Month: November 2020

ANPU – ZOEA played to raved reviews at the September 2020 Dance & Music Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? To discuss the globe eco problem, and try to present my idea to all the audience. 2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Po-Wei Su (ANPU – ZOEA)

SHARDS was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the September 2020 Female Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? In 2015, my best friend and roommate woke me up in the middle of the night with a vague phone call, her tone of voice unlike how I had ever heard her. I… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Elena Gorgevska (SHARDS)

INFATUATION was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November 2020 New York Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? My friend, Joi Ashanti Watkis, was producing an anthology series called the Alphabet Series. Each letter of the alphabet would get a short film representing a certain emotion. She gave me first… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Nace DeSanders (INFATUATION)

I’LL CRY TOMORROW played to rave reviews at the September 2020 Under 5 Minute Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was going through some keep-sakes and saw a bunch of super-8 and 16mm films I had made in the mid-1980’s. It really piqued my curiosity. And being curious by nature,… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Brett Thomas (I’LL CRY TOMORROW)

1. What is your screenplay about? Star Wars: Rendezvous is a fan-fiction film set in the Star Wars universe with a cast of new characters as well as some more established ones. The story follows a pair of do-gooders in their attempt to a save a young force-sensitive girl wanted by the Empire. Events take… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Brent Peterson (Star Wars: Rendezvous)

1. What is your screenplay about? It’s about passion. Evie Muller is a bubbly, eager (and unappreciated) mother whose passion, outside of caring for two needy “adult” children and jerk of a husband, is food. After Evie’s marriage falls apart and her daughter foists the catering of her wedding reception on her, Evie finally decides… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Paul Hewitt (DRUNKEN NOODLES)

1. What is your screenplay about? My screenplay deals with the fictional account of the last moments of Vincent Van Gogh who was a failed artist during his lifetime. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Experimental/ drama/ short narrative/ fantasy etc 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? Van Gogh… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Madhu R (Death Offers Life – last moments of Vincent Van Gogh)

1. What is your screenplay about? Uncertainty, loss, fear, discovery, family, and identity. Set in the time of the Black Death, 1348-1350 approximately. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Historical Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Horror. 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? Though it takes place nearly 700 years ago, there are… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Tyler Frech (The Pestilence)

1. What is your screenplay about? My screenplay is about a Japanese American woman whose son is refusing medications necessary for release from a psychiatric ward, so they can travel cross-country for her new job promotion. Mysteriously, her son knows that a camera from the time of her Japanese American incarceration (at Manzanar during WWII)… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Steve Sasaki (THE CAMERA)

1) What is the theme of your poem? This poem is a reflection on what we know as reality. If you look at the world’s reaction to Climate Change maybe we are all living in a dream world. 2) What motivated you to write this poem? Watching the news every day made me think that… Continue reading Interview with Poet Stephen Karnaghan