Emma Rozanski | CV

CV

CV & FILMOGRAPHY - EMMA ROZANSKI

WORKS IN PROGRESS

In Development/ Particulars (writer/director) – Feature-length murder-mystery

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

COMPLETED WORK

[narrative fiction]

 

2024/ El Vaquero (writer/director) – Feature-length drama set in Colombia (Spanish Language, 93mins)

 

2016/ Papagajka (The Parrot) (writer / director / production designer) – Feature-length Psychological Drama (82mins)

 

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

EDUCATION - RESIDENCIES - LABS - GRANTS - ETC.

– 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

MUSIC VIDEOS

You can watch a selection of Music Videos (and other short-form works) by Emma Rozanski HERE