Stephanie Gould: Dreaming, Mural Murals

Episode #5 - Originally from Australia, Stephanie Gould, a post-production expert, brought to Feature & a short an impressionistic experimental film she shot in 8mm titled Dreaming. This piece in its debut was projected alongside a live dance performance, but for the podcast Steph replaced the live dance piece with a song by Akiva Zamcheck who performed a live soundtrack on the guitar.  Shortly after a discussion we watched Mural Murals by Agnès Varda and enjoyed some Mexican pastries to accompany the L.A. flavor of the film.

Stephanie does animation, coloring, and editing in a wide variety of films and has had much of her own visual work featured at film festivals and live events.  Along with her film, she captures City Skins in photo formats.  To see more of her visual work visit her website at http://www.stephanie-gould.com/

Credits:

Host - Justin Joseph Hall.

Location & Production Company - Fourwind Films

Live Score - Akiva Zamcheck

Sound - Brian Trahan

Stephanie Gould - Director/Cinematographer, photo by Justin Joseph Hall

Michael Fequiere: Kojo, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father →

Episode #4 - Michael Fequiere, a Brooklyn based filmmaker and photographer presented this month. The first presentation was Kojo: A Short Documentary directed by Michael about the gifted 12-year-old jazz drummer Kojo Odu Roney. The feature presentation was 2008 Documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Because the feature presentation was a Canadian production, the audience paired the film with shortbread cookies and Canadian beer.

Michael's short films have screened in numerous festivals both domestic (L.E.S. Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival) and worldwide (Toronto International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival: Short Film Corner). To learn more about his work, visit his website at http://www.michaelfequiere.com/. 

Credits:

Host - Justin Joseph Hall

Location & Production Company - Fourwind Films

Michael Fequiere - Director/Editor, photo by Daria Huxley

Uta Seibicke: Last Christmas, Good Bye, Lenin!

Episode #03 - East German born Director, Writer, and Casting Director Uta Seibicke presented this episode.  Her first film she co-wrote and directed.  Last Christmas is a film that takes place in Berlin about an terminally ill woman and a special relationship she has.  Uta talked about her casting and relations of working with the cast.  Since she’s a casting director, it was strange, even to herself, that she did not go through a casting process to shoot this short holiday story about an insomnia disease that leads to death.

Uta has a deep tie to Germany, her home state, but has since moved to New York City enjoying the city. But her ties to the city of Berlin is something that straddles her mind and the history of separation of the city is something that she feels and understands in a way only a German could.

To eat we enjoyed mulled wine Uta brought and cooked.  In addition to a German breakfast prepared by Thomas Kelsey while we watched Good Bye, Lenin!

Credits:
Host - Justin Joseph Hall

Location & Production Company - Fourwind Films

To watch Uta's film check out it on YouTube here.

Uta Seibicke - Wrtier/Director, photo by Daria Huxley