Bond on Cinema

An Interview with Columbian Director Duvan Duque - Oscar-Qualified Short ALL INCLUSIVE

Duván Duque is a Colombian writer/director. His work has explored the relationship between the Bogota upper-class, power, money and corruption, as well as the effect these tensions have on the most intimate realms of family and friends.
ALL INCLUSIVE is his latest short film. After its premiere at TIFF, it has become a recurrent title in the international festivals, playing in over 50 festivals and receiving 17 awards. He is currently writing his first feature, based on the themes in ALL INCLUSIVE. 
By shifting the focus from the spectacular tales of drug lords to the emotional ride of a boy who has little control over his fate, Duván Duque offers us a fresh angle on this common trope of the representation of Colombian society.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy Award after winning Best Drama at Aspen Shortfest. 
#filmmaking #filmmaker #bondoncinema #oscars #filmfestival #columbia #family #screenwriter #screenwriting #cinema #cinematography #storytelling #awardwinning 

An Interview with Director Mike Donahue - Oscar-qualified Short TROY

A neighbor has loud sex and the couple next door get emotionally involved in this thought-provoking, but humorous short film. 
Director Mike Donahue's award-winning Oscar qualifying debut short film, TROY, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and has gone on to screen at another 66 festivals internationally, including the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
It has won over a dozen awards, including the Jury Award for Best Comedy at Aspen Shortfest 2023, the Audience Award for Best Narrative Short at Outfest 2022 and the Vimeo 'Unofficial Award' for Best US Narrative Short at Sundance.
#bondoncinema #cinema #movies #shortfilm #filmdirector #filmmaking #filmmaker #screenwriter #filmfestival #neighbors #apartmentliving #cinematography #tribecafilmfestival #sundancefilmfestival 

An Interview with Director Luis Gerard - Oscar-qualified Suspense Thriller Short THE WAKE

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Luis Gerard spent his youth in the projection room of his father’s small art house movie theater, where he earned an appreciation for independent cinema.
While studying at the University of Puerto Rico, his first success, a 35mm black-and-white silent short that was an official selection at the prestigious Venice Film Festival.
Branching into advertising, Luis has won numerous international awards, including Cannes, London International Festival, New York Film Festival, Clio Awards, the Gunn Report, and Shots Magazine.
In 2022 Luis Gerard directed the 2nd unit on Netflix’s HUSTLE, starring Adam Sandler, and released his new short film, THE WAKE, which is our subject today. 
THE WAKE, is the story of a 15-year-old boy and his deaf younger brother, raised in the parents’ funeral business home. While the parents’ operate the family business, the boys have something else in mind.
THE WAKE has been Oscar-Qualified for the upcoming 2024 Academy Awards. So ladies and gentlemen, let’s welcome Writer/Director/Producer and master storyteller, Luis Gerard to the show!
 
#cinema #filmmaking #filmmaker #screenwriter #screenwriting #oscars #filmfestival #puetorico #movies #bondoncinema #movies #filmlover #moviereview #filmdirector #suspense #thriller 

An Interview with Director Aisling Bryne -Oscar-qualified Short HEADSPACE

Aisling Byrne is an award-winning theatre director, screenwriter and filmmaker.
She is the founder and Artistic Director, at Run of the Mill, an award-winning arts organization at the forefront of inclusive arts practice in Ireland supporting learning disabled artists and performers.
Their recent work includes a 9 venue National Tour of the award winning MAKING A MARK and the All Abilities Casting initiative in collaboration with the National Talent Academy aimed at leveling the playing field for people with intellectual disabilities in film and television.
Aisling’s new film HEADSPACE takes us on a journey with a young man, Tony, who has Down's Syndrome and struggles to find paid work, causing him to be faced with a moral dilemma while staying at a community home.
HEADSPACE is a phenomenal film that has qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy Award after winning the OSCAR qualifying award at Cork Film Festival.
#oscars #cinema #bondoncinema #cinematography #shortfilm #filmfestival #ireland #downsyndrome #filmmaking #filmmaker #filmdirector #screenwriting #screenwriter 

An Interview with Jenna St. John the Creator of SEXPECTATIONS TV Series

Writer/Producer/Actress Jenna St. John is a hopeless romantic, born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She moved to the US at age 16 and was a ballet dancer until an injury led her to pursue writing.
Jenna has two written features in post production for Epic Pictures and is currently penning a feature with Hallmark.
Jenna is committed to telling female-led stories for a broad audience, and today if you have been hooked on the new hit streaming series, SEXPECTATIONS then you’re in for a hot treat. Jenna wrote the new hit series that is the talk of Hollywood.
So ladies and gentlemen, let’s welcome Hollywood’s newest hitmaker, Jenna St. John!
#tvseries #tvshow #streaming #sexualawareness #virginity #comedy #comedyseries #filmmaking #actor #standupcomedy

An Interview with Film Producer Natalie Metzger on their Oscar-qualified Short ”Shadow Brother Sunday”

