http://bit.ly/2pQSIjM Bayard & Me is a short doc about how the openly gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Martin Luther King, adopted his partner Walter Naegle in the 1980s for legal protections. In this intimate love story, Walter remembers Bayard and how they had to work around the system in an era when gay marriage was inconceivable. He also reflects on the little known phenomena of intergenerational gay adoption and its connection to the civil rights movement. Matt Wolf is an award-winning filmmaker in New York. His film include Wild Combination about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell and Teenage about the birth of youth culture. His most recent shorts include HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary and The Face of AIDS for TIME Magazine. Super Deluxe is an omni-platform entertainment company committed to amplifying unconventional creative voices. With online video for social feeds, television series, documentaries, interactive live experiences, and consumer-facing tech products, Super Deluxe talks to a generation of insatiably curious viewers who grew up clutching smartphones. Super Deluxe is a division of Turner, but it operates independently in Downtown LA. Director: Matt Wolf Producer: Brendan Doyle DP: Pete Sillen Editor: Conor McBride Produced by SuperDeluxe and C41 Media

A traveling sword for hire finds himself in larger than life adventures. Unfortunately, the pay doesn’t measure up. An allegory for the freelance lifestyle. Directed & Animated by Eric Power www.ericpowerup.net http://twitter.com/ericpowerup http://bit.ly/2qpcAM1 Produced by Ill Poetic iTunes http://bit.ly/2pE27zk Vinyl http://bit.ly/2qp84gA CD http://bit.ly/2pDsqpr Mello Music Group, 2017

A day in the life of a mom and her curious daughter.

Allumette! A music video I’ve directed for the unbelievably talented and all round good dude, Sam Arnold. A song ignited by lust and enveloped by the unknown, unsure if that someone wants you back…but by god you find them sexy?! Credits This was a project produced by Sam Arnold and Aran Quinn. Allumette, a song by Sam Arnold http://bit.ly/2qkSfsY The song was recorded in Santa Cruz California, Produced with Jonathan de Roche, Mixed by Luke Vander Pol. Drums by Sam Halterman. A music video directed and designed by Aran Quinn. Animation by Aran Quinn Benjy Brooke www.benjybrooke.com Greg Lee http://bit.ly/2pPrmK7

This is the third episode of our independent „A Taste of …“ time lapse series. In September 2016 we visited this awesome city to try out some new time lapse stuff. It took us 10 days, a lot of burgers and one helicopter ride to produce this video. 10 days is very little time to discover this city of endless opportunities, so we hardly slept anything and shot day and night for this time lapse film. The city that never sleeps indeed! The Taxishot: Over the 10 days we took photos of yellow cabs whenever we had time to from as many different angles as possible. So we gathered 2000 (!) photos in total we had to sort afterwards and compile to a hyperlapse around a cab in post production. It took us 5 whole days in post production to get this one shot. Technical Details: In 10 days we shot 65.000 Photos taking up 2,6 TB of our hard drives. The final 3 minute video took 36h to render on the best equipped iMac available. Other “A Taste of …” Episodes: A Taste of Vienna (2016) http://bit.ly/2riuNKi A Taste of Austria (2015) http://bit.ly/2qjNWyA Video by: Peter Jablonowski // Thomas Pöcksteiner // Lorenz Pritz http://bit.ly/2oVTtXZ Sounddesign by Alex Clement http://bit.ly/2qjK5RN Equipment used: + Sony a7rII + Sony a6300 + 2x Canon 6D + Canon 11-24mm F4 + Canon 24-105mm F4 + Tamron 150-600mm + Tamron 24-70mm F2,8 + Zeiss 24-70mm F4 + Emotimo Spectrum + Pocketslider + Edelkrone SliderPlus + Came TV Single + several tripods from Sachtler, Manfrotto and Togopod _________________________________ Visit our website: http://bit.ly/1Bp9OG3 Like us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1wkKUZ7 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FilmSpektakel Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2oyig8n For licensing & inquires please contact us via email: info(at)filmspektakel.at All shots are available in 5K or more!

Would you jump? Or would you chicken out? Our objective in making this film was something of a psychology experiment: We sought to capture people facing a difficult situation, to make a portrait of humans in doubt. We’ve all seen actors playing doubt in fiction films, but we have few true images of the feeling in documentaries. To make them, we decided to put people in a situation powerful enough not to need any classic narrative framework. A high dive seemed like the perfect scenario. Through an online advertisement, we found 67 people who had never been on a 10-meter (about 33 feet) diving tower before, and had never jumped from that high. We paid each of them the equivalent of about $30 to participate — which meant climbing up to the diving board and walking to its edge. We were as interested in the people who decided to climb back down as the ones jumping. We filmed it all with six cameras and several microphones. It was important for us not to conceal the fact that this was an arranged situation, and thus we chose to show the microphones within the frame. Ultimately, about 70 percent of those who climbed did jump. We noticed that the presence of the camera as well as the social pressure (from those awaiting their turn beside the pool) pushed some of the participants to jump, which made their behavior even more interesting. In our films, which we often call studies, we want to portray human behavior, rather than tell our own stories about it. We hope the result is a series of meaningful references, in the form of moving images. “Ten Meter Tower” may take place in Sweden, but we think it elucidates something essentially human, that transcends culture and origins. Overcoming our most cautious impulses with bravery unites all humankind. It’s something that has shaped us through the ages. – Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson are documentary filmmakers based in Gothenburg, Sweden, who have worked together since 2013. axel@plattformproduktion.se max@plattformproduktion.se

These are the girls running as fast as they can to be Jamaica’s new sprint champions in a country obsessed with its athletes. This is the story of the Champs national youth athletics competition that could change their lives. Okhalia, Alesha and Shellece have their sights set on being the next Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the adored sprinting champion famous across Jamaica. At their schools, St Jago, Edwin Allen and Wolmer’s High, there is a huge focus on nurturing the most talented girls and preparing them for the Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships – better known as the Champs, the tournament where stars are made. Amid pressure from their schools and parents, not to mention themselves, can the girls triumph at Champs 2017? Director: Isaac Solotaroff Producer: Natasha Dack-Ojumu Editors: Isaac Solotaroff and Noah Payne-Frank Executive producers for the Guardian: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton This video is produced in collaboration with the Sundance Institute Short Documentary Fund supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

In Bogotá, Colombia, a charismatic eleven year old named Maria Alejandra struggles to maintain a normal childhood despite the limitations imposed by a rare skin disease. Conflict between mother and daughter arises when Maria refuses to attend school early one morning. En Bogotá, Colombia, una carismática niña de 11 años llamada María Alejandra, tiene dificultades para vivir una infancia normal debido a una enfermedad rara de la piel. El conflicto entre madre e hija aumenta cuando María decide no ir al colegio una mañana. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Now available on DVD in feature and short versions as an educational tool, for more info please visit: http://bit.ly/2qG6Oc7

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