INTERVIEW with AFTER LAST SEASON'S MARK REGION

Filmmaker: First, tell us something about yourself. What's your background, and how did you become interested in making a film?

Region: I didn't go through film school like many filmmakers. I started writing screenplays and doing short films in my spare time. When I could, I would read books on filmmaking and cinematography.

Filmmaker: Do you have a day job? What do you do when you are not making films?

Region: I have a regular job, like a normal person. I’m a business manager at a real-estate business.

Filmmaker: Where do you live?

Region: In Massachusetts — Tewkesbury.

Filmmaker: What led to your decision to make this particular film, and what ideas informed its production? Do you have any particular filmmaking influences?

Region: I have watched many types of movies from dramas to thrillers to action movies. The influences are from many places. After doing short films, I became more comfortable with the idea of making a feature film. I also had been working on a screenplay for two to three years by then.

SHOOT: Intriguing

clipped from www.filmmakermagazine.com At the end of March, an exceedingly odd trailer for a feature film showed up on Apple's trailer page. For a film titled After Last Season, the trailer was a collection of almost random moments and conversation between students, researchers and a doctor seemingly involved in some kind of science experiment involving perception and telekinesis. The sheer mysteriousness of the whole endeavor — the fact that the trailer conveyed so little information about the film itself as well as its low production values (an MRI machine seemed clearly made from cardboard) — spawned an instant internet cult, with fans debating whether the film was real or a spoof, made by an "outsider filmmaker" or an elaborate stunt hatched by a savvy prankster Just over two months later, the film has opened in four cities, proving that it does indeed exist. Mark Region, did virtually no publicity, and, after seeing it, some viewers are still debating the intentions of the director and the meaning of the film.