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Every year the monsoon arrives and takes over — the sky, the earth, the air, the people. I've never seen a film made to celebrate that. So I made one.
Built entirely on Envato. No music — just the sounds of the monsoon itself. Every creative call was a human one: what to search for, what to reject, when to pull the music out, when to go black and white, when to stop.
The tools were Envato's. The vision was mine. The monsoon did the rest.
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