No Limits On Film: Recent Episodes
Tom Escovar
New York No Limits talks with emerging filmmaking talent from across the globe to bring you more in-depth with new creators in cinema. New York No Limits is also film series created and produced in New York City that since 2011, showcases diverse voices in film.
Filmmaker Jason Abrams talks about where the inspiration for his feature film, Hungry Dog Blues, came from and what's next for him.
Alana Purcell, writer & director, of her feature film True Believer, talks with us about the film, and her filmmaking process.
We talk with indie filmmaker Aldo Vassallo about his film, The Game, that screened at New York No Limits Art of the Short film event on August 11, 2022.
We talk with co-writers and co-stars Allegra Venturi and Michael M. Alva about their film, LAST NIGHT, that screened at New York No Limits Art of the Short on August 11, 2022.
MOTH is about a young woman who is visited by important women in her life while laboring alone in a hospital elevator. MOTH screens with New York No Limits on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at wild project in the East Village, NYC.
Claire blends the mundane with the otherworldly as she probes the experiences of women living in the American South. Claire received her BFA in Film at the University of Central Arkansas while living in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, and is now based in Brooklyn getting her Film MFA at NYU Tisch.
Claire's Director Statement about the film, Growing up in Arkansas, I never questioned the cyclical nature of Southern motherhood. In Kindergarten, when asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, over half the girls said "a mom." Moth explores how the dynamic relationships between mothers and daughters are informed and haunted by heritage. This film is a fever dream distillation of my own attempt to unravel motherhood from womanhood and the crisis of identity it provoked.
We talk with Junting Zhou about his short movie, EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY, which screens with New York No Limits at our March 2022 edition of the Art of the Short.
About Junting; Junting was born in Guangzhou, China, and moved to New York City for the MA Media Studies program at The New School in 2015. After graduating, he has worked as a freelance cinematographer in New York while making his own short narrative and documentary projects. His cinematography on the short film "Agatha" has won numerous awards internationally. His short documentary of his family during the beginning of the pandemic was selected in Op-doc in "The New York Times" in 2020.
Junting's Director Statement, Junting Zhou is concerned with people’s inherent loneliness in the contemporary world, their struggles with identity, and the impact of history and current global political structures upon individuals. His body of work is informed by his experiences as an immigrant and a homosexual. The short film Everything Will Be Okay is inspired by the nightlife in Bushwick. Bushwick has grew a community of LGBTQ+ and aritsts in recent years. With more and more nicely looking cafes, restaurants and night clubs emerge, gentrification grow as well. Everything Will Be Okay is about the realization of gentrification and reclaiming the public space for the community as well as exploring how the pandemics impact our feelings.
Claire talks about the film, explains its inspiration, and discusses some of the films that influenced the cinematic look of the film. About San Clemente Syndrome, When her father never shows for a planned weekend visit in a distant beach town, a young woman has a one-night stand with an aging surfer who is eager to be everything her father isn’t.
More about Claire from her biography. Through a compassionate lens, Claire tells stories that reach for truths about the ways people move through the world and how they make sense of it. A senior film production major at Chapman University, Claire's projects tend to be deeply personal and grounded in reality. Having grown up in Orange County, Claire offers a homegrown take on OC's beaches and the unique culture that reverberates through them in 'San Clemente Syndrome.'
Filmmaker Yuki Soga and Julia D’Angelo who won our best film awards talk with us for a few minutes about their film and reflect on the award. Julia directed the short film, Worn, and Yuki directed We Are Not Content!
KarynRose talks about why she made the film, her eye for making experimental work, and her thoughts on what she'd like to work on next.
Nicole, who's a filmmaking student at NYU, discusses her film, the inspiration for it and what's the next project.