In this page you can discover the finalist for the Music Video discipline in the all european areas.
One winner of each discipline will partecipate to the Biennial MArteLive.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Erdvilas Petras Abukevičius collaborates on a variety of video projects and short films. Working closely with music, film and media industries he has developed a unique visual sense. Life experiences being main inspiration in for his creative ideas. Erdvilas always looks for ways to push his visual perspective as much as possible.
Chris Metric – Need A
Music: Chris Metric – Kristupas Jasiulionis
Music video: Erdvilas Abukevičius – director and cameraman
Warsaw, Poland
A graduate of the University of The Arts in London. Director of short films and commercials, movement director, and former contemporary dancer.
Magdalena directed music videos and short films, of which many were shown and awarded at festivals in Poland and abroad including SXSW, Miami Short Film Festival, PL Music Video Awards, Bolton International Film Festival. Her credits include commercials and branded content for brands such as Adidas, Pepsi, MasterCard, Client Earth.
Her dance background and experience in working with the body is an important, and distinguishing her from other directors, tool that allows her to work with the actors and their emotions in an organic way.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Froukje Veenstra comes from an educational family in which music plays a more or less central role. Early on she sang with her father and sister in Ginger Squad on all kinds of occasions and in bands such as Chicks & Wings. She also used to play the drums. At those performances they mainly sang covers. At the end of the tens she went to study at the Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts), songwriting department. She learned to get a better structure in her work with structure and rhythm. The study was hampered from 2020 by the corona crisis. Because of the same crisis, she was unable to perform in front of an audience. She did, however, sing during Kaleidoscope by Wende Snijders in the Royal Theater Carré and as a singer she stood in front of an empty Oosterpoort for the digital version of Noorderslag.
Belgrade, Serbia
Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on August 26th 1983.
Graduated cinematography at Faculty of Drama Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
An absolute perfectionist, passionate, practical and can pull off the most demanding projects with ease.