Month: May 2022

THINGS SHE WANTS was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the May 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. What motivated you to make this film? The poem on which it’s based: Paola Ferrante’s text is sentence-for-sentence one of the smartest, fiercest, and most nuanced feminist texts in the language, in my view. 2. From the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Kevin Andrew Heslop (THINGS SHE WANTS)

CABECEO was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the May 2022 Experimental/Dance/Music Festival. WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO MAKE THIS FILM? I was taking ballroom dance classes as a fun activity and my instructor Jennifer Berry suggested I participate in the dance school’s annual student show as a way of pushing myself. In considering how to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Brian James Crewe (CABECEO)

TURNED TO STONE was voted BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the May 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. & 2. What motivated you to make this film? From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film? We talked about the concept over the phone and developed it over the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Sarah Konner & Austin Selden (TURNED TO STONE)

THE SPACE I TAKE UP was the winner of BEST DANCE FILM at the May 2022 EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? At the beginning of the pandemic, I completely stopped making art. Around the fall of 2020, I started dreaming up a way to express the isolation and depression… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Kyna Marie (THE SPACE I TAKE UP)

THE LARK was the winner of BEST LONG FORM SHORT FILM at the May 2022 FEMALE Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The motivation for this movie with a topic about sexual violence against women was huge, because I come from Serbia, and Serbia is a country with a big… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Katarina Krstic (THE LARK)

ELIXIR was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the May 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This film was created in the context of a small street dance festival in my home town of Montréal, as part of this dance festival, they fund the production of 4 dance films.… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Jean-Marc Abela (ELIXIR)

THE 13TH NOTE was the winner of BEST FILM at the May 2022 Experimental/Music Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This idea started over 20 years ago when I was selling Steinway & Sons pianos in CA. I used to program the player pianos to play Master of Puppets by Metallica… Continue reading Interview with Producer Jeff Spike Wong (THE 13TH NOTE)

A THEORY IN SEPIA was the winner of BEST FILM at the May 2022 ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? “A Theory in Sepia” started out as a poem I wrote, “All in Sepia” and facing the prejudices within my own community and the ones I subconsciously carried.… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Kayleb Lee (A THEORY IN SEPIA)

TO HAVE & TO HOLD was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the May 2022 Romance & Relationships Film Festival Writer/Producer: Ali Keller Director: Daniel Gaymon Actor/Producer: Lisa Purrone 1. What motivated you to make this film? Ali – It was inspired by how I felt in the pandemic. I live alone and I love… Continue reading Interview with the Filmmaker Team of the short film TO HAVE & TO HOLD

CONFLICT was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the May 2022 WILDsound Flagship festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? – I was born and raised in Palestine then moved to the US in 2001. Most people that I met here did not know anything about Palestine. Sometimes they would say “Oh… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Chozy Aiyub (CONFLICT)