Short Film
In this page you can discover the finalist for the Short Film discipline in the Blue Area (Mediterranean to Ocean) rated by the audience and a professional Jury at the event in Tuzla, Bosnia and Erzegovina.
One winner of each discipline will partecipate to the Biennial MArteLive and will have the chance to participate in Art residencies and more prizes.
Simone Giampaolo
London, United Kingdom
My name is Simone Giampaolo and I’m a London-based Director with an insatiable appetite for meaningful storytelling and humorous characters. In 2013 I graduated with distinction from the BA (Hons) Computer Animation Art & Design course at the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth (UK). Throughout my career I’ve written and directed over ten multi-award winning original short films, including the Oscar®-shortlisted Only a Child.
In the past years I’ve been working on a multitude of commissioned projects (TV series, commercials, short films and specials) for clients such as Sky, Netflix, Google, Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Pokémon and BBC, while collaborating with world-class studios like Jellyfish Pictures, Axis Studios, Blue Zoo, Ritzy Animation and Aardman (which has been representing me as Short-Form Director since 2018).
I’m also a board member of London ACM Siggraph and View Conference, and between projects I enjoy mentoring young animators and upcoming filmmakers by hosting lectures and masterclasses at international universities, festivals and conferences.
Eugen Merher
Berlin, Germany
motociclista from Eugen Merher on Vimeo.
Ramazan Kilic
Instambul, Turkey
Spinning Path
Exeter, United Kingdom
We believe that director-led work is always best. True to the creator’s vision and free from constraints. But we’re also about championing emerging talent and allowing the cast and crew we work with to bring their own spin on things.
Spinning Path started when Producer Simeon Costello and Writer/Director Tommy Gillard crossed paths in deepest Devon. Building on a shared love of weird cinema, they sought to create equally obscure short films. And they haven’t looked back.
Working with a pool of talent across the South West, Spinning Path has made four films to date, from a gloriously gothic Super 8 silent vampire short to a sweaty, homoerotic portrayal of…badminton.
Shuttlecock from Tommy Gillard on Vimeo.
Alex Tsilifonis
Athens, Greece
To date he has directed 7 narrative short films and his next project is "The T3st" starring Matthew Stagg (Marrowbone, Macbeth) and Killian Murphy (Normal People, Call the Midwife) funded by the GFC, ERT and NFTS.
In recent years, Alex has been mentored by Alexandros Avranas, winner of the Venice Silver Lion award, and he took part in the CIAK 2019 Screenwriting Lab. He is the recipient of the 1st National Prize of the Nespresso Talents (Cannes Film Festival 2020), his latest short film "Rookie" screened at OSCAR and BAFTA Qualifying festivals and in 2021 and he directed "The Cellist", an advert for McDonald’s (Porsche Awards 2022).
Niall Shukla
Camberley, United Kingdom
His artwork currently involves creating sculptures out of glass to create the impression of human faces. His work deals with the uniqueness of human identity. Each glass sculpture is completely one of a kind and impossible to replicate, like a fingerprint. his work had received over millions of views on across social media.
Liv Burkhard & Kim da Motta
Lucerne, Switzerland
Liv Burkhard and Kim da Motta are a visual storytelling duo from Switzerland, based in Lucerne. In their visual work they explore topics such as identity, gender, surveillance and escapism. They work both with digital and analog video and photography.
Sam Ainsworth
London, United Kingdom
Rupert Höller
Vienna, Austria
Jan-David Bolt
