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FINESILVER MEDIA
A LITTLE ABOUT US
Like most films, the story behind Finesilver media lies within the history and background of its creator Joshua Belinfante. 'Fjainsilber' is the Polish last name of Joshua's mother's family. The family worked as tailors for the Russian army in World War 2 and immigrated to Australia in the 50s.
When they arrived in Sydney with very little, Uszer Fjainsilber set up his own tailoring business and took a risk. When the factory opened to the public a close friend hammered a single silver horseshoe on the door for luck.
Joshua wanted to forge the family's legacy into something meaningful and use the spirit of that time to communicate stories, old and new.
Named after the silver halide crystals involved in the traditional cinema process, our work and our processes are based on the traditional way of doing things. We get stories so let us tell yours!
OUR STORY
OUR CREW
Dr. JOSHUA BELINFANTE
FOUNDER | FILMMAKER
ADG, ASE, ACS
Polish, Australian filmmaker Joshua Belinfante holds an eye for the eccentric and the surreal. Joshua Belinfante has crewed on TV series for Discovery, Nat Geo, SBS, Channel 9 & ABC and on music videos for international artists. Broadcast credits include ABC's 'Hawke: The Larrikin & The Leader', Foxtel's 'Debi Marshall Investigates: Frozen Lies', SBS' 'The Mosque Next Door' and 'Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian' for the ABC. Joshua edited Dr Enda Murray's feature documentary 'Áine Tyrrell - Irish Troubadour' which had its premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2021. Freelance clients include Genesys, Camus Cognac, Seiko, Adobe, Sonos, ACOSS and Jobs Australia. Joshua has taught filmmaking since 2011 at many universities, NIDA, NIDA OPEN, Excelsia College, USYD, UON, UTS, ACIJ, NYFA Sydney & Gold Coast,
SFS, TAFE, SAS & JMC.
Joshua's animated films ‘Everything That Clunked Along Today…’ and ‘Cut Down The Puppet Strings’ screened at 20 international film festivals. ‘Clunk’ won the audience choice award at Sydney Underground Film Festival ('SUFF') where it screened on TV. Joshua was honored to be a jury member for SUFF in 2024 judging and awarding the coveted 'Renegade' awards to independent filmmakers. In 2020 Joshua won 3rd jury prize in the TAKE48 film competition for their film 'The Big Sweet'. In 2020, Joshua was accepted into a filmmaking accelerator run by Werner Herzog and Spanish artistic collective La Selva along with 49 other international filmmakers. The experience pivoted online and under Herzog’s guide Joshua created 3 short videos centred around the pandemic. In 2024, Joshua attended
Herzog’s filmmaking accelerator on La Palma.
Joshua's short films won 'Best Mini Film' and 'Best Mini Film Runner Up' at SF3 in 2021 and 2022. 'Requires Review' screened at 10 festivals and won awards such as ‘Best Short Documentary’ from the HongKong Arthouse FF and ARFF in Berlin. Joshua screened 'Requires Review' and 'Bazaar Taxi' at Dances With Films at
The Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 2017 and 2018.
‘The World’s Best Film’ screened at the Revelation Film Festival at Luna Cinemas Perth and was nominated for an audience choice award at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Joshua won a 'Special International Filmmaker Award' from 'NewsFest' & an 'Honorary Lonely Wolf Award for outstanding achievements & exceptional contributions to independent filmmaking' from the 'Lonely Wolf Film Festival' in the UK. The film won 'Best International Documentary' at Marina Del Ray Film Festival and won numerous plaudits from more than 20 festivals. The film was broadcast on SBS between 2020-2023 and screened on SBS on-Demand. Joshua was approved for Screen Australia's PEP Completion Fund in 2022.
Joshua has spoken about filmmaking on ABC RN, ABC Newcastle, 2SER, 3CER, RTRFM. Joshua has a BA COM (Media Arts Production) / LLB from UTS and is an admitted solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW and
completed a PhD in Media Arts and Communication in 2024.