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IN THE REALM OF DEATH & DREAMING was the winner of BEST FEATURE FILM at the June 2022 WILDsound Film Festival. Home Page – LIVE 1. What motivated you to make this film? My mother died unexpectedly when I was 19 and in the following 2 years I experienced 2 more significant deaths. I was… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Johanna J. Lunn (IN THE REALM OF DEATH & DREAMING)

LIN was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the June 2022 WILDsound Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’m interested in the female gaze and how the act of looking and creating could be a tool for empowerment and regaining agency. The main character in the film, Lin, is a Chinese… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Lillian Xuege Li (LIN)

KELSEY COURT CONDOMINIUM KILLINGS played to rave reviews at the June 2022 CRIME/MYSTERY Film Festival. http://www.travis-goodman.com http://www.imdb.me/travisgoodman 1. What motivated you to make this film? A: Having been locked down for over a year we were anxious to be creative again. We had an opportunity to enter the 48 Hour Film Project for fun and… Continue reading Interview with Producer Travis Goodman (KELSEY COURT CONDOMINIUM KILLINGS)

http://sundaytreat.com/ Instagram 1. What motivated you to make this film? We wanted to make a really stylised montage film in the same vein as the bigger, worldwide commercials we draw inspiration from, kind of like a Spec Ad. But we’ve also always done comedy and in the age we live in of fast changing technology,… Continue reading Interview with Writer/Producer Oliver Clubb & Director Gulliver Moore (SLICED BREAD)

http://www.only-human.eu Follow: https://www.instagram.com/kate.gianna/ https://www.facebook.com/kate.giannak/ https://www.instagram.com/m4e.ev/ https://www.facebook.com/m4e.ev https://www.instagram.com/wearecinemars/ https://www.facebook.com/wearecineMars https://www.instagram.com/onlyhumandocumentary/ 1. What motivated you to make this film? First of all we’d like to thank the WILDsound Feedback and Screenplay Festival for honoring us with this very special audience award of “BEST FILM 2022.” This award is especially meaningful as for the past decade I have… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Katerina Giannakopoulou (ONLY HUMAN)

CHRISTMAS PRESENT was the winner of BEST ANIMATION at the May 2022 FEEDBACK ANIMATION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? We were in the middle of the economic crisis and during the capital controls, a very difficult time for all here in Greece. Petros Koskinas came with the script and suggested… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Animator Konstantinos P. Kakarountas (CHRISTMAS PRESENT)

1. What is your screenplay about? The screenplay is about a true crime novelist that is driven by her career and wanting to stand out in a very saturated market. In her push to dig deeper she discovers something more about the case than she bargained for and the desire to get to the ultimate… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Paul Mortsolf (Innocence of a Guilty Mind)

PANDALAND: MAKING IT COUNT was the winner of BEST FILM at the June 2022 Toronto DOCUMENTARY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’m a filmmaker and still photographer, also a retired teacher. I was working with two students in an afterschool program I designed and thought I could make a little difference… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Martha Davis (PANDALAND: MAKING IT COUNT)

ANIMAL APPETITES was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the May 2022 WILDsound Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I wanted to make a film with a cat eating a man’s face. It was a morbid motivation but it was the clear image I had in my mind when… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Quentin Ferrant (ANIMAL APPETITES)

THE FOURTH IS OF A DEVIL played to rave reviews at the May 2022 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? When the world is constantly moving, you don’t really notice the bad habits you pick up over time. However, when the world essentially stopped in 2019, all of those issues… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Revaz-Giorgi Arveladze (THE FOURTH IS OF A DEVIL)