Director BIO: Santiago C. Tapia & Jessica Curtright (IT BEGAN WITHOUT WARNING)

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Director Biography – Santiago C. Tapia, Jessica Curtright

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TAPIA / CURTRIGHT, Directors

Santiago & Jessica co-direct/write/edit. Santiago’s a first generation Peruvian-American from Brooklyn & attended Harvard University. Jessica’s background is in theater, ballet, & opera in the States & abroad. Growing up on a steady diet of Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, Lovecraft, & King, they’re rabid lovers of the thriller/horror/sci-fi genres. Their latest short film premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival as one of 15 shorts in the Midnight Shorts Program.

COUPER SAMUELSON, Executive Producer

Couper Samuelson is the President of Feature Films at Blumhouse Productions and Executive Producer of Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed GET OUT. Blumhouse, which has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures, has produced the highly-profitable Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious and Ouija franchises which have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. Blumhouse’s model began with the original Paranormal Activity, which was made for $15,000 and grossed…

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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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