I am very happy to announce to the WILD FILMMAKER Community that soon, along with the Fellinian singer Roberta Giallo, I will be a guest of Red Ronnie on his show dedicated to Art without censorship.
I will talk about independent cinema and the artists who invest their own resources because they believe in the value of poetry!
We are the creators of a journey toward the stars!
Throughout his career, Red Ronnie has interviewed the Mavericks who changed the world.
Not only the artists we mentioned in the title, but also the pilot Ayrton Senna,
the American painter William Congdon, his works have been exhibited in the most prestigious contemporary art museums in the world, including the MoMA in New York.
Additionally, Red Ronnie has also interviewed Fidel Castro, who may be detested or admired, but without a doubt, he was a key figure of the last century, rarely granting interviews. In cinema, this feat was only achieved by the unconventional director and Academy Award Winner Oliver Stone.
Following are some images that testify to Red Ronnie’s extraordinary journey:
With drummer Mitch Mitchell and the iconic white Fender guitar that Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock, which we can see in the 1969 documentary of the same name, to which a young independent filmmaker named Martin Scorsese contributed.
BEST ARTHOUSE WRITER 2025 & BEST BIOGRAPHICAL SCREENPLAY
Eye of the Storm
BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR (Academy Award Winner Robin Williams – Lifetime Achievement Award) & BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Asherah’s Colors
BEST ARTHOUSE NARRATIVE SHORT, BEST FILMMAKER 2025, BEST PRODUCTION COMPANY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY & BEST SCREENPLAY SHORT (Category: International Narrative Short)
The Assassin’s Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands
BEST AMERICAN NARRATIVE SHORT 2025, BEST INTERNATIONAL SCREENPLAY SHORT, BEST EDITING & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
Routine
BEST FILMMAKER, BEST INDIE CASTING DIRECTOR, BEST INTERNATIONAL SET & BEST ORIGINAL ARTHOUSE SHORT FILM
The Call Center
BEST INTERNATIONAL PILOT/TV SCRIPT
Shattered Rainbows
BEST AMERICAN ORGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT
Taking Your Crack at Filmmaking
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
NeverWere: a Lycan Love Story
BEST INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT
Am I a painter?/Czy jestem malarzem?
BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL PRODUCER & BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORT FILM 2025
Canta la gioia
BEST SONG WRITER, BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER, BEST SPIRITUAL SONG & BEST EUROPEAN MUSIC VIDEO
Brothers of Babylon
BEST AMERICAN WRITER OF THE YEAR
The Sicilians
BEST ACTION FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER 2025
The Quest for Camelot
BEST ARTHOUSE DIRECTOR & BEST EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Remnant
BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE OF THE YEAR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST COSTUME DESIGNER, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY & BEST EDITING (Category: International Narrative Feature)
In Search of A P-I-G
BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST PRODUCER & BEST CAST (Category: Web/Tv Series)
The Girl Made of Earth and Water
BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITING & BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER (Category: Super Short Film)
The Oracle
BEST INTERNATIONAL SINGER, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Category: Music Video)
Roses are Blind
BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST CAST (Category: International Thriller)
Planetary Rebellion
BEST INDIE FILMMAKER, BEST EDITING & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA (Category: European Music Video)
Ye Ole Glorya
BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY (Category: International Comedy)
Big Momma Earth
BEST INDIE COMEDY OF THE YEAR & BEST CAST
The Green Mill
BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
Secrets of Montmartre 2
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST THRILLER SCRIPT 2025
Artists and Aliens
BEST SCI-FI & BEST SOUNDTRACK
Insecure
BEST INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSE MUSIC VIDEO & BEST ORIGINAL IDEA
Only in Malibu
BEST WRITER & BEST ORIGINAL CHARACTERS (Category: Feature Script)
Gold, Glory & Nobility
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDIE FEATURE SCRIPT
The Hallmark Couple
BEST WRITING STYLE (Category: International Feature Script)
The Duchess
BEST PRODUCER, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST INDIE ACTRESS 2025 & BEST CASTING DIRECTOR (Category: Drama)
