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STAND UP, SPEAK OUT: THE PERSONAL POLITICS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS played to rave reviews at the December 2021 Female Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Katherine Brewster, EP. American women’s rights are under attack. What will motivate women and male allies to continue to protect and expand women’s rights until women… Continue reading Interview with the Film Team of STAND UP, SPEAK OUT: THE PERSONAL POLITICS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

1) What is the theme of your poem? The reality of a love lost forever. 2) What motivated you to write this poem? My fiance left abruptly without warning or explanation. 3) How long have you been writing poetry? 15 years 4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would… Continue reading Interview with Poet Tommy Anderson (A LOVE LOST)

1) What is the theme of your poem? The theme of the poem is a person’s disappointment with their own life, not life in general. Each sunrise is a “false dawn” and tomorrow will not offer new possibilities if the past weighs too heavily on a person’s mind. The poem could also be seen as… Continue reading Interview with Poet Peter Gartner (A NEW FALSE DAWN)

1. What is your screenplay about? “Intergalactic Io” is about a thief who steals a gem and accidentally sparks an interstellar war in the process. The journey of Io, our dirt-bag protagonist, is deciding if getting what she wants is worth screwing-over half the galaxy. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Sci-fi comedy,… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Seth Nesenholtz (Intergalactic Io)

1. What is your screenplay about? Kurst and Blest is about an Angel and a Demon who have been encouraging humans to do Good and Evil for the last 6000 years and they are bored so they decide to open a restaurant. This requires that they get permission from their respective bosses, God and Satan.… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter David Gray (Kurst and Blest)

1. What is your screenplay about? A high school girl from a small Southern town, desperate for money, coerces her small circle of semi-friends into robbing the local Chinese restaurant. But the robbery goes wrong, and Pansy accidentally shoots the elderly owner dead. In the days that follow, Pansy’s cohorts begin dying in ways that… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Don Stroud (Misfortune Cookies)

1. What is your screenplay about? “Going Native!” is a dark comedy about the genocide of 90% of the Taíno Indians in Puerto Rico by Christopher Columbus, aka America’s first douchebag. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Dark comedy, satire 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? I feel like… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Ian Gregory Trutt (GOING NATIVE!)

1. What is your screenplay about? HELLAS is a one-hour sci-fi drama set in the dystopic near-future in which an undercover agent is sent to the Hellas Basin of Mars to break up a mining union — only to side with the miners and to help lead a revolution for Martian Independence. It’s inspired by… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Matthew Evans (HELLAS)

MEDEA was the winner of BEST FILM at the December 2021 STYLE, FASHION, DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Motivation: In theater college we studied Greek classics and I was always drawn to Antigone, who was a young rebel willing to fight for her principles, and at that time, I… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Andronica Marquis (MEDEA)

TENTACLE HEAD was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the December 2021 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Nasir Simmons (Writer, Co-Director, Producer): A conversation that sparked this concept was with a man in a doctor’s office who used to be homeless, but hid it for two and a half… Continue reading Interview with Filmmakers Nasir Simmons, Lillianna Johnson (TENTACLE HEAD)