[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”CV & FILMOGRAPHY – EMMA ROZANSKI”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”aboutemma”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”WORKS IN PROGRESS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left”][vc_column_text css=””]In Development/ Aguacero (Downpour) (writer/director) – Feature-length supernatural murder-mystery, set in Bogota, Colombia (Spanish language)
In Development/ El Mirador (writer/director) – Feature-length ensemble comedy, set in Colombia (English and Spanish language)
In Development/ Fragile Spheres (artist) – Video and time-based art installation[/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”aboutemma”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”COMPLETED WORK” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left”][vc_column_text css=””]
[narrative fiction]
2024/ El Vaquero (writer/director) – Feature-length drama set in Colombia (Spanish Language, 93mins)
- Awards: Won Tacoma Film Festival Best Narrative Feature Film; Won FICAA Mexico Best Cinematography;
- Screenings: FICCI [Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias], Colombia 2024; Mostra Internacional de Cinemaem São Paulo, Brazil 2024;
FIC Monterrey, Mexico 2024; Tacoma Film Festival, USA 2024; Tallgrass Film Festival, USA 2024; Muestra de la Cineteca Veracruz, Mexico 2024; Cartografías Sensoriales, Colombia 2024; Cecil County Independent Film Festival, USA 2024; FICAA, Mexico 2024/25; Bogura International Film Festival, Bangladesh 2025; Beloit International Film Festival, USA 2025; Chicago Latino Film Festival, USA 2025;
2016/ Papagajka (The Parrot) (writer / director / production designer) – Feature-length Psychological Drama (82mins)
- Awards: Won Massachusetts Independent Film Festival 2017 Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actress
- Screenings: SXSW (South by South West) Film festival, World Premiere 2016; Sarajevo Film Festival, European Premiere 2016; East End Film Festival, June 2017, UK; Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, Aug 2017, USA; FIC Autor Film Festival, Aug 2017, Mexico; Pineapple Underground Film Festival, July 2017, Hong Kong; Charlotte Film Festival, Sep 2016, USA; Festival de Cine de Bogotá, Oct 2016, Colombia; Bosporus Film Festival, Nov 2016, Turkey; Director’s Fortnight Kolkata, Nov 2016, India; Bridge Film Festival, Dec 2016, Kosovo; Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, Jan 2017, USA; San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Feb 2017, USA; Fandor online curation, USA, Duplex 100m Square Gallery, Sarajevo BiH 2017; Fandor Global; Seed & Spark, Global; Amazon Prime; HighballTV, Global; Filmin, Spain; IndieFlix, Global;
2015/ Pangaea (writer / director) – Short Experimental Film
- Awards: Winner, Best Cinematography at New Wave Film festival, Bulgaria
- Screenings: Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina; London Short Film Festival, UK; New Wave Film festival, Bulgaria; Parachute Film and Art Festival, France; Venezuela; Ozark ShortsFest, USA; A Corto Di Donne, Italy; Monfilmat Festival, Spain; Kifaga Niue Film Festival, Niue;Independent Film Festival Dhaka;
2014/ Scuffle (writer / director) – Short Dance Film
- Screenings: Kine Muestra, Mexico; International Film and Audiovisual Festival for Children and Youth (FICAIJ), Venezuela; Contact International Dance Festival, Canada; Muestra de cortos Internacional, Spain; II Muestra Internacional de Video Danza, Argentina; Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival, Hong Kong; El Saman Festicine Video Imagen, Colombia; Portobello Film Festival, UK; Islantilla Cinefórum, Spain;
2012/ Campers /15mins (writer / director)
- Awards: Won Silver Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival; Shortlisted for Best UK Short at Stoke Your Fires Film Festival;
