Feature Film

In 2019 I wrote, shot and directed my first feature length film: Infinite Light. I’m proud to say the film is finally available to rent on Amazon Prime Video in the US/UK, and available to stream on Tubi worldwide. Here’s what I learned - #1: If you want to make that money back, you need a following. Luckily, I never planned on…

And Exploring the Conundrums of Film Ranking and Rating by Mathew Gene This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. If you don’t examine your engagement with cinema, what use does it have besides being a dopamine rush? This isn’t to say…

Christopher Nolan earned himself a spot in film students’ top ten lists with his mystery feature, Memento, released in 2000 as his second director credit. If you’ve recently watched this classic, it’s safe to say that you’ve been captivated by its psychological subject matter of disorientated memory, executed by the…

by Hannah Polinski This essay is published as part of the Youth Critics Initiative III, a collaborative mentorship incubator between the 25th Reel Asian Film Festival and TACLA. In an interview for Reel Asian, INBETWEEN GIRL director Mei Makino says that teen girls are usually taught to prioritize the wrong…

1. EXT. WOODS — DAY A pine woods. A couple of squirrels fight on a log: they jump and screech when a laughter pierces the air, scaring them away. POWAQA (9) and MUNDOO (10) run and laugh. The two Naumkeag kids chase each other, shouting and howling as if they were hunting. …

We’re incredibly grateful and enthused to be working on a lesbian film that incapsulates being queer in a positive light. The film, “Molly’s GayWakening”, questions the constraints of heteronormative social behavior. Molly Bennet, the lead character of MGW is a well behaved, religious, and artistic 22 year old girl that…

Embrace how screenwriting takes your brain on a different journey. — I’ve had some wonderful emails and DM’s wondering where I’ve been. I love to be deep in research for my latest articles, where my focus is complete when it’s uploaded into the ether, and I can do something new the next day. However, my immersion is immense in screenwriting, like…

BY: LESTER GREENE — It started for me in the hospital staring at my mom in a coma, both of us frozen and unresponsive. I wasn’t hospitalized but at that moment it sure felt that way. I was helpless and I couldn’t save her. I was always a mama’s boy; I painted her fingernails…

The Successes and Failures of My First Feature Film — The Lies We Tell (2021) was my first feature film. It centers around a young teenager named Andy who is forced to come to terms with certain realities surrounding the death of her ex-boyfriend. Summary I came up with the premise in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic as I wanted…