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)

BLACK LOVE MANIFESTO was the winner of BEST FILM at the January 2022 MUSIC Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The relentless campaign of police violence and terror on Black bodies starting with Trayvon Martin to Breyonna Taylor to George Floyd and the ongoing hashtags 2. From the idea to the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Liza Jessie Peterson (BLACK LOVE MANIFESTO)

GREENHORN was voted the TWIST FILM of the year at the January 2022 WILDsound Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I wanted to make some sort of a magic trick of a short. I really wanted to lead viewers way far down one path with all these clues that upon the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Kevin Staake (GREENHORN)

I LIVE FOR YOU was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the January 2022 BLACK & WHITE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? My goal it’s been, since the beginning, to bring the attention on invisible violence which doesn’t leave scars, and sometimes neither the victims realize that they… Continue reading Interview with Producer Rita Raucci (I LIVE FOR YOU)

ANACHRONISM was voted BEST DIRECTION at the January 2022 DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? There was this first idea of a “mechanical” kind of dancing that popped in my head along with images and memories from the movie “Blade Runner”. At the same time I was preoccupied with the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Evi Tzortzi (ANACHRONISM)

DEVIENS was the winner of BEST FILM at the January 2022 DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Julien Mabin: Loved the subject Adrien pitched me. He and I being friends for more than a decade (we met in LA in 2009), I knew his touch and sensitivity were ideal with… Continue reading Interview with Filmmakers Julien Mabin & Adrien Lhommedieu (DEVIENS)