GGA Mid-Length Award Winner: The Time of the Fireflies

Danish filmmaker Mattis Appelqvist Dalton is also musician and composer, a jazz double bassist who was classically trained at the Conservatoire National de Musicque et Dance in his native Aurillac, France. He furthered his studies at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2020, he received his ScB in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music from Brown University, writing his thesis on “Aberrations in time:  The effects of music-elicited emotions on time perception in film.” The Time of the Fireflies is his feature debut.

Mexico native Matteo Robert Morales studied filmmaking at Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida and at Brussels’ Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion (INSAS), where he concentrated on cinematography. He is also a photographer and has worked as a camera assistant and director of photography. He was the puppet video technician on Leos Carax’s Annette (2021). He makes his writing/directing debut with The Time of the Fireflies.