Audiovisual Content with Amandine Navarro
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Inspired by the urban culture of the 80s and 90s and the queer world, Amandine Navarro is an artist, videographer and director devoted to visual expression. Her strength is the conceptual idea of a production and she works in a global continuity to the purpose. She produces audiovisual content (video clip, fashion video, promotional video...) in the fields of music, fashion and advertising.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in France and taught this discipline to young students for three years. She emigrated to Quebec in 2010 where she studies marketing and graphic design. Afterwards, she took courses in film theory and techniques, which allowed her to work as a freelance director/videographer.
Bringing together performers from various professional backgrounds (actors, models, artists) or not, around a single criterion - the search for emotion - is a facet of her work that she particularly enjoys. She also attaches great importance to the framing and rhythm of the image through editing. She is currently co-writing her first professional short fiction film and shooting a new music video scheduled for release in the Fall of 2021. She likes to surround herself with an authentic and passionate team, aboard the same boat, conquering dreams.
What are you best known for?
I have been a director and producer of audiovisual content for five years. I started in the nightlife industry (clubs, parties, dj sets, etc.). Then, the fashion world opened its doors to me (events, fashion shows, fashion videos, etc.) as well as music. Through concert recordings and video clips, music has always been for me a main element in the narrative and emotional frameworks of my creations.
What is the first thing you directed?
I wrote and directed my first film when I was eighteen. It’s a horror movie I made with my friends, which gave me my first experience as a novice director. I decided to adapt it today, co-written with my collaborator, and it will be a thriller with a lot of suspense. Otherwise I am still very proud of my first video clip called “Hollywood Signals” by the band La Mécanique. Our first meeting, between the singer and me literally made a thunderbolt in the sky and we took it as a sign. It was a success and we continue to work together as real friends.
What are you working on that no one knows about yet?
I have many secret projects including a feature film that is currently in the writing phase, which I have been developing for a few years. We are also looking for funding for a visual album and the new video clip of Nick Saanto which will be a sequel to “Co lours”, the last production that won us awards in festivals such as Queer Global Arts Fest (New York), “Courts d’un soir” (Mon treal) and the London Best Music Video Award.