Graf Anthony created and directed SustAIn, a film about combining sustainability with A.I. The concept is a sound one of how we, as a species, can collaborate with A.I. to reimagine discarded objects and breathe new life into them. Shackle Peter did the chair design within the film and the chair was definitely multifunctional and artistic.
There is a seamlessness to the film’s flow due to it being generated by A.I. One of the things I really liked was text elements that were added, it helped unify the story being told. The addition of sound effects and the voice over was very clever and added a nice narrative to what was happening on screen. I only wish the voice over was done in a softly spoken voice instead of the whisper.
What really shines throughout the film is the score provided by Graf Anthony under the pseudonym CLMTN. The title song “World is on Fire” evokes such emotion and pairs perfectly with this film and its message.
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This festival includes so much for the creators and is all about getting the word out about their work. It was an honor to be a part of the festival, and they made me feel like an A-lister right off the bat. Would highly recommend!
Extremely well structured and organized! I truly enjoyed being part of it and I am looking forward to submit my next project!!!
We were happy to participate in this festival. We are happy that our project was liked and that it obtained a good rating. Thanks for the interview. We hope to participate in the future with new projects.
A wonderful experience, the Table Read was a real thrill. Thanks !!!!
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A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc.
Matthew Toffolo: You have worked on over 60 films as a Costume Designer, plus over 24 films as a Makeup Artist in just the last 9 years! You’ve been busy. Is there a film or two that stand out for you that you’re most proud of?
Ginger Martini: I’m proud of the majority of them. I’ve been quite lucky, every script that has come my way, I’ve quite enjoyed working on. I’d say Fall, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist, At Home by Myself… with You, BackCountry and Air Balloon Circus are some of the most visually exciting projects. I love working on the CityLife projects as well, with the Remix project, those films always hold a special place in my heart.
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Matthew: You seem to be the go-to person when dealing with tight budgets. Your task is sometimes impossible. What’s your secret to do costumes for an entire cast with little money?
Ginger: Some of them were tight budgets in the beginning years, but for the most part, I get what I need to make it look proper. Realistic goals is key. I draw up a reasonable budget and submit it to my producers and pm at the start. They usually find a way to make it work.
Matthew: You started out doing short films and you continue to do them. What do you enjoy about the short film experience?
Ginger: All about the script, I’m a sucker for an interesting story whether it’s short or long format.
Matthew: What type of film would you love to do costumes for that you haven’t done yet?
Ginger: In sept/oct I designed some costumes for the band XO-IQ on Nickelodeon’s Make It Pop, that was probably my favourite version of designing, anything along those lines would be where I’d like to head from now on, lots of color and fun fabrics. They let me be as creative as I wanted and the results are really cool : )
Matthew: What film have you seen the most times in your life?
Ginger: Oddly enough, The Perfect Storm with George Clooney and Mark Walberg. It’s on tv alllll the time and any time I come across it, I’ll stop what I’m doing and watch the entire thing.
Matthew: What makes a great makeup artist?
Ginger: Talent and personality
Matthew: What are you looking for in a director when you start a production?
Ginger: We need to be on the same page creatively and they need to be someone I can easily communicate with.
Matthew: Does working on big budget Hollywood productions that have a large costume department appeal to you?
Ginger: Of Course : )
Matthew: What advice to you have for high school or university students who are looking to work in costumes or makeup in the movie industry?
Ginger: It’s not as easy as it looks on tv. The hours are beyond gruelling and at first the money is non existent. But keep at it. Be nice to everyone, cuz you never know where your next job is coming from and who that Production Assisant will be later (maybe your next Production Manager) and only work for free for a little bit. Then bill what you’re worth and if you are good at it, the money will come. Make sure you like your scripts and it’s easier to live with them 24/7 for months on end. Take advice from people who are successful in the department you want to be in, and learn to take criticisms well and not personally.
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Interviewer Matthew Toffolo is currently the CEO of the WILDsound FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival. The festival that showcases 10-20 screenplay and story readings performed by professional actors every month. And the FEEDBACK Daily Festival held online and in downtown Toronto on the last Thursday of every single month. Go to www.wildsound.ca for more information and to submit your work to the festival.
