"Pressure"

Winner

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Between the pulsating city and the standstill of the people, a young man is looking for his place in society.
"Pressure" is showing his journey from the drug ridden nightlife to the unfair music scene. Everywhere his search is taking him he ́s facing restrictions, compulsions and pressure. His journey ends when he starts questioning everything he fought for while hitting rock bottom.

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• Project Type:

• Experimental, Short, Student

• Genres:

• Art, Experimental

• Runtime:

• 5 minutes 40 seconds

• Completion Date:

• January 2, 2020

• Country of Origin:

• Austria

• Country of Filming:

• Austria

• Language:

• English

• Shooting Format:

• Digital

• Aspect Ratio:

• 2.39:1

• Film Color:

• Black & White and Color

• First-time Filmmaker:

• No

• Student Project:

• Yes

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Director - Julian Schmiederer

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Julian Pixel Schmiederer (AT), born 02.02.02, is a director and sound engineer and first appeared artistically in 2010 as part of the Ars Eleronica Festival with the project “Pixel Guitars”. In the cellar of the Linz tobacco factory, a surreal carpet of sound was
created with 10 guitars made to sound by motors. The further artistic development remained being in the musical area, as rapper, DJ and hiphop producer he released two
mixtapes, one Ep and one album so he could gain a lot of experience in the creation of sound scapes. This experience was also used in the 2015 project “Gangway Horns”, in which he created apocalyptic sounds with foghorns in the courtyard of the Postcity in Linz. One year later Julian moved to Graz to follow his childhood dream of filmmaking at the Ortweinschule Graz for Film and MultimediaArt. His experience with sound also helped him here, so he was able to work on the film “Taste of Love” as a Foley Artist in his first year at school. Further projects followed in which he worked as a sound engineer, also the internationally presented audio play “schuldICH?” in which he also took over the direction and production management. After beeing part of the crew of several movies it was time for him to make his own. He made his first steps as a director with the movies “Kruzifix” and “Pressure” where he also wrote the scripts.

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"Grandpa and Grandma are Moving to a Senior Housing (Maybe)"

2nd Runner Up

Celebrating their 60th Anniversary and now in their 80s, Hana and Nahum are facing a common dilemma: should they stay at their current home of nearly 50 years or downsize and move to a senior housing? Their journey is depicted through the camera of their granddaughter, providing an insight to the complexity of long-term marriage and the need to directly face the multifaceted nature of aging.

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• Project Title (Original Language):

• סבא וסבתא עוברים לדיור מוגן (אולי)

• Project Type:

• Documentary, Student

• Genres:

• Comedy, Documentary, Aging, Family

• Runtime:

• 10 minutes 57 seconds

• Completion Date:

• June 10, 2017

• Country of Origin:

• Israel

• Country of Filming:

• Israel

• Language:

• Hebrew

• Shooting Format:

• Digital

• Aspect Ratio:

• 16:9

• Film Color:

• Color

• First-time Filmmaker:

• Yes

• Student Project:

• Yes

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Director - Ella Goldenberg

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Ella Goldenberg is a 19 year old Israeli and a graduate of the cinema department of the Thelma Yellin High school of the Arts.
Her studies exposed her to different aspects of film-making. She got the chance to experiment with a variety of film professions, such as producing, writing, editing and cinematography.
She edited the film "The Coolest Hanukkah I Ever Had", that won the first prize in the 2019 Jerusalem film festival high school film competition.

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