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Back in the Island (trailer)

Back in Island is a short film exploring the creative journey of artist Amanda Valle as she returns to her home in the Dominican Republic. Following an emotionally draining period, Amanda seeks comfort in the local culture by immersing herself in the colors and textures that were once so familiar.

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Sting Like a Bee (trailer)

A modern take on traditional courting, Sting Like a Bee is a musical journey in collaboration with jazz pianist Ze in the Clouds. The short film takes us on a quest in search of love through the streets of the Italian southern town of Vasto.

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VISION

Alexandra Kaloshina, the founder of the Radical Chic brand, has been creating unique patterns for fabric together with her team for many years. To discover new facets of her creativity, she decided to go on a trip to the Far North of Russia, to the Murmansk region.

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A Club Called Rhonda

A Club Called Rhonda is an exploration of the cultural phenomenon that hit LA in 2008 with the opening of the eponymous club. It’s an insight into the free and inclusive spirit of a unique environment, in which the social norms imposed on our daily lives no longer apply.

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Tomorrow and the Butterfly

A somehow artistic personality, Davide Bollati, chairman of Italian cosmetic company Davines, has got a peculiar vision of beauty industry: “How can you have beauty without sustainability? They go around well together because you cannot have one without the other.”

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Bouquet Final

Throughout a whole year, Erwan Augoyard and Sophie Kovess-Brun filmed Kevin Prat-Irien, Ester Manas, Gabriel Figueiredo and Olivier Maire - students at the fashion section of La Cambre in Brussels - in order to understand why Fashion thrills these young artists so much.

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Laundered

29 year old creative director, Chaz A. Jordan , relocates from Paris to Los Angeles with only 10 minutes to develop a narrative through cutting edge POV and doc-style story telling as he unveils an intimate glimpse into the world that he has become an authority in.

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