2020 ShortFest Archive
WINNER: Best Documentary Short
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Savanah Leaf is a director, photographer, creative, and olympian, born in London, and raised, half of her life, in the Bay Area. Leaf has been published and/or screened in Tribeca Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Vogue Magazine, I-D magazine, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, V&A museum, ICA London and many more. Her talent as a director has lead her to work with clients including Warner Music Group, Roc Nation, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Nike, Adidas, Beats by Dre, Gilles Peterson, Common, Gary Clark Jr, and more. Taylor Russell is an actress, director, photographer and performing artist born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Taylor is best known for her work in the hit Netflix series ‘Lost in Space’ and will be seen next in Trey Edward Shults' feature film for A24, ‘WAVES’ opposite Lucas Hedges and Sterling K. Brown. As well as the feature ‘Words on Bathroom Walls’ opposite Charlie Plummer, Andy Garcia, Molly Parker, and Walton Goggins.