Directed by Lorenzo Sportiello “A couple illegally enters the United States of Europe. Here, an ‘Index of Sustainability’ is given to every citizen, calculated on their personal productivity and wellbeing. Eve is pregnant and as such is ‘not sustainable’ and must be expelled.” – director Lorenzo Sportiello GFM: In Index Zero, the sustainability index measures a […]
One Night In Hollywood
Directed by Sheri Sussman “One Night in Hollywood” is a dark comedy, short film about two filmmakers who are offered financing for their film if they kill a studio executive and sadly, they seem to have more of a problem over disagreeing about the ending to their film. We like to think of it as […]
Emerging Filmmaker – Valerie K. Ratner
by Nadzeya Huselnikava/ Director of the horror short Sylvie, and talented emerging filmmaker from Columbia, Valerie K. Ratner shares her vision of horror storytelling. GFM: How did your journey as a filmmaker begin? Valerie: I was born to a Jewish family in Bogota, Colombia. I grew up very lonely; therefore, at the age of 10, instead […]
Canvas
directed by Chiel Aldershoff/ Canvas is a film about the power of imagination. Outsider artist Jake McCord from Thomson Georgia, lives in a world he himself has created. “I started studying psychology in school and it was really interesting, but too scientific. I wanted to explore my interest in people in a creative way, so […]
Flirt
directed by Gabriel Bauer/ Flirt is about an ordinary young boy who gets an extraordinary surprise when he finds the most beautiful girl he has ever seen flirting with him while sitting opposite him on a bus. But after gathering the confidence to return the girl’s advances the boy will learn the painfully embarrassing lesson […]
Wednesdays
directed by Aaron Rookus/ On Wednesdays Kris (10) is taken to the pool by Willem (35). They play, go of the slide and of course Kris gets some French fries. This time Willem tries to be as close to the boy as possible. When they are in the fitting room, Kris is confronted with a […]
The Voorman Problem
directed by Mark Gill/ A psychiatrist is called to a prison to examine an inmate named Voorman, who is convinced he is a god. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNyXNYeiwA&hd=1 “It’s funny, the film is actually really popular in Belgium, believe it or not. We’ve taken it there three or four times to film festivals. We played Brussels and we […]
The Lady at Number 6
directed by Malcolm Clarke/ At 109, Alice Herz Sommer is the world’s oldest pianist…and its oldest Holocaust survivor. At the heart of her remarkable story of courage and endurance is her passion for music. “I would be completely disingenuous if I didn’t say the only thing that winning an Oscar makes you feel is you […]
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
directed by Esteban Crespo/ Paula, a Spanish aid worker, has an encounter with an African child soldier named Kaney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR9Fdn-a9-Q&hd=1 “I read an interview with a child soldier retelling his story as an adult. He was talking about the things that he had done or that he was made to do when he was a […]
Room on the Broom
directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer/ A genial witch and her cat are joined on their broom by several friends as they set off on an adventure. “I’ve always been really into drawing. When I was 12 I saw The Lion King and I wished I could do something like that, but at that […]