EAT A SWEDE was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the June 2022 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The idea was to create a conversation about sustainable food, making people think about these subjects from a new, quite bizarre, perspective. Food is culture. And changing our cultural habits… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Daniel Hallberg (EAT A SWEDE)

12 SHADES OF GREY was awarded BEST FILM at the June 2022 SCIENCE & NATURE Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? There has been a global misconception towards the Great White Shark. As a result of my Aliquam Dive series and working with renown Valerie Taylor, it allowed me a platform to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Anthony Gordon (12 SHADES OF GREY)

HUNROS JORNA played to rave reviews at the June 2022 Experimental/Dance Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It’s been a long time in the making, a lifetime in the living so to speak. Just as one of your audience commented, it’s a love letter to water at its heart. Kind of a… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Mickey Smith (HUNROS JORNA)

THE ROCKER AND THE PUCA was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the June 2022 FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? A Love of the Old Irish Tales 2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film? 6 Years… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Trevor Courtney (THE ROCKER AND THE PUCA)

I BOT was the winner of BEST LONG FORM SHORT FILM at the June 2022 FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? My favorite Sci-Fi films are never those blockbusters. I mean I do enjoy watching them. But it’s films like Gattaca or District 9 that really draw my attention and provoke… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Tony He (I BOT)

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)