Director

A 2021 graduate of the Art and Media Technologies program with a focus on post-production, Alex Trépanier has since worked as an assistant editor in fiction, animation, documentary, and reality TV.

After honing his absurd writing skills at numerous short film evenings at Les Kinos de Jonquière, he has now released his first slightly more substantial production: Piqukelot & Mortubert.

Sarah Turner is a new media and video artist who creates large scale immersive environments and performances through analog media and creative coding. She engages in ritual and contemporary mythologies to augment reality through performative psycho spiritual activations. Turner is the Co-Founder of Mobile Projection Unit, which creates site specific installations around the Pacific Northwest & New York through outdoor projection mapping. Her work has been shown at Portland Art Museum, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Portland International Film Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Northwest Film Center, Spaceness Festival, Marfa Open Festival, Laboratory Residency and more. Turner received an MFA at Alfred University in Electronic Integrated Art. She is the Audio/Video/Lighting Production Manager for Meow Wolf.

Cannes Young Director Award winner Hoku Uchiyama’s directing work has garnered tens of millions of online views and has been screened in festivals in the US, Europe and Asia. The work has also been featured at the LA County Museum of Art and in a series produced by the Modern Art museum Centre Pompidou of Paris.

He and his sometimes directing partner, Adam Bolt, have made a name crafting fun, technical commercials under the moniker “Hoku & Adam.” Their clients include Starbucks, Google and FedEx. They’ve also created award winning spots for National Geographic, Wilkinson Sword (by animating facial hair), and YouTube (using 18 styles of animation in one film).

Their animated music video for Katy Perry’s “Harleys in Hawai’i” won the Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Music Video. Hoku also directed the documentary “Upaj: Improvise” which was broadcast nationally in the US on PBS World.

Roger Valentine was raised in the small seaside town of Scarborough, spending his adolescence making strange VHS and 8mm shorts.

After graduating with a degree in Animation, and winning a Critics’ Choice award in his adopted home of Manchester, he moved to London to work on over the top fashion and lifestyle campaigns, plus, the occasional music video.

Roger is currently a fashion video art director, which allowed him to make his debut short ‘Bunny Hop.’

He wants to continue making strange short films and hopes to collaborate with other like-minded oddballs to create more work that leaves audiences amused and confused.

Jan van Gorkum (1983) is a filmmaker and writer. In 2010 he graduated as a filmmaker from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Jan has written and directed several award-winning short films, which have been screened at a large number of festivals around the world. He finds it interesting to combine genres in his films, but has a soft spot for dark humor, horror, fantasy and thriller. His first book was published in 2019: a quirky fantasy book titled Winged Darkness.

Belgian student director crazy enough to go study film in Beijing.