Mobile Filmmaking Specialization for Professional Social Media Content

Cassius Rayner has been working in the film industry for over 25 years. Throughout his career, he worked as everything from a TV runner to building music video props, until finally finding his calling: becoming a filmmaker. He went on to become a camera operator for clients like the United Nations, local TV news channels, music videos, comedy programs, and commercials.

He directed his first film, JUNK, in 1997, which featured pop legend Adam Ant and went on to win Best Independent Film. He continues making documentaries for broadcasting stations like ABC, Sky, PBS, and BBC. In 2014, he decided to take his filmmaking in a different direction, and started shooting exclusively with his iPhone, making documentaries, music videos, branded content, and more for clients all around the world. Since then, he’s gone on to win 14 international film awards.

Arnulfur Hakonarson is an Icelandic photographer, videographer, and content creator living in Stockholm. For the last few years, he has dedicated himself to building his own personal brand, That Icelandic Guy, using TikTok and other social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube to gain attention and followers.
Arnulfur is a full-time content creator who is passionate about teaching and sharing his knowledge with his followers. He has worked with a variety of brands to produce unique creative content and currently has over 600k followers on TikTok.

Jose Prada is a Spanish filmmaker who made his cross-over to the audiovisual world in 2003. Rene Strgar is a professional snowboarder-turned-filmmaker after suffering an injury in 2007. The two met in London, and eventually founded JRVISUALS.

Together, they have worked with industry giants like L’Oréal, Red Bull, Zara, NHS, Fourpure Brewing Co., Sambrook’s Brewery, Tefal, Eating Europe, Italcrem coffee, and Neverland Festival among others. They are also recipients of numerous awards like Nespresso Talents Spain (2017 & 2019) and Official Selection from Cinema Shots (2020).

Anna Pepe is a Tbilisi-based contemporary artist. She creates bold and powerful abstract artwork, inspired by the beauty of recurring lines and feminine forms. Studying feminine beauty and architectural simple lines are core themes in her work. She’s a self-taught artist who’s learned through practice, and continued expanding her expertise in Italy, Belgium, and other countries throughout the world.

In 2013, Anna moved to Georgia where she founded her art project, Forn Studio. She actively sells her artwork to US and European collectors and her acrylic canvases, giclée prints, and geometric drawings have been sold to both private commissions and corporate collections worldwide. Her artwork is also exhibited in several spaces around Tbilisi

Charlene Tassinari and Carly Potock, the co-founders of Canvas+Co, met in 2015 while working at Google, and together went on to launch YouTube's first digital video brand strategy team for businesses. They discovered that achieving true success on YouTube was a common challenge for a wide range of different brands, and as a result developed creative tools like Video Builder for YouTube, and launched Google's first video production partnership program: the YouTube Creative Directory.
In 2020, the creative duo founded Canvas+Co to help more brands learn how to build effective, cross-platform video marketing strategies that grab consumers' attention and boost revenue on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. Their clients include Pizza Hut, Zenni Optical, Roman, VICI, Backcountry, and Nunn.

Pete Majarich is a designer and director from Sydney, Australia. He originally studied Information Technology and Computing at the University of New South Wales, but quickly realized it wasn’t the field for him and decided to move into the world of creativity and advertising. The diversity of themes in his work is evidence of the wealth of experience he possesses in many creative fields, including VFX, theater direction, copywriting, design, and science fiction writing.

Pete created VFX for the short film Alien: Harvest to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ridley Scott franchise, and his work has been featured by Adobe, Wired, and even The Academy Awards’ Twitter account. He has also collaborated with brands such as Nike, Google, Coca-Cola, and Universal Music.