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Limbert Fabian is an Emmy Award-winning director and illustrator. His journey as a creative artist is one of artistic exploration. A New York native, Fabian honed his craft at the prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Ringling College of Art and Design. His illustrations have graced the pages of Playboy and The Atlantic among others, even garnering recognition in esteemed annuals like American Illustration.
Seeking to blend his artistic talents with storytelling, Fabian ventured into film. He started at Reel FX Animation Studios, mastering visual effects and CGI animation. Working his way up as a creative resource in all aspects of production. This experience fueled his rise to director at their west coast branch. Later, at Moonbot Studios, he found his passion for interactive work and crafting heartfelt stories.
Fabian's directorial brilliance shone with Chipotle Mexican Grill's "The Scarecrow," a film and game experience that swept major advertising awards. This success ignited his desire to continue to craft animated films but also create immersive narratives. He co-founded Flight School, an immersive design studio, culminating in the Department of Wonder, a groundbreaking project combining digital installations with theatrical magic. His most recent project, Now Is The Time, seeks to make Martin Luther King Jr's famous “Dream” speech tangible to today's audiences through Virtual Reality.
Fabian's artistic evolution, from illustrator to acclaimed animation director to VR visionary, is driven by a love of storytelling and a desire to connect audiences with narratives in powerful new ways. Today, he remains inspired by his most critical audience - his three children - as he continues to push the boundaries of immersive experiences and animated storytelling.
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Talya is a Cape Town-based writer and director who creates immersive worlds by pairing a distinct visual aesthetic with rich and complex characters. She is an observer of specifics and behind her subtle irreverent humor lies the beating heart of a story.
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Alice Rosati is a performer, photographer and director based in Paris.
She is a storyteller, building up constructed universes where her characters play different roles, creating visions where the known and the unknown have no more boundaries.
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With imagery influenced by graphic design and fashion photography yet balanced with a natural quality, almost all of Amilcar Gomes’ life has been focused on the mechanics of visual storytelling
Within his films, Amilcar carefully toes the line between narrative and abstract, which provides an interesting contemplative space for viewers to revel in. The result is an experience that feels emotional, mysterious, intense and beautiful. Amilcar’s is a modern and artful approach, and whether it be a still life studio shoot or a documentary-style piece on the street, there is elegant, cool, confident through-line in all of his work.
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After getting her degree in History of Art in Barcelona, Yasmina did stints at different agencies in London such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Springer & Jacoby. Very soon she realized that her place was behind the camera, so she enrolled at The London Film School to obtain an MA in filmmaking.
During her days in London, Yasmina had the chance to shoot short films both as director and DOP. The London Film School fed her eyes and soul, learning from directors such as Mike Leigh, Patrice Leconte and Mike Figgis among others.
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Kaz Firpo has a beautiful mix of photography and documentary film in his archive, as well as being great with edit, camera moves, transitions, and visual storytelling with meaningsee workful VO. Osee workutside of commercial work, he recently co-scripted the Marvel film Eternals, starring Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie and Richard Madden.
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Øcean Vashti Jude is an award-winning filmmaker whose stated mission is to unravel the truth of the unseen and unheard through the film landscape. A precise storyteller, Vashti Jude focuses on the human condition and the characters of fiction she creates. “It is my objective to speak truths of my communities and of the characters I place inside my worlds,” she says. “I have always directed from a place of light and precision because I am my mother’s daughter.”
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Rylee is a Forbes 30 Under 30, Telly Award winning, comedy director and writer. Storytelling is in her DNA; she’s the granddaughter of Hollywood actor Buddy Ebsen, and comedian/advertising creative director Stan Freberg. She’s directed commercials and branded content for some of the world’s largest brands and her recent narrative work has screened at Palm Springs, Brooklyn Film Festival, Dances with Films, Women’s Comedy Festival Chicago (where Rylee won “BEST DIRECTOR”), Just For Laughs (where she won 2nd place for “BEST FILM”), and Hollyshorts.
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With imagery influenced by graphic design and fashion photography yet balanced with a natural quality, almost all of Amilcar Gomes’ life has been focused on the mechanics of visual storytelling
Within his films, Amilcar carefully toes the line between narrative and abstract, which provides an interesting contemplative space for viewers to revel in. The result is an experience that feels emotional, mysterious, intense and beautiful. Amilcar’s is a modern and artful approach, and whether it be a still life studio shoot or a documentary-style piece on the street, there is elegant, cool, confident through-line in all of his work.
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Christo Anesti is a Toronto-based director known for his highly charged visual work with swift, flowing camera moves and distinct sensibility for crafting cinematic portraits of everyday life, where ordinary moments become poetic signals and magnetic feelings.
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Øcean Vashti Jude is an award-winning filmmaker whose stated mission is to unravel the truth of the unseen and unheard through the film landscape. A precise storyteller, Vashti Jude focuses on the human condition and the characters of fiction she creates. “It is my objective to speak truths of my communities and of the characters I place inside my worlds,” she says. “I have always directed from a place of light and precision because I am my mother’s daughter.”
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