Best of the Decade

A curated retrospective of the most exciting films from previous BFFF editions + A Sneak Preview into the best and latest from BFFF’s awards competition 2021.

Colm Dillane aka Kidsuper

Precious insights from creative masterminds - Enjoy a quick interview with KidSuper’s Colm Dillane, Brooklyn’s most enigmatic streetwear designer, filmmaker and creative powerhouse.

Colm Dillane
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Amanda Prugnaud
Amanda Prugnaud is a Film and Philosophy student based in Paris. She is an aspiring screen-writer and actress, but is also passionate about journalism. She consequently is the editor of The Youth Collective Project, an online platform aiming to support teenagers' voices and critical thinking.

Best of the Decade

A curated retrospective of the most exciting films from previous BFFF editions + A Sneak Preview into the best and latest from BFFF’s awards competition 2021.

Danny Reinke

DANNY REINKE

»Working as a designer has taught me patience and persistence. For me personally, converting your own thoughts into cuts and designs is the highest estate of self-fulfillment.«

Danny Reinke

Founded in 2017, the Danny Reinke label stands for feminine, opulent and elegant fashion. With the use of drapery, elaborate corsets, tulle fabrics and complex patterns, the young German designer’s work can be seen somewhere between ready-to-wear and haute couture – an approach that the brand itself calls “prêt-à-couture.” For AW21, Danny Reinke is showing M.Ö.N.2.0, a collection inspired by the designer’s familial heritage combined with aspects of sustainability. Coming from a family of fishermen on the Baltic Sea, Reinke draws parallels between sustainable manufacturing in the fashion industry and gentle, sustainable fishing techniques. He incorporates colors inspired by the region’s natural palette – such as shades of yellow and blue – and uses wavelike shapes as well as embroidery that alludes to fish scales. Danny Reinke exclusively uses materials that are manufactured by hand at high quality standards. In 2014, the designer won the European Fashion Award for his graduate collection MÖN10.

Missing the runway? We take you directly to the front row - Live Fashion Show broadcasted from Kraftwerk Berlin.

Danny Reinke

A son of a fisherman, Danny was born in the north of Germany near the Baltic sea. Danny grew up fascinated with the sea and ships. Subtle elements in every collection reconstruct memories of early fishing. In 2009, Danny Reinke began a dual course of studies in fashion design and ladies’ tailoring at the FahModa Academy for Fashion and Design in Hanover. In 2012. He also attended the Kraków School of Art and Fashion Design. In 2013, Reinke finished his studies at the FahModa Academy where he is now a lecturer on design and technical drawing.

His designs ontrast sustainable production practices in the fashion industry with eco-friendly fishing methods to make a strong symbolic statement about the necessity of sustainability in our time. The garments themselves are all lovingly handmade from the highest quality materials in Reinke’s Berlin atelier, ensuring a responsible method of production that is critical to the message of sustainability that is so important to the brand

Thomas Lachambre

Film-Screening of WALKING and
short introduction by cinematographer Thomas Lachambre.

WALKING has been directed by legendary photographer Peter Lindbergh, Thomas Lachambre - Official Selection 2017 Berlin Fashion Film Festival.

DEDICATED TO FRANCA SOZZANI "WALKING”
FILMED JUNE 8, 9, 10. 2016, TIMES SQUARE NEW YORK, DURING THE SHOOTING OF THE OCTOBER 2016 VOGUE ITALY ISSUE.

Elena Petitti di Roreto

Elena Petitti di Roreto studied media design and received her BA and MA at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, and then film studies at the Pratt Institute in New York where she was nominated in the Pratt Institute’s Presidential List. Elena went on to study Creative Direction for Fashion at the London College of Fashion.

Elena worked as an editor at Collateral Films, a Milan-based production company. After one year she became the production company Art Director, and one year later she moved on to become a freelance art director and director.

