Director Biography – Raymond Montemayor (STAR WARS: THE TOYS AWAKEN)

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Raymond is an engineer turned artist. He holds BS and MS degrees in engineering from Harvey Mudd College and UCLA, respectively, and spent 12 years designing communication chips for the wireless and cable TV industries. He founded PixelPlex in 2012 to pursue his interests in digital media design, providing services as a motion graphics designer, visual effects artist, stop-motion animator, and 3D animator. A lifelong Star Wars fan, Raymond has focused his love for art and technology to produce this Star Wars fan film.

Director Statement

For your consideration, this is the seven-minute Director’s Cut of Star Wars: The Toys Awaken. The original five-minute version won the Best Stop Motion and Spirit of Fandom awards in Lucasfilm’s 2018 Star Wars Fan Awards.

Watch QUESTIONS – A DC Comics Fan Film

QUESTIONS played at the FAN FICTION Film Festival in 2017.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK VIDEO:

  MOVIE POSTERQUESTIONS, 6min, USA, Fan Fiction/Action
Directed by Zack Russell Bartlett

Based on “Question” DC Comics. Two faceless vigilantes search for answers as they take on a dangerous criminal.

Film Type:Short, Student, Web / New Media

Genres:Superhero, Action, Fan Film

Runtime:6 minutes 28 seconds

Completion Date:June 30, 2016

Production Budget:600 USD

Country of Origin:United States

Country of Filming:United States

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:Digital

Aspect Ratio:16:9

Film Color:Color

FILM CREW:

Producer: Natalia Hernandez

Director of Photography: Otto Gaiser

Key Cast: Melissa Roxburgh

Key Cast: Nolan Sullivan

Key Cast: Lynn Twarowski

Production Designer: Andrea Besch

 

Audience Feedback: STAR WARS “REVENGANT”, 7min. Germany, Fan Fiction/Sci-Fi

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  MOVIE POSTERREVENGANT, 7min. Germany, Fan Fiction/Sci-Fi
Directed by Ferdinand Koerner

KYLO REN is on the HUNT for a ancient SITH HOLOCRON that the Resistance gathered on the planet DAHENDOR in the Outer Rim. Will KANE ALTIS be able to rescue himself before the HOLOCRON is found by KYLO REN and his REVENGANT?

Film Type:Short

Runtime:6 minutes 51 seconds

Completion Date:October 26, 2016

Production Budget:1,000 EUR

Country of Origin:Germany

Country of Filming:Germany

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:Digital ProRes422

Aspect Ratio:2.35:1

Film Color:Color

First-time Filmmaker:Yes

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Audience Feedback: QUESTIONS, 6min, USA, Fan Fiction/Action

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  MOVIE POSTERQUESTIONS, 6min, USA, Fan Fiction/Action
Directed by Zack Russell Bartlett

Based on “Question” DC Comics. Two faceless vigilantes search for answers as they take on a dangerous criminal.

Film Type:Short, Student, Web / New Media

Genres:Superhero, Action, Fan Film

Runtime:6 minutes 28 seconds

Completion Date:June 30, 2016

Production Budget:600 USD

Country of Origin:United States

Country of Filming:United States

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:Digital

Aspect Ratio:16:9

Film Color:Color

FILM CREW:

Producer: Natalia Hernandez

Director of Photography: Otto Gaiser

Key Cast: Melissa Roxburgh

Key Cast: Nolan Sullivan

Key Cast: Lynn Twarowski

Production Designer: Andrea Besch

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Audience Feedback: ARKHAM’S JOURNAL, 7min, Canada, Fan Fiction/Mystery

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  MOVIE POSTERARKHAM’S JOURNAL, 7min, Canada, Fan Fiction/Mystery
Directed by Matthew P.H Rea

Based on “Batman” DC Comics. Filmed in and around Toronto, this short proof-of-concept film provides a small insight into the untold stories of Gotham’s darkest hour. With the timeline loosely based around the batman comic, “Knightfall”, Arkham’s Journal is told through the words of Dr. Arkham’s Journal, detailing the lives of all the Arkham Asylum patients.

Film Type:Short

Runtime:7 minutes 1 second

Completion Date:July 4, 2016

Production Budget:20,000 USD

Country of Origin:Canada

Country of Filming:Canada

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:RED Epic-X

Film Color:Color

FILM CREW:

Producer: Thao Nguyen

Writers: Stas Simon, Matthew Read

Key Cast: James Levesque

Key Cast: Aleksandra Kimaeva

Key Cast: Dave Walpole

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Audience Feedback: 2BR02B: TO BE OR NAUGHT TO BE, 18min, Canada, Sci-Fi/Fan Fiction

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  MOVIE POSTER2BR02B: TO BE OR NAUGHT TO BE, 18min, Canada, Sci-Fi/Fan Fiction
Directed by Marco Checa Garcia

Based on the short story “2 B R 0 2 B” by Kurt Vonnegut. Set in a dystopian future where population is strictly controlled, a Father waits for his children to be born. In a deserted hospital waiting room, one man must ask himself exactly what he is willing to do, to give his children a chance at life, any life at all.

Film Type:Short

Genres:sci fi

Runtime:18 minutes

Completion Date:February 1, 2016

Production Budget:0 USD

Country of Origin:Canada

Country of Filming:Canada

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:HD Arri Alexa

Film Color:Color

FILM CREW:

Writer/Producer: Derek Ryan

Sound Desiger: Martin Cantwell

Key Cast: Melissa Roxburgh

Key Cast: Artin John

Key Cast: Jason Diablo

Key Cast: Tyler Johnston

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Get to know the Fan Fiction Short Film: QUESTIONS, 6min, USA, Fan Fiction/Action

Playing at the Thursday January 26, 2017 Sci-Fi/Fan Fiction Film Festival

  MOVIE POSTERQUESTIONS, 6min, USA, Fan Fiction/Action
Directed by Zack Russell Bartlett

Based on “Question” DC Comics. Two faceless vigilantes search for answers as they take on a dangerous criminal.