Our guest today is Spirit Award nominated producer Natalie Metzger. She has had films premiered at top festivals around the world including Sundance, Cannes, SXSW, and Tribeca.
Her feature credits include WEREWOLVES WITHIN, THUNDER ROAD, GREENER GRASS, Sony Pictures Classics documentary IT AIN’T OVER, to name a few.
She is also known for producing numerous shorts, most notably POOF, DRESS A COW, and THE ROBBERY.
Natalie is currently the Vice President of Production & Development at Vanishing Angle.
But we are here today to talk about the award-winning short film, Shadow Brother Sunday, directed by Alden Ehrenreich and Executive Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, a story of Betrayal, Selfishness, Family, Facing the truth, and Jealousy.
Shadow Brother Sunday received the Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking from Salute Your Shorts Film Festival, this live action short film has qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy Award. 
#shortfilm #cinema #cinematographer #francisfordcoppola #film #oscars #filmproducer #filmdirector #oppenheimer #shadowbrothersunday #paparazzi 

Actor Jeremy Swift Talks Ted Lasso, Roman Polaski and more

Our esteemed guest is actor Jeremy Swift and many of you who are big fans of Downton Abbey where he played Mr. Spratt (Dame Maggie Smith’s butler) and Leslie Higgins in Ted Lasso, well he is here with us tonight!
He has been seen in 'Mary Poppins Returns' directed by Rob Marshall for Disney. Jeremy has also worked with legendary film directors such as Roman Polanski in Oliver Twist, Robert Altman in Gosford Park and The Wachowski Siblings in Jupiter Ascending.
How many of you remember seeing Jeremy in Fred Claus? Now there’s bit of trivia.
Let’s welcome, award-winning actor extraordinaire, the one and the only Jeremy Swift!

Interview with Film Director Phil C. Dunn on His Oscar-Qualifying Short Film THE STUPID BOY

Phil Dunn is a director, writer, poet and owner of Authentive, a production company based in Brixton, South London.
Through Authentive, he learned on the job, making hundreds of films for clients in the corporate, charity, fashion and music sectors.
His first short, BOX OFFICE SMASH marked a jumping off point in his career, garnering official selections at top international film festivals, winning 14 awards and critical acclaim.
His next short film, ABOUT, continued this momentum, winning the same number of awards and obtaining equally impressive reviews, propelling him further into the world of cinema.
His newest short film, THE STUPID BOY, is powerful, it’s moving, and it reaches down into your heart so deep that it will leave an impression on you like no other film.
THE STUPID BOY short film is Oscar-qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy Award and rightly so.
#cinema #shortfilm #oscars #filmdirector #filmmaking #filmmaker #filmproduction #moviereview #film #neurodivergent #cinematography 

Interview with Co-Directors Josh Izenberg and Brett Marty on their Oscar-Qualified Short Film ECO-HACK!

JOSHUA IZENBERG is a documentary filmmaker based in the California Bay Area. His film, SLOMO (2013), won over a dozen awards, including best short documentary at SXSW, premiered as a New York Times Op-Doc, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. His subsequent film, the Netflix Original, Resurface, won the Jury Prize at Tribeca and was nominated for an Emmy. He’s since co-directed the short documentaries Game Hawker (2022) for Patagonia Films and Eco-Hack!, which won audience awards at HotDocs and Palm Springs, and premiered with The New Yorker in July 2023.
BRETT MARTY cut his teeth as a commercial director and made the transition to filmmaking with a handful of documentary and narrative shorts, which have won their share of jury awards and played at 100+ film festivals, including Cannes, and were commissioned by The New Yorker, Patagonia Films, and National Geographic. He also studied sculpture at UC Berkeley, and even drove an old Buick from San Francisco to Argentina.
Both have co-directed the Oscar-qualifying short film documentary ECO-HACK! It follows biologist Tim Shields down an unconventional route to save the Desert Tortoise.
ECO-HACK! Received its Oscar-qualified status after winning Best Documentary Short at the Palm Springs International ShortFest and HotDocs International in Toronto. 
TIM SHIELDS, the subject of the film has some four decades of experience out in the field as a biologist, logging some 25,000 miles on foot, surveying, and making critical observations. Those observations of the Mojave’s desert tortoise led to his founding of Hardshell Labs — and a slew of inventions, innovations, and techniques for protecting endangered species around the world.
#shortfilm #shorts #oscars #cinema #filmmaking #filmmaker #awardwinning #eco #deserttortoise #ecology 

Interview with Film Director Neer Musa Shelter on His Oscar-Qualified Short PERSPECTIVES

Writer/Director Neer Musa Shelter grew up on cargo ships around the world before serving in the military.
His multi-cultural life experiences have awoken a unique insight that informs his writing, which has resulted in a multi-award winning slate of feature and pilot films that appeal to a global audience.
His live action short film PERSPECTIVES is based on the true story of a tense encounter between a soldier and a suspected suicide bomber.
In this thought provoking film, Neer’s film is not about taking sides in the Israeli-Palestinian divide, the film serves as a poignant reminder of the influence that your own biased perspective has when forming opinions on characters.
After taking home the top prize and the prize for best screenplay at the 39th St Kilda Film Festival, PERSPECTIVES qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy Award. 
#shorts #shortfilm #israelipalenstian #drama #film #oscars #filmdirector #cinematography #liveactionshort