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Dear Festivider 2024

Hello, Festividder! Perhaps this is a little unhelpful, but I would honestly take anything for these requests. I like all kinds of music and have no content warnings to list to speak of. Here's a little bit for each, just in case:

Silo (TV): I love this show and am always just trying to get people to watch it. Anything would be great. Juliette is wonderful and I love to stare at her in particular, obviously.

The Fall Guy (2024) [SAFETY]: I thought this movie was silly and cute, and the romance very low stakes and sweet. And there's kissing! A win in this day and age.

Reminiscence (2021) [SAFETY]: Pretty! It's pretty. Is it a great movie? Who can say. Is everybody hot in it? Yes! Is it also aesthetically very pretty? Yes! It would make a gorgeous vid.

Twisters (2024) [SAFETY] Who didn't love Twisters? Anything for this movie would be great! Take it in any direction you'd like.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Concert Film) [SAFETY] I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Eras Tour twice and a little vid to commemorate it would be so awesome. There are great visuals in this and I would love to see what someone comes up with for an Eras Tour edit.

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Films [UMBRELLA] Just thinking about the visual gorgeousness of a vid exploring their works makes me giddy. And what an opportunity to dive into some amazing films!

Casablanca (1942) [SAFETY] THEE Classic OF All Time. Anything would be great.

Servant (TV 2019) This show is bananas. Part of the M. Night Shyamalan universe and featuring an increasingly unhinged performance from Nell Tiger Free and Lauren Ambrose is also here being great as always. Deals with some rough subject matter and I'm not sure that it is going to end satisfactorily (I have two eps left lol) but it's wild and fun and creepy and an enjoyable watch. It's on Apple TV which is why many have probably never heard of it.

Slow Horses (TV) Another Apple TV great! Flop spies who I love so much! This is an awesome show and this is just a request for everyone to watch it.

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) [SAFETY] One of my favorite films of this year. Visually and emotionally powerful and anything for this one would not go amiss.

Festivids 2023

Dear festividder/potential treatmaker:

Rebecca Ferguson RPF:
You probably know her best as the enigmatic Ilsa Faust in the Missions: Impossible, Lady Jessica in Dyyuunnee (that's how I pronounce Dune), or perhaps as Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep. Or maybe you were introduced to her way back when in 2013 in The White Queen (some of these titles you'll find again later on in this letter...). But, Festividder, have you ever watched an interview with this woman? Or seen how she is on a red carpet? I say this in the most loving way possible - she's the most ridiculous person on this Earth, and also a strong contender for one of the most beautiful. If you didn't love her from her performances already (she is Hollywood's "stealth MVP" after all), you'll absolutely fall in love with her after going down the YouTube rabbit hole of press tours and junkets and interviews.

The Fall of the House of Usher (TV 2023):
As a fan of Mike Flanagan, his latest (and last for Netflix) horror series is up there with my favorites of his. A mean, fun, and really quite funny adaptation of several Edgar Allan Poe stories featuring an absolutely stacked cast. I would enjoy a vid about basically anything this show has to offer, for real. (I will add, I do have a soft spot for Carla Gugino's Verna, and Madeline throughout the years.)

Doctor Sleep (2019) [SAFETY]:
Mike Flanagan's adapation of Stephen King's The Shining sequel. The synthesis of both Kubrick's classic film and Uncle Steve's novels feels like a miracle to me. The Director's Cut is the one to watch. Rebecca Ferguson's performance as Rose the Hat (who has never done anything wrong, not once in her 700+ year life) is mesmerizing. It underperformed at the box office, so if you haven't gotten a chance to discover this movie on streaming, now's the time. A vid about the movie as a whole, a thematic study, or just Rose the Hat saying "hi, there" for a minute straight...anything goes!

MAMMOTH CLUB (YOUTUBE CHANNEL):

Mammoth Club is a YouTube channel/social media community around Walt Disney World and Universal Parks content. The main host, Molly, is super fun and someone you feel like you'd want to hang out with on vacation. Their channel started a couple months ago and has already amassed a big fanbase. I would love a vid showcasing all the fun stuff the hosts do as they go around the parks. Any material is fine, though feel free to skip Wizarding World content.

