HYBRID DOCUMENTARY · 2025
The Search
My role — Composer & sound designer
The Search is a hybrid documentary that follows a filmmaker's journey of self-discovery as she revisits the past and reflects on identity, growing up and finding her way back to herself.
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Filmmaking
- Writing, direction & editing
- Samera Yosef
- Voice-over
- Samera Yosef
- Director of photography
- Samera Yosef
- Music & sound design
- Efthymios Stavropoulos
- Foley
- Samera Yosef, Collin de Brouwer
Cast & participants
- Detective
- Samera Yosef
- Kids
- Isa Coskun, Aylin Coskun
- Kid running
- Aylin Coskun
- Interviewee 1
- Cobie Lans (grandmother)
- Interviewee 2
- Cherrel Doebar (best friend)
- Interviewee 3
- Kitty Crouwel (mother)
- Interviewee 4
- Loes (elementary school)
- Interviewee 5
- Paul (elementary school)
Animation
- Key animation
- Emanuel Yosef, Endy Barbosa Gaviria
- Character design
- Emanuel Yosef, Endy Barbosa Gaviria
- Storyboard
- Emanuel Yosef, Endy Barbosa Gaviria
- Clean-up
- Emanuel Yosef
- In-betweening
- Emanuel Yosef
- Background
- Endy Barbosa Gaviria
Animation cast
- Professor
- Rob Dielissen
- Main character
- Sennah Coskun
- Support character
- Samera Yosef
Additional help
- Director of photography — investigation scene
- Jeremy Mahadew
- Director of photography — teachers interview
- Lennon Monteiro
- Voice recording — professor (animation)
- Ileen Action