NEW WORLD, 3min,. USA Directed by Kevin Brayant Osorio New World is a chaotic and bizarre song, featuring a stop motion music video just as chaotic and just as bizarre. New World has an angular dark burn and a certain obliqueness. New World is the kind of chaos we all get
What motivated you to make this film? Originally, we were going to make a hand drawn, frame by frame animation for the music video. It was laid out and storyboarded, but it didn’t pan out. The best alternate/immediate option seemed to be making a stop motion music video instead.
What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video? It’s very nice and flattering to see the audience’s reactions. Most times, you know people have viewed something you’ve made, but that doesn’t mean you’ve gotten a “reaction” from them; especially online. Creating can be very one sided. Initial/immediate reactions are interesting to me. You can only make one first impression.
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LINOLEUM – Alain Chamfort / Cie Niki Noves, 6min., France Directed by Niki Noves In a dark room, we find two men forehead to forehead, sitting on the floor, heads connected by a helmet with an organic look. They are surrounded by silhouettes motionless and tense. In parallel in a sanitized white space, these two men face each other at a distance. They seem to have the power to influence the behavior of the other. Their violent and fierce manipulations quickly blow them to the limit of the knockout. This struggle has the effect of animating the individuals around them in the dark space. Alain Chamfort is the link between these two spaces. He is the witness and the narrator. He walks in the dark towards a ray of light. In the air there are particles that gradually draw a yellow landscape, a chaotic exterior that indicates a post-apocalyptic era. A child appears in the distance through the yellowish fog. He walks in the midst of a group of women and men of all ages walking in the same direction, looking out at the horizon of a new land.
OLD HOUSE, 4min,. Ukraine Directed by Alexander Sparinsky About the depth of the hypocrisy of the Russian invaders and the coming consequences of the grand adventure of the twenty-first century. For in addition to the woes and sorrows the war has brought to Ukraine, the Kremlin’s perfidious madness is destroying Muscovy itself.
A STREET DOG NAMED DESIRE, 4min., USA Directed by Nich Esposito A journey through the streets and sewers with a hot dog dropped by a hapless street vendor.
L’ESCALE, 45min., France Directed by Antoine Sextier The 1960s, Paris, rue Monsieur Le Prince, in the “l’Escale” cabaret, Latin Americans live and share their music throughout the night.
Jorge Peña Hen – The last hours of the Maestro, 14min., Chile Directed by Alvaro Riquelme S. Adaptation of the play by Maria Belen Espinoza Peña, Butoh Artist, and niece of Jorge Peña Hen, Orchesta Director murdered by the Caravana de la Muerte during Dictatorship in Chile
Born December 3, 1968 · Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Birth name Brendan James Fraser
Spouse Afton Smith (September 27, 1998 – April 17, 2008) (divorced, 3 children)
QUOTES:
You do a movie, Hollywood loves you for a while. They love you, they love you, they love you until…oh, they love someone else now. It’s not cyclical, it’s … it’s … ficklical!
I still don’t understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that’s the basis of Greek mythology.
I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I’m the most happy fellow that I know.
I think you have to show homage to creators.
George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He’s a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
I’m starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren’t amending; they’re shifting.
Born December 3, 1979 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth name Tiffany Sara Cornilia Haddish
Speaks fluent Japanese.
Tiffany lived in three foster homes after her mother lost custody of her and her siblings, when Tiffany was twelve. After two years, her grandmother was able to gain custody of Tiffany and her siblings.
When Tiffany was nine, her mother was in a car accident that triggered her schizophrenia. When she was twelve, she and her four siblings were placed into foster care.
[on her arrest for protesting the demolition of Los Angeles’ South Central garden] I’m not thrilled about it, but I felt it was important to sustain my commitment.
I feel like I’m about 7. I always get shocked when I look in the mirror and see a grown-up.
I was a daydreamer when I was a child and I still am. I like fantasy a lot. It would be great if I could always play mythological characters.