- Screenings: London Short Film Festival, UK; Indianapolis International Film Festival, USA; Salento International Film festival, Italy; Skepto International Film Festival, Italy; Ankara Film Festival, Turkey; Mexico International Film Festival, Mexico; Pineapple Underground Film Festival, Hong Kong; Holding Hands with Strangers Event, UK; Northside Film Festival, USA; Monaco Charity Film Festival, Monaco; Queens World Film Festival, USA; WOW Film Festival and Tour, Australia; Bluestocking Film Festival, USA; River Bend Film Festival, USA; Viewfinders Film Festival, Canada; Stoke Your Fires Film Festival, UK; Annapolis Film Festival, USA; Green Bay Film Festival, USA; Carolina Film and Video Festival, USA; Sopot Film Festival, Poland; International Short Film Festival of Drama, Greece; Cyprus International Film Festival, Greek Cyprus; This is England Film Festival, France; World Kids International Film Festival, India;
2009/ The Storymaker /12 mins (written and directed by, co-animated by)
- Awards: Prémio Vídeo (Best Film) at Avanca International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedi, Portugal; Best Short Film at The WIFTS (Women in Film & Television Foundation), Los Angeles; Nominated for the Anthony Minghella Best International Short Award at Glimmer Hull Short Film Festival, UK; Nominated for Best Director, Van d’Or Awards at Cannes in a Van,UK/France
- Screenings: London Short Film Festival- UK; Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico; Odense Film Festival, Denmark; Revelation Perth Film Festival, Australia; Indianapolis International Film Festival, USA; Ankara Film Festival, Turkey; Philadelphia Film Festival, USA; Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh; Liverpool Biennial Contemporary Visual Arts Festival, UK; Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia; Moves10 Framing Motion International Festival of Movement on Screen, UK; Libertas Film Festival, Croatia; The Monaco Charity Film Festival, Monaco; Byron Bay International Film Festival-,Australia; CamboFest, Cambodia; Underwire Film Festival, London; Best of SUFF at Rosnay, Australia; Film Festival Contravision, Germany; Portobello Film Festival, UK; Women’s International Film and TV Showcase LA, USA; Ladybug Film Festival, Sweden; FD4W Film Festival, London; Leith Short Film Festival, 20 Minute Max Film Festival, Germany; WFTV Show us Your Shorts, UK; Young at Heart Film Festival, Australia; Philosophy in the Dark Film Festival, USA; Poppy Jasper Film Festival, USA; Salford Film Festival, UK; Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival, US; Glimmer Hull Short Film Festival, UK; Salento International Film Festival, Italy; Avanca Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia, Portugal; Wimbledon Short Film Festival, UK; Festival of Festivals International Film Festival, Russia; Krakow Film Market, Poland; WOW Film Festival, Australia – including regional festival tour; Cannes in a Van, UK/France; UpNorth Film Festival, UK; Video Jam Manchester, UK; Tiny Lights Film Festival, USA; Scream Queen Film festival, Tokyo; The Viper’s Nest featured video, Online; Kacha-Lote Bogota
2007/ The Whisper Stop /8 mins (writer/director) – Experimental Video
- Awards: Best Drama and Best Overall Film at Poppy Jasper Film Festival, USA; Best Short Film at Hawkesbury Film Festival, Australia
- Screenings: Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Australia; Poppy Jasper Film Festival, USA; Access All Areas Film Festival, Australia; International Festival of Cinema and Technology, USA; Hawkesbury Film Festival, Australia; Portable Film Festival, Global; New York Downtown Short Film Festival, USA; JTV/ABC Podcast, Australia; Prick of The Spindle Literary Arts Publication, Global;
[non-narrative film, video art and installations]
2023/ WALDEN [verb] (video artist) – 3-channel video installation: An experimental adaptation of Henry David Thoreau’s book, ‘Walden’
- Exhibitions/Screenings: Elastic Arts, Chicago USA; Les Instants Video, France; FIC Autor, Mexico; Ribalta Experimental Film festival, Italy; Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma USA
2021/ Letters from the Ends of the World (contributing filmmaker, segment ‘Dear Neighbour’) – Feature length omnibus film by film collective Bistrik7
- Exhibitions/Screenings: Opening film of the Sarajevo Film festival
2018/ A New Kind of Ray (video artist) – 2-channel video installation
- Exhibitions/Screenings: International Museum of Surgical Science Solo Capstone Exhibition; No Flash Video Show, New Jersey; Moving_Image_00:00 , Chicago; No Nation Gallery and Tangential Art Space, Chicago; Girona Film festival, Italy; TRANÅS at the Fringe International Art Festival, Sweden; Labocine Online;
