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Watch: Funky Sci-Fi Music Video for ‘The Day When We Fall In Love’

"Dreams and illusions collide like spark dazzling in the sky." FS has been posting unique music videos for years in our acclaimed Short Film section - and here's another funky one to add to our growing selection sci-fi music videos. This funky, flashy sci-fi music video is for the song "The Day When We Fall In Love", a collaboration between the artists Sing Sing Rabbit and Kelly Chen. The Cantonese language song (with subtitles included!) has a music video created by the Hong Kong based filmmaker Andy Tang, who runs a company called UnderThePillow - with the artist known as "Sing Sing Rabbit". The film has been selected to show as part of the 2024 Cinequest Film Festival selection this year, playing as a short in front of the film Three Birthdays. Sing Sing Rabbit plays Emma, who lives on a planet that is about to be destroyed, walking along the dunes with her violin, remembering the mysterious and fantastic story of the Star Tribe that her grandfather told her. She decides to start a wishing journey, hoping to send ...
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2024 Indie Spirit Awards: ‘Past Lives’ Wins Best Film & Best Director

The Independent Spirit Awards are an annual award given in the name of independent film, featuring all of the indie films which deserve honor and recognition - celebrating their 39th year. The 2024 winners of the Spirit Awards were announced Saturday evening, in their usual spot in Santa Monica near the beach - this time just a week before the Oscars. The big winner this year is the beloved Past Lives, taking both Best Film and Best Director (Celine Song also won a DGA Award for Best First Feature). The other nominations from all the 2023 releases included many outstanding indie films many cinephiles have been talking up all year, deserving of some extra time in the spotlight - gems like May December, American Fiction, Passages, Earth Mama, All of Us Strangers, Theater Camp, BlackBerry, and The Starling Girl. As usual, there are a few surprises: I've never heard of Chronicles of a Wandering Saint (an Argentinian film titled Crónicas de una Santa Errante in Spanish) or Upon Entry before their nominations; We Grown Now (watch the trailer) and Mountains ...