Female Filmmakers Lab #WIF Podcast Series - Directors Edition

Lilli talks about financing a film.

Lilli Tautfest’s film “Mama Told Me Not To Look Into The Sun” had it’s Berlin premiere during the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. Lilli was born in Munich and works as a director and author. She completed her studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where she majored in screenwriting and directing.

“Mama Told Me Not To Look Into The Sun” is about Kamilla (40) who lives with her mother Gudrun (72) in a secluded house in Italy, surrounded only by vineyards and forest. She takes care of the land, farm and of disabled Gudrun. A tense relationship is binding the two together. When the mysterious stranger Rocco (35) turns up, wanted by the police, Kamilla hides him against the will of her mother. Kamilla and Rocco begin a passionate affair. The smoldering dispute between mother and daughter flares up.

Guest: Lilli Tautfest

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Lilli always knew she wanted to tell stories.

Lilli Tautfest’s film “Mama Told Me Not To Look Into The Sun” had it’s Berlin premiere at a film festival in Berlin. Lilli was born in Munich and works as a director and author. She completed her studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where she majored in screenwriting and directing.

“Mama Told Me Not To Look Into The Sun” is about Kamilla (40) who lives with her mother Gudrun (72) in a secluded house in Italy, surrounded only by vineyards and forest. She takes care of the land, farm and of disabled Gudrun. A tense relationship is binding the two together. When the mysterious stranger Rocco (35) turns up, wanted by the police, Kamilla hides him against the will of her mother. Kamilla and Rocco begin a passionate affair. The smoldering dispute between mother and daughter flares up.

Guest: Lilli Tautfest

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Film Lab Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Lilli  talks about mother and daughter coependency.

LilliTautfest’s film “Mama Told Me Not To Look Into The Sun” had it’s Berlin premiere during the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. Lilli was born in Munich and works as a director and author. She completed her studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, where she majored in screenwriting and directing.

“Mama Told Me Not To Look Into The Sun”  is about Kamilla (40) who lives with her mother Gudrun (72) in a secluded house in Italy, surrounded only by vineyards and forest. She takes care of the land, farm and of disabled Gudrun. A tense relationship is binding the two together. When the mysterious stranger Rocco (35) turns up, wanted by the police, Kamilla hides him against the will of her mother. Kamilla and Rocco begin a passionate affair. The smoldering dispute between mother and daughter flares up.

Guest: Lilli Tautfest

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

STORRY and Jewell Sparks talk about her life as a performer and resistance. Her music media video was her very first clay animation.

STORRY’s music media video "UP" was screened at a film festival in Berlin. She has faced personal challenges, which range from what she describes as recovering from an abusive ex, and working as a stripper.  Born in Toronto as Dina Koutsouflakis, Storry spent her formative years in the Mississauga, Ontario before moving to Montreal where she studied vocal jazz at Vanier College. She returned to Toronto to take opera at a local university before deciding she found greater passion in writing original songs.

Guest: STORRY

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Music: Song: You Don't Know Me (Nah Nah)

Artist/Performer: STORRY

Written and produced by STORRY & Yotam Baum

STORRY talks about resistance. It's like your north star. Follow the star and just "do the work!"

STORRY’s music media video "UP" was screened at the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. She has faced personal challenges, which range from what she describes as recovering from an abusive ex, and working as a stripper. STORRY is on a mission to challenge stereotypes of the sex industry, and squash any notions that sex workers’ lives aren’t as nuanced as everyone else.

Born in Toronto as Dina Koutsouflakis, Storry spent her formative years in the Mississauga, Ontario before moving to Montreal where she studied vocal jazz at Vanier College. She returned to Toronto to take opera at a local university before deciding she found greater passion in writing original songs.

Guests: STORRY

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Music: Song: You Don't Know Me (Nah Nah)

Artist/Performer: STORRY

Written and produced by STORRY & Yotam Baum

Women should not question themselves so much!

