Month: April 2024

Filmmaker Podcast: EP. 1188 – FILMMAKER MARK STAS (EMERGING FROM THE SHADOWS)

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EMERGING FROM THE SHADOWS, 14min., Belgium
Directed by Mark Stas
Takeda was forced to leave Asia after a tragic incident. He travelled but stayed close to the woods in order to remember his heart, but also to live a new life in Europe and tries to forget his past. After three years this peace is suddenly disturbed. While he goes running in the woods, Muto, an Italian gangster discovers suddenly an Asian man in the woods. Maybe this could be the killer his boss, Martello is looking for since many years. Karyudo, a powerful hunter who is also an excellent martial artist, was sent by his corrupt police chief to help the Italian gangster boss. He wants to know where Muto found this Asian man. They have a small issue to arrange and at the woods, Karyudo’s sensitive instinct tells him his prey is there. Karyudo, who has a great sense of honour and justice, doesn’t know the exact details of this hunting, but with the help of Muto, he will track this Asian man in the Italian woods. Doubt will grow in his mind. Martello’s hate during these three years will finally find a reason to be. They will hunt this Asian man down and make him pay, no matter what. Takeda has no other choice than to rise from the shadows, confront his past and fight for his life.

The System


https://www.facebook.com/mark.stas.official
https://www.instagram.com/markstas_wfs/

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

Since I’ve previously acted in action-packed movies like “English Dogs in Bangkok” and “Haphazard,” the desire to make original fight scenes within a concise narrative motivated me. Collaborating with my friend Ron Smoorenburg, I devised a storyline where he could shine as the main opponent. This project was fueled by pure passion, and the very good fusion between Ron and me in the past, would give us again a very good fight scene effect. Initially, it wasn’t intended for festival circuits.

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Music Video Review: HOLLY by CAPTAIN DANGER

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Synopsis:

Captain Danger soundtracks interstellar misadventures.

Review by Victoria Angelique:

The music video HOLLY by CAPTAIN DANGER is a fun and inventive film that gives off vibes of being familiar but legendary. It is something that sounds like it plays on the radio on the oldies station. It’s a unique music video that gives a vintage impression with the look and tune of the song aiding in creating a nostalgic feeling. 

It’s hard to determine whether the footage used for space and the scenes with Holly are stock footage or simply shot in a way that looks like the clips came from the past. The scenes of Holly on a beach and the Spaceman pining for her affections seem familiar, almost as if they are from something we’ve seen before only the mind cannot place where as it is possibly combined clips or shots compiled for this particular music video. 

The tune is catchy, with the feeling as if Captain Danger fits into the boy bands of the 1970s and 1980s. It’s upbeat, repetitive chorus makes it very familiar. The nostalgic tone and look of this film feels out of place within this era, which makes it refreshing as it is a song that many people would enjoy as they take a trip to the past. 

The band fizzling in and out of the video to television static is a mark of genius. It compliments the vintage tone of the entire music video. The lyrics give into a familiar trope that a man will do anything to receive the affections of a woman, even going to space. It reflects a simpler time when people could enjoy music without forceful messages and pleasing visuals within the music video. 

Directed by  Aaron Steinberg

Project Links

Watch the EUROPEAN Festival Showcase – Best of Shorts Program #1

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Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

Watch the festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/april-24-european-shorts

See the Full Lineup of Films:

SEE YOU TONIGHT !. 4min., France
Directed by Patrice Guillain
So that a couple get along well nowadays, everyone has to put a little of their own … Nevertheless, the sharing of household tasks will always be a subject of controversy. Let’s not waste time with this ! We only have one life !

THERE’LL BE NO DIVORCE, 12min., Ireland
Directd by Noelle Clarke
There’ll Be No Divorce is a suspenseful short film that unfolds a dark tale of jealousy, confrontation and unforseen consequences. Angela, a wife grappling with susicions of her husband’s infildelity, confronts his mistress in a cafe, issuing a chilling ultimatum. Unbeknownst to Angela, the mistress, Vanessa, has orchestrated a lethal plan in retaliation. As Angela heads to her car, an unknown assailant follows and attacks her, leaving her brutally injured and struggling for survival inches from her car. The film exposes the twisted webs of revenge and the devastating aftermath of unchecked emotions, offering a harrowing reflection on the lengths people will go to protect what they believe is rightfully theirs.

THE 4 KINGS, THE SANCTUARY IN HALMAHERA, 32min., Spain
Directed by Karlos Simon
There is still a space in our seas where the seabed resists the attacks that the oceans are suffering.

