Interview with director Miriam Dehne (FALLING STARS)

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Miriam Dehne directed  the artistic mystery short film “FALLING STARS”, which was showcased at the FEMALE FEEDBACK Film Festival in December 2016. “FALLING STARS” was awarded “Best Cinematography” at the festival. 

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Miriam Dehne: That two young female writers – students from university in Babelsberg (Berlin) came to me (Lily Duchow and Kat Russ) and asked me to direct their script, because they liked my movies. I liked the script, even though it seemed difficult to pull off for a short film, because you don’t have enough time to develop the characters for the big drama – and that was the challenge. I tried to solve that, by using high visualization for storytelling. And: I like to do a film with a little mystery touch .

MT: From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this…

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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