Dear Festividder 2021-2
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bironicDear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat!
DR. K'S EXOTIC ANIMAL ER (TV show)
Summary: Two vets and their techs in Florida treat a huge range of non-cat and -dog pets, including large and small birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, rodents and rabbits and weasels, marsupials, pigs, goats, raccoons, foxes, lynxes, nonhuman primates... Nine seasons streaming on Disney+.
Sales pitch: Animal! Feelings! Doctors, staff, owners, and rescuers demonstrate so much love for animals on this show, it makes your heart fill. And competence! This particular practice is considered one of the best in the country, and the expertise shines through, from having quick intuition about diagnoses to devising ingenious treatment solutions. They 3D print a shell prosthesis for a tortoise! They make tiny casts for guinea pigs! They build a skateboard for a turtle that needs to regain strength in its back legs!
Caveats: An unpredictable amount of animal illness, injury, and/or death in each episode. Surgery and other medical procedures intended to treat animals. Social commentary about how some of the species brought in as patients shouldn't be legal to own in the region where the show takes place. Frequent use of parent/child language to describe humans and animals. Occasional discussion of animal weight, diet, and weight loss. Notable absence of any discussion of money, which can get really unfair sometimes when the vets talk about treatment decisions in terms of morality and not affordability.
Vid request: I know the warnings make this a no-go for much of our community, but I've been watching veterinary reality shows this fall and this may be my favorite, and I'm so hoping the request catches someone's interest.
I'd love something that conveys the love the series shows between people and animals and that revels in the competence kink as the vets work their magic. There's something about the snuggling and touching and "kissing" that hits extra hard during this RL period of isolation. And not just the fuzzy ones; it works all the way down to chameleons folding their bifurcated hands around someone's finger and an Argentine tegu clinging to a tech's chest. Focusing on thehurt/comfort healing and recovery as a narrative arc could work well. I've been thinking about Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings" or something like it, underplaying the love story aspect or transforming it into the owner-pet bond rather than something romantic. Or any music that strikes you as right.
The animals in all their variety are cool. Biology is cool. Veterinary medicine is cool.
If you want to focus on one "character," my favorite doc is Dr. T until she leaves in season… 8? She's so physically affectionate, snuggling everyone's pets and telling them she loves them two seconds after she meets them. Feel free to incorporate footage from her spinoff show, "Dr. T: Lone Star Vet," if you want to. I also like Dr. K, of course, with her avian and reptile expertise and her helpless cuteness around pigs, and Dr. Swann when he starts in season 9. It seems like he's never on screen without an animal somewhere on his person. Faves among the techs are Kristin and Dyanne the bunny whisperer and Ashley.
Or if you have a different or narrower idea, go for it. As long as it isn't about wallowing in the stories that end sadly or being irreverent about the surgeries etc., we should be good.
<3
CRITTER FIXERS (TV show)
Sales pitch: Critter Fixers follows two Black American veterinarians, Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson, who run a private practice in rural Georgia. They have a straight man/funny man dynamic somewhat reminiscent of Captain Holt and Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99, and they could be read as slashable, for those who are into it. They see so-called exotic pets like in "Dr. K" but they also do cats and dogs and farm animals. Two short seasons on Disney+.
Caveats: Similar to the above, plus in one episode there's insensitive parading around of an animal, I think a dog, that has male and female reproductive organs.
Vid request: These guys are so charming and good at what they do. With only a dozen or so episodes there's not a ton of footage, but it'd be a treat to have a vid that shares the joy of their working relationship (with or without the other staff members) and/or their dedication to saving as many community members' pets and livestock as they can.
A taste, via a turtle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpGczEXnjg
RELATED REQUEST
If you're feeling multi-ish, I'd be totally open to a meta vet-show vid that combines either or both of the above with other shows of their ilk. The two I've liked best so far are "Secrets of the Zoo," which goes behind the scenes of vet care at the Cleveland Zoo in Ohio, and "The Incredible Dr. Pol," which follows a talented old-school livestock and pet vet in rural Michigan and which does a much better job than "Dr. K" of addressing the costs of veterinary care, both also on Disney+. Who knows which others you may like or I may watch before January.
