Month: November 2021

LOVELY was the winner of BEST MUSIC VIDEO at the November 2021 EXPERIMENTAL, DANCE, MUSIC Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? My style of Spoken word and hip-hop is unconventional and I knew just releasing this song without a video it might lose some of its meaning. I also thoroughly enjoy… Continue reading Interview with Artist/Producer Nathan Witte (LOVELY)

OUR LAST FAREWELL was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the November 2021 DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? During the early days of the pandemic when ICUs were overwhelmed with dying patients I watched a TV interview with a doctor who said the most difficult part for him was… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Brian Hollins (OUR LAST FAREWELL)

GORGEOUS was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the November 2021 BLACK Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The intense anger I felt in the summer of 2020 at both the rise of alt-right politics and the death of George Floyd. I’m only 23, but I already feel… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ryan Njenga (GORGEOUS)

BOUNDARY was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the November 2021 BLACK Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I wanted to make something that was minimalist in tone and visual but layered in meaning and theme. I wrote it in the thick of the pandemic which was a time that… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker  Justin Odell Stuckey (BOUNDARY)

MAR I ANA was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 LGBTQ+ Short Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This film is based on a true story, my own. It’s a roller coaster of emotions that happened in real life made into fiction. This is also what I call,… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mar Novo (MAR I ANA)

STILL RIVER, SILENT JUNGLE was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the November 2021 DOC SHORTS Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? As a whitewater kayaker, it was all too often that I would come across communities that were, or were about to be, impacted by large hydroelectric projects. I studied… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Hayley Stuart (STILL RIVER, SILENT JUNGLE)

FOR ALL THE KINGS was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the November 2021 LGBTQ+ Short Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I initially started this project because our local film festival was opening submissions. I had just graduated from college at UC Santa Barbara, and thought this would… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Animator Rosabel Su (FOR THE ALL KINGS)

THE MILL CREEK STANGLER was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the November 2021 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was listening to a podcast that explored the fandom of the true crime genre of podcasts and documentaries. In the podcast they went to a true crime convention and… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Aaron Egbert Allsop (THE MILL CREEK STANGLER)

HEINZ 1945 was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Karel Hamm (co-director) and I have worked together as DP and camera operator for 35 years, and when we retired from the business 10 years ago we wrote and directed… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Martin Beek (HEINZ 1945)

BEAUTIFUL VIOLENCE was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the November 2021 CRIME/MYSTERY Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The covid quarantine sidelined another project I was about to do. So I decide to write a simple script with only two actors in one location which would be easier to shoot during… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Joey Medina (BEAUTIFUL VIOLENCE)