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THE OPENINGS was the winner of BEST MUSIC at the June 2022 Experimental/Dance Festival. What motivated you to make this film? While I was hearing The openings by Mrs. Zanganeh, I began to imagine what picture she was visualizing at the moment of performing, since she had lost her sight a few years before that… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Nima B. Djavidani (THE OPENINGS)

1. What motivated you to make this film? The idea for ‘Displaced’ was born simply because I wanted to imagine myself in the shoes of those people in need, people who have been forced to leave their homes, their families. To be able to express in a few minutes emotions of uncertainty, sadness and helplessness… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Daniela Zambrano (DISPLACED)

FAREWELL was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the June 2022 Experimental/Dance Festival. Q. What motivated you to make this film? A. The factory we filmed in is actually where I grew up. My family and I have witnessed the prosperity and dilapidation of this factory, just as this factory has witnessed the growing youth… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Ruo Wen Tian (FAREWELL)

1. What motivated you to make this film? 1) I started printing single graphic works in 2020 and noticed the movement in this single incoherent graphic series. I decided to make a film in the printmaking tradition of a caprice. The graphic images are machine poems based on the sounds of the console and translations… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Claudia Ungersbäck (caprice x²)

1. What motivated you to make this film? Moonrise marks the fourth Lyra Star music video under my Direction and each time I strive to portray contortion-on-film in a way it’s never been seen before. As soon as I site checked the location in DTLA, I envisioned using visual effects on the tv screen, in… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Tonya Kay (MOONRISE Music Video)

1. What is your screenplay about? Tramps Like Us follows the eccentric and diverse crew of the Tramp Steamer Stella Maris as they encounter supernatural and monstrous adventures in the “East Indies” of the 1930s. As much about the price of colonialism and the evil of men as it is about the monstrous other, Tramps… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Julian David Hoxter (TRAMPS LIKE US)

1. What is your screenplay about? Regenesis follows two main characters: Miranda and Atlas, who are set against this futuristic backdrop of a withering galaxy. Miranda is on a mission of revenge to kill the man responsible for all the trauma she’s endured over the last few years. Atlas presents as just some wanderer in… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Stephonika W. Kaye (REGENESIS)

1. What is your screenplay about? It’s based on a terrific novella by Bruno Fischer. It’s about an icy professional crook, a typical noir protagonist, who is recruited by his old friend for a heist that goes very wrong when the young getaway driver is killed. His widow comes to collect his share of the… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Arthur Tiersky (WE ARE ALL DEAD)

1. What is your screenplay about? Two people forming an unlikely and mutually beneficial friendship beyond race, gender, religion and age. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Dramedy 3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? There are plenty of negative things people are currently coping with. Having a positive and… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Glenn Lissner (SHANEEKA & HOSS)

1. What is your screenplay about? When Gwen Wiley hears handsome, local weatherman Hudson Blake announce a rare occurrence of the northern lights, she hatches an escape from her nursing home to spread her late husband’s ashes. Gwen goes to extraordinary lengths and through various hijinks to say goodbye to the love of her life… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Matthew Nicholson (SENIOR DITCH DAY)