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Directed by Matthew Taylor, Gotham tells the true story of what happened in New York City during the twenty years from 1993 to 2013. How did a city with over 2200 murders, 93,000 violent robberies and 147,000 car thefts in 1990 become the capitol of the world a mere handful of years later? This feature documentary explores what happened during these decades, told by the people who did the hard work, some at great personal and professional cost. From Fear City to the City of Dreams. Hear about the greatest American turnaround story from the people who made it happen.
Four Seasons Green directed by Wanxing Meng. This short film documents the images I captured from the Four Seasons Green Market in three days about the state of the people who live there. Four Seasons Green means evergreen in all seasons.
Beautiful Storm directed by Yanni Dellaportas. Beautiful Storm is a short film created to accompany an original music score composed by Yanni Dellaportas. All the audio, video and still images were captured in and around the Mornington Peninsula and the coastline of Victoria Australia on the lands of the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong people. Beautiful Storm is loosely based on the coffee table book of the same name, that Yanni published in 2020 that features 30 years of storm chasing photography taken around the coastline of Victoria Australia. However the film didn’t start that way. Yanni created the film to go with a piece of music he wrote and recorded under his pseudonym 'Bluzoid'. The music came from a volunteer commission he was given to create music for a dance based short film. The makers rejected this piece going with someone else’s but that didn’t stop him from fleshing out the original piano score into something more orchestral. Yanni is grateful to his musician friends Natalie Parker (tin whistle, flute and trumpet) and Sally Carter (violin) for their contribution in recording some of the melodies. The music sat on the shelf for a few years as it had no connection to anything and Yanni didn’t know how to release it. Eventually he decided to create a film to go with it, incorporating his thirty years of storm photography and moving footage that he shot over a period of ten years. Everything seemed to come together – the music, the film - all that symbolized Yanni's passion for storm chasing and our ever changing and extreme weather events as a result of climate change. It’s not a traditional narrative film with actors or characters or dialogue, but more like an instrumental music video, however it follows the three act story arc.
