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The FilmConvert Short Film Competition for 2019 is now closed! Thanks to everyone who entered. Check out the winning entries below!

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Sony A7 III, FJ 8553 ET
Colombia

In the minds of many, Colombia is still regarded as a dangerous country. One which only summons up images of Pablo Escobar and the guerrilla fighters. Yet with the peace agreement in 2016, Colombia is finding peace. Filmmakers Simon Straetker and Tobias Hauser set out to discover this different side of Colombia— one that isn’t featured in the bombastic headlines. During their four-week road trip across the nation’s center and coast, they experienced the most friendly people from every stratum of Columbian society. People who welcomed them into their homes, shared their views on the world and gave them a candid glimpse into what the Colombians want their nation to be like. Their short film features those very encounters and places.

By Janis Klinkenberg
Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K, KD P400 Ptra
Creighton Prep Recruiting Video 2019-2020

Creighton Preparatory School in Omaha hired our firm to produce a promotional film for the use of their admissions department and in-school recruiters. Filming took place over a two day period, and over 6 hours of total footage was filmed. Most of the film was shot using the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6k. Aerial footage was filmed with a DJI Phantom 4 Pro by an FAA licensed remote pilot with a part 107 certification. Music was licensed via Artlist.io. This film was edited and color graded using Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 16 in combination with the FilmConvert OFX plugin.

By Jeffrey Hahn
Panasonic GH4, KD 5207 Vis3
Maeva + Yohann

Maeva and Yohann. What a passionate and beautiful couple. And their two daughters, so cute. The emotions in their eyes all throught the day are every filmmakers dream. I used FilmConvert to add a dreamy cinema look.

By Patrick M.
Sony FS5, FJ Velvia 100
GAF, Employees With Passion

While traveling across the country on commercial assignment to photograph the factory workers of the worlds largest shingle manufacturer, MISTR LYNCH was compelled to shoot this live action piece with one of the featured line workers. In one of the original factories from the mid 1900's, in the hot Savanah heat, this talented trumpet player capture the eyes, ears, and the hearts of the team.

By MISTER LYNCH
Red Epic Dragon, KD P400 Ptra
a midwestern palette: angela venarchik

angela venarchik is a ceramic artist living on lake michigan in chicago. her work is minimal and neat, placing an emphasis on form and function rather than image or decoration. mainly inspired by the landscape of the prairie state and the great lakes, the wide-open spaces of the plains are expressed through clean and minimal design. she works in a color palette that reflects golden native grasses, stormy summer skies, snow-covered urban landscapes and the saturated blues of lake michigan. each piece carries a deep, clear sense of place. angela's work is a celebration of design, craftsmanship & midwestern life. we spent two days with angela, documenting her processes and bringing those back to the places in which the work was inspired.

By Alexander P. Donnelly
Panasonic GH4, KD 5207 Vis3
Free "Anthony Paul"

This music video is for Cleveland, Ohio recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Paul. Anthony and 3 of the member's of the video team for this video grew up in Twinsburg, Ohio. Each of them moved to Los Angeles separately but linked up after a few months to shoot this video for Anthony. The song, "Free", carries a message of freeing yourself to achieve your goals. The visuals of the video and the choreography go hand and hand starting in black and white on a background with a deep white abyss. The song slowly transitions to a colorful "freeing" mountain landscape. As a team, we looked to no software other than Film Convert to finish off this video and give it the look we imagined.

By Logan Powaski
Black Magic Pocket cinema camera 4k, KD P400 Ptra
RETROGRADE

RETROGRADE explores how technologically driven we’ve become. Highlighting how our blindness has a direct impact to the world we inhabit. 

By thomas Dunphy
Sony A7iii, FJ 8563 RL
Ab Initio

Ab Initio ("from the beginning") is a short music-dance film that examines origin myths: personal narratives, our ideas of home, our happy places, the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from, and the ways these stories guide our movements through the world around us. It takes constant devotion and upkeep to believe in something, and like any other deeply-held beliefs, our origin stories can be a source of conflict when they come into dissonance with our surroundings and our experiences. Sometimes we fight them, sometimes we flee from them, but ultimately our personal mythologies are the bridge that connects our pasts with our futures. In between is the present, where we are both the author and the protagonist of our own stories.

By Michael Marten
panasonic eva/sony a7sii, KD 5207 Vis3
Jessica | Andrew

Dominican Republic! What a trip and what a pleasure to be able to bring along the Super 8 and shoot some film. The way FilmConvert is able to take the digital edge off our other cameras and help them blend with the film is damn lovely. If chosen, we are more than happy to take a final pass at the film to grade it even more cohesively as well as break down our workflow. We hope you enjoy and thanks for watching!

By Grimace Films (Graham Lovelis)