"Red Lion" by Oh. “Red Lion” Selected to Participate in the Lift-Off Sessions April 2019!

“Red Lion” by Oh. “Red Lion” Selected to Participate in the Lift-Off Sessions April 2019!

Lift-Off Sessions Pinewood Studios Oh. Red Lion Olivia Hadjiioannou

Oh. aka Olivia Hadjiioannou Film Festival

“Red Lion” was selected to participate in the Lift-Off Sessions online showcase for April 2019!

How cool is that?

It even made the #poster!!

Round 1 is the Global Social Crowd Round open to the general public, who rent the entire collection of films for the full duration of the week. The festival will be collecting “votes” that will come from votes for both their favourite, and second favourite film in the comments section on the Vimeo page. The video will be available for viewing on Vimeo On-Demand as part of a series of films that make up Lift-Off Sessions April 2019 from Monday 15th April 00:00 (BST), and it will be live for the entire week – ending late on Sunday night.

So, you can join the festival by renting the collection on Vimeo and vote in the comments section. It’s a wonderful opportunity to see what other filmmaker’s are doing around the world — and see some great indie work.

Remember you must vote for two films (or the vote doesn’t count)

Your favorite and second favorite.

So click the button below an enjoy!

VOTE FOR RED LION

The Lift-Off Sessions is an online showcase, dedicated to bringing new audiences to the indie film market, ending with an annual live screening of the winning films at Pinewood Studios in the UK.

Lift-Off Film Festivals are in Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, and London. Lift-Off Film Festival is a global showcase for filmmakers.

Every film will be screened for 1 week, via Vimeo On-Demand, that is available through Smart TV’s, Desktops, and a whole bunch of mobile devices including tablets and phones. Each film will sit within their respective programmes, with the top five voted films on each page being sent through to our final round.

Screening the latest indie shorts to as wide an audience as possible is the mission of the Lift-Off Sessions. It provides an invaluable opportunity for filmmakers and film enthusiasts to see lots of their contemporaries’ work.

The winning project will receive an official selection for a live screening at Pinewood Studios next year – along with Professional Lift-Off Network Membership for the filmmakers and producers involved with the project.

Lift-Off Film Festivals

Berlin
Manchester
Tokyo
New York
Toronto
Los Angeles
Amsterdam
Paris
Sydney
Melbourne
London

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RED LION by Oh. Olivia Hadjiioannou RED LION

The numinous Red Lion illuminates the road of the warrior goddess Metallia to restore the ever-present multidimensional vision long lost to humanity.

Red Lion has the inner Fire but only in potential. He eats matter when given his freedom and does the work of Nature. He inspires intelligence, imagination and life but he can not escape the prison of the Earth plane and can not free himself though his own power. A special key is necessary to dissolve the chains of the Earth.

Director/composer Olivia Hadjiioannou (aka Oh.) presents a consciousness-expanding visual and acoustic odyssey within a multidimensional psychedelic landscape.

Inspired by scenes from Federico Fellini’s, “8 1/2”, Lewis Carroll’s, “Alice in Wonderland”, Maurice Sendak’s, “Where the Wild Things Are”, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s, “The Little Prince” and ancient Greek myth.

“Red Lion” is the first in a six-part series of animated music videos by the multi-instrumentalist, Oh. for the progressive metal album “Metallia“.

Directors Statement

We all want to have answers to the ultimate meaning of why we are here.

There’s a time when you need to set aside everything you already know. We collect experiences and impressions with our minds and this increases the presence of our soul.There is a duality not only without but within because the mind receives information from both the body and the spirit. If the connection is weak between the spirit and the mind – there is no possibility to see the whole or our state and place in existence. Our minds – our everyday consciousness is cluttered with judgements, repetition, echoes of apprehension and fear, debates and doubts. If left on its own without the guidance of spirit; we exist in a negative world, alienated, in conflict with reality.

This missing connection is at the core of all our physical, emotional and mental health issues.

There is a way to recover our initial state so we can truly begin our journey here as we were meant to.

We must isolate the thoughts, feelings and emotions produced by the physical body first. Then it will be possible to isolate the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are given by our spirits. Once both are recognized, a vision of an ever-present state of awareness awakens on its own.

Metallia acoustically and visually narrates this very intimate personal spiritual and psychic journey. – Olivia Hadjiioannou aka Oh.

“If you put Kate Bush, Auf Der Maur, Ayreon, Chiasmata, Igorrr, old White Zombie and Amogh Symphony in a blender with several metronomes running different time signatures, add a healthy dash of thrash riffs to the proggy mix and baked the resulting mixture for several hours you probably wouldn’t even come close to the sound.” – Lee Davidson – Prog Metal Madness

<a href="http://music.olitunes.com/album/metallia">Metallia by Oh.</a>

Poster "Red Lion" Music Video Oh. Olivia Hadjiioannou

Multi-instrumentalist and director Olivia Hadjiioannou as the artist Oh. has been honored for her ingenuity, innovation and creativity in music and video with multiple international awards. She made her debut as Oh. on the international music scene with the award-winning music video, "Trials" in 2013 – cited as one of the 50 top events to mark Greece during the economic crisis. With the advances of immersive video, she released her single "Love of Avalanches", mentioned in Huffington Post as one of first 360-degree immersive VR videos released by a Greek artist on YouTube in 2016.

The music video "Red Lion" is presently a winner and official selection in 12 film festivals worldwide. Winner of Best Music Video award in the inaugural French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF) in Cannes, France. Winner Best Music Video at the Cosmocinema Film Festival in London. Winner of the Best Music Video Short in The Psychedelic and Transpersonal Film and Music Festival that took place on May 25, 2019 at The Producer’s Club in New York City. Winner Best Experimental Mixed Media Short Film at the Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival in Southwestern Crete in Greece. Read more in her Bio and EPK

The EP “Metallia” has received over 32 reviews from 13 countries worldwide, is in top 10 progressive rock and metal charts and listed as one of the best albums of the year for 2018 on Metal Nation Radio.

“Metallia” by Oh. is an epical prog-metal composition in six parts. A multi-layered sonic piece of ravishing solo electric guitars, time-bending tempo shifts, grooving bass lines and deranged drums.

This instrumental progressive metal album will reveal its intricacies and hidden depths over time. It will extract from your mind pure visions, to mend your mental pictures, preen presumptions and to elicit an element of the unexpected…. because that is what will transmute your subliminal mind map into a remarkable blueprint which will lead you from wherever you are now, to wherever you want to be.