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Q&A with Madeline Leshner
“My favorite part of the creative process is being on set and seeing everything come together. I love collaborative creative problem-solving. I also usually storyboard everything, so seeing those come off the page and become real is an amazing feeling.“
Q&A with Diego Murillo
“I got into filmmaking through an accumulative process that made me realize I wanted and needed to create, and cinema as a medium and art form was just the right one, or so I believe it to be. As a kid, I loved going to the theater so much, but it was a distant act of distraction and nothing more.”
Q&A with Xin Fang
“I like observing people, and through the observation of each individual, I learn the story behinds them. It’s a fascinating process, and the amount of trust you will gain throughout the period. I started conducting several social field works when I was in college.”
Q&A with John e. Kilberg
“Sam is me, a tomboy who struggles to feel loved. I have always felt like a ‘tomboy’ not much of a man and not much of a woman somewhere in between. I am proud to feel that way about myself. It was exciting to create a character like Sam and to see the story play out the way it does.”
Why Can't I Be a Chinese Cowboy?
Joe ponders these ideas as he boldly tells his Chinese father, who has a traditional, "sensible" outlook, that he's moving from New York to a ranch to be a cowboy — that it's his dream, and we, as the viewer, don't get to decide it for him.
Q&A with Kerri Fernsworth Feazell
“When I actually sat down to properly write a script, I was motivated by the need to end a story in my life that didn't have a satisfying ending to me. I wanted to know and put to rest in my mind: what would have happened if I pushed my experience beyond the limit of what I actually did?”
Q&A with Adam Chitayat
“We got in touch with some locals and went down to the areas affected. We were a tiny 3 person team. A feared-to-be Katrina level hurricane hit right when landed. And then a process of discovery, empathy and expectations overturned.”
Q&A with Paul Lee
“I realized one day that all I wanted to do was to film places from my childhood. It didn’t matter if there was a story or not. So I wrote a little plot that somewhat mirrored what was happening in my partner and I’s lives, and filmed the scenes in places I grew up in.“