Director BIO: Melanie Faye (PUPPETS AND PUSHPINS)

Director Biography – Melanie Faye

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I used to sit and imagine music videos with costumes and choreography and heart breaking stories in my head all day while listening to music as a kid. Then in highschool I was to be into acting so I got a taste of being on set. That introduced me to an exciting fast paced world that I instantly fell in love with! I love directing and finding new talent in actors and most of all exploring what is possible with film because it is such a limitless art medium. I hope to fuse my music and filmmaking together more often in the future. I graduated from Capilano University last May with a Bachelor in Motion Picture Arts.

Director Statement

 

With this film, I was trying to make a metaphor for being held emotionally hostage. The harder someone tries to hold on to you and keep you from being free the quicker they’re going to lose you. Outside the shelf is the unknown and there is fear of the unknown but there is also a hope for something better.

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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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