The film follows six strangers who are invited to a rainforest retreat, soon realising they are inexplicably unable to leave when their mysterious host fails to materialise. Their descent into madness echoing humanity’s disconnect from the environment and ancient wisdom.
Directed by @danielaskill
Starring @hi_its_bobbi @isabellucas @lily_sullivan @hunterpage @kirinjcallinan @____priscilla @jamiesontrevor
Featuring Music by @thesenewpuritans @matteozingalesofficial
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@stefanduscio @lorinaskill @gregorystern @wellllucy @rubymathers @jordanaskill @michaelaskill @andreweditor @andrew_van_der_westhuyzen @shaunparkerco @gardenmagic #NadiaTownsend #NicoLathouris @collider.studio
Produced by @collider__ #seepictures @rachaelforddavies @jamiehilton1 @oliviaodile @__stanfield @hfalexander @wilbawild @hecklerhq @sonarmusicofficial @soundfirmpost
D&AD Winner 2022
Shortlisted for ‘Best Editing’ at ASE Awards 2022.
It forms in the early hours and the late nights. It forms on roads that are travelled less frequently. It does its work when nobody is looking.
Akwasi Frimpong is a superhero. His name? Black Ice.
He put in the quiet, unglamorous work for years, because he believed that he could carve a new path, for himself and for future generations.
Client: On Running:
Starring: Akwasi Frimpong
Production Company: Hungry Man
Director: Richard Bullock
Executive Producer: Matt Buels
Producer: Hannah Stone
Producer: Jack Beardsley
Animation: Brett McManus & Machines of Loving Grace
South African Unit: Production Company: Gatehouse
Austrian Unit: Production Company: Creative Creatures
DOP: Theo Tennant
DOP: Devin Toselli
Post Production: Heckler
Lead Editor: Andrew Holmes
Creative Producer: Coralie Tapper
Executive Producer: Will Alexander
Credits Motion Graphics: Maud Chapuis
Edit Assist: Daniel Page
Colourist: Fergus Rotherham
Music & Sound: Heckler Sound
Rerecording Mixer: Dave Robertson
Composer: Dustin Lau
Executive Producer: Bonnie Law
- Official Selection at Camerimage, 2020
- Official Selection at DocEdge, 2020
- Official Selection at St Kilda Film Festival, 2020
- Official Selection Euregion Film Festival 2020
- Global Premier at Antenna Film Festival 2019
- Official Selection at Ozdox, 2019
- Picked up the Gold and Special Judges award at ACS Awards 2019
- Picked up Silver for Editing at Oslo International Film Festival 2019
- Secured a broadcast license with ABC for March 2020
- Online Premier on https://directorsnotes.com/2021/02/15/dan-braga-ulvestad-by-the-river/
- Trailer featured in Best Ads of the world: https://www.adsoftheworld.com/taxonomy/brand/by_the_river_0
Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus go to die in hopes of achieving moksha - becoming liberated from the cycle of rebirth. Hindu scriptures say that a soul has to undergo 8.4 million rebirths before reaching the human form, the only form one can attain moksha, and dying in Varanasi and being cremated along the banks of the river is believed to be the ideal way of achieving this. Several so-called ‘death hotels’ exist to accommodate believers who abandon their lives and come here in wait for death - some for as long as 40 years.
Director: Dan Braga Ulvestad
Producer: Charu Menon
DOP: Caleb Ware
In association with Heckler
Executive Producers: Charu Menon, Jamie Watson & Will Alexander
Editor: Andrew Holmes
Colourist: Greg Constantaras
Assistant Editor: Adrian Maurici
Production Company (India): ShotReady Productions
Line Producer (India): Siddharth Bhavnani
Production Manager (India) Neha Gowda
Assistant Camera: Esteban Rivera
Original Music Score: Dustin Lau
Sound Design: Rubin Henkel & Nylon Studios
Re-Recording Mixer: Casimir von Oettingen
In 2019 The Black Summer fires ravaged the Australian landscape. This story follows the first Nations people as they use ancestral methods to fight fire with fire. A visually stunning and deeply moving journey into the world of indigenous fire keepers.
Director: @timgeorgeson
DOP: @Zachary.peel.mcgregor
1st Assistant : Jed Simkins
Editor: @andreweditor
Grade: @elviscolour
Music: @haniarani
Drone: Luke Simpson
First Nations consultants: Amanda Jane Reynolds Oliver Costello Ado Webster Unc Nook Yuin Walbanja
Art Start is an award-winning and nationally recognized New York City charity that focuses on personal development through creative arts. Art Start’s mission is to utilize the arts to help homeless and court-involved youth transform their own lives by exploring the realms of possibility for their futures.
Director: Simon Lister
Editor: Andrew Holmes
Client: Art Start
Music: Nylon Studios