Lebanese filmmaker Niam Itani will be competing at the Venice film festival with her short film “Super.Full.” in a competition announced by YouTube earlier this year.
The prize, aside from a trip to Italy, is a $500,000 grant to work with Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free.
Below is Niam’s short film “Super.Full”, and you may check the other finalists she will be competing with here.
via Nasri Atallah
Awesome work!
Power of the tire is a satirical piece depicting the current political and economical situation in Lebanon. It is meant to be satirical and does not reflect a real situation, but a personal interpretation.
Regarding this piece, it all started after watching Buck’s Take part / waiting for superman trailer, which seemed to have the exact tone for what we wanted. Some of the copy was so good and served our message that we had to use it.
Regarding the visuals, buck’s piece (Jr Canest’s style) is a huge inspiration for experimenting and learning motion graphics. So the intro which is almost identical started as an exercise/study in smooth keyframing, and as the piece took shape, we decided to keep it and give a credit to Jr Canest’s inspiring work. You can also find below a list for our inspiration for this piece. Hope you enjoy it.Inspiration:
Buck / Jr Canest : Take Part :: vimeo.com/12677264
Marcus Eckert : vimeo.com/rpgamer2003
Ron Gervais : Japan PSA Help :: vimeo.com/23179249
Water Changed Everything :: vimeo.com/22566556/ Credits
// Production / Caustik
/// Art Direction / Amine Alameddine
/// Animation / Amine Alameddine
/// Character Animation / Rachel Mouawad
/// Additional Character Animation / Omar Labbad
Power of the tire also has a page on Facebook to share what else we can do with tires!
via Samer Nakfour
If you’re interested to make your own time lapse video, you can download one of the available applications to your mobile device and start experimenting with it. An application I’m currently toying with on my iPad is this one called Time Lapse Camera HD.
Lara Kay releases a song…
Thanks @ritakml
As Nemr puts it, the song is a harrowing tale of love, loss, tragedy, and rebirth!
The guitar man is Jay Wud by the way, you can check his Facebook page here, and of course Nemr’s page here.
You can watch the upcoming episodes on MAMNOU3’s channel on YouTube.
The Anti Racism Movement in Lebanon is still trying to end the discrimination at beach resorts by not only naming and shaming as they did 2 years ago with Sporting Club, but also by reporting those who deny entry to foreign workers to the ministry of tourism, since a circular was issued a while ago banning discrimination at beaches and demanding fair treatment of all people, regardless of skin color, background, occupation, or nationality.
Check the below video showing how some activists behind the Anti Racism Movement reported a discrimination act at the Saint-George Yacht Club and Marina.
According to what they wrote in a blog post today, and as per the tourism police, Saint-George will be fined, and a date for the trial is currently being set.
Can you count how many times they both said “fasharet”?
Mr. Maalouf either thinks we REALLY have no idea about the things that happen in theaters such as Cinema Salwa and therefore felt like documenting it for us on video, or actually have nothing else to talk about!
Amazing job, that’s basically like going to Maameltein to check if any prostitution is going around and film it.
