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Saigon, Kosovo, one half of Tin Dirdamal's The Thing About AI is... pair of short films, had its World Premiere at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in October 2024, in the 'Fascinations' section - and won the section's main award. Tin is a previous award-winner at the festival with his feature Dark Light Voyage; Gerard was an Executive Producer on both. Saigon, Kosovo later played at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and at Ambulante Festival in Mexico. Here's a link to the film's programme entry for Ji.hlava:
https://www.ji-hlava.com/filmy/saigon-kosovo
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OTHER NEWS
Chongyan Liu was selected for the 'Doc Station' in the prestigious Berlinale Talents in 2024, and attended with a feature documentary project, Niche of the Dragon. Gerard has been consulting on the project, now renamed The Missing People, which is now in active development. This was Chongyan's entry in the Talents catalogue:
https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt//talent/chongyan-liu/profile
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​​Gerard is Consultant on Philippika - Strangers Need Love Too, Sabrina Mertens' second feature film, which is her graduation film from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. (Sabrina's first feature, Time Of Moulting, was selected for Rotterdam and played commercially in the US.) Philippika is produced by Lorenzo Gandolfo; post-production is under way. A little more about Lorenzo::
https://lorenzo-gandolfo.com/vision/
​Gerard's consultancy on Chongyan Liu's and Thomas Moore's future work in production and distribution (through their operations Another Image and Random Headache), has led to involvement in a number of short films, starting with festival submissions for Hanul Seo's short film After That and Baowei Guo's animated short The Apple Never Falls, which has just received its World Premiere at the Avanca Festival in Portugal.
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​Gerard is consulting with Ernesto Livon-Grosman on a feature-length "found footage” documentary film he is developing (Argentina – USA – Spain). and helping him place his feature music documentary Wolff On Composition. This link leads to that film's beautiful website:
https://www.wolffoncomposition.com/
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Deborah Phillips' short film 1014, on which Gerard was Associate Producer, had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2024, and was later selected for FICUNAM, Kassel, Bolzano, Prisme (Nantes) and other festivals. Here's a link to the Rotterdam programme:
​https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/1014
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​Gerard is an Executive Producer on a tetralogy of feature films, Light and the Beginning of Future, directed by Tin Dirdamal: Dark Light Voyage (now taken out of circulation by its maker) and the forthcoming films Beyond Eden, No God Above and The Last Film.
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