Guitarist festival 2024 edition – completed
So, here are big names. Great guitar music and movies arrived to our 2024 festival. Guitarist festival Široki Brijeg #4 continues to spread guitar culture and guitarist networking. With a support from ‘Music, scene and fine art foundation Sarajevo’ (FMSLU Sarajevo) in production of Udruga Standard, festival got winners, new names in our guitarist network.
1.Grand prix:

Trever Veilleux, (USA)
Composer and guitarist of song Pangea
2. Best original composed guitar music:
Trever Veilleux, (USA)
Composer of song Pangea
3. Best guitar music video:

Josip Dujmović, (BH)
Video: Why are you gone?
Directed by Josip Dujmović (Bosna and Herzegovina)
About Trever Veilleux
Trever Veilleux is an accomplished guitarist-songwriter-singer on the Big Island of Hawai’i. He is the director of Hilo Jazz Orchestra whose Frank Zappa tribute concerts have earned international acclaim.
His most recent Album Punch Buggy Blue was released in September.
Other notable works include Ratshit Weasels, Professor T and the East Side Shredders, and albums A Big Distraction & Butter from Technical Difficulties.
Podcast: Talking story with UH Hilo’s jazz aficionado Trever Veilleux
Derek Frey – producer and director of Pangea
Derek Frey is a passionate and prolific filmmaker producing live-action and animated films for the major studios and serving as director, editor, and cinematographer on several award-winning independent projects.
Frey served as Producer of Dumbo (2019), Executive Producer of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and Big Eyes (2014), Producer of the Here With Me (2013) music video for The Killers and Co-Producer of Frankenweenie (2012). Derek also served as Associate Producer of Dark Shadows (2012), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(2007), Corpse Bride (2005), and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005). Derek has also directed numerous indie featurettes, shorts, series, documentaries, and music videos that have achieved success on the film festival circuit. Some of his notable works include Viaticum (2024), Awkward Endeavors (2022) and God Came ‘Round (2017).
Derek is responsible for producing this unique music video and for submitting it to festival.
www.derekfreyfilms.com
This guitarist festival in Široki Brijeg (Herzegovina) still does not exsist in live performance form. We promote local and international guitarist, guitarist’s videos.
Plan is, (when budget allow), to organize festival in live act.