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SPOT THE INDIFFERENCE was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the May 2022 Toronto COMEDY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I have many ideas but this one had a good reaction from a few people pitch my ideas to. 2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Paul Rodriguez (SPOT THE INDIFFERENCE)

LOVE LETTER TO THE PAST was the winner of BEST FASHION Film at the March 2022 EXPERIMENTAL, FASHION, STYLE Film Festival. director portfolio: http://www.charlottevackova.com content creator portfolio: http://www.charlotteshoots.com 1. What motivated you to make this film? The input came from Adrian – the fashion designer who made the AP Milan “LOVE LETTER TO THE PAST”… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Charlotte Vacková (LOVE LETTER TO THE PAST)

SPEAK KDSK was the winner of BEST SHORT FORM SHORT FILM at the May 2022 Toronto Documentary Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? For my master degree, I had to read a semiotic study that decodes lines representing a horse and a knight in a figurative painting of Kandinsky, “Composition IV”. The… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ileana Dana Darie (SPEAK KDSK)

HYSTERICAL was the winner of BEST FEATURE FILM at the Toronto Comedy Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? One thing I appreciate about this difficult brain of mine is that it doesn’t rest when something is unresolved. I was never interested in living a musty, begrudging life. I always knew sunlight… Continue reading Interview with Writer/Producer/Star Emma Speer (HYSTERICAL)

A NEW BEGINNING was the winner of BEST FASHION FILM at the May 2022 Fashion/Experimental Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I wanted to tell a story about self acceptance through a fashion film. Clothing is the first speech we deliver to the others. I wanted to push it further and express… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Christophe Chudy (A NEW BEGINNING)

INTROSPECTION was the winner of BEST FILM at the May 2022 EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I made this film during the height of quarantine in NYC after all of the live performances for the dance company I was working for had been cancelled. I was feeling that I… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Katharine Larson (INTROSPECTION)

A FEAST THAT NEVER COMES was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the May 2022 EXPERIMENTAL/MUSIC Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? My album was coming together and I knew that it would be a waste to not work with my husband (Chris Masters, the film’s choreographer as well as director… Continue reading Interview with Writer/Producer Sven Britt (A FEAST THAT NEVER COMES)

POWER OF INTIMATE TOUCH was the winner of BEST FILM at the May 2022 BLACK Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was motivated to make this film because of my personal experience with women in my life, that had trama from past relationships or had limited experience in true… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Les Dotson (POWER OF INTIMATE TOUCH)

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)