Live Action, Premiere
Samantha Scaffidi walks DN through the decision of capturing her actors in an intense close-up for her revealing short drama.
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Music
Jean-Vital Joliat describes how his grandmother's relationship with dementia directly informed the precise storytelling in his tender music video.
Ramiel Petros details bringing 1980s Iraqi history vividly to life in his mournful, based on a true story short about friendship, war and grief.
Andrew Jim Gannon deconstructs the purpose of the ever-evolving frame mask in his precise and psychological single-shot music video.
Using epic anamorphic lenses and flowing Steadicam movements, Ben Galster takes DN inside the precise planning of his thrilling one-shot music video.
Live Action
tao/s explain how they walked the perilous line of depicting the bleak reality of child exploitation while provoking a call to action empathy in audiences.
Damo Yang recounts the economically contrasting yet equally intense productions of her music videos for both Roy Wang and Backspace.
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