Out of State-A Gothic Romance
BEST ORIGINAL NARRATIVE FEATURE 2025, BEST INDIE DIRECTOR, BEST ARTHOUSE PRODUCER & BEST INDIE CAST
Darker Realities
BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT
Not Without Gloves
BEST EXPERIMENTAL DIRECTOR & BEST UNDERGROUND PROJECT
Rodeo
BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENPLAY 2025
And We Were Left Darkling
BEST WRITER (Category: Feature Script)
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
BEST ORIGINAL DIRECTOR 2025, BEST VIDEO POETRY & BEST ARTHOUSE CINEMATOGRAPHER
In a Whole New Way
BEST INDIE PRODUCER OF THE YEAR & BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM
The Demon
BEST EUROPEAN INDIE PROJECT & BEST ARTHOUSE ACTOR 2025
Sequoia Spirits
BEST ARTHOUSE DANCE MOVIE
Idiopathy
BEST INDIE SCREENWRITER 2025 (Category: Feature Script)
Thankful
BEST AMERICAN SCREENWRITER, BEST ORIGINAL FEATURE SCRIPT & BEST IDEA OF THE YEAR (Category: Feature Script)
Katabasis
BEST EUROPEAN FILM, BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER & BEST SOUND DESIGN
An impossible secret
BEST EUROPEAN DRAMA & BEST INDIE SCREENPLAY
Omnipotent Resolution
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY, BEST MUSICAL SHORT FILM, BEST DANCE FILM & BEST ORIGINAL INDIE SONG
The Stones of Rome
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER, BEST SOUND & BEST EDITING
The Pathos of Hamlet
BEST ACTING & BEST INDIE PRODUCER
The Liminal Space
BEST EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM & BEST ARTHOUSE EDITING
Nossos Caminhos (Our Paths)
BEST ARTHOUSE SCREENWRITER (Category: Indie Feature Script)
63Geminorum
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT SCRIPT 2025 & BEST EUROPEAN ORIGINAL WRITER
A true lover of the cinema and a unique storyteller at heart. Growing up in Upstate NY, my family always went to the movies on Sundays. I can still remember waiting in line to see “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and wondering what adventure I was about to go on. Years later, my friends and I would make short films capturing our summer experiences and then show our “work” to family and friends. Everyone really enjoyed the creativity and originality of the stories we told. During my senior year in high school, I explored applying to NYU Film School, but fate had other plans. As with every great story, the Second Act is where the journey begins and for me the story picks up 25 years later. Upon retiring from the federal government, I decided to give filmmaking another try and I’m so glad I did. “The Days of Knight: Chapter 3” is my first short film with many more to come.
-Do you remember the exact moment you fell in love with cinema?
Not to date myself, but I remember seeing “E.T. -the Extra-Terrestrial” with my mother and being so young I was awed by everything I saw in that movie. The special effects, the acting, the direction of Steven Spielberg, and the way it provokes emotion for our favorite alien. That experience made me a true believer in the power of storytelling.
-When did you realize that the story living in your heart had to be turned into a screenplay and then into a film project?
Upon retiring, my bucket list had a few items on it: making a short film and submitting the film to a film festival. I thought of a story based on my experiences and something I knew I could capture on video. “The Days of Knight: Chapter 3” started off as a short story I wrote called “Get in and Get out”. The story was about a hitman that was asked to get an item from an abandoned house for a powerful family. As we started to film it, we had some many ideas that I had to stop filming and write a more in-depth background story for these characters. After three weeks, we started filming again and the story had some more layers to it. It was such a great experience! I started to write “The Days of Knight: Chapter 1” while we were filming.
-Is there a person you would like to thank for helping you bring your project to life?
My family for all of their support! There were only three people that worked on “The Days of Knight: chapter 3” and it was an incredible experience and so much fun to work with people who truly support your passion.
-Which writer inspires you the most?
I really enjoy the films of Christopher Nolan. His films are very lean but the story makes such an incredible impact.
-Do you think the Wild Filmmaker Community is helping to turn your dream into a reality?
Being new to filmmaking and the film festival circuit, I was not aware of the Wild Filmmaker Community…but I am so happy that we found each other. I can’t thank enough everyone at Wild Filmmaker for the support and opportunities. It really means a lot to me to be able to participate in film festivals with some amazing filmmakers. Thank you again, Wild Filmmaker!
