BROOD X was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November 2021 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Well, as the name of the film tells the motivation was Brood X cicadas. This creatures who spends most of their life underground once matured have to imeditly die, fascinates me. As… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Yevgeniy K’banchik (BROOD X)

GENESIS was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November 2021 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It’s a mystery even for me, and it stays as such until the work it’s completed. Seriously. But I love it. I learned to trust my instinct, my subconscious when I’m actually shooting.… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Gianpaolo Stangoni (GENESIS)

OUT OF THE FOLDS OF WOMEN was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the November 2021 EXPERIMENTAL Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Choreography for me is an “Apparatus of Capture”, it is a way to capture a moment in time, sensations… an intimacy that the stage can not… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker  Anabella Lenzu (OUT OF THE FOLDS OF WOMEN)

THE ROAD TO LIFE was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 BLACK Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Yann Ollivier, producer: ​Actually, it’s an open call for documentary projects, financed by the European Union Delegation to Nigeria, that motivated us. They were giving out a grant to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Yann Ollivier, Moïse Gomis, Judith Rueff (THE ROAD TO LIFE)

NEVER LAND was the winner of BEST STUDENT FILM at the November 2021 Student Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I have interested in tweaking classic stories. Not too much but just one step further. For this story, I realized that the original Peter actually never killed anyone. So I was… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Animator Jee Suk Kim (NEVER LAND)

A LOVE LETTER TO FILM was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2021 UNDER 5 Minute Film Festival. What motivated you to make this film? I made this film as my final project for film school so you could say that my real motivation was I wanted to make something for me for… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Benjamin Bruce Murray (A LOVE LETTER TO FILM)

I DON’T WANT HIM EITHER played at the New York FEEDBACK Film Festival in November 2021. 1. What motivated you to make this film? The DGC BC (Directors Guild of Canada) ran a training weekend and selected 8 directors to film for 2 hours in a volume studio a one page scene. I decided to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Heather Hawthorn Doyle (I DON’T WANT HIM EITHER)

TANIEL was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November 2021 BLACK Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? (Garo Berberian Dir) My Grandparents’ families suffered greatly during the Armenian Genocide, and I wanted to create a film that reflected on their situation from another point of view. Taniel Varoujan, a… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Garo Berberian (TANIEL)

LOVELY was the winner of BEST MUSIC VIDEO at the November 2021 EXPERIMENTAL, DANCE, MUSIC Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? My style of Spoken word and hip-hop is unconventional and I knew just releasing this song without a video it might lose some of its meaning. I also thoroughly enjoy… Continue reading Interview with Artist/Producer Nathan Witte (LOVELY)

OUR LAST FAREWELL was the winner of BEST DIRECTION at the November 2021 DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? During the early days of the pandemic when ICUs were overwhelmed with dying patients I watched a TV interview with a doctor who said the most difficult part for him was… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Brian Hollins (OUR LAST FAREWELL)