Backstage Interview Transcript | 81st Academy Awards
Best live action short film
CATEGORY: Best Live Action Short Film
INTERVIEW WITH: Jochen Alexander Freydank
FILM: “Spielzeugland (Toyland)”
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Q. Congratulations.
A. Thank you very much.
Q. I'm wondering if you feel like the distribution of the films they're now getting at the theater and people can actually get a look at them helps you or helps the movies?
A. Getting any kind of distribution is extremely complicated, but these days when you have the Internet streaming, it's a bit easier to get distribution, and I'm quite sure that this one is going to help distribute the film. The makers of the movie just want people to see it and I hope many, many people can watch this movie now.
Q. Could you tell us why do you think this kind of story should be told today?
A. Well, actually I can say that I made the movie because I had some sort of anger. Because it is a movie set in the '40s in Germany, it's a Holocaust drama. And as we all know we've got the Nazi party in Europe (inaudible) and, well, Holocaust and all that stuff and we need tell it from the personal angle to tell this story, make it an emotional film with new aspects of it and there are so many stories that are not being told yet. I think you should be making movies like this as long as you have something to say. It was sort of a statement even though a movie has to be an emotional story, I think, mostly.
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