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Yurodivy

Based upon the legend of Sisyphus and using the voice of the late-philosopher Alan Watts, Yurodivy explores contemporary humankind's relentless pursuit for wealth and happiness.

  • Ryan Renshaw
    Director
    Bubblegum, Happy Ending, Still Life, Sapient, Warped Observance, Hiphop Puree, We Know Who You Are
  • Sara Taghaode
    Executive Producer
    Bubblegum, Happy Ending, Still Life
  • Kyle Page
    Concept & Choreography
  • Marlo Benjamin
    Key Cast
  • Maddi Campbell
    Key Cast
  • Damian Meredith
    Key Cast
  • Niharika Senapati
    Key Cast
  • Felix Sampson
    Key Cast
  • Michael Smith
    Key Cast
  • Glenn Thomas
    Key Cast
  • Liam Edward Brennan
    Director of Photography
  • Alisdair Macindoe
    Music
  • Brian Ritchie
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 51 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 26, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Aspect Ratio:
    5:6
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • 2024 The Indie Channel, SVOD Global Streaming Rights
    SVOD
    November 1, 2024
  • 2024 Pittsburgh International Dance Film Festival
    Pittsburgh
    United States
  • 2023 Screendance Festival
    Stockholm
    Sweden
  • 2023 Dance Camera North
    Minneapolis
    United States
  • 2023 [IN]terlaced: International Screendance Festival
    Idaho
    United States
  • 2023 Dancefilmmaking.com
    SVOD Online
  • 2023 Dance on Screen Festival
    Graz
    Austria
  • 2023 Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival
    West Tisbury
    United States
  • 2023 Flatpack Film Festival
    Birmingham
    United Kingdom
  • 2023 Contact Dance International Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
  • 2023 Opine Dance Film Festival
    Philadelphia
    United States
  • 2023 Lights Dance Festival
    Seattle
    United States
  • 2022 San Francisco Dance Film Festival
    San Francisco
    United States
  • 2022 Dance Camera West
    Los Angeles
    United States
  • 2022 Swiss Archive of Performing Arts, Das Tanzfestit
    Basel, Luzern, Zug, Uri, Lugano, Moutier, Poschiavo, Geneve and Lausanne
    Switzerland
  • 2022 Inshadow Festival
    Lisbon
    Portugal
  • 2022 Inspired Dance Film Festival
    Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth
    Australia
    Best Australian Film / Best Experimental Film
  • 2022 Thessaloniki Cinedance International
    Athens
    Greece
  • 2022 Framerush
    London
    United Kingdom
  • 2022 Context Film
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
  • 2022 Frame X Frame Film Festival
    Houston
    United States
  • 2022 Exeter Dance International Film Festival
    Exeter
    United Kingdom
  • 2022 Flatlands Dance Film Festival
    Illinois
    United States
  • 2022 TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE - International Screening of Experimental Films and Videopoems
    Tranås
    Sweden
  • 2022 Tanzahoi International Festival
    Hamburg
    Germany
  • 2022 Experimental Superstars
    Novi Sad
    Serbia
  • 2022 Danzattack, Internacional de Cinedanza
    Tenerife, Canary Islands
    Spain
  • 2022 Lago Film Festival
    Revine Lago
    Italy
  • 2022 18th Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
  • 2022 Short Shot Fest
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
  • 2022 Micromania Film Festival
    Buffalo
    United States
  • 2022 XPRMNTL the anti-film festival
    London
    United Kingdom
  • 2022 Moovy TanzFilm Festival
    Cologne
    Germany
  • 2022 Bizarrya Short Film Festival
    Porto
    Portugal
  • 2022 UnderExposed, Adelaide Fringe Festival
    Adelaide
    Australia
  • 2021 Best Instanbul Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    Best Experimental Short Film
  • 2021 NowHere Festival
    Seoul
    Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
    September 22, 2021
    Best Film
  • 2021 Cuerpo Mediado Festival de Videodanza
    Rosario
    Argentina
  • 2021 Chiayi International Three Minute Film Competition
    Taipei
    Taiwan
    Bronze Award
  • 2021 MICMX - Muestra Itinerante De Cine Mx
    Mexico City
    Mexico
  • 2021 Desenzano Film Festival
    Brescia
    Italy
  • 2021 Dancinema
    Vancouver
    Canada
  • 2021 Dancinema
    Washington
    United States
  • 2021 Biophilia Festival
    Mexico City
    Mexico
  • 2021 Film Fest by Rogue Dancer
    Online
  • 2021 IMARP - Mostra Internacional de dança - Imagens em Movimento
    São Paulo
    Brazil
Director Biography - Ryan Renshaw

A graduate of the esteemed Institut Villa Pierrefeu Finishing School with a Bachelor of Etiquette (with honours), Ryan Renshaw is film and television director based in the city of Shangri-La.
His career began in the 1990’s where he worked as a director for MTV in Australia, the United States and in Latin America. He has completed more than 80 music videos and worked as creative director for INXS.
Over the past 6 years he has turned his attention to Screendance. His screendance works have been screened at over 150 international film festivals including the prestigious San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Screendance International in Stockholm, and won the Jury Prize at the 2020 LA Dance Film Festival, the Grand Prix Nuria Font, Best International Film at Spain’s 2021 Fiver International Dance Film Festival, the Jury Prize for Best Film at 2020 Zinetika Festival in Pamplona, San Sebastian and Bilbao, Best In Show at Inspired Dance Film Festival, Sydney, Best Film at the NoWhere Festival in Seoul and the Audience Prize for Best Film at the 2020 Inshadow Festival, Portugal.

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