYTHOLOGY AROUND WHO M HUNCHO IS, SO I REALLY WANT TO CAPTURE A MORE INTROSPECTIVE SIDE AND DISCOVER THE MIND BEHIND THE MASK.

Original Film Title: Far Away Man

Director’s Name: Wil Allen

Writer’s Name: Wil Allen, Jonny DC Bolan

Producer: Wil Allen, Jonny DC Bolan

Country of Origin: Australia

Country of Filming: Australia

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 15 seconds

Film Description:

The timeless story of a human’s experience following trauma, the struggles they and their loved ones can experience, and the hope and freedom available at the end of a journey of process and vulnerability. This is Far Away Man.

Original Film Title: The Rebellion

Director’s Name: Gabriel Hostetler

Writer’s Name: Ari Scharg

Producer: Hunter Smalling, Masora Fukuda

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 7 minutes 53 seconds

Film Description:

The Rebellion, written by lawyer/artist Ari Scharg, shines a spotlight on corrupt practices in the legal industry. It finds its roots in the real life $100 million Ponzi scheme perpetuated by celebrity lawyer, Tom Girardi, the husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Erika Jayne. The song focuses on how Scharg’s firm, Edelson PC, exposed the fraud and how there is currently a little known battle waging in the legal industry between reformers like himself and the Old Guard who want to maintain the status quo so they can continue exploiting a broken system.

Original Film Title: ELENA FLURY – BURNING QUESTIONS

Director’s Name: Andy Mihov

Producer: Millie Ansari

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Runtime: 3 minutes 20 seconds

Original Film Title: Scroolling

Director’s Name: Bruna Pena

Writer’s Name: Bruna Pena

Producer: Mariana Van Bylt

Country of Origin: Brazil

Country of Filming: English, Portuguese

Film Description:

Scrooling is the name of Bruna Pena’s single, the mix between “scroll” and “screw”, as if the two words mean the same thing: a trap. Like the song, the music video uses images from the virtual and networked everyday life to create a childish horror look as a playful warning: beware of too many screens and filters.

Original Film Title: Krokodiltårar

Director’s Name: Rikard Westman

Writer’s Name: Rikard Westman

Producer: Rikard Westman

Country of Origin: Sweden

Country of Filming: Sweden

Language: Swedish

Runtime: 3 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description:

Music videon for the song Krokodiltårar (Crocodile Tears) by Swedish artist Mäki.

Original Film Title: Kogershin

Director’s Name: Malik Zenger

Writer’s Name: Malik Zenger

Producer: Mariya Mun, Viktoriya Kotyay

Country of Origin: Kazakhstan

Country of Filming: Kazakhstan

Language: Kazakh

Runtime: 5 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

Kogershin is a story about kids playing cardboard wars. With this innocent child play we want show the whole tragedy of humanity and call for peace.

Original Film Title: The Cows Came Home

Director’s Name: Haley Ahern

Writer’s Name: Haley Ahern

Producer: Haley Ahern

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 6 minutes 11 seconds

Film Description:

This music video follows the work of 65 year old Margaret who paints backings for movie studios in the 1940s. Each backdrop Margaret paints brings her flashbacks of when she was a young woman in the early 1900s, where she first met her husband William. Sometimes the most simplest things in life can be the hardest to believe and the most powerful. This video indulges in those heartwarming moments, inspired by old idioms, to bring a lifetime worth of memories into one single song.

All the animals featured in this film have been rescued from abusive homes and abandonment. A portion of this film’s budget has been directly donated to Barber Family Farms, a charity that uses 100% of its profit to giving these animals a better life.