Month: February 2022

CITY BY THE BAY played to rave reviews at the January 2022 MUSIC Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’ve spent thousands of days and nights in San Francisco for business and pleasure and could never get over the grit and beauty of S.F., but what ultimately motivated me was making… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ardalan Pourvali (CITY BY THE BAY)

VISUAL POETRY: SELF LOVE played to rave reviews at the January 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1- What motivated you to make this film? – Well, my very first passion in life has always been writing, especially poems, even though writing poems is something I do as a hobby since my main focus in my career… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Sofia Monzerratt (VISUAL POETRY: SELF LOVE)

UNION played to rave reviews at the January 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Well, it started with the music. I had written this instrumental piece and I wanted it to have a visual element to it. I began by conceptualizing a strong aesthetic, one that was inspired by… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Thomas Lemuel (UNION)

BLUR THE LINE was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the January 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I wrote the film to reflect the lengths we all go to in order to protect our own innocence as if it was never there. The woman is all of us.… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Peter John Tisma (BLUR THE LINE)

GUARDIANS OF PARADISE was the winner of Best Direction at the December 2021 Experimental Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I wanted to talk about the incredible people I’ve met in Myanmar, especially the inhabitants of a small city called Bagan, an important Buddhist and historical site where I shot most… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ivan Maria Friedman (GUARDIANS OF PARADISE)

ALLIANCE FOR ELDORADO was the winner of Best Direction at the January 2022 Black & White Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This project starts from a story we’ve been wanting to tell for a long time, we were looking for the form and the connections with our times. The current… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Marco Escrivão & Priscila Schmidt (ALLIANCE FOR ELDORADO)

SPACE SHUTTLE EPISODE 1: THE PILOT played to rave reviews at the February 2022 ANIMATION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It started as a book that some very talented writers came up with, and I just loved that. Spent a bit of time getting it into a script form, but… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Derek Frederickson (SPACE SHUTTLE EPISODE 1: THE PILOT)

SHE’S COME TO SING played to rave reviews at the December 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. What motivated you to make this film? When thinking about a visual piece for the song, I really wanted to express the fluidity of love. If we think of love as energy or a wave that flows from one person… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Brielle Brown (SHE’S COME TO SING)

MEET YOUR LOCAL YURU-CHARA was the winner of Best Performances at the January 2022 Black & White Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I got the idéa after attending a town festival in Japan and started thinking about yuru-chara, japanese mascots. For a while I just kept reading about yuru-chara, looking… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Magnus Fredriksson (MEET YOUR LOCAL YURU-CHARA)

MARIA was the winner of Best Cinematography at the January 2022 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I have been interested in sharing how people communicate for a long time; how the intricate relationship between people is shared on screen. I feel on the outside this can look… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Thaer Alakel (MARIA)