Interview with Filmmaker Elizabeth Lewis (WATERS OF MARCH)

WATERS OF MARCH played to rave reviews at the April 2020 ANIMATION FEEDBACK Film Festival in Toronto.

Submit to the Animation Fesival via FilmFreeway:

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Elizabeth Lewis: The illness and death of my brother, the most important person in my life, who died a year earlier.By a strange twist of fate, he died in March.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this short?

It took eight months

3. How would you describe your short film in two words!?

lyrical and poignant

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?

There were no real obstacles and working on it day after day was pure joy.What concerned me for months, though, was that I hadn’t contacted the singer Stacey Kent for permission to use the song. When I finally…