Motionmaker Fund
motionmaker
Jury
Casey Neistat
Filmmaker
Timothy Whitney
Producer/Director
Gordon Hurd
Senior Editorial Director at Interactive One
Dawnie Walton
Managing Editor of ESSENCE.com
Romain Thomassin
Motionmaker Program Director (USA)
Daniel Yankiver
Creative Content Manager (USA)
Anthony Layser
Senior Editor (USA)
Neil Gladstone
VP of Content (USA)
Results
In the city that never sleeps, meet the people who make a living off the beaten track. In W?RK nyc, come discover New Yorkers’ odd jobs… Jobs you never would have thought existed. This project aims to document people’s creativity, drive and the crafty ways they stay afloat.
’Sell Yourself’ is a buddy comedy set in the ridiculous world of commercial acting. Aaron intends to produce a character-driven web series that is grounded and fun, that caps each episode with a commercial parody springing from the audition of that episode. To maximize popularity, each episode will be compact, inexpensive and hilarious from beginning to end. The web series is about Justin, a thirty-year-old, jaded actor who takes under his wing Aaron, a naive actor in his twenties as they try and work their way through the depressing world of commercial auditions. Watch as they hit on actresses, try to rattle the other actors, and fight with each other to try and book a sweet commercial gig.
This will be a music video for Camille’s song “Monster Under My Bed” off her new album Silly Jazz. This video is meant to be whimsical and fun. Even though her songs aren't necessarily children's songs, the video will have a child-like feel because the action will take place in a diorama (like the ones that children make out of shoe boxes.) She will use cardboard, construction paper, toothpicks and other "crafts" materials. Using a green screen, she will insert the actors into the diorama and they will interact with props so that they look like they are the size of dolls. The music video will be silly and fun! Just like the lyrics! This will be a music video that kids and adults will enjoy.
This is a comedy web series about Bonkers, a bottomed-out clown living in downtown Los Angeles. Faced with years of mounting depression and hopelessness, Bonkers has turned to vigilante justice as his only way to engage with the world. By day, he's a children's party clown, operating his freelance business alone out of a dingy apartment. He rides the bus to gigs and drinks his way through his days off. But at night, Bonkers comes alive. Ever since his wife was killed years earlier, he's made it his mission to rid the city of its dangerous criminal element, one bad guy at a time. He does it with a vicious style of street justice, and no regard for collateral damage. This is a story about loneliness, sadness, violence, and revenge. It's about hiding from the world by day, and ruling the streets at night. It's about one clown and the city he lives in, constantly at war with each other. There will also be some balloon animals.
A stylized fight scene in which every punch, kick and attack is timed EXACTLY to the music. Through this awesome trick, he tells a simple but suspenseful story between what the two martial arts savvy characters are fighting over. This idea is made distinctly to fit the heavy, layered beats made popular by electronic / dubstep type music, based on a visual gimmick that’s brand new to the music video universe. Stephen has a lot of experience with fight choreography and feels confident in delivering a top of the line and unrivaled fight video.
Hardly superheroes at all, really. A run-of the mill crime fighting duo must overcome a sudden existential crisis to save the girl, defeat the villain, and take their first step into the world of A-List heroics! Think Scott Pilgrim vs. The World meets Wes Anderson. That will ultimately be the overall tone of the piece as well. A nice amalgam of pop fizzle and art house - like Drive, but streamlined, more light-hearted, with superheroes. Mediocre superheroes. Nothing should be taken terribly serious - thatʼs the fun in it.
Nitro Warriors 2 will take to the skies in a miniature Manhattan with more epic action and set-pieces that made the first film famous with 5 star reviews across the internet. The film will be mainly stop motion animation and filmed on iPhones with complex rigging systems for objects and camera. They will employ the use CGI removal and background replacement on rigs as well as the creation of a ‘flight rig’ for motion of camera.
"The Morning Announcements" is a comedy web series created by Rachel Wenitsky and David Sidorov. Tune in to Lincoln High School's closed circuit TV station for the hardest hitting news about after-school activities, student clubs, and what is for lunch this week. Our anchors have the inside scoop on everything you need to know if you're a student or faculty member at Lincoln High.
Celebrate is a series of standalone short films about human growth and realization in the context of cultural celebrations and festivals. Spanning the globe, each piece seeks to find meaning on both the personal and global scale, by concentrating on one local person's story in the shadow of that cultures great annual festival. This series is an exploration of the link between people and their unique annual traditions, presented as startlingly beautiful story portraits.
It flips the coin and takes a look at the 1960's advertisement industry from the eyes of three black ad workers. They all report to a white creative director who is a belligerent bigot desperately trying to stay in the closet even though everyone at the firm knows his secret. This project aims to humorously criticize the racial stereotypes present in advertisements and business of the time.