DREAM CATCHER played to rave reviews at the November 2020 Animation FEEDBACK Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? When I wrote this script, I was still in film school – studying the art of filmmaking, while harboring aspirations of working as a professional filmmaker in the industry. So I had all… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Avery Rouda (DREAM CATCHER)

TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE was the winner of BEST FILM at the November 2020 ANIMATION Feedback Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? A lot of the inspiration for this film came from my personal adoption story. I was born in Russia and adopted as a baby, just like the little… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Alyce Vest (TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE)

UNDERNEATH was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the October 2020 LGBT Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? First and foremost, I was motivated by a personal event in my life. Other than that, I was inspired by the current perceptions or misconceptions in relation to the issue of (homo)sexuality and… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Lena Weller (UNDERNEATH)

NINE was the winner of BEST SOUND & MUSIC at the September 2020 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? This film is about my own experience as a woman rower in the 1970’s. Our team was founded because of the enactment of Title 9. I want to tell this story… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Jane Musky (NINE)

The feature film ALASKA LONG HUNTERS is currently playing at multiple festivals around the world, including recently the Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? It’s based on my book – Last of the Long Hunters, written to capture the my life in the 60’s – 80’s in Arctic Alaska… Continue reading Interview with Novelist/Producer Mark Rose (ALASKA LONG HUNTERS)

ANPU – ZOEA played to raved reviews at the September 2020 Dance & Music Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? To discuss the globe eco problem, and try to present my idea to all the audience. 2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Po-Wei Su (ANPU – ZOEA)

SHARDS was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the September 2020 Female Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? In 2015, my best friend and roommate woke me up in the middle of the night with a vague phone call, her tone of voice unlike how I had ever heard her. I… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Elena Gorgevska (SHARDS)

INFATUATION was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the November 2020 New York Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? My friend, Joi Ashanti Watkis, was producing an anthology series called the Alphabet Series. Each letter of the alphabet would get a short film representing a certain emotion. She gave me first… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Nace DeSanders (INFATUATION)

I’LL CRY TOMORROW played to rave reviews at the September 2020 Under 5 Minute Film Festival. 1. What motivated you to make this film? I was going through some keep-sakes and saw a bunch of super-8 and 16mm films I had made in the mid-1980’s. It really piqued my curiosity. And being curious by nature,… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Brett Thomas (I’LL CRY TOMORROW)

1. What is your screenplay about? Star Wars: Rendezvous is a fan-fiction film set in the Star Wars universe with a cast of new characters as well as some more established ones. The story follows a pair of do-gooders in their attempt to a save a young force-sensitive girl wanted by the Empire. Events take… Continue reading Interview with Screenwriter Brent Peterson (Star Wars: Rendezvous)