Alicia Witt, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Matthew Lillard are some of the actors who appear in your film, just to name a few. How did you come to be connected with such talent, and how did you convince them to join your project? Your film has some relatively serious star-power for our little festival. 6 LOVE STORIES is, among other things, an exercise in doing that. But I also think it’s interesting when we step outside our own experience and give our takes on other people’s stories, other communities’ stories. In fact, I’m developing my two dream projects, one of which takes place in Alabama and one in Tennessee. My outlook and my artistic sensibility are fundamentally rooted in Southernness. I’m descended, on both sides of my family, from a long line of Southerners. I grew up in Georgia, have lived here for most of my life, and still live here. The fact is, for me, as an unproven narrative filmmaker with connections to some great LA actors, it was a very easy choice to shoot in LA.ĭo you self-identify as a "Southern Filmmaker”? What does that mean to you?Ībsolutely, 100%. I think we need to be celebrating Southeastern filmmakers, no matter where they shoot their films. Why are we screening it at Y'allywood, a festival for Southeastern films? “Six Love Stories” was filmed in Los Angeles. He was kind enough to share some of his wisdom as a lifelong Southern Creative with us, along with his picks for the best film festival experiences.įirst of all, I’ll address the elephant in the room. His latest film, “Six Love Stories” makes its Atlanta premiere at Y’allywood 2016. Michael Dunaway is a filmmaker, magazine editor, film festival director, and Avondale Estates Resident.
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