MOVEMENT, 3min., Armenia
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
Moving inwards, continuous and eternal.

http://www.moradizadeh.com/
https://www.facebook.com/hossein.moradizadeh.7/

https://www.instagram.com/mora.films/

HUG ME, 19min., Spain
Directed by M. Carmen Sánchez
Dalia lives on her birthday. Everyone hugs her, everyone ignores her…

https://www.instagram.com/mv.audiovisuales/

I WOULD BE WITH YOU, 15min,. Spain
Directed by Miguel Ángel Mengó
Ana, an aging drag queen, spends her nights performing in the same old cabaret, navigating between lost, sordid and violent loves.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29257997/?ref_=nm_flmg_unrel_3_edt

Watch the ACTION/AVENTURE Festival – April 24/25 event

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Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

Watch the festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/april-24-action-adventure

Submit to the Action/Adventure FEstival today:

See the Full Lineup of FIlms:

EMERGING FROM THE SHADOWS, 14min., Belgium
Directed by Mark Stas
Takeda was forced to leave Asia after a tragic incident. He travelled but stayed close to the woods in order to remember his heart, but also to live a new life in Europe and tries to forget his past. After three years this peace is suddenly disturbed. While he goes running in the woods, Muto, an Italian gangster discovers suddenly an Asian man in the woods. Maybe this could be the killer his boss, Martello is looking for since many years. Karyudo, a powerful hunter who is also an excellent martial artist, was sent by his corrupt police chief to help the Italian gangster boss. He wants to know where Muto found this Asian man. They have a small issue to arrange and at the woods, Karyudo’s sensitive instinct tells him his prey is there. Karyudo, who has a great sense of honour and justice, doesn’t know the exact details of this hunting, but with the help of Muto, he will track this Asian man in the Italian woods. Doubt will grow in his mind. Martello’s hate during these three years will finally find a reason to be. They will hunt this Asian man down and make him pay, no matter what. Takeda has no other choice than to rise from the shadows, confront his past and fight for his life.

The System


https://www.facebook.com/mark.stas.official
https://www.instagram.com/markstas_wfs/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/emerging-from-the-shadows-review

A COUPLE SCREWS LOOSE, 32min,.USA, DOC
Directed by Cameron Asa Muilenburg
Adventure bike-packers Matt Schweiker and Luke Swab decide to take on three of the hardest gravel bike rides in the southeast in three consecutive days. These light-hearted and hilarious friends will almost make you forget how difficult these routes are.

http://hddn.co/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/a-couple-screws-loose-review

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER – SUKI & SOKKA, 4min., USA
Directed by Jeoffrey TC Howe
The lighthearted rivalry between Sokka and Suki unfolds as they engage in a friendly competition, showcasing their respective strengths and weaknesses.

https://www.facebook.com/liveactionavatar
https://instagram.com/officialjaynjay

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/avatar-the-last-airbender-review

Deadline Today: ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS Festival

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Submit your ROMANCE or RELATIONSHIP Film or Screenplay to the festival today.

This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video you will receive, plus an optional virtual 2nd showcase to enhance the film’s exposure. Festival also conducts blog and podcast interviews with the filmmaker. We have also started a filmmaker’s WhatsApp group with over 100 joined to date to chat about next project and make contacts etc….

Submit via FilmFreeway:

Get your short or feature film showcased at the private festival with the sole purpose of getting the filmmaker an audience feedback promotional video.

– NEW OPTION: Submit for a guaranteed acceptance.

– 8 Film Festival events a year.

– Filmmaker also receives a chance to talk about their film on the Film Festival ITunes Podcast and also do a blog interview.

– All accepted films receive an audience reaction video of how they felt about your film.

Then you can use that video to promote your film to get into more festivals and obtain a distribution deal.

Romance Screenplay Festival happens monthly.

– Full feedback given on all submissions by industry professionals.

– Winners get their script performed by professional actors and made into a video for them.

– Winners also get to talk about their work and script on the Film Festival ITunes Podcast.

Filmmaker Podcast: EP. 1190 – Filmmaker Suniva Maya Miller (ROOM OF MEMORIES)

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ROOM OF MEMORIES, 2min., Australia
Directed by Suniva Maya Miller
The story of heartbreak told from the memory center of the brain.

https://instagram.com/caffeinated_dream_dream

Get to know the filmmaker:

It was my first ever animated film that I developed during my first year of university. For some reason I had this feeling that I had to make something so emotional and deep. At the time I had just been through a pretty rough breakup with someone who I had been friends with for much longer. So I wanted to write and make something that would reflect the complicated emotions I had surrounding this person and our relationship.

You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at http://www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it’s only $3.99 per month.

