Fashion Film Festival | United Kingdom Fashion Film Festival

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JUDGES

Dr Rebekah Louisa Smith

Dr Rebekah Louisa Smith (aka Rebekah Film Dr) is an award-winning consultant and media personality with over 10 years of film festival strategy consulting experience.

After choosing not to pursue a career in Academia, Rebekah began her film industry career in 2009, working as one of the producers of Wales’ most successful national horror film festival; the ‘Abertoir Horror Festival’, which is part of the prestigious European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation.

Rebekah & the hard-working team behind her company; The Film Festival Doctor, are creators of success and are committed to nurturing filmmakers in order to help them secure an abundance of film festival screenings, win awards and a positive recognition within the film industry. Currently her company have won over 800 awards for their clients, secured 1 Oscar nomination and several BAFTA longlisted short films. Rebekah and her team have supported over 848 creatives across the world enlightening and inspiring their journey towards achieving their goals and following their filmmaking dreams.

Sofia Montes

Sofia Montes. Originally from Santo Domingo, from an early age showed interest in art, that’s why she obtained a degree in Industrial Design with a mention in Fashion Design, also specialized in Fashion Illustration.
In addition, I have successfully completed courses on the management of luxury brands and companies.

Then with a desire to experience other forms of art, she entered to study architecture and obtained the title of Architect, for which she carried out interior design, remodeling and construction jobs. But she never abandons her interest and passion for fashion, and makes several collaborations with other fashion designers, making accessories and styling for fashion shows and advertising campaigns.

She belonged to the board of Fashion Group International in the Dominican Republic. In 2016 Win the first place in the San Pellegrino Young Talent contest. And it presents its Duality collection at Costa Rica Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. In addition, collaborates and works as a costume assistant for film productions. This type of work sparks her interest in Fashion Films. By the end of 2016, Sofía Montes devised and carried out the first film show and the contest for fashion shorts exclusively dedicated to fashion, called Fashion Films RD, which serves as an exponential platform and development of new talents in the area of fashion design costumes for cinema.

Adrian Lazarus

“Founder of the Bokeh South African International Lifestyle & Fashion Film Festival, Adrian Lazarus is a Cape Town local who has travelled the world pursuing his love of Fashion Films!
Originally a producer, Adrian moved into the directing arena 19 years ago. After his fashion film, Steam 1886, won awards at both the La Jolla and Miami Fashion Film Festivals, he decided to create an international event to put Cape Town and South Africa on the fashion film festival circuit.
Adrian’s love of entertaining and his wonderful creativity, along with terrific partners Piper-Heidsieck Champagne & Mercedes-Benz, have allowed him to create a truly entertaining event of a global standard. Adrian lives in both Cape Town and on the French Riviera, loves cooking and travelling, and is deeply, madly, crazy in love with his wife Masha, and daughter Sienna

Holly Campbell

Holly Campbell is an Authentic Style Guide, Stylist and Creative Director.
In 2016 Holly launched ProjectFEM, a collective that imagined an empowered world of fashion. A runway show, with diverse models, conscious and feminist designers and thought-provoking creative direction, followed by attendee networking from students to artists, activists and politicians celebrated how the creativity of clothes bring people together and inspire conversation. ProjectFEM also held conversation online with articles on sustainability, empowerment and the landscape of fashion.
Holly’s work now focuses on the language of clothes and how the nature of our personal relationship with them offers a gateway for self-reflection, exploration and transformation. Holly inspires a journey of connecting with your unique essence expressed as your authentic style. This connection shapes your relationship with clothes and gives rise to new, diverse and creative fashion solutions.
Holly celebrates her own unique expression through styling, creative directing and modelling in shoots weaving her love of music, subculture and character in engaging visuals. She is also a 1960s and 1970s GoGo Dancer, has an MA in Media, Communications and Critical Practice and Ba (Hons) in Social Care. She has written for Grazia and LBBOnline, sat on a Women’s Institute Panel and held a sold out talk on contemporary feminism for UAL students.