The Heartbeats of the city: Ryan Eccleston is an award winning Photographer/Filmmaker. Born 1980 in Kingston, Jamaica. In 2008 Eccleston moved to Ethiopia where he worked for several years as a photographer and cinematography consultant. During his time living in Ethiopia. Eccleston traveled extensively throughout Eastern Africa. Much of Eccleston's work deals with the issues of Identity, culture, faith, economics and legacy.

Effy Adar is a Black self taught multidisciplinary artist, DJ, organizer and curator based in Amiskwaciwaskahikan on Treaty 6 territory. She is the co-creator of Night Comfort and deejays under EFFY IN THE SKY. Effy also styles and directs music videos and photo shoots. She has worked in theatre as an actor, sound and video designer. She uses dance, art and education for community building, healing, and celebration. She loves making art, teaching workshops, and working on grassroots projects. Effy believes in creating the world we want to live in by finding imaginative ways to learn, connect, express, and contribute.

Director Statement “Shea” follows a family displaced by greed searching for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they stumble upon pieces of home, orbiting around one specific finding; a traditional African couch. As the poem continues the family “nests” and adorns themselves in the magical gifts of the land.

The bass, the ululation, the tall grass, and the beautiful, visibily queer and/or intergenerational cast was all meant to show the array of Blackness present in our families. Made or born into. It is the second last piece on NASRA’s debut EP “Salve”. A project invested in Black Indigenous healing; every song or poem representing a different herb and its medicine. “Shea” speaks to the belief that no matter where Black/African/Indigenous peoples land, we carry our beauty, joy, resilience and magic with us. Just as the shea tree has, all these generations later.

A representative concept that explores one's State of BEING,

portraying the Transformation and Transcendence into a higher state of one's Self in our pursuit of greener pastures.

GOLDEN: We are Merel Hooglander (21), Creative Business student, and Laura Iwuchukwu (20), journalism student. Together, we got the opportunity to make our first ever documentary! This was made possible by our minor CampusDoc at the University of Applied sciences Utrecht.

My Dream; Saad Khan...A short film I directed and animated. It's based on a poem by Todd Micheal St. Pierre. I worked about 4-5 days on this project; a relatively short period of time since I had to send this for a competition. It was animated on a combination of 2s, 3s and 4s with a frame rate of 24 per second. I used Photoshop 2019.