Seeker Wins Best VFX at Portland Fest

"Seeker" Wins Best VFX at Portland Short Fest

Congratulations to Escapee Rassoul Edji, whose short film "Seeker" has won Best VFX at the Portland Film Festival. 

 "Seeker" is a short sci-fi film directed by Rassoul Edji and produced by Tosin Ogunleye, about a giant robot running amok in suburban England.  Seeker has won many festival awards. 

About "Seeker"

"Seeker" was directed by Rassoul Edji, produced by Tosin Ogunleye, and overseen by supervising tutors Jonathan McFall and Allar Kaasik.

The live action shoot on Seeker was filmed in a modernist villa in Kent, just before Lockdown 1.0 in March 2020.

You can watch "Seeker" below; it is just over one minute long.

Seeker - A VFX Short Film from Rassoul Edji on Vimeo.

Credits

• Rassoul Edji, Director, Editor, Animator, Titles, Colour Grading
• Tosin Ogunleye - Producer, Compositor, Matchmove
• Oscar Lowe - Executive Producer, 3D
• Zack Bish - Music
• Matteo Balduzzi - Director of Photography
• Vincenzo Meola - Actor, Compositor, Matchmove
• Tim Coleman - 3D
• C.J. Burbage - Animation
• Luca Valentino - Compositing, Matchmove
• Milan Grundza - Compositing, Matchmove
• Charlotte Derry - Compositing
• Will Philips - Matchmove
• Pranav Borse - Matchmove

Seeker at IMDB
You can find "Seeker" at the IMDB here. 

Festival Success

"Seeker", has won many festival awards:

• Best VFX at Portland Short Fest
• Bronze Award (Third Place) at the Fargo Film Festival, in the category of "Best Two Minute Film". 
• "Best Trailer" at the Bucharest Shortcut Film Fest
• "Best VFX" at the Flicks Film Festival in London
• Best Low Budget Film at the Assurdo Film Festival in Milan
• "Best Short" at Lisbon Film Fest
• "Best Cinematography" at the European Film Festival.  
• Finalist in the 2020 Rookies
• Nominated for Best Director at the Prague Film Festival.

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