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In each episode, the C.E.O. of WILDsound, Matthew Toffolo, chats about all things storytelling and film. Conversations with talented individual from all around the world.

Posts tagged drama film
March 29, 2023 - Filmmaker Joseph Samuel Meyerson (OUTPATIENT)

OUTPATIENT, 26min., USA, Drama
Directed by Joseph Samuel Meyerson
Two young men attend weekly meetings in the basement of a church to satisfy the conditions of their parole.

https://instagram.com/outpatientfilm

Get to know the filmmaker:

It was an idea I’d had kicking around my head for some time. But I wanted to make something, and I’d written this much longer screenplay that was just totally unfeasible to shoot — we’re talking 200-person party scenes, car meets, ambulances, cop cars, high schools, three-minute tracking shots — so I found myself returning to the “three guys in a room” concept and just kind of wrote it from there.

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March 27, 2023 - Filmmaker Suzannah Moore (QUICHE)

QUICHE, 11min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Suzannah Moore
A nosy neighbor presses her way into the kitchen of a young mother, who ends up needing her.

Get to know the filmmaker:
My co-producer/collaborator (Adam Crosby) and I have worked together on a number of projects, but none of them were something I had written. We shared a vision in the type of tone we wanted to capture in our storytelling, and wanted to see how well we could bring it to life (tone can be one of the hardest things to skewer in filmmaking, in my opinion). We were both really drawn to the grounded, slice-of-life space, wherein the audience feels like a bit of a fly on the wall. I thought it would be neat to create a world inside of someone’s kitchen, because this is such a lived-in and often private space for many. In my writing, I was also exploring my own sadness, and my relationship to it. Eventually these pieces began to come together, and we made Quiche!

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February 15, 2023 - Filmmaker Vanessa Powers (50 ML)

50 ML, 8min., USA, Drama
Directed by Vanessa Powers
A young man struggles with his sobriety while he and his wife host a holiday dinner with her dysfunctional family.

https://www.oxfordcommafilms.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OxfordCommaFilms/

https://www.instagram.com/oxfordcommav/

Get to know the filmmaker:

I have had this idea in my head for a while. My dad is 35 years sober, and so alcoholism and sobriety have ALWAYS been part of my understanding of the world. Even when I was a little kid, my parents never lied to me about it. In that spirit, there was a time my dad ran to the liquor store to pick up wine for a family event, and had the experience of being drawn to the tiny bottles at the counter. He was sober enough with enough skills to walk away, but I wondered what might happen to someone younger and earlier in their sobriety journey. In addition, my good friend, Casey Hoekstra, who plays the lead in the film, is a professional actor. We worked together on a couple film projects when we were younger, but we had reconnected and discussed working on another project together for a while. I knew I wanted someone of his talent to play the lead, since the film was so complicated in nature. He had this small gap in his schedule, and so once he was available, it was a done deal.

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