Hiphop Purée

Knowbox dance
Jul 30
2 min read

kNOwBOX dance Film Festival 2025

Official Selection Film Spotlight

Hiphop Purée (2024)

Directed by Ryan Renshaw

📍 Australia ⏱ 3 minutes

In Hiphop Puree, two sisters face supernatural suburban forces and buried secrets on their way to Thursday night dinner, blending dark comedy with a surreal take on sibling rivalry and global absurdity.

Film Description

Two sisters confront supernatural suburban forces and their own dark secrets on a perilous journey to Thursday night dinner.

Meet The Makers

What do you hope to communicate with our audience through your work?

In Hiphop Puree, I hope to bring the important issue of sibling rivalry to the attention of governments around the world -particularly in relation to Vladimir Putin whose brothers (Victor & Albert) both died during their infancy. Although this was prior to Vladimir's birth we mustn't underestimate his potential involvement in the mysterious deaths.

Biography

A graduate of the esteemed Institut Villa Pierrefeu Finishing School with a Bachelor of Etiquette (with honours), Ryan Renshaw is a film and television director based in the city of Shangri-La.

His career began in the 1990’s where he worked as a director for MTV in Australia, the United States and in Latin America. He has completed more than 80 music videos and worked as creative director for INXS.

Over the past 6 years he has turned his attention to Screendance. His screendance works have been screened at over 150 international film festivals including New York's Dance on Camera, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Screendance International in Stockholm, and won the Jury Prize at the 2020 LA Dance Film Festival, the Grand Prix Nuria Font, Best International Film at Spain’s 2021 Fiver International Dance Film Festival, the Jury Prize for Best Film at 2020 Zinetika Festival in Pamplona, San Sebastian and Bilbao, Best In Show at Inspired Dance Film Festival, Sydney, Best Film at the NoWhere Festival in Seoul and the Audience Prize for Best Film at the 2020 Inshadow Festival, Portugal.