2019 UMFF Music Video

2019 UMFF Music Video
    Adam
Italy|4min Short|Music Video
Director/Writer: Francesca Zanni
Producer/Artist: Valerio Piccolo
Synopsis: The official music video of Adam by Valerio Piccolo. .
    Beyond the Borders
USA|8min Short|Music Video
Director/Producer: Susan Cohen, Daniel Kantor
Writer: Susan Cohen
Cast: Nano el Raies, Ahmad al Haggar, Olivia Swann, Tracy Robertson, Brian Mowat
Synopsis: This music video, which features the song Beyond the Borders by notable Boston immigration attorney Susan Cohen, sheds light on the Syrian Refugee Crisis that has seen six million people flee their homes since 2011. The story follows one Syrian refugee family and was created in collaboration with students, alumni vocalists and professors.
           
    Comment Te Traduire ( How can I Tell You)
Italy|5min Short|Music Video
Director/Producer/Animation: Barbara Creutz
Music Composition / Voice: Lembe Lokk
Video Image: Nasr Djepa
Color Corrections: Ollivier Legurun
Synopsis: The words and woes of exile by Estonian poet-singer Lembe Lokk. How Can I Tell You is her sentimental journey through language and imagery.
    Rondo: Beyond the Pavement
USA|34min Short|Youth-Made Film|Documentary
Directors: Bianca Rhodes, Katharine DeCelle, Jevrye Morris, Angelo Bush, 
Producers: Kimberly Nightingale, Bianca Rhodes
Cast: Melvin Emanuel, Miss Margaret Lovejoy
Synopsis: In the 1920s, Rondo, Saint Paul’s largest African American neighborhood was flourishing with music, theater and writing. Businesses were booming and the community was thriving, until September of 1956 when construction of Interstate 94 tore through the Rondo community. Interstate 94 shattered homes, businesses and families but it did not shatter Rondo’s spirit.
           
    Heartache
UK|4min Short|Music Video
Director: Katherine Evans
Producer: Josh Bamber
Cast: Christen Kwame
Synopsis: A heartbroken man portraying a message of pure emotion. We face pain alone and this is shown as the artist walks a lonely path pouring his heart out amongst the beauty and healing surrounding of nature.
    Humble Wolf – All the Way
USA|4min Short|Music Video
Director: Robert Helmuth
Synopsis: Music Video for a Local Sacramento, CA band. Made on a shoestring budget, but with the highest standards for production and post production.
           
    Out of the Way
USA|5min Short|Music Video
Director/Writer/Producer: Dana Graham Phelps
Cast: Angela Tagliavia
Synopsis: A protest music video about being starved, beaten, defrauded, censored and given rape trauma syndrome by libel of a competing publication.
     Shut Up, I’m on a Roll
Spain|5min Short|Music Video
Director/Writer: Oscar Martin
Writer/ Executive Producer: Jes Falcon
Producer: Elena Muños
Cast: Ana Del Arco, Ray Singleton, David Tortosa
Synopsis: A nice, naive girls walks into a casino as luck kisses her only token when she makes her bet at the roulette. She wins! So she bets again and continues to win over and over. This drives the attention of a handsome bon-vivant guy. Who will be the winner? Roll the dice, roll the film!
           
    South Central State of Mind
USA|5min Short|Music Video
Director/Writer/Producer: Timur Bootzin
Writer: V.O.T.G (Voice of the Ghetto)
Producer: Dan Bootzin, Elizabeth Bootzin, Jose Delgado
Cast: Albert Diaz, Fernando Flores, Jose Delgado, Andrew Diaz
Synopsis: V.O.T.G (Voice of the Ghetto) takes you on a journey through the South Central State of Mind.
   
The Parliament of Souls
Czech Republic|3min Short|Music Video
Director/Writer/Producer: Mikoláš Orlický
Writer: Vladimir Van Maula
Producer/Music By: Zdeněk Beran
Lyrics: Michal Horáček
Cast: Ivana Chýlková, Zuzana Šimáková
Synopsis: This international project is dedicated to all souls and remembers those who can no longer be with us. We believe that art connects us, enriches us and makes us more receptive and tolerant. We hope to remind everyone to be grateful for the gift of our departed ancestors and important personalities in society.
           
    Toronto Tabla Ensemble: Faceoff Canada|5min     Short|Music VideoDirector/Writer/Producer: Melissa Das-ArpSynopsis: Four musicians try to evoke a beautiful dancer for an intense rhythmic faceoff.      Voice Surrounding the City
USA|8min Short|Music Video
Director: Rafael Fernanz
Composer/Pianist: Maria Rago
Synopsis: Inspired by the “Sermon of the Mount” with original lyrics. A metaphorical journey through a city, the soul of an unknown poet and the music of a pianist who is “watching” the city from a small room suspended between the immense sky and giant skyscraper. At the end of a journey of life, what really matters is the love we give to others and also to our enemies.
           
    We Shall Not be Moved
USA|5min Short|Music Video
Director: Lara Lavi Jones, Wayne Rutledge
Writer: Tae Phoeniz, Maurice Jones Jr.
Producer: Lara Lavi Jones, Tae Phoenix
Cast: Tae Phoenix, Iris Nuñez, Elizabeth Howell, Samara Howell, Dominic Wallace, Christina Wilder
Synopsis: Singer Songwriter Tae Phoenix has adapted the classic civil rights song, “We Shall Not Be Moved” with producer Maurice Jones Hr. and vocal director Josephine Howell. The video reminds us of what is at stake in our political climate.
     What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
USA|5min Short|Music Video
Director: Damon Jones & Songwriting Shane
Writer: William Weatherspoon, Paul Riser, James Dean
Producer: Marco Sonzini, Vanil Veigas
Musicians: Songwriting Shane, Josh Freeze, Marco Sonzini
Synopsis: Official music video of What Becomes of the Broken Hearted.