“Musical sensations… are like a pool of insects, moving all the time where there’s never a set pattern. And that’s what sound does. It’s always constantly moving throughout your body and you can’t quite pinpoint what that is, the journey of the sound, but you can pinpoint the attack, and that’s very important. The art of listening is really to experience then what happens after that attack so that you can link up the next sound” - Dame Evelyn Glennie
Natalie Kadas / Director
Born in 1976 to Hungarian parents, Natalie Kadas is a London-based, first-time writer/director. As a photographer, video artist, lawyer and manager, Natalie has worked for some of the world’s leading organisations including White & Case LLP and the Quintessentially Group, following degrees in Archaeology & Anthropology and Architecture & the Moving Image from Cambridge University, and professional legal studies at BPP Law School. A true Renaissance woman, Natalie has balanced a successful creative and corporate portfolio career over the last 15 years, reaching critical acclaim with her personal photographic series and video art following her participation at the internationally-renowned Rencontres de Photographie d’Arles, France in 2009 and 2011.
Since then, she has widely exhibited her portrait and fashion photography, shot with actors, models, musicians and celebrities from Los Angeles, Paris and London, held numerous pop-up photography, video and kinetic art events, and undertaken masterclasses with award-winning and globally-acclaimed photographic artists Diana Lui, Antoine D’Agata and Nick Knight. In 2016 she shot submissions for 10 Magazine, a brief based on Miu Miu SS16, and conceived and directed her first fashion film, an Instagram micro-short for Mastered by Nick Knight X Adidas, featuring an original lyrical commission by acclaimed London rapper and actor Craige Middleburg aka ‘Magic’.
Natalie’s work has been characterised by its sensitive portrayal of intense subject matters as well as a the cinematographic quality of her composition and lighting techniques, often using unusual tools including analogue torches and other lighting sources. In her moving image work, Natalie has always been passionate about the delicate interplay between image and sound design, and has drawn upon her early studies as a cellist and later deep interest in electronic music composition. Mirrors of Sound is her short film debut.
Aitor Etxebarria /
Composer
Aitor Etxebarria is a music composer represented by mute. Born in Guernica in 1985, Aitor combines electronic and acoustic instruments with a primary focus on pianos and synthesizers, coupled with recordings which range from post-rock depressive landscapes to minimalistic ambient scenarios. A learned percussionist, pianist and a vintage gear collector, Etxebarria is a lover of repetitions with a passionate obsession.
Dame Evelyn Glennie /
Composer
Performing worldwide with the greatest orchestras, conductors and artists, Dame Evelyn Glennie’s solo recordings, which now exceed 30 CDs, are as diverse as her career on-stage. A double GRAMMY award winner and BAFTA nominee Evelyn is a composer for film, television and music library companies. Evelyn was awarded an OBE in 1993 and now has nearly 100 international awards to date, including the Polar Music Prize and the Companion of Honour. Evelyn is currently embarking on the formation of the Evelyn Glennie Archive Collection. The vision is to open a centre that embodies her mission to Teach the World to Listen.
Danny Hiele / Cinematographer
Over the last three decades, Belgian-born, Los Angeles-based award-winning cinematographer Danny Hiele has worked with many of the leading modern luminaries in the media industry: encompassing fiction film, commercials, TV and music videos. The list of his clients and collaborators is vast and illustrious, and includes Oliver Stone (working on ‘Alexander’ and ‘W’), Marilyn Manson, David Guetta, Rihanna, Pink, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, James Blake, Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus.
His music videos in particular have been seen by billions across the globe and earnt a place in pop cultural history. Two of his award-winning commercials are on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and have won AICP awards for excellence in Cinematography.
Danny’s film work has been universally lauded in the industry, with Oliver Stone praising him as “One-shot Danny!”, Josh Brolin mentioning that “Danny gets his camera in your face, and you don’t notice him” and Mickey Rourke commenting “I could see in Danny’s eyes if the take was good or not”. Danny’s work on ‘W’ earned him a place in film history in shooting a seemingly innocuous insert scene of a heeled lady stepping on a piece of corn at a Texan barbecue, that has taken on a level of symbolism and generated heated fan discussions and theories across the globe.
Danny is a passionate and self-proclaimed ‘old school’ Director of Photography, and he believes that great art is about “filling in your own story... it has to wake you up inside”. This is the approach he has taken throughout his work in cinematography and beyond. Danny also works as an accomplished painter, having first picked up a paintbrush at the tender age of eight, and currently works predominantly in oil when he’s not painting with light and lenses on a film set.
Emily Everdee /
Producer
Emily Everdee is a London-based producer, working freelance in production across fiction, commercials and music promos, as well as developing a slate of feature film and short film projects through her banner Everdee Media.
She has previously held scholarships from BAFTA and Warner Bros. Creative Talent, and graduated from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in early 2019 with an MA in Producing Film & Television. While at the NFTS, Emily was mentored by Tim Bevan of Working Title Films and Andrew Zein of Warner Bros. International TV Production. Prior to working in film, Emily graduated in 2015 with a BA in French Literature & Language from the University of Oxford.