Tár (2022) [SAFETY]
A career best performance from Cate Blanchett, and an incredible portrait of a complex and glorious character. There are so many layers in this movie to mine, and each watch reveals something new. A vid peeling back the many fascinating layers of actual real person Lydia Tár in this incredible, definitely a true story biopic would be amazing.

Dead Ringers (2023 TV):
TWO RACHEL WEISZES. Enough said, really. This is an updated take on the Cronenberg film, and yes, the show includes plots and all the body horror that that name invokes. It's one of the best recent streaming TV series out there, and honestly it's kind of incredible it even exists. A vid about the relationship between the Mantle twins would be amazing.

Silo (TV):
Based on a novel trilogy, Silo focuses on the inhabitants of, like it says on the tin, an underground silo with over a hundred levels. It's a part-time murder mystery, part-time what-is-going-on-outside-the-silo mystery, part-time examination of a dystopian society, and full-time opportunity to watch Rebecca Ferguson giving one of her career best performances to date. I guarantee you will fall in love with Juliette Nichols, a mechanic from the down deep who winds up becoming the silo's sheriff in an effort to solve her lover's murder, an investigation that winds up providing answers and even more questions about the world in which she lives. The world-building gets increasingly fun as the season progresses, and the story is straightforward in a good way, well-told and exciting. A shout out from this neurodivergent viewer that while it's not stated explicitly in canon, Silo features a female lead character on the autism spectrum in Jules, and I could not love this character more if I tried. Also, Harriet Walter is here and her relationship with Jules is so fantastic. Please make all the Jules vids in the world, thank you! [But also a general vid for the series would also be great! Happy about all of it. Would also not say no to a Jules/Shirley vid, though you might struggle to hit that 1:00 minimum. :)]

The White Queen (TV)
I'm throwing it back to the first thing I ever saw Rebecca Ferguson in (not counting one episode of Wallander years before where she has no lines), and the first thing I feel in love with her in with this request. I'm a nothing if not sometimes a sucker for a sexy historical drama with occasional dashes of witchery. And when I say sexy, I will add that if you're acquiring this series for viewing and/or vidding purposes, be sure to get the Starz version, not the BBC version, for no reason at all. No reason.

Reminiscence (2021) [SAFETY]
Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton, really pretty people, really gorgeous visuals, and I don't want to oversell as it's not the greatest movie ever made, but did I mention how beautiful it is to look at? It's a fun watch and has interesting ideas to chew on. Weird post-apocalyptic noir future complete with a sad man doing a voiceover! The people! So pretty! I think the visuals in this film would make a stunning vid.

The Newsreader (TV 2021)
ANNA TORV! Reading the news! With Sam Reid! In 1980s Australia! This is a great, under the radar show and the main characters are absolute messy messes. And did I mention the 80s? That means outfits. Highly recommend the watch.

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Festivids 2022

Dear Festividder (and perhaps potential treatmaker):

HOCUS POCUS (MOVIES):
The sequel slaps. It's everything I really could have hoped for in a follow up to a formative childhood classic. I would love a vid for Hocus Pocus 2 or both together! Preferably Sanderson Sisters focused, though a general vid also works (all the kids and side characters in both movies are very much welcome). If doing a singular character-focused vid appeals, I adore Sarah Sanderson and SJP's completely unhinged performance and background antics. Anyway run amuck with this one and have fun! I'd love literally anything from this source.

FOR ALL MANKIND (TV):
Space! And women! So many fantastic women. Highly recommend this alternative history drama series on Apple TV+ if you've never seen it. Some of the most compelling character writing and intricate plotting on TV right now. A vid focusing on all the ladies would not go amiss, or a character study of one or more of my favs: Tracy Stevens, Karen Baldwin, or Danielle Poole. There's also just so! Much! Space! Drama! that would be so fun to compress into vid form. All space all the time!

