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HOPE was awarded BEST COMEDY at the June 2022 FEMALE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was lucky enough to take part in a stop motion course with Aardman back in 2021 and ‘Hope’ is my final piece to showcase the skills we’d learnt. My motivation around the story was… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Hazel O’Brien (HOPE)

THE DOOR was awarded BEST PERFORMANCES at the June 2022 LA Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? – I had a few inspirations for the idea. The first, and most obvious, would be this strange phenomena of staircases popping up in the woods. I loved how one of the audience… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Nicholas Carrodo (THE DOOR)

SUCCUBUS was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the June 2022 HORROR Underground Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The project was motivated by a partially true story I overheard last year. The projects intention explores various definitions of safety as well as power imbalances within bar culture. 2. From the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Taylor Weiss (SUCCUBUS)

L’IVRESSE was the winner of BEST FASHION Film at the June 2022 EXPERIMENTAL/FASHION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I just love life, dance, music and wine, which is why this poem resonated so well within me. Being very visual, I wanted to translate its essence in images. 2. From the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Favio Vinson (L’IVRESSE)

OUTSIDER played to rave reviews at the June 2022 ANIMATION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Originally, I got this idea from a dream thirteen years ago when I just started to study for my MA degree in London. In this dream, the people I cared about spoke, laughed, and merged… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Animator Liu Shuo (OUTSIDER)

1. What motivated you to make this film? A friend had introduced me to Krishna Ashu Bhati in December 2018 at a team screening of his film “Beyond Good and Evil”. This film, similar to “the Ugly Truth,” is also very quietly and unexcitingly told. But that’s what I liked about it. At first glance,… Continue reading Interview with Writer/Actor Eva Habermann (THE UGLY TRUTH)

OPERATION: PAYBACK was the winner of BEST SHORT FORM SHORT FILM at the June 2022 COMEDY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? WITH THE COVID LOCK DOWN AND EVERYTHING, I WAS GETTING ANTSY TO MAKE A FILM. I KNEW I WANTED TO MAKE A SHORT, DARK COMEDY BUT WITH THE PANDEMIC… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Darren Coyle (OPERATION: PAYBACK)

OUR G*DDAMN WEDDING was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the June 2022 COMEDY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I have a very specific mission with this film (and the feature version of it that I hope to make): To correct the unfair depiction of atheists in films and TV… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Jeff Jackson (OUR G*DDAMN WEDDING)

“40ish” is the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the June 2022 COMEDY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I got so sick of the things that were happening to me in auditions and losing the part to the directors daughter and the age thing and mostly waiting around to be chosen…… Continue reading Interview with Actor/Writer Nicole Stuart (40ish)