QUEEN MARGOT (1994 movie)
Sales pitch: Gorgeous costumes! Intricate court politics! Passionate sex like only the French can do! Strife between Catholics and Protestants! A night of stunning bloodshed! Sibling-sibling and mother-son incest, if that's your thing! Isabelle Adjani, Pascal Greggory, Vincent Perez, and even baby Thomas Kretschmann! A Patrice Chereau film, based on the Alexandre Dumas novel.
Caveats: See above re: incest. Also one instance of sexual assault or attempted/implied sexual assault, depending on which version of the film you see.
Vid request: This movie has such beautiful, rich imagery that it just begs for vidding. Anything you make will make me happy, including a whirlwind portrait of the color and blood and passion and perversion and deviousness. Personal favorite parts are the massacre, the hatred-to-love story between La Mole and Coconnas, and Anjou's face. Plus, generally, all the homoerotic undercurrents.
WILDLIKE (2014 movie)
Sales pitch: Ella Purnell, who played young Maleficent! Bruce Greenwood, who played Christopher Pike in the Star Trek: Reboot movies and was in lots of other stuff! Alaskan landscapes from Juneau to Denali! A hurt/comfort story that progresses to the unlikely connection between a teenage girl and a gruff older backpacker!
Caveats: Molestation of high school-aged girl by uncle; mention of spousal death from cancer.
Vid request: I would be so happy to have a vid of this movie that simply told the story, focusing on Mackenzie and René's developing relationship and taking advantage of the visual splendor of the Alaskan setting. Or whatever focus and structure appeals to you. FWIW, the emotional high point of the movie for me was René's protectiveness once he found out what really happened with Kenzie and her uncle, specifically when René bundled her back into the ferry cabin. I like to think he made good use of the bear spray when he made that stop in Juneau. :)
THE BURIAL OF KOJO (2018 movie)
Summary: A Ghanaian film about a girl whose visions of an anthropomorphic crow may help her find her father when he goes missing. Streaming on Netflix. In several languages with subtitles.
Sales pitch: Cloaked bird-man on a horse, looking like a plague doctor or a grim reaper! Young woman main character with rich fantasy life! Gorgeous imagery! And a decades-old family tragedy that resurfaces.
Caveats: Bird death, fatal car accident, blood. Possibly others; it's been a while since I watched. Also note there is some upside-down footage and other potentially dizzying camera movement.
Vid request: I've wanted to see a vid that uses this striking bird imagery every since I saw the movie. The cinematography creates so many beautiful moments in addition to those that there's a lot to work with. A coming-of-age story about Esi, a retelling of the plot, it's all good.
THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI (book)
Sales pitch: A woman made of clay meets a man made of fire in turn-of-the-20th-century New York. There's challah baking and desert flashbacks and sexy seduction and supernatural possession, and, just in time for Purim, evil viziers. Beautiful, comforting prose.
Caveats: I don't remember well enough, sorry. :(
Vid request: One of the things I loved about this book was its vibrant setting, its creation of an atmosphere I wanted to wrap around myself forever. I think what I'm hoping for in a vid is a sort of mood piece, where you feel like you're in this magical 1900-ish Lower East Side or Central Park, where things are—as much as I make fun of it in movies—teal and gold like the cover of the book. (The closest movie I can think of for visual inspiration of the city is Gangs of New York, but I'm sure there's lots more out there I just haven't seen. Maybe Winter's Tale, which held the same sort of early-NY magic?)
And maybe you will give an impression of this large-boned Eastern European woman and this elegant Arab man (I mean, I don't expect our imaginations of Chava and Ahmad to be the same, so I look forward to whomever you choose for your fan-cast, if you fan-cast them). Maybe there will be a bakery and a metalworker's forge, or a desert and a temple, or Jewish and Syrian immigrant communities, or impressions of seduction or murder or enslavement or the clash between subservience/suppression and dominance/recklessness, or maybe there are other aspects of the story you want to highlight, or nothing so complex because it all seems very intimidating. Whatever you make, it's going to be wonderful.
