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André Silva is a filmmaker, animator, and educator based in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. His work moves between environmental documentary, essay film, animation, and experimental media, exploring relationships between ecology, technology, consciousness, and the more-than-human world. Working across both observational and highly constructed forms, his films range from immersive environmental encounters to speculative animated worlds shaped by mythological, technological, and cosmological ideas.
His films have screened nationally and internationally at festivals including SXSW, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Atlanta Film Festival. He is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist Fellowship.
Shannon Silva is a multi-modal filmmaker and Professor of Film Production at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has been showcased at prominent international festivals, including the London Short Film Festival, Melbourne Underground, Cucalorus, and Indie Grits. Her 2013 documentary, It's A Girl Thing, won Best Social Documentary at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. In 2021, her experimental animated documentary To Live and Die in the Shadowsreceived the Best Environment and Climate Short Film award at the Mannheim Arts and Film Festival. Shannon founded the Visions Film Festival & Conference and is currently working on Burn, an experimental animation exploring the intersection of climate crisis and disability. She is also producing Andre Silva’s environmental installation project, Films for Trees.