Category: feedback film festival

Interview with director James Hartley (TWISTED)

James Hartley’s short film TWISTED won Best Cinematography at the FEEDBACK Film Festival in November 2015. Watch the Short Film TWISTED: Get to know director James Hartley: Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film? James Hartley: I was motivated by the truth of the character in particular. The character resonated with me as someone… Continue reading Interview with director James Hartley (TWISTED)

Interview with George Pogatsia, filmmaker/actor “Family on Board”

Thankfully, everyone responded well to the script. Tony Sirico & I have the same manager, he absolutely loves the film, he’s very proud of it. Eric Roberts signed on almost immediately after reading it, he thinks the sky is the limit. Karina Arroyave auditioned & blew everyone away. She a huge supporter, she thinks it’s amazing. I’m sad to say that Matthew Cowles never got a chance to see it, but his wife Christine Baranski thinks it’s beautiful.

Interview with Jeff Meyers. Award winning filmmaker ‘The Blood of Love’

The audience seemed to really like the film and that validates all the effort and creativity and sacrifices you make to bring something like this into reality. You hope what you create will connect with people and it seemed like my film did that. I also appreciate how smart the comments were. Folks really got into the spirit of what “The Blood Of Love,” is about, which is: How far would you go to hold onto the person you love?

Interview with Daniel Reimer, short filmmaker BELL TOWER ENIGMA

It was amazing to see the audience interact with the film. As a short filmmaker you rarely get the opportunity to get that much of detailed feedback from an audience. The general statement “It looks beautiful, but what the hell is going on” didn’t come as that much of a surprise as it is similar to reactions we received from other audiences 🙂 However, I myself enjoy films (or any piece of art for that matter) where there is lots of room for personal interpretation. So it is not that much about the intention of the writer or director, but more about what the audience makes of it for themselves. So in that sense I very much enjoyed the different interpretations and speculations concerning the story.

Interview with Harrison Norris, Director of the award winning film “A PEACEFUL MAN”

It was nice to hear that the audio design was appreciated, particularly that knee stomp (Hi Stewart!). We spent a lot of time making it ‘wetter’, so it’s nice to hear it specifically mentioned. It was also nice to hear the production design was appreciated. The mention of that shot where everything is swept off the table got me particularly, as watching playback for that on set was the first moment I felt we really had something cool in the making.

Interview with the Filmmaking team for the Short Film “MERKUR”

It was very cool. The audience was amazing. It was exactly the kind of reactions we were expecting when we were making the film. Thank you again !

Interview with filmmaker Michael Gorlick (Reinventing the Reel)

Nervous. It is a strange feeling to be listening to comments about your work while you are in the room and they do not know you are there. But that is where you get the honesty and because it is invaluable to get truthful feedback and it is worth it.

Interview with filmmaker Camila Moreira Marques (FAT)

I am really happy. First of all, because the audience could understand the feelings that I wanted to convey through my movie and second reason because my animation style also was praised. I am amazed and happy.

Interview with filmmaker Emy Tzavra-Bulloch (MINOTAUR)

First, i must say I m very excited that my film had the opportunity to be seen by this audience. I realize that it takes some previous knowledge of the myth in order to get the full meaning of what the film is about. Interesting observations though by a very intelligent audience.