HollyShorts 2024: Interviews with Jessica Barr on “Tight,” Louisa Connolly-Burnham on “Sister Wives,” Hanna Gray Organschi on “Merci, Poppy,” and Andrew Nadkarni and Nalini Nadkarni on “Between Earth & Sky”
The 20th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival starts next week on August 8th and runs until August 18th. The festival is Oscar-qualifying, and I will be cheering on our previously featured and festival-selected filmmakers from the sidelines! Below are three video interviews with Jessica Barr (“Tight”), Louisa Connolly-Burnham (“Sister Wives”), and Hanna Gray Organschi (“Merci, Poppy”). […]
Emerging filmmakers empower audiences at Heartland’s 2023 Indy Shorts International Film Festival
“My poems and songs have no flavor without you.” The above quote comes from the end of the short documentary “Ayenda,” directed by Marie Margolius. A group of teenage Afghan girls sing this song about their homeland after they’ve been evacuated by a special mission team, and the line, “My poems and songs have no […]