[on addressing the skepticism of climate-change deniers] I make a concerted effort to do conservative media. People go, “Oh no, don’t do that. They’ll eat you alive.” But I don’t care; that’s what I need to do. I need to reach those people and at least give them the opportunity to listen to the information. I really believe if people have information, they will make wise decisions.
I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don’t worry anymore.
I love… anything in black and white
It creeped me out at first, but I guess it’s nice to know I still resonate in people’s minds. – about being recognized on her subway commute to work
They spoil you rotten. If you want a glass of milk, they run off to get you one. – about being on a movie set as a child actor
I really don’t like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.
Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.
I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
I’m a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I’m one of those girls who don’t give the mic away. It’s a problem. I’m a closeted pop star.
I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.
I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that’s not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren’t really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.
I really didn’t know how people were going to react to ‘Magic Mike’ because there hasn’t been a movie like it. There’s a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you’re ready to have this baby.
Born December 3, 1960 · Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Birth name Julie Anne Smith
Spouses Bart Freundlich(August 23, 2003 – present) (2 children) John Gould Rubin(May 3, 1986 – August 25, 1995) (divorced)
QUOTES:
[about the birth of her son, Cal Freundlich, and being a mother] It is the most wonderful experience of your life. It deepens absolutely everything. You have a greater understanding of things, so in a way it is a gift. For me it has made everything much better. I’m so happy; I am extremely fortunate.
I hesitate to call things companion pieces or to draw comparison between films because I think you reduce the films by doing that.
It’s true, the classic, iconic American ideal, that heroine, our idea of perfection is this blonde woman in a blue dress and a blue car.
That’s the beauty of what actors do, that you only have yourself as a resource. And so the trick is to find something in them that you connect to somewhere. And with every single one of my characters, I have to find something that I really understand and ultimately believe.
My parents were very liberal. That’s a misconception about the military. I’m a proud army brat. I love the military. It breaks my heart what this war [the Iraq war] has done to it. These back-door, draftlike returns of soldiers to the front – you don’t do that. You don’t send a soldier back three or four times. That’s not OK.
When someone says, “I’m not political”, I feel like what they’re saying is, “I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about”.
There’s always a female audience. But we will only go if they make movies for us because we’re just too busy. It makes me crazy when people ask why women don’t go to the movies. Number one, there are no movies for us and, number two, we have jobs and families. I never get out of the house with two little kids. If I go, I want to know it really is something for me. I want it to be relevant to me.
The great disappointment is that when you’re acting, you’ve literally become a different person in your head, and when you see it you go, Oh! It’s the same face! You feel sometimes so limited by your physiognomy. You are desperately trying to look different, but it doesn’t always work. There are some things that you can change, but unfortunately you’re always left with the same face.
Born December 3, 1985 · Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth name Amanda Michelle Seyfried
Spouse Thomas Sadoski(March 12, 2017 – present) (2 children)
QUOTES:
[on Mamma Mia! (2008)] I had never seen the stage show. When I first heard about the audition, I was like, “Damn, I’m not Greek!”. I thought it was about this big Greek family.
I do feel like I’ve grown up. Living by yourself in two cities, having a relationship, the Hollywood stuff. It forces you to deal with things as an adult.
I just love to act and be on the set. I want to make acting my life and get really good roles.
I’m not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time, I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone.
At 11, I had a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio. Actually, it was not a crush. It was an obsession! I was also obsessed with Richard Dean Anderson, from MacGyver (1985) and Indiana Jones.
I have jeans with holes in them and I have nice jeans. I have casual and I have dressy jeans. I’ve got all kinds. [on playing the lead role in Mamma Mia! (2008)] It doesn’t really get better than this. I’m afraid I’m going to just have to beg Meryl [Meryl Streep] to do another movie with me. She’s so in touch with herself. I know that comes with age, but I’m really excited to figure out who I am.
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