2018/ Sutures of a Landscape (video artist) – single channel video installation
- Exhibitions/Screenings: International Museum of Surgical Science Solo Capstone Exhibition; Suburbinale, Austria; Mikino Film Week, Bali; No Nation Gallery and Tangential Art Space, Chicago;
2018/ On the Motion of the Heart and the Blood (video artist) – contemporary dance film/2-channel video installation
- Exhibitions/Screenings: International Museum of Surgical Science Solo Capstone Exhibition; Roman Susan Gallery; Wedge Projects Streetlight Series; Mostra Internacional de Dança – Imagens em Movimento, Brasil; No Nation Gallery and Tangential Art Space, Chicago; Labocine Online;
2018/ Improved Goggles (video artist) – single channel video and site-specific mixed-media installation
- Exhibitions/Screenings: International Museum of Surgical Science Solo Capstone Exhibition, Chicago; No Nation Gallery and Tangential Art Space, Chicago;
2018/ The Scarificator (sound artist) – 2-channel site-specific sound installation
- Exhibited at The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago – Solo Capstone Exhibition, Nov 2018
2018/ Three Frames of Reference (artist) – Triptych mixed media installation
- Exhibitions: The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; No Nation Gallery and Tangential Art Space, Chicago;
2014/ Recreation of a Bergman Dream Experiment (Bistrik7 collaborative artist) – Multi-channel re-creation/installation
- Commissioned for ‘Mutations Festival’ in Zagreb; also Exhibited in the Ars Aevi Museum of Modern Art Sarajevo;
2014/ The Lithuanian Consulate (video artist) – Experimental documentary for MFA, Sarajevo
2013/ Following (video artist) – Experimental fashion film
- Commission by Designer Ian Scott Kettle for London Fashion Week Exhibition
[/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”aboutemma”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”EDUCATION – RESIDENCIES – LABS – GRANTS – ETC.” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left”][vc_column_text css=””]- Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film Directing: Bela Tarr’s Film.Factory / Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Bosnia and Herzegovina
– Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Theatre Studies & Drama: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
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– Screen Australia Enterprise Funding Recipient 2020/2021
– Torino Film Lab: NEXT Feature Script Development 2020
– Screen Queensland Creative Consultation recipient 2020
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– Alumni of Berlinale Talents and Berlinale Short Film Station 2013
– Alumni of the Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Lab 2012
– Alumni of the ICA Lab, a former script/project development Lab for UK writers supported by the London Institute of Contemporary Arts
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– Ox-Bow Conversations in Practice Cohort 2021
– Finalist for Space on Ryder Farm Creative Residency 2019
– Artist in Residence: International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago 2018 (Moving Image artist, culminating in a Solo Capstone Exhibition at the Museum in Nov 2018)
– LaboCine Luminary
– Artist in Residence Chicago Artist Coalition Field/Work 2018
– Australian Film Television and Radio School Short Courses: ‘Into the Frame’, ‘Digital Storytelling’, ‘Drama of Screenwriting’, ‘Lars and His Obstructions’, ‘Screen Acting in the 21st Century’
– The Script Factory (London): Alternative Narrative Structure Short Course
– Metro Screen Sydney: ‘1st Assistant Director Intensive’, ‘Digital Visual Effects Scholarship’, ‘Cinema Projection and Live Events Certificate’
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– Guest Filmmaker Q&A at Emerson College with ‘Papagajka’
– Host: Movement workshop at Int. Museum of Science and Technology
– Jury: Charlotte Film Festival 2017
– Jury: Dublin Independent Film Festival 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”aboutemma”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”MUSIC VIDEOS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left”][vc_column_text]You can watch a selection of Music Videos (and other short-form works) by Emma Rozanski HERE[/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]