ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON

Director Gus Kearns
Animation, 6’, UK, 2019

Synopsis

A family of medieval entertainers perform the legend of ‘St George and the Dragon’ for the local townsfolk.

Director's Biography 

Gus Kearns is a UK based model maker, animator and filmmaker. In 2019 he graduated with a BA in 'Stop-motion Animation and Puppet Making' at Staffordshire University. He has professional experience working on stop-motion feature films and commercials.

The Path
14’
Director, Duška Latas
Documentary, Serbia, 2018

Synopsis
A deserted village with one man left. He is living a hard life but his philosophy of life is simple. He is showing us his empty village raising the eternal question- why are we here?

Directors Biography

Duška Latas (ex Bajic) mastered journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad in 2004.

Working as a journalist since 2016, she received several prizes for journalist achievements. Since she always aimed towards documentary film, she decided to expand her knowledge and entered the Academy of Arts in 2014. In 2018, she graduated Editing in film and media.

She worked on several student projects and the Documentary film "24h Love", which she edited, was in the selection of several regional festivals and won a first prize at the "Mostar film festival".

She is assisting a work in progress documentary about the famous football player Dragan Stojkovic Pixi - "Pixi" (directed by Miloš Pušić) and produced several film and artistic projects such as the documentaries “It’s good to be me” and “Kiosk of ideas”.

The Shalter,
100’
Director, Fernand Melgar
Documentary, Swiss, 2014

Synopsis

A winter spent in the heart of an emergency shelter for homeless people in Lausanne. At the entrance to this hidden bunker there unfolds every night the same dramatic ritual, leading to occasionally violent confrontations. The watchmen have the difficult task of “sorting the poor”: women and children first, men later if there is room. Even if the shelter can hold 100 people, only 50 “chosen ones” will be allowed inside to receive a hot meal and a bed. The others know that the night will be a long one.

Directors Biography

Fernand Melgar was born into a family of Spanish unionists exiled to Tangiers (Morocco). In 1963, his parents smuggled him into Switzerland when he was two years old and they were emigrating as seasonal labourers. In the early eighties, he cut short his business studies in order to found, together with several friends, the Cabaret Orwell in Lausanne, soon a mecca for French-speaking Switzerland’s underground culture; later, he created the internationally renowned rock music venue La Dolce Vita, also in Lausanne. After endowing the night spot with a programme of creative video projections, he became a self-taught, freelance film director and producer. In 1983, he began shooting various experimental films and iconoclastic reportages for television. In 1985, he joined Climage, a collective under whose auspices he has directed his documentaries, many considered as benchmarks on the topics of immigration and identity. He has also edited several of Jacqueline Veuve’s films.