WILDsound January 2009 Film Festival
Video and Moderation

The Basket Case Fantasy Ireland, 17 min.

Mixed Bag Fantasy Neth., 12 min.

SLS Thriller CAN, 8 min.

Music in the Guts Music Video Mexico, 4 min.

At the First Turning of the Second Stair Horror CAN, 7 min.

Role Play Drama CAN, 23 min.

Complex Numbers Comedy US, 8 min.

LA in a Blue Moon Comedy US, 6 min.

Peeling it Off Comedy US, 4 min.

40 Years Younger Comedy CAN, 2 min.

January 2009 Film Festival SUMMARY with Jeffrey P Nesker! CLICK HERE and read Jeffrey's columns

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE BASKET CASE

The JANUARY 2009 WILDsound short film festival was a great opening to the new year! After 21 festival nights using the FEEDBACK session after the films are screened, these nights continue to be different every single time.

Movie Critic LIZ BRAUN did an outstanding job leading the night and discussion some very polarizing and challenging films. She is one of the best movie reviewers in the business for a reason.

The ART of these FEEDBACK event is all about leaving JUDGMENT out of the cinema!

No one really wants to hear JUDGMENT. It comes from a negative place, plus it's so easy to do. Someone making bold judgments about someone else's work really isn't that productive. The filmmaker really doesn't gain anything from it and the audience and online watchers of these video don't either.

What we try to do is always give honest evaluations of the films that are screened. Mainly how the audience and moderator were emotionally effected by the films that were screened. Sometimes certain moments in a particular film doesn't work, which leads to a great discussion to why it didn't. Then creativity happens all around the cinema as people want to chime in on whether they agree or disagree. But the trick is for our HOST Matthew Toffolo to keep that creative line moving and for the evening to not go into that negative place.

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