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WOMEN NOW

TITLE: Fantagirls

DIRECTOR: Carolina Amoretti & Sofia Aztori

BRAND: Fantabody

COUNTRY: Italy

It’s a project that aims to celebrate the female body and beauty keeping diversity and inclusivity at the core to make every individual feel special and empowered.

 

TITLE: The Foster Sisters

DIRECTOR: Alice Fassi & Claudia Campoli (Victimes Directors)

BRAND: Salvatore Vignola, Ilariusss, Fabio Rusconi

COUNTRY: Italy

Emily founds herself unexpectedly sitting in front of a desk in the middle of a field, surrounded by sheeps. Inspired, she begins to write a story called “The Foster Sisters”.

 

TITLE: I’ll say it first

DIRECTOR: Alena Shevchenko

BRAND: /

COUNTRY: Russian Federation

What woman wants? You never know, until get in their mind. This is a story about a girl who wants to text to a boy first, but she really hesitates to make a first step.

 

TITLE: Holly

DIRECTOR: Francesca Buonocore

BRAND: LOMO

COUNTRY: Italy

The video tells the story of Holly, a girl who opened up to us about how she was raped as a teenager.

 

TITLE: Anthem of Spring

DIRECTOR: Katya Shtokolova

BRAND: Vogue

COUNTRY: Russia

This video is dedicated to the notion of female beauty and its diversity. The shooting was attended by Maya trans * activist, Asya, a positive blogger, Asya, influencer and person with disabilities, Sammy, a pregnant model Julia Trukhina and other women, each of whom has her own story of self-acceptance and her own characteristics.

 

TITLE: In my dreams

DIRECTOR: puss puss magazine

BRAND: EMMA TEMPEST

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

A visual exploration into the subconscious of a dream.

 

TITLE: Mirror

DIRECTOR: Stella Asia Consonni

BRAND: Vogue Ukraine

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

Mirror, directed by Stella Asia Consonni, explores the concept of the human soul as reflection of the world.

 

TITLE: The Royal Danish Ballet

DIRECTOR: Laurent Amiel

BRAND: Griegst, Vivienne Westwood, Acne Studios, Rokh, Elliss.

COUNTRY: Copenhagen – Danemark

Sonic and kinetic drama coexist in this film shot inside the Royal Danish Ballet. Dancers move to a cellist’s rendition of Bach’s Suite No 2 in D Minor, reframing the stoic facade of a historical institution.

 

TITLE: We Mind

DIRECTOR: Emma Nica Scarafiotti

BRAND: Lydia Fung (RCA) and Knitwear designer Khanh Brice Nguyen

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

“We Mind” is a dance short film, that involves the use of movements and the body with the aim to challenge stigma towards Mental Health especially through millennials and generation Z.

 

TITLE: SKIN

DIRECTOR: Jessica Candradi, Rizky Satari

BRAND: /

COUNTRY: Indonesia

A visual poetry of self-love.

 

TITLE: DISCORD

DIRECTOR: ZION LACROIX

BRAND: BOO PALA LONDON

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

In this digitalized distant world two clashing character’s path crosses by in London town and that’s where the discord starts.

 

TITLE: Presente

DIRECTOR: Sallve Beauty

BRAND: Jazzie Moyssiadis

COUNTRY: Brazil

Part of the summer campaign of the Brazilian skincare brand Sallve, the short Presente portraits two older women — longtime friends — that gather to enjoy a summer trip in a light-hearted mood.

 

TITLE: Beauty Standards

DIRECTOR: Valentino Zondi

BRAND: Bokisi

COUNTRY: South Africa

In a world where beauty standards are constantly and consistently being imposed on women, we find our character caught in a state of limbo and confusion having to decide to stay true to ones ideas of beauty or adopt the imposed version.

 

TITLE: Beautiful Ugly

DIRECTOR: Mykhailo Dolgin

BRAND: /

COUNTRY: United States

Behind every successful story there is pain, disappointment, tears and blood. Behind every fashion piece there are broken dreams, years of work and often ugly reality. For Viandka it is hard not to break under unfortunate circumstances of life.

