Over the last twenty years, my work, my sexuality, and my heritage have intertwined to inform my creativity and drive me on my mission to help serve the communities I am a part of. But it wasn’t always like that…
Reconstructing a historical past on screen is no easy task. Making moving images feel increasingly authentic, whether in film or television, requires a careful orchestration of multiple creative disciplines.
For our new series Being Queer in… we’ve hand-selected some incredible people to tell their stories and give us candid accounts of the queer experience in the creative industries. Being Queer in… is inspiring, raw, and dripping with authenticity.
“MOUVO has always aimed to be a small, intimate event, not a large and impersonal gathering. We’ve focused on creating a friendly, personal environment where everyone feels welcome, finds something meaningful, leaves inspired, and returns has always been part of our big dream for MOUVO. We believe it has come true.”
“Yet, whether that truly qualifies as “feeling” is another matter. Feelings, as I see them, are more than responses—they’re deeply entwined with experience, memory, and context, elements that a machine would struggle to truly comprehend without having a human’s lived experiences.”
At his first student-film showcase he screened a slap-stick comedy short to stone silence, just crickets and no laughs, while the crowd reacted to arty films and tortured dramas. “Bombing that hard was liberating,” he grins. Translation: if nobody’s clapping anyway, you might as well break stuff.
“Scaling a creative business is not only about adding bodies or landing prestige accounts. It’s about evolving your identity and removing the Imposter Syndrome in a brand. It starts with the realization that what got you here—your hustle, your hands-on control, your ability to do it all—isn’t what will take you to the next level.”
Motion Plus Design’s journey began in a sunlit Paris studio in 2011, when title designer Kook Ewo set out to champion his craft. Joined by Carla Canard, Ronan Guitton, Mathilde Ammar, and Yu Hu, the team shaped a festival devoted to celebrating Motion Design as a serious art form.
Digital Design Days, the international festival recognized as a leading platform for digital creatives, will mark its 10th anniversary this year with two distinct editions in Palermo and Milan. The milestone moment not only reflects the event’s enduring influence in the design and technology sectors, but also introduces a strategic expansion into Southern Italy.
