{"id":253,"date":"2024-07-30T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:02:25","slug":"films-selected-for-the-nff-student-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Films selected for the NFF Student Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AHA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AHA.png 321w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AHA-255x300.png 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazing summer news!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year not one, but two of my films have been selected for the student competition of the Netherlands Film Festival! This is a great honour and confirmation that when you love your craft and you work hard, your work will be noticed and appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film &#8221;De Anatomie van een Meermin&#8221; is my graduation film from my master&#8217;s in Composing for Film. It is a film made with the Film Academy of the Netherlands, and it premiered in the Film Academy FIlm Festival in the Eye FIlmmuseum on the 4th of July, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film &#8221;Little Pie in the Sky&#8221; was also made during my master&#8217;s studies, the music for which was recorded in FAMES Studio in Skopje, North Macedonia, with a student orchestra. The film premiered in Zwolle on the 1st of July, alongside with all the graduation films of the ArtEZ Animation Department of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The films are completely different from each other, both in themes and in musical ideas and inspirations. &#8221;De Anatomie van een Meermin&#8221; is a dark live-action short film, with many new and different sounds that surround the complex storytelling. For this soundtrack I recorded the electric violins with several guitar pedals, as well as distorted synth sounds and some acoustic ones. &#8221;Little Pie in the Sky&#8217;s&#8221; soundtrack is completely acoustic; there is only the small orchestra that was recorded all together, that creates a more approachable and sweet sound that supports grief as a thematic for the film. In this animation short film, the little boy, the protagonist of the film, is going through a colourful journey with an unlikely companion, a journey that is completely supported by the musical changes and developments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am proud of both of those films, and I am looking forward to the reception of a wider audience at the festival, from the 20th until the 27th of September in Utrecht! See you all there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-23-at-17.38.10_d0f1c699-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-23-at-17.38.10_d0f1c699-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-23-at-17.38.10_d0f1c699-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-23-at-17.38.10_d0f1c699-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-23-at-17.38.10_d0f1c699-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-23-at-17.38.10_d0f1c699.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LPitS_Still5-nfffff-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LPitS_Still5-nfffff-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LPitS_Still5-nfffff-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LPitS_Still5-nfffff-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LPitS_Still5-nfffff-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dimalexiou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LPitS_Still5-nfffff.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"De anatomie van een meermin - trailer eindexamenfilm Lichting 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Awomg7um1s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer Little Pie in the Sky\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ki8IQFPlfeY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing summer news! This year not one, but two of my films have been selected for the student competition of the Netherlands Film Festival! This is a great honour and confirmation that when you love your craft and you work hard, your work will be noticed and appreciated. 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