Month: June 2021

SUPERHUMAN played to rave reviews at the June 2021 ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? We were watching the current situation with climate change and thought that we wanted to take action and raise awareness for the topic. 2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mathias Jener (SUPERHUMAN)

1. What motivated you to make this film? Tom: The motivation came from our desire to make the biggest impact we could for KOSHISH. Kyle: For me, the initial driver behind creating the film was to capture the unique events that would inevitably take place in our attempt to portage canoes to Mount Everest Base… Continue reading Interview with the ONE STEP AT A TIME film team (Kyle & Seton Roberts, Tom Schellenberg)

MASS played to rave reviews at the June 2021 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Zach Duer: This work is a happy accident. In working on another virtual choreographic performance piece, I made a programming error and accidentally set thousands of avatars performing the same movement to all have the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmakers Zach Duer & Scotty Hardwig (MASS)

C. P. CAVAFY | THE CITY was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the June 2021 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The initial motivation was C. P. Cavafy’s classic poem “The City”, which I had the inspiration to set music to and perform it. After that I wanted to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Aristarchos Papadaniel (C. P. CAVAFY | THE CITY (Wherever I Turn My Eyes To))

THE ARTIST’S WAY OUT was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the June 2021 TV Web Series Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I had wanted to direct for a long time after working as an actor for many years, but felt that I had to write something myself in order to… Continue reading Interview with Director/Actor Jeananne Goossen (THE ARTIST’S WAY OUT)

ON A LIST played to rave reviews at the June 2021 TV WEB SERIES Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The pandemic hit and I needed a creative outlet so I decided to try film making and acting. I really enjoyed the writing process and producing the series. It was kind of… Continue reading Interview with Musician/Actor/Director Nicole Simone (ON A LIST)

MINIATURE CHESS played to rave reviews at the June 2021 NEW YORK Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This film was inspired by a lot of my fears for humanity. Not of humanity, but for humanity. That coupled with a moment of finding the chessboard we used in the film.… Continue reading Interview with Phil Cheney (MINIATURE CHESS)

THE WILD WOMAN AND THE PAINTER played to rave reviews at the June 2021 LA FEEDBACK Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Sophie Mitchell: Erin and I were in acting school together when we got to know each other and realized we had both recently come out of unhealthy relationships. That… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter/Actor Sophie Mitchell & Director Erin Whited-Ford (THE WILD WOMAN AND THE PAINTER)

LIGHT OF DAWN was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the June 2021 DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This film is the „movie”-version of our original Circus Act. After having performed it over 1000 times across the world we decided that it would be great to re-adapt it and… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Lea Toran Jenner (LIGHT OF DAWN)

экзальтация / exaltation was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the June 2021 DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? A combination of three things motivated and inspired me to make this dance film. The first was the location. The space beneath a multilane highway overpass had been completely cleared for… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Sam Asaert (экзальтация / exaltation)