MADEIRA was the winner of BEST MUSIC at the February 2018 Female FEEDBACK Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?
Kaitlyn Fajilan: I’d been wanting to shoot my own short film for some time. One day I was in charge of creating the weekly prompt for my writers’ club, so I came up with the following: write a piece involving two characters in one location. My result was Madeira.
About a month later, I joined a Filipino-American film organization that was looking for filmmakers to have their shorts featured in a program at last year’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Seeing as the first deadline was in two weeks, I kicked myself into gear and started pre-production right away.
2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this short?
It took me about…
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