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Watch the SCI-FI Film Festival – Best of WORLD Shorts – April 23/24 event

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Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

Watch the festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/april-23-world-sci-fi

See the Full LIneup of Films:

ARITHAARAM (Facial Makeover), 13min,. India
Directed by B Suresh Kumar
Due to the advanced technological developments in Social media, the future of Therukoothu (Therukoothu in Tamil, is an ancient art, where artists play songs with dance and music in storytelling the epics. It is a folk art originated from the early Tamil country.) slowly started diminishing and the survival of the Therukoothu artists became a question mark? This film captures one such artiste and his mental agony.

https://www.facebook.com/babusureshkumar

https://www.instagram.com/sureshkumar_1971/

IRONIC IS THE IRONY, 2min, USA
Directed by Jonathan Christopher Martin-Ives
A couple find everlasting love, only for it to end tragically.

POEMS FROM THE THREKJSHANELLE, 4min,. USA
Directed by Jonathan Martin-Ives
A selection of three poems from Jonathan Martin-Ives based on his Threkjshanelle poetry/short story series. Threkjshanelle is a word from the RellianStorm which means collection or gathering.

DREAMING IN CYBERSPACE, 4min., USA
Directed Logan Fry
“dreaming in cyberspace” is about dreams, and the dreamspace within cyberspace. I’ve been fascinated by both, and in this film, I try to bring them together, showing fragments of dreams coursing freely through the mind, through both dreamspace and cyberspace, beyond and through time, and unfettered from the control of the consciousness.

https://www.patreon.com/LoneBuzzardFilmworks
https://www.facebook.com/actorloganfry
https://www.instagram.com/lonebuzzardfilmworks/

THE TABLEHERDER, 40min., Russia
Directed by Aleksandr Tretiakevich

OPTUM, 7min., USA
Directed by Alex Niforatos
A detective debates the nature of humanity with an AI terrorist that has captured him.

Watch the ENVIRONMENTAL Shorts Festival – April 23/24 event

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Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

Watch the festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/april-23-environmental

See the Full LIneup of Films:

THE ART OF PAIRING, 16min., USA
Directed by Jack Mortensen, Brenden Osborn
As a looming fire threatens Oregon wine country, we follow vineyard steward Jason Tosch as he finds purpose in nurturing and protecting the land that has been his home since childhood.

https://www.instagram.com/officialosmo/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-art-of-pairing-review

RETURN OF THE MANGROVES, 9min., UK
Directed by Leo Thorn
Return of the Mangroves follows the Mangrove Action Project (MAP) team to El Salvador to assess the health of mangroves in the Bay of Jiquilisco. MAP Co-Founder Alfredo Quarto and Jim Enright return to the bay 12 years after they conducted a mangrove restoration training, and with the help of Dr Laura Michie discover the impact of the training on the local people and the mangroves of the bay.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/return-of-the-mangroves-review

SINCE THE SPILL, 16min,. USA
Directed by Declan Lighthouse

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/since-the-spill-review

THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, 12min,. USA
Directed by John Concillo
Most likely, a young person today in the U.S. will finish high school and not know of William O. Douglas. For anyone familiar with his legacy, this is insupportable. His ideas and philosophies are fundamental wellsprings for a genuinely democratic society. The thoughts and values expressed by Justice Douglas should be passed on to a new generation and reiterated to all U.S. citizens.

Home

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-environmental-justice-review

A POSTCARD FROM ANTARCTICA, 3min., USA
Directed by Saam Gabbay
A chance scout on a zodiac opens the door to mystery and majesty as Antarctica reveals its many gifts.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/a-postcard-from-antarctica-review

Deadline Today: THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival

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Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:

This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video you will receive, plus an optional virtual 2nd showcase to enhance the film’s exposure. Festival also conducts blog and podcast interviews with the filmmaker. We have also started a filmmaker’s WhatsApp group with over 100 joined to date to chat about next project and make contacts etc….

The monthly festival that showcases the best of Thriller/Suspense Genre Stories and Films from around the world.

THRILLER festivals occur 12 times a year in Toronto & Los Angeles. Go to the website for information on the next events.

Filmmaker Podcast: EP. 1200 – Emeline Castaneda (TOTEM)

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TOTEM, 3min., France
Directed by Emeline Castaneda
The day had started badly for Alice. But that was without taking into account the old saying “in the jungle you must wait, 13 helps yourself liberate”

Get to know the filmmaker:

It was originally for a contest. We had tell a story around the theme “number 13”. I have always expressed my self best with choreography and I already had this idea of a choreography about animal transformation. It was the merfect opportunity.

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