Film Type:Short, Student, Web / New Media

Genres:Superhero, Action, Fan Film

Runtime:6 minutes 28 seconds

Completion Date:June 30, 2016

Production Budget:600 USD

Country of Origin:United States

Country of Filming:United States

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:Digital

Aspect Ratio:16:9

Film Color:Color

FILM CREW:

Producer: Natalia Hernandez

Director of Photography: Otto Gaiser

Key Cast: Melissa Roxburgh

Key Cast: Nolan Sullivan

Key Cast: Lynn Twarowski

Production Designer: Andrea Besch

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Get to know the Fan Fiction Short Film: ARKHAM’S JOURNAL, 7min, Canada, Fan Fiction/Mystery

Playing at the Thursday January 26, 2017 Sci-Fi/Fan Fiction Film Festival

ARKHAM’S JOURNAL, 7min, Canada, Fan Fiction/Mystery
Directed by Matthew P.H Rea

Based on “Batman” DC Comics. Filmed in and around Toronto, this short proof-of-concept film provides a small insight into the untold stories of Gotham’s darkest hour. With the timeline loosely based around the batman comic, “Knightfall”, Arkham’s Journal is told through the words of Dr. Arkham’s Journal, detailing the lives of all the Arkham Asylum patients.

Film Type:Short

Runtime:7 minutes 1 second

Completion Date:July 4, 2016

Production Budget:20,000 USD

Country of Origin:Canada

Country of Filming:Canada

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:RED Epic-X

Film Color:Color

FILM CREW:

Producer: Thao Nguyen

Writers: Stas Simon, Matthew Read

Key Cast: James Levesque

Key Cast: Aleksandra Kimaeva

Key Cast: Dave Walpole

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FAN FICTION Film Festival – Thursday January 26, 2016

The FEEDBACK Monthly Film Festival is back for 2016.. Our home is The Carlton Cinemas, located in the heart of downtown Toronto at 20 Carlton Street. The event runs from 7pm to 9:10pm.

Continuing to showcase the best of short films from around the world, while maintaining our audience feedback format moderated by Matthew Toffolo. Showcasing a festival twice a month in 2017 starting in February!

Tickets for 2017 are PAY WHAT YOU LIKE. Purchase your tickets online via Paypal or Credit Card. Tickets are first come first serve.

All proceeds to this month’s festival will be donated to festival cinema costs (suggestion $8 and up), which helps the monthly event:


OR, if you like to obtain seats in advance and pick them up on the day of the event (come for FREE, or make a donation), please email us at festivalevent@wildsoundfestival.com and we’ll reserve seats for you.

You can pick up the tickets on the day of the event at the cinema. Tickets are first come, first serve. This festival has sold out 48 out of its last 50 events!

You will be able to buy alcohol (beer, wine, liquor), popcorn, candy, and refreshments before the show.

Here is the full program of films. Festival starts at 7pm sharp!

FIRST ACT PROGRAM – SCI-FI/FANTASY


IM PERFEKT, 7min, Hungray, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Directed by Zsuzsanna Koszti
The short film aims to show a date in 2046. How the technology can shape our lives in an everyday situation. What if someone else controls your senses.

CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

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INTO THE DARK, 14min, USA, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Directed by Lukas Hassel
Sometime in the future, two men strapped in back to back, on a journey from Moon to Earth. Real Justice. Just Reality.

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MARIA FERNANDA IN TIME, 9min, Spain, Sci-Fi/Comedy
Directed by Xavier Pijuan
An overprotective mother produces an accident with terrible consequences in the space-time continuum in the scientific laboratory where his son works.

CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

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SECOND ACT PROGRAM – FAN FICTION


REVENGANT, 7min. Germany, Fan Fiction/Sci-Fi

Directed by Ferdinand Koerner KYLO REN is on the HUNT for a ancient SITH HOLOCRON that the Resistance gathered on the planet DAHENDOR in the Outer Rim. Will KANE ALTIS be able to rescue himself before the HOLOCRON is found by KYLO REN and his REVENGANT?

CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!


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ARKHAM’S JOURNAL, 7min, Canada, Fan Fiction/Mystery
Directed by Matthew P.H Rea
Based on “Batman” DC Comics. Filmed in and around Toronto, this short proof-of-concept film provides a small insight into the untold stories of Gotham’s darkest hour. With the timeline loosely based around the batman comic, “Knightfall”, Arkham’s Journal is told through the words of Dr. Arkham’s Journal, detailing the lives of all the Arkham Asylum patients.

CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

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QUESTIONS, 6min, USA, Fan Fiction/Action
Directed by Zack Russell Bartlett
Based on “Question” DC Comics. Two faceless vigilantes search for answers as they take on a dangerous criminal.

CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

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2BR0@B: TO BE OR NAUGHT TO BE, 18min, Canada, Sci-Fi/Fan Fiction
Directed by Marco Checa Garcia
Based on the short story “2 B R 0 2 B” by Kurt Vonnegut. Set in a dystopian future where population is strictly controlled, a Father waits for his children to be born. In a deserted hospital waiting room, one man must ask himself exactly what he is willing to do, to give his children a chance at life, any life at all.

CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!

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