Taking inspiration from art and photography, her films are characterized by a strong attention to aesthetics: details, light, and composition. Thanks to her editing experience she is able to build layered imaginative narratives. Working as an Art Director gave her the experience to deal with different types of media, making it easier to work alongside the client and incorporate enhanced methods to promote their content. Based in Milan and London, she has worked with several fashion brands and magazines such as Bottega Veneta, Mulberry, Valentino, Dries van Noten, Cos, Hugo Boss, Vogue Italia, and iD.

In the relatively short time, Elena’s been directing, her work has won many awards, including Best New Italian Film at the Fashion Film Festival Milano in 2018 and 2016.

Want to know about Elena’s creative endeavours and gain precious insights? Join the live-stream on Tuesday, January the 19th - Exact time TBA. Already curious? Find out more about Elena and her projects here.

Produced In collaboration with REKORDER.

Best of the Decade

A curated retrospective of the most exciting films from the decade / all selected films from previous BFFF editions, starting with films produced in 2011 up to 2020.

Metz+Racine

Metz+Racine is a partnership between Eve Racine and Barbara Metz, a still life photographers and directors duo formed in 2000. They have since established their reputation as pioneering and innovative image­makers.

Their refined eye and playful brilliance reveal the elegant, unconventional and secret lives of inanimate objects. Metz + Racine create poetic, visionary and beautiful imagery for a wide range of luxury, fashion, commercial and editorial clients.

Their clients include: Air France, Boucheron, Cartier, COS, Chanel, Dior, Hermès, Krug, Lacoste, Louis Vuitton, Jo Malone, Moynat, Miu Miu, Swarovski.

Editorial publications include: Corriere Della Sera Living, Dazed, Mixt(e), Numero, V Magazine, Viewpoint, Vogue and Wallpaper and many other publications.

www.metzracine.com
@metzracine

Amirah Tajdin

Amirah Tajdin is a Kenyan artist and filmmaker. She graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography) in South Africa and Goucher College Maryland (USA).

Over a ten year period of film-making, she has crafted a signature style of blending reality with fiction through her strong visual language in both her commercial and cinematic work. This has seen her helm campaigns for branded content, fashion films, music videos and TVCs for brands such as Cadillac, Saudi Telecom, Bloomingdales, Virgin Mobile, Pepsi and the Louvre Abu Dhabi make up some of her portfolio. The latter being a case study film for TBWA/RAAD’s Cannes Golden Lion for ‘The Highway Gallery Project’. Her branded content film SISTERHOOD: ACTION for Girls Who Code was a Tribeca X Award 2019 finalist.

She is a Sundance Institute fellow making her the first Kenyan director to be selected for both the Screenwriters Labs (Utah, 2017) and Director’s Lab (Utah, 2018) for her feature film currently in development. Her short film Marea di Tierra was in the main competition at Sundance (2016) and Cannes Director’s Fortnight (2015) and went on to play over 20 festivals globally. She has also directed various award-winning and nominated short films and feature-length documentaries.

She forms the creative half of SEVEN THIRTY Films an Africa-based indie production company, which she founded in Nairobi in 2011 alongside her sister, producer Wafa Tajdin. She is represented for commercials by RadicalMedia (London+Berlin) Scheme Engine (New York + LA) and Loveboat (Paris). She is represented globally for music videos by Scheme Engine.

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Best of the Decade

A curated retrospective of the most exciting films from the decade / all selected films from previous BFFF editions, starting with films produced in 2011 up to 2020.

Matthew Frost

Matthew Frost is a British American writer-director known for his shorts Aspirational (2014), Boomerang (2018), Digital Content (2019) and Fashion Film (2013). He has made a mark by satirizing fashion, advertising, and celebrity culture. Matthew was born in London before relocating to France where he grew up until attending the University of California at Berkeley in California. He got his start as a photographer before shooting short form and commercials. I Saw The Sign is his latest photo book about people gathering under the Hollywood sign (Damiani, 2019).

vimeo.com/matthewfrost
@_matthew_frost_

Best of the Decade

A curated retrospective of the most exciting films from the decade / all selected films from previous BFFF editions, starting with films produced in 2011 up to 2020.

