Like any filmmaker, especially females and people of color, the concern is to be given the chance to show what we are capable of. I’m so proud of what my team and I made for under 100k, but imagine what I could do with a budget ten times that! A lot of men are offered those kind of budgets right out of college after their first short film gets an official selection at a local festival. My biggest concern is that I’ll never get to prove what I could do with resources like that.
@poison_pic: What’s a defining moment in your life? Definitely the day we decided to shoot ‘Blue’ with only $50k. There was so much work to be done, so many people who doubted it was possible, and the margin of error was so, so thin (especially since we flew most of the cast and crew from LA to Ohio!) But the story sustained itself- our cast and crew were absolutely fantastic and the subject matter was so raw and relevant that it stood its ground. Now I think of all the people this movie has affected, the journey it took on the festival circuit, and our road to worldwide distribution- We never could have imagined any of this the day we decided to commit to Blue.
@poison_pic: Why did you decide to get into this industry? When I was 5, I knew I wanted to be involved with movies and TV somehow so I begged my mom to get me involved in acting and voiceovers. I worked at the TV Globo channel in Brazil for about ten years before moving to the states. I went on to serve in the U.S. military and when my time was up, I was itching to get behind a camera. So I got my associates, bachelors and masters degrees in directing. It always felt like I was being pulled towards filmmaking rather than choosing it.
I have an Instagram account (@maisha_aileen_moo) that I like to post work to. It’s been great posting about the Five in Focus program and our progress on it. For the future, based on my experience in the five in focus program, I would love to continue to collaborate with fellow artists and make more passion projects.
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What is next for you in your career? You can find me on Twitter at @JenDavreux. I’ve recently started writing for games, and I’m looking forward to continuing to do that and hopefully trying my hand at writing for TV in the future. I’m also co-writing a comic called Go, Titan X! which we’ll be releasing independently in 2020.
On IG: @kait_lines. Check out my work on twitter @OhKayArt! I’ll post final animations on YouTube: Kaitlin Sutherland, but if you want to see in progress work and keep up with sketches and other side projects Twitter is definitely the place to do so! Coming up next for me, besides taking our Five in Focus film to festivals and markets, is collaborating with a friend on a character design pitch for WildBrain Studios (formerly DHX Media) for their character short program! Which if selected we’ll be guided through the process of developing a series of shorts with a team we put together for YouTube! I’ll also be tabling Vancouver’s FanExpo in spring of 2020 so I’ve got to get ready for that too! Can’t wait for you all to see our film, “The Butterfly Affect,” don’t forget to follow me on Twitter if you’re interested in keeping up with where life takes me next!
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You can keep up with my work on Instagram using @akonkin86 I also post on twitter @akonkin and have a website: www.amandakonkin.ca
My next short film H.appiness will be premiering in early 2020 thanks to support from the Harold Greenberg Shorts to Features Grant.
You can follow me on Twitter @manifestephanie! On instagram: @its.spelled.blakey. Coming up next in my career, I’m looking at a possible storyboard supervisor position in animation at my current studio, but I’m open to directing more animation if anyone out there is looking for someone! I’ve got lots of ideas I’m ready to tell and would love to help you tell yours!
I collect shells, coral, taxidermy, antiques and art in my spare time.
