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TRUE ROMANCE, 29min., Canada Directed by Katherine Costal A lovesick teenager tries to rekindle her relationship with a past boyfriend by inviting him to a surprise party, only to discover the harsh truth behind their romance and the love lives of the guests.
I got the idea for it after watching other people’s love lives, and seeing all the emotionally immature and unaffectionate behaviours they encountered. I noticed that a lot of people fall into these kinds of relationships but it happens most commonly to the younger crowd. I wanted to depict some of those dynamics from an outside perspective and show what observing the dating culture can look like. I think that when you’re in your teens and early twenties, love and romance can be too serious of a thing for you to know how to navigate, so your early relationships will likely end badly. For that reason I think it can be difficult to find love in the world when you’re a hopeless romantic. At the same time, there’s societal pressure to begin dating at a young age, and that pressure’s just not necessary when it’s perfectly okay to be single and use that time to understand yourself. I wanted to tell people that they shouldn’t be disheartened by the hurtful or incompatible behaviour they may experience, and that they should wait for the person that satisfies the idea of romance they have.
What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?
I enjoyed hearing the audience’s thoughts and what they each took away from the film. I especially appreciated how a lot of them identified the types of relationships I was depicting and I hope that they understood the satirical nature of this film. It was fun to see them react to the conflicts and listen to how they perceived the surrealistic way the characters talked and behaved. I had speculated before what viewers would think of the semi-surrealism that I put into it so the feedback video is very helpful to me in gauging that. I really liked how each of them seemed to have their own favourite thing about the film and it’s nice to hear their opinions.
[About his co-star, Maggie Grace] “She’s hateable in Lost (2004), but really she’s the sweetest, most adorable thing on the planet”.
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can’t hide anything from them.
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that’s the Roaring Twenties.
Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
I can’t let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what’s unsustainable in their communities. That’s the future.
[on feeling insecure about his physique due to the high standard set for men today] [My] biggest insecurity [is] how muscular I am though I’m usually not insecure about it. But I feel like being in the business that we are, [there’s] a standard, you feel this pressure on you to be in good shape. Specifically now with all the superhero movies, as much as I would love to do one. It’s a very high standard.
Born December 8, 1949 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth name Nancy Jane Meyers
Spouse Charles Shyer (1980 – 1999) (divorced, 2 children)
QUOTES:
Movies don’t look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody’s character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it’s creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn’t mean I know how to fix them.
I don’t diet, I don’t do fads, I’ve just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can’t live without chocolate, though. I’ve always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it’s too sweet, any more and it’s inedible. Like I said, I’m very particular.
I don’t shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it’s because I’m looking for something.
Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn’t have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
I wasn’t the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn’t know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
We don’t want to be our own niche. We’re filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
Spouses Alec Baldwin (August 19, 1993 – September 3, 2002) (divorced, 1 child) Ron Snyder (October 12, 1980 – December 23, 1989) (divorced)
QUOTES:
[on Sean Connery] I fantasize about riding an Arabian horse bareback with him along a sandy beach. We fall naked to the ground and, as the horse wanders off along the water’s edge, we make passionate love in the moonlight. It always leaves me hot and bothered. I just love the man.
[on kissing in the movies] There’s an absolute art to it. You have to think it’s as good as what’s coming later. [on performing in the nude] I thoroughly enjoy it, actually.
I don’t really live in a time zone. I don’t abide by the rules here on earth.
All of us are male and female. Take me–I’m strong; I’m weak; I’m everything. It’s intriguing to see a man who has chosen not to pick up on all the stereotypical male traits, who keeps only the most powerful ones, and leaves a lot of the stuff that society lays on you at home. I love a man who knows his femininity. I love a man who can cry. I love a man who’s not afraid to delve into the female psyche and become a part of it. Have tea with the girls, emotionally. I love people who aren’t afraid of what other people are gonna say about them. You know, it’s all society’s rules, man. You gotta drop ’em and not be afraid to be yourself. Some days, I dress very, very masculine–wear men’s clothes. Other days, I dress up in high heels and garter belts and miniskirts. It all depends on what I feel like!
Born December 8, 1964 · Palo Alto, California, USA
Birth name Teri Lynn Hatcher
Spouses Jon Tenney (May 27, 1994 – March 5, 2003) (divorced, 1 child) Markus Leithold (June 4, 1988 – June 2, 1989) (divorced)
QUOTES:
Despite the fact that I have a good-size pair of breasts … in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993), I have the opportunity to show the world they’re not my only attribute.
What’s good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.
[on her audition for Desperate Housewives (2004)] I had to test, the whole rigmarole, but it was one of the greatest auditions I ever had. I left the building knowing I had this.
Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I’ve done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that’s what they should be. You shouldn’t be beating yourself up.
[on her marriage to Jon Tenney] I was consumed with being a mom. I didn’t think beyond that.
[on turning 40] I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don’t know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.
[on what she learned from filming her first movie] Well, Wayne Wang, the director, really helped me become a more mature actress. When I first started filming, I was really over the top. He just helped bring me down and make me real. That was really wonderful, a really wonderful experience. Also, what I learned about filming is it takes forever. I mean, there are so many different angles and shots. I mean, it just takes forever.
[on filming in a small town] Well, I’m kind of an urban girl. I like big cities. I like New York. I like London. I like L.A. I like people. I get lonely, really, really easily. But I think it was good. It was very different and I think that’s good.
If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you’re just yourself, people respond to that.
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THE FATHER, 12min., UK Directed by Doug Rollins After 18 years, an estranged father returns to Wales to confront the sudden death of his son. Reuniting with his ex-partner, they grapple with a shocking discovery that challenges their past and present.
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.
CYPRESS SLEEP, 15min., Turkey Directed by Leila Norouzi Hasanbarough, Eren Uğur PhD student Zechariah sets off to a historical cemetery in the countryside with his lover Seda for his thesis research. On the way, they bump into something they are not aware of. This creates an enigma between the two characters. Seda will make an important decision on this journey
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.
HOLESTEPPER, 17min., Peru Directed by Sergio Fernández Muñoz Angel (Oswaldo Salas), an enthusiastic high school teacher, discovers a website where his students make fun of him and his disability through some strange videos. Mixing the reality and the digital universe adolescent, Angel will be involved in a world hitherto unknown.
ZAFI, 24min., Nigeria Directed by Chloe Coko Two childhood friends Sakinah (14years) and Binta (15years) were married off to older men (45years and 64years respectively) to settle debts owed by their fathers.
MONKEY ENTERS LANKA, 30min., China Directed by Sale Surendra The ancient city of Lanka suffers under a tyrant. Concubines are being abducted from all over the world. One special princess disappears and that’s when a legendary folk hero is called for once again, his name, feared throughout the heavens and hells.. the Monkey King.
AGOGO, 30min., Nigeria Directed by Chloe Coko In an era, where having only girl children or educating girl children was frowned upon by the community, a father defiles culture and religious doctrines to home school his daughters.
SUNA, 9min., Turkey Directed by Irfan Kayas While Ali is returning home after releasing his cows to the pasture, he hears that foreigners have come to the village for hunting and feels disturbed by this situation.
LISA THE GYPSY, 9min., Turkey Directed by Irfan Kayas Ercan is a twenty-two-year-old person who earns his living collecting rubbish to be recycled, sorting them out in the garbage bins.One day, when he’s out working with his handcart, he comes across a reproduction of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. He brings it home and hangs it on the wall. However, her mother doesn’t like it at all and angry.
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