LEMONS played to rave reviews at the August 2021 Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? First I wanted to make a film with my friends. Quarantine was a wake up call to my fast approaching end of my college career. We hadn’t seen each other or been able to feel the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker/Animator Siena Kuan (LEMONS)

AGAINST MY WILL played to rave reviews at the August 2021 WILDsound Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? Even though this story is a fiction, it was written from real events experienced or told by those very close to me. My own experience with lockdowns is also infused into the storyline.… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Nils Lane (AGAINST MY WILL)

A COUPLE played to rave reviews at the August 2021 STUDENT Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This story didn’t come from an idea of mine. It was written for another director’s degree film (National Cinema School). This director was expelled from the school so they called a former student to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Davide Petrosino (A COUPLE)

OUTSIDE MY WINDOW played to rave reviews at the August 2021 DANCE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It comes from my own personal experience with agoraphobia. It is an expression of the struggle I often go through with leaving my home. I wanted to depict the mental tug-and-pull, the stages… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Sonia Gemmiti (OUTSIDE MY WINDOW)

BARE NAKED TRUTHS played to rave reviews at the August 2021 Under 5 Minute Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was looking to produce a short film that would be realistic to produce for a new filmmaker with no money. Creator of the series, Ellen DeSitter, brought me her idea… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Amy E. Powell (BARE NAKED TRUTHS)

CHERRY was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the August 2021 FEMALE Filmmakers Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? . I had a good story to tell, based on a personal experience, and I wasn’t permitted to make the film as a project in my school studies. This drove us to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Naama Lahav (CHERRY)

SOUR PATCH was the winner of BEST PERFORMANCES at the August 2021 FEMALE Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? As the writer, producer and actress in this film, I was motivated to make a film about the clash of a long term friendship, because it is something I personally experienced and… Continue reading Interview with Actor/Writer/Producer Sara Sue Vallee (SOUR PATCH)

1. What is your novel about? A young girl discovers a strange portal to a distant land after a lightning strike hits her beloved tree house. Through this portal, she learns of a child in grave danger, and tries to help the child escape. 2. What genres would you say this story is in? Adventure,… Continue reading Interview with Novelist Chris Loud (Fifer And The Crooked Tree)

1. What is your screenplay about? Set in mid-1980s San Francisco during the AIDS pandemic, If These Walls Could Speak is an exploration of counterculture sexuality, protest against homophobia, and survival. 2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Experimental Documentary along the lines of Terrence Daivies “Of Time and the City” 3. Why should… Continue reading Interview with Writer Brett Thomas (IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK)

1) What is the theme of your poem? Our constant desire and striving for things we believe will bring us happiness. The nature of true happiness. 2) What motivated you to write this poem? I never sit down with an intention or motivation to write anything in particular. All of my poems are more or… Continue reading Interview with Poet Fella Cederbaum (WHAT I THOUGHT I WANTED)