2017 UMFF Musical Video

#ONESKYABOVE USA|5 minShort|Music Video Director: Staci Ben Koussa Producers:Amen BK, Miguel Fernandes Writer/Cast:Amen BK Synopsis: Today we need to celebrate life!! Let's celebrate our cultures and diversity and that we are ONE PEOPLE UNITED under #OneSkyAbove!!   #WHITEWASHTHIS USA|6 minShort|Music Video Directors: Diane Phelan, Karen Ng Producer/Writer:Rebecca Lee Lerman Cast: Rebecca Lee Lerman, Jonelle Margallo, Alex Chester, Alison Lea Bender, Karen Ng, Yuko Kudo Synopsis: In response to the White Washing in Hollywood, Hapa Girl Falls asleep and has a dream. She wakes up to find a different reality.                 A VISUAL JOURNEY THROUGH IRAN: SISTAN & BALUCHISTAN Iran|5 minShort|MusicVideo|Documentary Director/Producer: EbrahimMirmalek Synopsis: A long-forgotten province, isolated due to its relentless droughts and desolated lands with people repleted with pride and poetry, bonded to their ancestral soil.     BEAUTIFUL ST. "LIFE 'TILL DEATH" Poland|6 minShort|MusicVideo|Comedy Directors/Writers: Daniel Kozakiewicz, Piotr Koper Producer: Daniel Kozakiewicz Cast: Daniel Kozakiewicz, GrażynaGrochowska, JustynaReczeniedi, Karolina Kuik, Kasia Grabowska, Renata Kurek Synopsis: A middle-aged man, an artist, lives in a big city. Reality requires it to adapt to contemporary culture. This results in the internal conflict, because it has been raised in other values. On a daily basis he takes on the role of social soul, even though he really wants intimacy and perhaps romantic love, away from the life of a celebrity. .                 BETTER DAYS USA|6 minShort|MusicVideo|Drama Director/Producer/Writer: Brian Green Cast: Michael Meekins, Charles Morales, Jonathan Shorter II, Nikki Green, Vidal Garcia Synopsis: Although much of today’s society is focused on things like social media, technology, and “living”, there is still a wide margin of forgotten youth whose main focus is winning in a daily game of survival. With limited resources, options, and odds against many, this particular population still has a voice that deserves to be heard.     GLAMOUR & GLITZ! Australia|7 minShort|MusicVideo|Drama|Comedy Director/Producer/Writer: Matthew Weekes Cast:Catherine Strati, Albert Goikhman Synopsis: This is an all-singing, all-dancing, musical, cabaret, neo-noir short film about a burlesque dancer who attempts to escape from her underworld crime boss.                 LINDA Brazil|4 minShort|Music Video Director/Writer: Leandro Corinto Producer:Marcelo Ferrarini Cast: Malu Rodrigues Synopsis: This is a music video made for the music band Insanos.      PEACEFUL LIFE France|6 minShort|Music Video Director: SébastienBellaval Producers:Boris Antona, Damien Poirot Writers: SébastienBellaval, Laetitia Gau Music: Guts Cast: Jean Drolet, Gautier Fayolle Synopsis: A homeless man lies in a crowded street. Ignored by the pedestrians, the old man is robbed of one of his only possessions: a football. To take it back, the poor man stands up and shows everyone he is not only what he looks like.                 PHRENIA - PERFECT LIE Austria|4 minShort|Music Video Director/Writer/Producer: Tamás Kiss Cast: Phrenia Band Synopsis: This is a Music Video about carvings, greed and addiction. We all have these problems. You can be addicted to everything.     SKY PAINTERS France |3minShort|Music Video Director/Writer/Producer: jérômethomas Synopsis: Extreme painters are painting extreme murals worldwide.                 ST PAUL USA|5minShort|Music Video Director/Writer: Xavier Ruffin Producer:Jack Splash Cast: Chike Johnson Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film retells the story of a quiet day in Milwaukee that goes tragically wrong. A group of children play in their neighborhood until they are interrupted by the screeching tires of a speeding van. A serious accident sparks a vengeful rampage that ends with more blood being spilt.     THE GRAEME WATKINS PROJECT - "LOVE IN ABUNDANCE" South Africa|4minShort|Music Video Director: Rick Joaquim Editor: EilidhGoosen Synopsis: The new video from The Graeme Watkins Project is a sublime feast for the eyes; a charming 3:46 minutes of color, insane dancing, beautiful people and some catchy beats from Graeme and the band. .                 THE OTHER SIDE USA|4minShort|Music Video Director/Writer/Producer/Cast: Jessica Lisette Synopsis: This is the music video of Jessica Lisette’s new single.     TRUE LOVE UNDER SHEETS OF RAIN USA|5minShort|MusicVideo|Animtion|Family|Romance Director/Writer: Sahar El-Ghali Music: Antony Harding Synopsis: An older gentleman named Clive readies himself for his monthly trip to the cemetery. He grabs his picnic basket, the daises he purchased for his deceased wife, and goes on his journey down to the graveyard where she is buried..                 UNSYMMETRICAL USA|4minShort|Music Video Director: Markus Thorington Producer:Working Brilliantly Synopsis: This is a music Video for Eli Raybon who is a recent LA transplant and his album is called, Green, which references his experience being new to the city and the music industry.…