"Seeker" Wins Best Trailer at Onyko Fest

"Seeker" wins Best Trailer at the Onyko Film Festival

Congratulations to the makers of "Seeker"  which has won Best Trailer at the Onyko Film Festival.

 "Seeker" is a short sci-fi film directed by Rassoul Edji and produced by Tosin Ogunleye.   Seeker is about a giant robot running amok in suburban England. It 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 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 Trailer at the Onyko Film Festival.
• Best Trailer at the Costa Brava Film festival. 
• Honourable Mention in the category of Best VFX at the LIMFF
• 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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