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RAILWAY MAP was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the January 2021 Experimental Film Festival. What motivated you to make this film? I belong to a collective called Los Enviados de Sotuta for my dance film related projects. When we heard that a controversial railroad project was going to be built in the Yucatan Peninsula… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Amulio José Espinosa (RAILWAY MAP)

THE DYING LIGHT was the winner of BEST FILM at the January 2021 Dance & Music Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The shooting of Trayvon Martin, just a black teenager on his way home, profiled, unjustly stopped, and shot and killed for resisting arrest. His death impacted me because there… Continue reading Interview with Musician/Director Mr. Corazon (THE DYING LIGHT)

THE FANDOM was the winner of BEST FEATURE FILM at the January 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? There have been a few films and shows that touched on Furry but almost all of them missed something that really was the driving force for me; Furry is a vibrant… Continue reading Interview with Director Ash Kreis (THE FANDOM)

PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!!!…TOMORROW was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the January 2021 COMEDY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I made “Procrastinators Unite! …Tomorrow” during the lockdown period. It had been a while that I had made anything since my last experimental film ‘Here’ (https://vimeo.com/330302189 ) and i wanted to utilise… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Chandni Srivastava (PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!!!…TOMORROW)

MY FRIEND, THE MAYOR: SMALL-TOWN POLITICS IN THE AGE OF TRUMP is the winner of BEST FEATURE FILM at the Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I had just taken a course in filming with small cameras (I shot this movie with a handicam and my iphone). And… Continue reading Interview with Filmmmaker Max Westerman (MY FRIEND, THE MAYOR: SMALL-TOWN POLITICS IN THE AGE OF TRUMP)

AMERICAN DREAM was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the January 2021 POLITICAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Our motivation was born from an opportunity to make a film in the US. Nicolas won an award with his first shortfilm “Papé” during the Chelsea Film Festival at New York… Continue reading Interview with Filmmakers Nicolas Polixene & Sylvain Loubet dit Gajol (AMERICAN DREAM)

UNDOCUMENTED played to rave reviews at the January 2021 Under 5 Minute Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? In 2017 Valeria and I were awarded a grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK to carry out research on “cross-language dynamics”, that is, communities where more than one… Continue reading Interview with Rhys Aaron Lewis & Valeria Luongo (UNDOCUMENTED)

1. What is your screenplay about? My screenplay, “An Absolute Mind,” is based off of my novel of the same name. It’s about a college student named Sonya Ogino who finds out she has Absolute Memory; the ability to see the memories of significant objects. There are underground gangs who hunt down people like her,… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Lauren Lola (AN ABSOLUTE MIND)

SAINT CLAIR CEMIN, PSYCHE was the winner of BEST FEATURE FILM at the January 2021 Experimental, Dance, Music Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? When I started the whole opus of 610Film, I wanted to show the process of creativity of various artists. I was working with seven artists at the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Svetlana Cemin (SAINT CLAIR CEMIN, PSYCHE)

ALIVE was the winner of BEST DOC SHORT at the January 2021 Experimental, Dance, Music film festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Click on the news, read a textbook, listen to a podcast—there is an overwhelming amount of issues in the world that need more attention. I always struggled with this in… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Braden Joe (ALIVE)