STAR WARS: GALAXY'S EDGE (ATTRACTION):
Bright Suns, Festividder! I'm a huge Disney Parks nerd, and I don't think I've ever seen a request for...theme parks/rides?? Though I could just not be very observant. Galaxy's Edge can be found in both Hollywood Studios in Florida and in Disneyland in California, and, much like it says on the tin, is Disney's "Star Wars Land." Galaxy's Edge features the planet Batuu, lots of delicious food, character appearances, lightsabers, Smuggler's Run (the Millennium Falcon ride) and Rise of the Resistance, one of my favorite new attractions in the parks. Would be so fun to have a vid celebrating/showcasing all the fun stuff that goes on here, for a little hit of the theme parks when I'm, you know, not there. Searching for Disney's Galaxy's Edge in YouTube will get you so much source, feel free to use whatever (can feature influencers/hosts, etc). Some good places to start might be these channels: Mammoth Club, Ordinary Adventures, DFB Guide, Paging Mr. Morrow, AllEars.net, Attractions 360, 4K WDW).

MAMMOTH CLUB (YOUTUBE CHANNEL):
Continuing from above, Mammoth Club is a YouTube channel/social media community around Walt Disney World and Universal Parks content. The main host, Molly, is super fun and someone you feel like you'd want to hang out with on vacation. Their channel started a couple months ago and has already amassed a big fanbase. I would love a vid showcasing all the fun stuff the hosts do as they go around the parks. Any material is fine, though feel free to skip Wizarding World content.

COLUMBO (TV):
Peter Falk! Vid Peter Falk and have the best time! There's so much Columbo source, it's true. I'd be happy with just a little Columbo-focused vid. Another idea might be to highlight all the big guest stars, so many guest stars (my only caveat there would be please leave out William Shatner. I'm not a fan of the dude.)

SHINING VALE (TV):
Underrated comedy horror gem on Starz (one season has aired, and it's renewed for season two). Influenced by The Shining, Courtney Cox plays a writer, Patricia, who's family moves into a house with some haunting issues, primarily that of Mira Sorvino playing a 1950s ghost, Rosemary, who more or less possesses Patricia and helps(?) write her latest novel. Dear bob, a Patricia/Rosemary vid, please and thank you. This is such a fun show and I'm not sure who all has watched it. Certainly not enough people.

ELVIS (2022, MOVIE) [SAFETY]:
Whew Austin Butler in this film. Alongside Baz Luhrmann's very Baz Luhrmann aesthetics, this movie feels like it would be a dream to vid. Compelling story, fantastic performance to highlight, and gorgeous visuals. If Butler isn't nominated for an Oscar, I'll eat my shoe.

STAR TREK: PICARD (TV):
My favorite of the new Treks. So much material to mine for vids here it's not even funny, and I would love all of it. My ship of ships right now is Seven/Raffi, a vid for them would be lovely. Any character study would not go amiss, particularly would love a Raffi-focused vid. And season two featured the surprising and very welcome bananas relationship between Agnes Jurati and the Borg Queen, complete with musical number and all. General team/family feels also never go amiss!

YELLOWJACKETS (TV):
High school girls soccer team lost in the woods for 18 months, and their adult counterparts played by the best of the best 1990s actresses you can find. Supernatural elements, cult stuff, maybe some cannibalism living alongside high school coming-of-age drama. It's the best. And visually fantastic for vidding. Go wild - I'd love anything for this show.

CATE BLANCHETT RPF:
What better way to celebrate Cate Blanchett winning another Oscar next year for Tár than to vid her various IRL appearances, the more out of control the better. No better place to start than the Ocean's 8 Press tour. TBH this whole vid could be the Ocean's 8 press tour.

*As far as any general notes, really anything goes. I'm easy to please, like most all music, and am fine with all content/material and vidding styles (though on that note, if going effects/dialogue heavy, I would love for them to be really integrated into the source/song/vid meaning/feeling/mood creation...basically trying to say I'm not a fan of tons of effects for just for the hell of it).

THANK YOU AND HAPPY FESTIVIDDING!