BANI

A charming creature, and aspiring actor, shares her life on Social Media.

  • Max Dennison
    Director
  • Max Dennison
    Writer
  • Isabella Dennison
    Key Cast
    "Baniwa & Leslie VO"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 28, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    iPhone / Ai
  • Aspect Ratio:
    9:16
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Max Dennison

I'm a writer, artist, and Senior Visual Effects Supervisor with nearly thirty years’ experience across feature films and television. My background spans an early career in Fine-Art and Illustration, Matte Painting, on-set supervision, VFX planning, through to creative direction and leading large teams of artists. I’ve worked with major studios around the world including Cinesite, DNEG, Framestore, Weta, and ILM, on over 65 productions including Chernobyl, Citadel, Emerald City, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter and Shakespeare in Love.
My work on Chernobyl was recognised with a Primetime Emmy, a VES Award, and a Broadcast Tech Innovation Award, and I've been BAFTA-nominated twice for my contributions to television. I was also named one of Variety’s ‘Elite Artisans’ in 2019.
My focus has always been on projects where visual effects principally serve story and character — where atmosphere, restraint, and realism can carry as much impact as spectacle. I am currently exploring AI as a storytelling medium where it can support the film-making process.

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Director Statement

Storytelling is key. It always has been and will continue to be so long into the future. The mediums used to tell these stories are principally the same. We still need to be entertained by someone else’s experience. Whether it fascinates us, makes us laugh, or cry, or makes us angry—the result is always based on an original experience, or an original idea.
My role as a filmmaker, is to tell these stories in the best way I can and using the broadest suite of tools at my disposal. I, like many others, yearn to be drawn into a narrative that engages my emotions. I want to feel inspired, changed in some way afterwards, my passions aroused when I either read a book, or watch a film or TV show.
Within each decade, comes new technology and the ability to tell stories in a different manner, but ultimately, all great stories continue to be ‘told’—transferred from one to another in the most creative ways possible.