Lucas Jones: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

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Lucas Jones is a long-time actor and first-time director from Cambridgeshire, and working in London, England. Having worked professionally in front of the camera for almost a decade in a vast array of projects from major franchise films and TV shows to small independent shorts, there are few places he feels more at home than […]

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Julie Joohee Jeon: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

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Julie Joohee Jeon is a first-time director and a film composer who has worked on renowned films based in South Korea. She’s also a singer-songwriter and music director. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada as a Korean-Canadian, Julie has always been passionate about storytelling through the power of music and film. Julie’s directorial debut, Happen to […]

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Julie Lindhardt: Lift-Off Short Listed Season Awards Filmmaker Interview

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  Copenhagen-based filmmaker Julie Lindhardt’s narrative short SIS portrays a divorce experienced through the eyes of the child. In the film, we follow the young girl, Vigga, in her fight to save her beloveddog, Sis, in the middle of her parents’ ugly divorce. The short film takes place over a single hour while they are […]

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Hanna Jovin: Lift-Off Filmmaker Interview

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Toronto based filmmaker Hanna Jovin’s narrative short “Erika” is set in 1940’s Nazi Occupied Bosnia, where an unlikely friendship forms between two young girls on opposite sides of the war. “Erika” screened at Toronto Lift-Off. We interviewed director Hanna to hear a little more about how this film came to be, and her path as a filmmaker. Interview by Sneh […]

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Erin Richards: Lift-Off Filmmaker Interview

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Welsh-native New York Actress and Filmmaker Erin Richards’ narrative short “Hot Girl” follows Kara Quinn, a struggling actress desperate to be seen as anything other than a ‘hot girl.’ After deciding to impersonate Cara Delevingne in order to speak to one of Hollywood’s top agents, she realizes she may not be as powerless as she thinks. […]

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