Trail Mix, 50min,. USA Directed by Glenn Robert Sweitzer Trail Mix follows a 2,000-mile journey from Georgia to Maine, uncovering the personal struggles and healing of hikers seeking solace, purpose, and transformation. Directed by Glenn Sweitzer, the film reveals how nature becomes a powerful path back to wholeness.
SMALL TOWN GIRLS, 4min., USA Directed by Layal Hamdeh Feeling confined by their small empty town and unambitious locals, Jasmine and Sarah entertain the idea of moving away to New York.
Hammerstone Meets Woofstock, 20min., Canada Directed by Josh Holliday A film that straddles the line between narrative and documentary, landing squarely on comedy. Steve Hammerstone is a small town radio host and big time buffoon, who’s sent to explore Woofstock: North America’s largest festival for dogs.
Super Villain Coffee, 15min., USA Directed by Leonard Frank Smith “Supervillain Coffee” is a satirical comedy about Maximum “Chaos” Maxwell, a once-feared supervillain now slinging espresso in a hip downtown coffee shop. Max trades doomsday devices for latte art, grumbling about his past while perfecting milk foam with the precision of a mad scientist. His sidekick in this caffeine-fueled redemption arc is Travis “The Trendsetter” Thompson, ex-villain obsessed with livestreaming his barista life for TikTok clout—complete with hashtags like #VillainToVanilla. The shop’s a circus of chaos and coffee until Captain Righteous, Max’s old heroic nemesis, struts in to rub salt in the wound with smug jabs and a lactose-laden latte order that backfires hilariously. Between plunging toilets and dodging Travis’s phone, Max wrestles with his villainous past and barista present—until a rare moment of wisdom from Travis hints at deeper redemption, only for Max to shrug it off with a grunt. It’s a wild brew of absurdity, heart, and sharp laughs—a tale of evil gone mild, one overpriced coffee at a time.
THE CALLBACK, 10min., Canada ISAAC is one of several actors auditioning for the lead in the globally renowned action franchise: MAX STORM. Every actor has been invited into the audition room, which is empty aside from a table with a black covering. Suddenly, they’re greeted by the voice of director DEAN WEST over the intercom. “Do whatever it takes to secure the role.” The tablecloth comes off, revealing a massive collection of deadly melee weapons. Everyone is skeptical, but distrust is already growing. When one of the actors sets his sights on Isaac, snatches an imposing knife off the table, and begins to close in, Isaac is forced to fight to survive.
Cosmic Rhapsody – A Journey of Hope, 3min. Singapore Directed by Susan Mey Lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan In 2020, the world seemed to be on the brink. A global pandemic raged, wildfires scorched the earth, and anxieties soared. Yet, amidst this turmoil, a spark of hope ignited: NASA astronauts returned to space aboard SpaceX’s CrewDragon, the first mission of its kind in nearly a decade. This inspiring event, against the backdrop of a world in crisis, gave birth to “Cosmic Rhapsody.”
I had a great experience with this festival and particularly loved getting the audience feedback video. Thank you for giving ‘Plain as Night’ the Best Story award.
Great festival with many interesting events. Feedback from real people. Great communication and very fast. Thank you for giving opportunity to show our work to the world! Strongly recommend!
This was my first festival experience ever and it was great. I was honored to have my thriller Cut Off as an official selection! Thanks for the feedback and everything.
thoughtful, engaging and creative. this film festival is none that I’ve ever experienced before. The audience feedback video was greatly helpful to our development as filmmakers. We’re thankful for the opportunity to showcase our story!
This festival has a guaranteed 4-tier set up for each accepted script. (No matter what, all screenplays submitted receive FULL FEEDBACK on their work.) 1) Full Feedback on your script 2) Actors performance video reading of your script 3) Blog interview promotion. 4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show
Submit you HISTORY short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
History is a narrative that describes, analyzes, and questions past events, and examines the patterns of cause and effect. It’s a collection of stories told by many different people, and is subject to constant revision and reinterpretation. Accept only stories that fit into the HISTORY genre.
Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.
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Arlo, a 17 year old boy struggles to open up and express himself to his counselor. He is haunted by his past actions due to his inability to control his rage and anger issues.
Diana Shield’s THREE S3CONDS opens not with violent spectacle, but with a simple, chilling motif: the relentless tick-tock of a clock. From the outset, time becomes a character as a witness, an accuser, a quiet judge. And in the center of it all sits Arlo (Mark Bellemare), a 17-year-old boy unraveling at the seams in the sterile setting of a therapist’s office. Or so it seems.
