Filmtalkz

Our guest this week is Fabio Bedoya, who is a film restoration artist and colorist in Peru.    Thanks to the DAFO grant that provides some small local companies funds to digitize and restore the film heritage of their nation, Fabio has been able to restore projects like Color de Mujer, Caminos de Liberación, and Viento del Ayahuasca.   Fabio openly talks about the struggles of getting into this in...

The Critics have been making waves in the film industry for the last few years, with their latest short film 'Ogun Ola: War is Coming' being picked up and produced by Morgan Freeman, and for recently winning the #YouTubeBlack Black Voices Fund.   This group of young creatives from Nigeria have become famous for their DIY approach to their creative sci-fi films, originally filming everythin...

This week, Whitemore Masudi Ngwira is our special guest, and he lets us in on what it's *really* like working on reality shows as a colourist.   Whitemore Masudi has worked predominantly on TV shows for South Africa's major broadcasters, some of which include the popular Our Perfect Wedding and Date My Family.    Whitemore also belongs to a whole host of societies and committees, such as t...

Sophia Stanford chats with writer and director Kristen Dania about his experience directing short films and how he's trying to break into the industry.   Kristen initially started out as a photographer for concerts and then built on his armoury of filmic experience by documenting short films and then went onto film school. His two latest short films have been selected for several film festival...

In this episode, our own Sophia Stanfold talks with Maya Katherine about her first film 'Moishe', which she wrote and directed herself during lockdown.   'Moishe' follows the story of young Jewish boys in Ukraine during the 1800s, who were often violently taken from their homes to be integrated into the rest of the Russian Empire and convert to Christianity. Maya chats to us about...