Lennart Brede

Lennart Brede is a London and Berlin based artist working in the fields of photography and film. With 10 years in perfecting the art of visualizing ideas, he worked with a manifold list of people.

Coming from photography with exhibitions with Peter Lindbergh he expanded his work field quickly into films as well as Art Photography.

In his career Lennart has had the pleasure of collaborating with artists like Isabeli Fontana, Booba, Paul Rodriguez, Tarsem, Idris Elba and Daryl Hannah.

Looking at his portfolio you’ll see that he moves comfortably through the worlds of art, film and video installations to abstract- and people photography with his unique eye.

VOGUE ITALIA “NO, BUT YES“ Fashion Film, 2021, Writer, Director, DOP
“DONT DO IT“ Art Film, 2020, Writer, Director, DOP
CHILDREN “DSCHUNGEL“ Music Video, 2020, Director, DOP
MANHEIMER Berlin Fashion Film, 2019, Director, DOP
FINDING THE BEAUTY Feature Documentary, 2018, Director, Camera
with Augustin Teboul, Ralf Schmerberg, Jon Kamen, Flake Lorenz, Ebon Heath, Walter Schreifels, Jaybo Monk, Ryan Mendoza, Amir Kassaei, Ryan Sikorski, Richard Coll
"JOEY’S DAY OFF" Short Film, 2017, Director, Production Commission: OPM
Highsnobiety, Screening
"TOGETHERNESS" Dance Film, 2016, Director, Camera, Edit, Dancer: Iana Salenko & Marian Walter (Deutsche Oper Berlin)
"TRIPTYCH NOIR" Film Installation, 2016, Concept, Director
SHOWstudio 
"COCONUT" Short Film, 2016 Director, Writer
“SPACE COWBOY“ Music Video, 2015 Director
RISE AND SHINE , Dance Film, 2015, Director, Feat. Iana Salenko, Prima Ballerina, Royal Opera London, Deutsche Oper Berlin
"SOCRATES CHILD" Fashion Film, 2012 
“ESCADA“ starring Isabeli Fontana Fashion Film, 2011
“DRAW OR DIE”, Documentary, 2010, Director, Camera, Edit,
Production: Good Pictures, Illustrations, Concept Art by Sixmorevodka, Marvel Comics, Massive Black Inc.
“LA MEZCLA” (PAUL KALKBRENNER RMX), 2010, Musicvideo, Director, Camera, Edit Production Good Pictures
SOMETHING A LA MODE/ KARL LAGERFELD Musicvideo,2010 Director, Camera, Edit Production : Good Pictures, Style and the family tunes  

Clients: L’OREAL, MAX FACTOR, VOGUE ITALIA, COCA-COLA, JOHNSON & JOHNSON, PEPSI, NIKE, ADIDAS, FOOTLOCKER, VW, STAR ALLIANCE, DEUTSCHE BAHN, TGV, SONY, ESCADA, JACK DANIELS, IVY PARK, OPPO, ÜNKUT, FERRERO, RED CROSS, VILLEROY BOCH, S.OLIVER, LEVIS, ABOUT YOU, ZALANDO, UNIVERSAL MUSIC, SONY MUSIC a.m.m. 

Agencies: AMV BBDO, Wieden & Kennedy, Sid Lee Jimmy Lee, Anomaly, Heimat, Jung von Matt, DDB, thjnk, Grabarz & Partner, McCann, Serviceplan, Ogilvy & Mathers, Yadastar a.m.m. 

Lennart Brede x Radical Media

www.lennartbrede.com

Best of the Decade

A curated retrospective of the most exciting films from the decade / all selected films from previous BFFF editions, starting with films produced in 2011 up to 2020.