I just ask that you please be sensitive if you choose to cast Schaalman or Schall. No Hollywood stereotypes of giant-eyebrowed, pointy-eared, scheming Jews. Thank you. <3
Okay, and you know what, RESERVATION DOGS (TV 2021)
Summary: A contemporary dramedy set on the Muscogee (Creek) reservation in Oklahoma that follows a group of four young friends along with their families, neighbors, and nemeses as they navigate everyday life as well as the occasional touch of what could be called the supernatural. Produced, written, and directed by (Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi, Sydney Freeland, Tommy Pico...) and starring an embarrassment of riches from the Native American film & television community. Season one consists of 8 half-hour episodes, streaming on Hulu.
Sales pitch: Witty dry humor! Cheerful stereotype busting! Meta references to other Native American-related media! A parody Indigenous hip hop hit! Family feelings, friendship feelings, tensions between wanting to stay in your hometown and wanting to leave. "'Sup, white Jesus."
Actor-wise: Devery Jacobs! Sarah and Jennifer Podemski! My fan crush Zahn McClarnon! Gary Farmer and Wes Studi and Kiowa Gordon! Kaniehtiio Horn playing Deer Woman after having played a similar spirit in the film "Mohawk"! And more!
Caveats: References to a friend-group member's suicide. Alcohol and marijuana use. A fist fight. A dead deer. Depictions of police officers, tribal and non-.
Vid request: It would just be nice to have a vid of this in Festivids this year. Could be a recruiter vid, or a portrait of the quartet (or any one of them) (or the rez) (or families, both blood and found), or a ship vid of Elora and Jackie, or a study of that stay-or-go dilemma, or anything your heart desires. Willie Jack is cool. Bear has a nice face.
Skoden.
General notes, if they are helpful:
I like celebrating shows and movies that make me happy, but just as much I like queering texts, whether it's pairing characters who aren't paired in canon or inverting themes or highlighting kink or drawing attention to minor characters or changing the tone or telling a different story using the same footage. I like joyful and I like dark and I like sexy.
Music-wise, I like folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... Not fond of ska (too fast) or reggae (too slow) or discordant stuff. I am possibly one of the only people in vidding fandom who doesn't like Florence + the Machine, sorry. I'm open to spoken word, but if you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.
Thank you for making something for one of these newly or long-loved sources.
DR. K'S EXOTIC ANIMAL ER (TV show)
Summary: Two vets and their techs in Florida treat a huge range of non-cat and -dog pets, including large and small birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, rodents and rabbits and weasels, marsupials, pigs, goats, raccoons, foxes, lynxes, nonhuman primates... Nine seasons streaming on Disney+.
Sales pitch: Animal! Feelings! Doctors, staff, owners, and rescuers demonstrate so much love for animals on this show, it makes your heart fill. And competence! This particular practice is considered one of the best in the country, and the expertise shines through, from having quick intuition about diagnoses to devising ingenious treatment solutions. They 3D print a shell prosthesis for a tortoise! They make tiny casts for guinea pigs! They build a skateboard for a turtle that needs to regain strength in its back legs!
Caveats: An unpredictable amount of animal illness, injury, and/or death in each episode. Surgery and other medical procedures intended to treat animals. Social commentary about how some of the species brought in as patients shouldn't be legal to own in the region where the show takes place. Frequent use of parent/child language to describe humans and animals. Occasional discussion of animal weight, diet, and weight loss. Notable absence of any discussion of money, which can get really unfair sometimes when the vets talk about treatment decisions in terms of morality and not affordability.
Vid request: I know the warnings make this a no-go for much of our community, but I've been watching veterinary reality shows this fall and this may be my favorite, and I'm so hoping the request catches someone's interest.
I'd love something that conveys the love the series shows between people and animals and that revels in the competence kink as the vets work their magic. There's something about the snuggling and touching and "kissing" that hits extra hard during this RL period of isolation. And not just the fuzzy ones; it works all the way down to chameleons folding their bifurcated hands around someone's finger and an Argentine tegu clinging to a tech's chest. Focusing on the
The animals in all their variety are cool. Biology is cool. Veterinary medicine is cool.