This is not your typical therapy session. It’s a descent as we watch a spiraling meditation on rage, violence, and the irrevocable damage that follows it. Shield’s direction wraps us inside Arlo’s mind, where guilt and grief distort time and memory. The atmosphere is claustrophobic. Sofia (played with quiet precision by Kelly Robinson) guides Arlo with guarded empathy, but there’s a palpable tension as though something unseen lurks just beneath the surface.
Antagonism. Threat. Confrontation. Self-security. Domination. These are the words that pulse at the center of Arlo’s confession. As the narrative unfolds, so does the truth of his past: a string of violent acts from the act of bullying, starting bar fights, moments of emotional manipulation, and then… something more. Something irreversible.
The specter of a woman haunts him, but not as a cliché. She’s not a ghost in white. She’s a presence urging Arlo toward getting the help that’s right in front of him. It’s not preachy, but it is intentional: this film is a warning, a plea, and a reckoning.
Alex McDowell’s score heightens the emotional landscape with eerie intensity. In one especially visceral moment, Arlo is yelling, completely consumed by rage, and yet, we can’t hear his words. They’re drowned by the score, but we feel every syllable in our gut. This choice is brilliant. It reminds us that violence, often loud and theatrical, leaves silence in its wake.
The horror of the film doesn’t come from gore or jump scares, it comes from realization. When Arlo stands covered in blood, we’re not shocked by the violence itself, but by how quickly it all happened. Three seconds. That’s all it took for a life to end and for him to fracture beyond repair.
And then we’re met with silence. Arlo speaks. And we realize we’ve been watching not a conversation, but a mental projection. The clock was never broken. The therapist, in reality, was met with nothing but silence. We, the audience, have been trapped in the storm of Arlo’s mind.
In a final twist of poignancy, Sofia reaches for a bottle of scotch hidden in her drawer, pouring it into a coffee mug. She rewatches a video of their session which reveals a record of silence, of weight she silently carries. It’s a subtle nod to the toll this work takes on those who bear witness to trauma, violence, and remorse.
THREE S3CONDS is a short film with long-lasting resonance. It is a chilling character study and a devastating reminder of how quickly anger can calcify into violence. Both Diana and Harlan Shields have crafted something that lingers like the echo of a slammed door, or the ticking of a clock that no longer tells time but reminds you of everything you lost.
A striking, unsettling film that lingers in the bones. Essential viewing for those exploring the intersections of accountability, mental health, and the fragile line between anger and action.
Trail Mix follows a 2,000-mile journey from Georgia to Maine, uncovering the personal struggles and healing of hikers seeking solace, purpose, and transformation. Directed by Glenn Sweitzer, the film reveals how nature becomes a powerful path back to wholeness.
The documentary, TRAIL MIX, is a beautiful celebration of life and nature. It is a journey of a filmmaker on the Appalachian Trail as he meets other hikers to find out their stories while reconnecting with his own soul.
The film starts with a question, wondering why someone would hike for months on a trail, leading the filmmaker to go on the journey himself through one of the longest trails. The Appalachian Trail goes through 14 states on the east coast of the United States, which makes it a perfect place to meet strangers from all over the world as people from all walks of life will spend months on this hike.
The main theme for each of them, the trail isn’t just about the gorgeous nature that surrounds the paths, it’s about the people that become family on the long journey. It’s an opportunity to teach individuals about themselves and other people as they reconnect to nature, where it’s emphasized several times that people belong.
The filmmaker interviews psychologists, they also agree that humans belong in nature and that we have taken ourselves out of it. They make it clear that by removing ourselves from the earth, our health suffers and that reconnecting with it can help to restore the balance in our bodies. This makes the people that the filmmaker encounter seem uplifting, as they all seem happy and at peace rather than tense and angry like those we encounter in large cities.
Instead of just talking to those on the trail, we are also given a brief history of the Appalachian Trail. It makes the stories more impactful because the roots go back to 1921, showing that the mission has stayed the same since the trail’s inception.
This documentary will make people want to reconnect with nature. It is an uplifting journey that might make people want to add hiking the Appalachian Trail to their bucket list.
