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ALLIANCE FOR ELDORADO was the winner of Best Direction at the January 2022 Black & White Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This project starts from a story we’ve been wanting to tell for a long time, we were looking for the form and the connections with our times. The current… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Marco Escrivão & Priscila Schmidt (ALLIANCE FOR ELDORADO)

SPACE SHUTTLE EPISODE 1: THE PILOT played to rave reviews at the February 2022 ANIMATION Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It started as a book that some very talented writers came up with, and I just loved that. Spent a bit of time getting it into a script form, but… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Derek Frederickson (SPACE SHUTTLE EPISODE 1: THE PILOT)

SHE’S COME TO SING played to rave reviews at the December 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. What motivated you to make this film? When thinking about a visual piece for the song, I really wanted to express the fluidity of love. If we think of love as energy or a wave that flows from one person… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Brielle Brown (SHE’S COME TO SING)

MEET YOUR LOCAL YURU-CHARA was the winner of Best Performances at the January 2022 Black & White Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I got the idéa after attending a town festival in Japan and started thinking about yuru-chara, japanese mascots. For a while I just kept reading about yuru-chara, looking… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Magnus Fredriksson (MEET YOUR LOCAL YURU-CHARA)

MARIA was the winner of Best Cinematography at the January 2022 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I have been interested in sharing how people communicate for a long time; how the intricate relationship between people is shared on screen. I feel on the outside this can look… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Thaer Alakel (MARIA)

BETWEEN THE BALANCE played to rave reviews at the January 2022 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It was during the Covid Pandemic & all of my dance & theatre concerts that I am hired to capture cancelled & postponed indefinately. But when I met Nicole Kadar, the choreographer who… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Steven Speliotis (BETWEEN THE BALANCE)

SNOWSTORM was the winner of Best Sound & Music at the January 2022 Environmental Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Last winter I was doing a project where I took a photo of Lake Michigan everyday. During that time I learned where birds gathered along the shoreline so when a big… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker David Busse (SNOWSTORM)

THE OUT-FIT was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the January 2022 LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Due to covid I wasn’t booking any work as an actor. I also couldn’t work on certain jobs due to my visa as well, being an immigrant. So I decided to… Continue reading Interview with Producer/Actor Jessica Rookeward (THE OUT-FIT)

“Do You Remember Your Mothers Hands” was the winner of BEST FILM at the January 2022 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? As I tell in the film, I was always afraid of my mother’s hands. It was a big surprise in my mid-twenties to realize that not everyone grew… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Barbra Coco Laurre (Do You Remember Your Mothers Hands)

SPIEL was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the January 2022 MUSIC Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Interestingly, in light of SPIEL winning “best performance” in your festival, the motivation came from each of the performers, in different ways. Along with a number of other directors, I was invited choose… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mark DeChiazza (SPIEL)