If you want to focus on one "character," my favorite doc is Dr. T until she leaves in season… 8? She's so physically affectionate, snuggling everyone's pets and telling them she loves them two seconds after she meets them. Feel free to incorporate footage from her spinoff show, "Dr. T: Lone Star Vet," if you want to. I also like Dr. K, of course, with her avian and reptile expertise and her helpless cuteness around pigs, and Dr. Swann when he starts in season 9. It seems like he's never on screen without an animal somewhere on his person. Faves among the techs are Kristin and Dyanne the bunny whisperer and Ashley.
Or if you have a different or narrower idea, go for it. As long as it isn't about wallowing in the stories that end sadly or being irreverent about the surgeries etc., we should be good.
<3
CRITTER FIXERS (TV show)
Sales pitch: Critter Fixers follows two Black American veterinarians, Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson, who run a private practice in rural Georgia. They have a straight man/funny man dynamic somewhat reminiscent of Captain Holt and Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99, and they could be read as slashable, for those who are into it. They see so-called exotic pets like in "Dr. K" but they also do cats and dogs and farm animals. Two short seasons on Disney+.
Caveats: Similar to the above, plus in one episode there's insensitive parading around of an animal, I think a dog, that has male and female reproductive organs.
Vid request: These guys are so charming and good at what they do. With only a dozen or so episodes there's not a ton of footage, but it'd be a treat to have a vid that shares the joy of their working relationship (with or without the other staff members) and/or their dedication to saving as many community members' pets and livestock as they can.
A taste, via a turtle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpGczEXnjg
RELATED REQUEST
If you're feeling multi-ish, I'd be totally open to a meta vet-show vid that combines either or both of the above with other shows of their ilk. The two I've liked best so far are "Secrets of the Zoo," which goes behind the scenes of vet care at the Cleveland Zoo in Ohio, and "The Incredible Dr. Pol," which follows a talented old-school livestock and pet vet in rural Michigan and which does a much better job than "Dr. K" of addressing the costs of veterinary care, both also on Disney+. Who knows which others you may like or I may watch before January.
QUEEN MARGOT (1994 movie)
Sales pitch: Gorgeous costumes! Intricate court politics! Passionate sex like only the French can do! Strife between Catholics and Protestants! A night of stunning bloodshed! Sibling-sibling and mother-son incest, if that's your thing! Isabelle Adjani, Pascal Greggory, Vincent Perez, and even baby Thomas Kretschmann! A Patrice Chereau film, based on the Alexandre Dumas novel.
Caveats: See above re: incest. Also one instance of sexual assault or attempted/implied sexual assault, depending on which version of the film you see.
Vid request: This movie has such beautiful, rich imagery that it just begs for vidding. Anything you make will make me happy, including a whirlwind portrait of the color and blood and passion and perversion and deviousness. Personal favorite parts are the massacre, the hatred-to-love story between La Mole and Coconnas, and Anjou's face. Plus, generally, all the homoerotic undercurrents.
WILDLIKE (2014 movie)
Sales pitch: Ella Purnell, who played young Maleficent! Bruce Greenwood, who played Christopher Pike in the Star Trek: Reboot movies and was in lots of other stuff! Alaskan landscapes from Juneau to Denali! A hurt/comfort story that progresses to the unlikely connection between a teenage girl and a gruff older backpacker!
Caveats: Molestation of high school-aged girl by uncle; mention of spousal death from cancer.
Vid request: I would be so happy to have a vid of this movie that simply told the story, focusing on Mackenzie and René's developing relationship and taking advantage of the visual splendor of the Alaskan setting. Or whatever focus and structure appeals to you. FWIW, the emotional high point of the movie for me was René's protectiveness once he found out what really happened with Kenzie and her uncle, specifically when René bundled her back into the ferry cabin. I like to think he made good use of the bear spray when he made that stop in Juneau. :)
THE BURIAL OF KOJO (2018 movie)
Summary: A Ghanaian film about a girl whose visions of an anthropomorphic crow may help her find her father when he goes missing. Streaming on Netflix. In several languages with subtitles.
Sales pitch: Cloaked bird-man on a horse, looking like a plague doctor or a grim reaper! Young woman main character with rich fantasy life! Gorgeous imagery! And a decades-old family tragedy that resurfaces.