Vision in Motion is a web agency founded in 2006, working on Brand Identity, Content Editing, Social Media Marketing and Advertising of professionals and companies to support them and succeed in their digital experience.
In almost twenty years of experience we have designed and created from catalogue mini-website to the most complex corporate commerce project, developing almost exclusively tailor-made solutions. To turn an idea into a successful marketing project we believe in three fundamental concepts: curiosity, creativity and collaboration.
Fig.1 – Vision in Motion payoff (tagline): “Curiosity, Creativity, Collaboration”
Unsurprisingly, these characteristics also qualify the production of an artistic project, a film, a video clip or a commercial! Differently from traditional advertising graphic agencies we set technically the website with maximum flexibility, analyzing for each need six key factors:
● The Technical Performance of the website (speed, server power, mobile devices layout fitting)
● The Platform scalability (Vision in Motion sites are highly flexible and time-scalable)
● The User Experience (UX) provided to the navigator, which must be pleasant and as simple as possible
● Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the optimization of pages for search and ranking on Google, which includes many factors (there are more than 200 in play, from the domain name to tags, keywords, sitemap and Meta integrations through the Open Graph protocol)
● Compatibility with international privacy laws (GDPR)
Today a website is an hybrid of all these factors, which make up the foundation for any social media marketing activity, professional advertising campaigns and even film production, mainstream television and art distribution strategies. In the same way that we work on the various stages of a film, a script, a treatment, a short film or a video clip (the various drafts of the script, storyboards, filming, video editing, audio editing, etc…) Consider the following pattern leading from the platform to the goal of a conversion (for example, an ecommerce sale):
Fig. 2 – The marketing Sales Funnel . A high-performance website helps the lead generation and lead qualification.
To get a right return on investment (ROI), whether we need to sell a product or service on our ecommerce, or we need to grow our followers on social networks, whether we need to try to attract a producer for one of our film projects, we will need to use the pipelines and processes outlined above.
A website is our business card on internet and, if accompanied by correct social strategies and SEO, it becomes the most institutional and professional tool to best introduce our projects to a worldwide audience. Let’s take as a case-study the site of my short film Boombox (which has received more than 50 international awards) -> https://boomboxthemovie.com/en It has a modular architecture that allows us to add pages, modules, trailers, merchandising, reviews and much more.
The site is built with the CMS (Content Management System) Joomla for security reasons, but Vision in Motion also works with platforms such as WordPress, Woocommerce, Drupal, etc…
Depending on the evolution of the project over time, the site can become from a catalog site to a blog, an ecommerce, a site for subscriptions to projects and events, such as the same https://wildfilmmaker.net
We like to take care of all aspects of a client’s digital image, from graphic design, domain name purchase, SEO, social networking and advertising campaigns, because we can take full advantage of those structural consistency and user experience factors (for example the Google Core Web Vitals) that are dear to Google and other search engines.
Like mentioned before our websites are built with SEO in mind, but what is SEO and why it’so important? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) improves a website’s visibility on search engines like Google. It involves optimizing various aspects of the website, including content, structure and performance, to make it easier for search engines to understand and rank. SEO is crucial because it directly impacts how easily potential visitors can find your website. When your site ranks higher in search engine results, you attract more organic traffic, often more valuable than traffic from ads. Since most users click on the first few results, a well-optimized site can drive significant growth for your business or blog! Ignoring SEO, on the other hand, could mean losing out on valuable visitors and potential customers to competitors. Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that measure the real user experience related to page loading performance, interactivity and visual stability.
We strongly recommend site owners to have good metrics of Core Web Vitals to make the most of their search and ensure a great user experience overall.
Fig 6 . The Google Core Web Vitals, a set of metrics that measure the actual user experience related to the website.
For social marketing and advertising campaigns we use innovative and professional analysis tools such as Google Trends, Google Analytics, Semrush, Meta Business Manager, Google Search Console, Microsoft Advertising and Google Ads. After the first months of paid campaigns, we analyze the advertising performance together with some Google and Meta Strategist, so be always aware of the new algorithms used by Big Data Companies. In this context, we are very pleased to collaborate with the Wild Filmmaker network for the growth of independent cinema and for multiple projects of the community
