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1. What motivated you to make this film? What motivated me to make When The Stage Lights Go Out, was seeing the impact that the pandemic had on my friends in the performing arts industry and how they seemed to be tossed aside when thousands of people were affected. It hurt me deeply seeing them… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Gordon Yarley (WHEN THE STAGE LIGHTS GO OUT)

THE GHOST was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the Feb. 2022 Action/Adventure Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I’ve been playing DCS World for about 2 years and wanted to start working with the camera tools available inside the game. I directed a first DCS movie in 2020, TOP… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker J.P. Ferre (THE GHOST)

CRYING ON THE ISLAND THEY OWN was the winner of BEST FILM at the March 2022 Dance Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The location of the first scene in the film was actually a huge part of what inspired the film. I was in that area helping Holden, one of… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Joan Dwiartanto (CRYING ON THE ISLAND THEY OWN)

BLACK LOVE played to rave reviews at the March 2022 POLITICAL Film Festival 1. What motivated you to make this film? My motivation came from my song called “Black Love”. Black love the song is about we as black people need to come together. Everything starts from the inside. So if we want change we… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Darrell Anthony Reynolds (BLACK LOVE)

NASTY played to rave reviews at the March 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I made the film for my Experimental Production class in school. 2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film? It took about 2.5 years… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Paige Dillon (NASTY)

DICTIONARY played to rave reviews at the February 2022 LA Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? “Dictionary” as a concept came to me while working on my previous short, “Through her glasses,” a film based on someone else’s real love story, not mine. Meeting new people on that set and… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Elena Viklova (DICTIONARY)

ORDINARY WORLD was the winner of BEST FILM at the Feb. 2022 LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Our mission is to create and showcase stories by and for the developmentally disabled population that go beyond the limiting narrative of their disability. Most film and television we see surrounding… Continue reading Interview with Producers Arielle Yoder & Kendra Heisler (ORDINARY WORLD)

LOVE DOESN’T EQUAL SEX played to rave reviews at the March 2022 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I found out what asexuality was when I was 12 years old and sorta officially took on that identity at 14, it was always something that made me feel strange and different… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Alysha Margert Dymock (LOVE DOESN’T EQUAL SEX)

THE BUTTERFLY was the winner of BEST FILM at the March 2022 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? ~ I was in lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic in New York City. The production company I’m a member of, Red Flight Pictures, decided since we were all out of… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Z. Joseph Guice (THE BUTTERFLY)

PORTRAITS OF INCANTATION was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the February 2022 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? At every opportunity , my father and mother took me to the museums in Athens, Greece to encounter the classical, figurative marble sculptures of ancient Western Europe… Continue reading Intervie with Filmmaker Taso Papadakis (PORTRAITS OF INCANTATION)