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Your new movie 7x7 -
in a few words what is it about?
Seven stories of survival through global pandemic, nuclear war, isolation,
and great personal loss.
What inspired you to
collect all of these shorts into an anthology, and were any or all of them
shot specifically for 7x7,
or was the feature just an afterthought? The headlines of today had inspired us to really look at these relevant
films again! they matched the headlines even 5-10 years later! They were
ahead of their time somehow and we said "let's put them out there again
for people to see." If you had to
find a common theme in 7x7,
what would it be? The human condition, normal people in extraordinary crises.
Several of the segments of 7x7
co-written by Adam Ambrosio - so what was your collaboration with him like?
Adam and I started working together in 2012 as composer (him) and
director (me). We decided to start a YouTube channel to brand the company
into more than just filmmaking but a company about the craft/the
process/behind the scenes too, for younger filmmakers. We have been
working together on writing films since 2016's
Humorist. Watching
all these shorts from different parts of your career again, how do you
think you have evolved as a director? I think my drive to do different stories has kept me even
more creatively open/on my toes, all were done with limited budgets at the
best production quality possible. I grew in many ways both technically and
creatively, I see a growth in everything I do in small ways, I only ever
try to aim to do better than I did last time, if even by a fractional
absolutely microscopic amount, this matters to me. "Improvement" also
means trying new things, improving things you thought could be better, and
having new means of executing the work technically, in my book.
Subjectively
speaking, which are your favourite segments in 7x7?
And are there any you could actually do without?
I think some of the thriller sections work well as they engage you
globally in a crisis many can get behind, I think all of it matters but
not all of it is for everyone's taste. All of them are quality in their
production level. You
have expanded one of the segments in 7x7
into a feature film, Sunset
- so how did that come about, and why exactly that short?
That short received much praise and over 17k views immediately on our
Film Valor
channel. Sunset was something we were fundamentally excited about
and others were too, including the man himself, actor Austin Pendleton who
saw it and loved it, we hired him soon after that to be Julian in our
Sunset feature film. What
can you tell us about the cast(s) of 7x7,
and why exactly these people? All of them were special people who met us at the right place and time for
them and for us. Any later or earlier, none of us would have worked
together. It was timing, meeting opportunity on everyone's part. Anything you can tell us
about the indivicual shoots? I have never been on an easy film/video shoots, some just have better
flow/ability to get done smoothly.
The $64-question of course,
where can 7x7 be seen?
7x7 is now available on Tubi TV for free, that's
tubitv.com or HERE:
tubitv.com/movies/
722406/7x7
Anything
you can tell us about audience and critical reception of 7x7?
Very solid reviews so far, mostly all have been very positive - which is
rare to come by, it is a film where people have essentially accepted it
for what it is and that is a nice and freeing feeling when you are a
filmmaker. Any
future projects you'd like to share? We are always working
on more feature film projects, writing them and producing them. Often we
do exciting short films/high-quality videos for our
Film Valor
channel. We have a book coming out entitled The Script is
Not Enough. This book is very dear to us because it explains our
filmmaking process stage by stage for new filmmakers and it tells the
story of how we made our first four feature films from the ground up.
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