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Video Interview, Working on Studio Projects 🍿 Production Coordinator Sharice Keyes Star Wars Disney+ Ahsoka

🎙️ On this episode, we speak with filmmaker Sharice Keyes. We discuss what it was like producing her first short film, as well as her role as a postproduction coordinator at the George Lucas-founded, and now Disney-owned Industrial Light & Magic, working on the biggest projects in Hollywood, including Marvel’s “The Eternals,” “Dungeons and Dragons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” and the upcoming new Star Wars Disney+ streaming series, “Ahsoka.”

Video Interview, How to Make it in Film and TV “From Haiti to Hollywood” 🇭🇹 Filmmaker Romane Antoine Simon 🎥

🎙️ On this episode, we speak with multi-award-winning Haitian actor, dancer, model, stuntman, fight choreographer, and filmmaker, Romane Antoine Simon. Romane continues our series “From Haiti to Hollywood,” as he shares his life’s journey as an artist through the release of his most recent feature film, “#FamilyMan.” #FamilyMan tells the gripping story of an Indian father’s life who is turned upside down when his family is killed in a senseless car accident, by a prominent man, who was driving while drunk.

Video Interview, Haiti International Film Festival 2023 🇭🇹 Haiti is a Nation of Artists 🎥 Haitian Bricolage Gallery

🎙️ On this episode, we speak with the most important person in Haitian cinema, filmmaker, cinema professor, and executive director of the Haiti International Film Festival (August 19-20, 2023), Jacquil Constant, MA. We discuss his groundbreaking multi-award-winning documentary, Haiti is a Nation of Artists, the Haiti International Film Festival, and the Haitian Bricolage Art Gallery. In addition, Jacquil gives us an impromptu Master Class in Impact Producing with a multitude of opportunities, to screen your work, beyond the Hollywood film, and television studio system.

15 Best Latino Film Festivals in the United States for Emerging Independent Filmmakers 🎞️

After authoring the original “12 Best Black Film Festivals” list, I took the time to do what that list did for emerging independent Black filmmakers of color and canonize the best and most important opportunities for emerging independent Latino filmmakers of color by creating the definitive list of “15 Best Latino Film Festivals in the United States for Emerging Independent Filmmakers.”

Submitting to Film Festivals

Every festival has its own personality. If you can’t differentiate personalities between festivals, you’re not digging deep enough. You definitely want everything that you are using in your body of work to promote yourself to have an accolade for each project. A festival win, place, show, or screening, no matter the size, are all equally persuasive ways to provide third-party validation for your work.

Video Interview, How to Get Your Film into Sundance Film Festival & on HBO Max 🎞️ Patricia Vidal Delgado

📽️ Portuguese international multi-award-winning filmmaker and director Patricia Vidal Delgado discusses how she got her University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Production feature thesis film, “La leyenda negra,” into the Sundance Film Festival, how she strategized once she was in the festival, and how she got her film distributed through HBO Max after her movie screened at Sundance.