STORRY’s music media video "UP" was screened at the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. STORRY has faced personal challenges, which range from what she describes as recovering from an abusive ex, and working as a stripper. STORRY is on a mission to challenge stereotypes of the sex industry, and squash any notions that sex workers’ lives aren’t as nuanced as everyone else.

Born in Toronto as Dina Koutsouflakis, Storry spent her formative years in the Mississauga, Ontario before moving to Montreal where she studied vocal jazz at Vanier College. She returned to Toronto to take opera at a local university before deciding she found greater passion in writing original songs.

Guests: STORRY

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Music: Song: You Don't Know Me (Nah Nah)

Artist/Performer: STORRY

Written and produced by STORRY & Yotam Baum

Jewell talks with STORRY about being still during the pandemic.

STORRY’s music media video "UP" was screened at the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. She has faced personal challenges, which range from what she describes as recovering from an abusive ex, and working as a stripper. STORRY is on a mission to challenge stereotypes of the sex industry, and squash any notions that sex workers’ lives aren’t as nuanced as everyone else.

Born in Toronto as Dina Koutsouflakis, Storry spent her formative years in the Mississauga, Ontario before moving to Montreal where she studied vocal jazz at Vanier College. She returned to Toronto to take opera at a local university before deciding she found greater passion in writing original songs.

Guests: STORRY

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Music: Song: You Don't Know Me (Nah Nah)

Artist/Performer: STORRY

Written and produced by STORRY & Yotam Baum

The onset of the pandemic sucked!

STORRY’s music media video "UP" was screened at the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. STORRY has faced personal challenges, which range from what she describes as recovering from an abusive ex, and working as a stripper. STORRY is on a mission to challenge stereotypes of the sex industry, and squash any notions that sex workers’ lives aren’t as nuanced as everyone else.

Born in Toronto as Dina Koutsouflakis, Storry spent her formative years in the Mississauga, Ontario before moving to Montreal where she studied vocal jazz at Vanier College. She returned to Toronto to take opera at a local university before deciding she found greater passion in writing original songs.

Guests: STORRY

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Music: Song: You Don't Know Me (Nah Nah)

Artist/Performer: STORRY

Written and produced by STORRY & Yotam Baum

Jewell and STORRY discuss hard knocks. Do people have to experience hardship in order to relate to the hardships of others?

STORRY’s music media video "UP" was screened at the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. STORRY has faced personal challenges, which range from what she describes as recovering from an abusive ex, and working as a stripper. STORRY is on a mission to challenge stereotypes of the sex industry, and squash any notions that sex workers’ lives aren’t as nuanced as everyone else.

Born in Toronto as Dina Koutsouflakis, Storry spent her formative years in the Mississauga, Ontario before moving to Montreal where she studied vocal jazz at Vanier College. She returned to Toronto to take opera at a local university before deciding she found greater passion in writing original songs.

Guests: STORRY

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Music: Song: You Don't Know Me (Nah Nah)

Artist/Performer: STORRY

Written and produced by STORRY & Yotam Baum

STORRY's thoughts on codependency.

STORRY's music media video "UP" was screened at the Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin. She has faced personal challenges, which range from what she describes as recovering from an abusive ex, and working as a stripper. STORRY is on a mission to challenge stereotypes of the sex industry, and squash any notions that sex workers’ lives aren’t as nuanced as everyone else.

Born in Toronto as Dina Koutsouflakis, Storry spent her formative years in the Mississauga, Ontario before moving to Montreal where she studied vocal jazz at Vanier College. She returned to Toronto to take opera at a local university before deciding she found greater passion in writing original songs.

Guest: STORRY

Created & Produced by: Jewell Sparks (Female Filmmakers Festival, Startup42 Media, BITHOUSE GROUP / UNITED17 Ventures) and Sandy Sukrisno (Sparkie Brown Productions)

Music: Song: You Don't Know Me (Nah Nah)

Artist/Performer: STORRY

Written and produced by STORRY & Yotam Baum