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Director’s Statement

RENÉ Endless Shades focuses on embracing our own uniqueness and imperfections. The narrative follows a young female protagonist and artistically audio-visualizes mental health issues that we are all continuously surrounded by. A lot of my close friends struggle with their mental health, and the secluded times we live in enhance their feeling so it didn't take long for me to work on a project that covers part of this issue many people are suffering from and not a lot of people are speaking about.

As someone who works in the commercial field a lot, the urge for beauty is especially something that can be frightening. Young women are mostly suffering from it and thankfully a few brands in the field of beauty and fashion are targeting the topic. Still, a lot has to be done until we can live in a (kind of) toxic-free world.

Endless Shades celebrates the fact that we all can overcome the hard times we face - even if we are on our own, even if we hate to look in the mirror every day, we just have to find the beauty in ourselves as every one of us is beautiful. This film should encourage people to become aware of and talk about mental health.

Please take the time to visit United for Global Mental Health and Wondermind.

Tags Drama Experimental Live-action Mental Health Narration

The founder of Hommage, Mark Shaba published this page on 12.01.2023. Mark is a filmmaker from Victoria, Australia. He respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners of the land on which he creates, promotes and screens art, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation who are the custodians.