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LENNON was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the April 2022 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram 1. What motivated you to make this film? I have always been interested in making films as I was involved with drama classes growing up. The moment I took the leap was after 2020 when… Continue reading Interview with Writer/Producer Giovanna Ferraro (LENNON)

THE BLACK LEAGUE OF SUPERHEROES was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the April 2022 ACTION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This film was inspired by the events that occurred during the social justice protests spawned by George Floyd’s execution by former Officer Derek Chauvin. My lifelong love of Superheroes… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm (THE BLACK LEAGUE OF SUPERHEROES)

STATIC SPACE was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the April 2022 Female Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? KATE: I read the novel, “Can You Hear Me?” by Geonn Cannon back in 2018. It was a very gentle, queer romantic story that I recommended to everyone at the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmakers John Klein & Kate Black-Spence (STATIC SPACE)

KILL THEM ALL AND DON’T COME BACK ALONE was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the April 2022 Female Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I shot “Calamity Jane 1882” in 2020 and it seemed to me that I could make films of social denunciation through fiction and entertainment, defending the western… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Enrique Novials (KILL THEM ALL AND DON’T COME BACK ALONE)

AT LAKE was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the April 2022 EXPERIMENTAL/DANCE Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The idea came to me about a month into the first lockdown. We had left the city and moved to our chalet- a very privileged situation. But after about a month I started… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mistaya Hemingway (AT LAKE)

ALIEN ABDUCTION was the winner of BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE from the 2022 SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival. 1 What motivated you to make this film? Philomena and I wrote a song about our first abduction experiences. We were in Nashville shortly after doing some live performance videos with filmmaker Marcel Chagnon. He heard the song while we were… Continue reading Interview with Writer Andy Victor (ALIEN ABDUCTION)

1) What is the theme of your poem? Fame by way of death 2) What motivated you to write this poem? It’s for a character in a musical I wrote who wants to be like Tupac or any famous talented dead person whose work is still popular after their death. In the musical the God… Continue reading Interview with Poet Alexandra Lean (NOBODY’S IDOL)

OUT AND BACK was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the April 2022 SPORTS & RECREATION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I am the female runner in this film, this happened to me. I didn’t talk about it for two years and when I did, I told the wrong person.… Continue reading Interview with Writer/Actor Heather Irvine (OUT AND BACK)

“Siyaya – Come Wild With Us!” was the winner of BEST DOUCMENTARY at the March 2022 ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? We, at François Odendaal Productions, FOP Films, want to open the eyes of the children and youth to the wondrous natural world and re-connect them to nature. Now,… Continue reading Interview with Producer Irene Reynolds Schier (Siyaya – Come Wild With Us!)

25 YEARS AFTER WOODSBORO was the winner of BEST FILM at the April 2022 FAN FICTION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’ve been a Scream franchise fan since the beginning, since watching the scary commercials on TV and renting the first film in summer 1997 (and asked my friend who… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mark J. Parker (25 YEARS AFTER WOODSBORO)