 

TITLE: Wata

DIRECTOR: Ronan Mckenzie and Joy Yamusangie

BRAND: Gucci x Garage Magazine

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

Inspired by water deity Mami Wata, the film WATA illustrates the journey of music from Africa to London through the meeting of our two main characters; Mami Wata and The Musician.

 

TITLE: Otto & Leda

DIRECTOR: Marco Celotti

BRAND: Julian Fashion

COUNTRY: Italy

For some time now I have felt the need to tell the story of dogs like mine, who are abandoned, sometimes in countries where this means they are put down in kennels, but who through misfortune find someone’s love and a new life.

 

TITLE: She Knows

DIRECTOR: Pablo F Chocron

BRAND: Vasquiat

COUNTRY: Spain

The Vasquiat girl is the one who anticipates. The one that people watch because, in theory, something is not cool… until she wears it

 

TITLE: This Is Power

DIRECTOR: Nur Casadevall

BRAND: Violeta

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

Nur Casadevall’s latest campaign for Violeta by MANGO. ‘This is Power’ portraits eight women who embrace the power of being women

 

TITLE: LAPSE

DIRECTOR: Domenico Onorato

BRAND: MARCO RAMBALDI

COUNTRY: Italy

Three women meet at the river to come to terms with their wounds and their desire for redemption.

 

TITLE: Monique Baumann PRIVATE VIEW

DIRECTOR: Catherine Hyland

BRAND: Le Labo | Nowness | Another Magazine

COUNTRY: Switzerland

The high fashion collage artist creates a new body of work to mark the tenth anniversary of Another 13—the fragrance collaboration between Le Labo and AnOther Magazine

 

TITLE: Physical Thoughts

DIRECTOR: Anne Hollowday

BRAND: Create Art Performance

COUNTRY: United States

A dancer reflects on a recent injury.

 

TITLE: Women We Love

DIRECTOR: Osman Özel

BRAND: AZI

COUNTRY: Uzbekistan

Let the inner child out. Look at the core of things. Listen to the ear of the heart. Feel the ease of the body. Touch the wild of the soul. Jump, dance and sing. Read fairytales. Play with the Earth. In the mountains, by the sea, in the city. Let things be.

 

TITLE: The Dreamers: Lucia Liu

DIRECTOR: William Kennedy

BRAND: Burberry

COUNTRY: China

The Dreamers profiles women who have imagined their careers into being, usually in opposition to the cultural zeitgeist.

 

TITLE: Immortal goddess

DIRECTOR: Nabil Mendes

BRAND: Hermès

COUNTRY: France

A full moon night, the dance of a goddess overflows on earth..

 

TITLE: SELF-POLLINATION

DIRECTOR: Mary Rozzi

BRAND: Editorial Playboy USA + The September issues Magazine

COUNTRY: USA

Director Mary Rozzi teams up with performance artist Millie Brown for a performative installation piece on pollination-exploring the regeneration of life on earth, and highlighting the seductive matrimony between flower and bee.

 

TITLE: Athlete in Progress: Dina Asher-Smith

DIRECTOR: Rei Nadal

BRAND: Nike

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

Athlete in Progress: Dina Asher-Smith

Step onto the race track in this high-octane portrait of Britain’s fastest woman—in partnership with Nike

 

TITLE: Lost in LA – Alice Phoebe Lou

DIRECTOR: Caroline Mackintosh

BRAND: Document Journal

COUNTRY: Germany

Video for Alice Phoebe Lou and Document Journal. Song titled “Lost in LA”

 

TITLE: Showing Up Showing Out

DIRECTOR: Margot Bowman

BRAND: Carhartt

COUNTRY: United States

Showing Up Showing Out is an ode to the attitude that has kept Detroiters going for so long. The phrase is something you’d hear on the streets of a Detroit block and probably in any other Black city. Written by Imani Mixon

 

TITLE: Don’t Break My Heart

DIRECTOR: Amy Gwatkin

BRAND: /

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

Set in an imaginary club, the space film responds to a theme of fetish – which we interpreted as the particular ‘worms eye view’ in magazines that celebrate dominant females

 

TITLE: Invocation of my divine brother

DIRECTOR: Giulia Achenza

BRAND: Andrea Pompilio

COUNTRY: Italy