Caveats: Bird death, fatal car accident, blood. Possibly others; it's been a while since I watched. Also note there is some upside-down footage and other potentially dizzying camera movement.
Vid request: I've wanted to see a vid that uses this striking bird imagery every since I saw the movie. The cinematography creates so many beautiful moments in addition to those that there's a lot to work with. A coming-of-age story about Esi, a retelling of the plot, it's all good.
THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI (book)
Sales pitch: A woman made of clay meets a man made of fire in turn-of-the-20th-century New York. There's challah baking and desert flashbacks and sexy seduction and supernatural possession, and, just in time for Purim, evil viziers. Beautiful, comforting prose.
Caveats: I don't remember well enough, sorry. :(
Vid request: One of the things I loved about this book was its vibrant setting, its creation of an atmosphere I wanted to wrap around myself forever. I think what I'm hoping for in a vid is a sort of mood piece, where you feel like you're in this magical 1900-ish Lower East Side or Central Park, where things are—as much as I make fun of it in movies—teal and gold like the cover of the book. (The closest movie I can think of for visual inspiration of the city is Gangs of New York, but I'm sure there's lots more out there I just haven't seen. Maybe Winter's Tale, which held the same sort of early-NY magic?)
And maybe you will give an impression of this large-boned Eastern European woman and this elegant Arab man (I mean, I don't expect our imaginations of Chava and Ahmad to be the same, so I look forward to whomever you choose for your fan-cast, if you fan-cast them). Maybe there will be a bakery and a metalworker's forge, or a desert and a temple, or Jewish and Syrian immigrant communities, or impressions of seduction or murder or enslavement or the clash between subservience/suppression and dominance/recklessness, or maybe there are other aspects of the story you want to highlight, or nothing so complex because it all seems very intimidating. Whatever you make, it's going to be wonderful.
I just ask that you please be sensitive if you choose to cast Schaalman or Schall. No Hollywood stereotypes of giant-eyebrowed, pointy-eared, scheming Jews. Thank you. <3
Okay, and you know what, RESERVATION DOGS (TV 2021)
Summary: A contemporary dramedy set on the Muscogee (Creek) reservation in Oklahoma that follows a group of four young friends along with their families, neighbors, and nemeses as they navigate everyday life as well as the occasional touch of what could be called the supernatural. Produced, written, and directed by (Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi, Sydney Freeland, Tommy Pico...) and starring an embarrassment of riches from the Native American film & television community. Season one consists of 8 half-hour episodes, streaming on Hulu.
Sales pitch: Witty dry humor! Cheerful stereotype busting! Meta references to other Native American-related media! A parody Indigenous hip hop hit! Family feelings, friendship feelings, tensions between wanting to stay in your hometown and wanting to leave. "'Sup, white Jesus."
Actor-wise: Devery Jacobs! Sarah and Jennifer Podemski! My fan crush Zahn McClarnon! Gary Farmer and Wes Studi and Kiowa Gordon! Kaniehtiio Horn playing Deer Woman after having played a similar spirit in the film "Mohawk"! And more!
Caveats: References to a friend-group member's suicide. Alcohol and marijuana use. A fist fight. A dead deer. Depictions of police officers, tribal and non-.
Vid request: It would just be nice to have a vid of this in Festivids this year. Could be a recruiter vid, or a portrait of the quartet (or any one of them) (or the rez) (or families, both blood and found), or a ship vid of Elora and Jackie, or a study of that stay-or-go dilemma, or anything your heart desires. Willie Jack is cool. Bear has a nice face.
Skoden.
General notes, if they are helpful:
I like celebrating shows and movies that make me happy, but just as much I like queering texts, whether it's pairing characters who aren't paired in canon or inverting themes or highlighting kink or drawing attention to minor characters or changing the tone or telling a different story using the same footage. I like joyful and I like dark and I like sexy.
Music-wise, I like folk from pretty much any country, rock, classical, instrumental, bluegrass, movie scores, Celtic, choral, country where it intersects with folk and rock, some pop, some dance, some hip hop, indie... Not fond of ska (too fast) or reggae (too slow) or discordant stuff. I am possibly one of the only people in vidding fandom who doesn't like Florence + the Machine, sorry. I'm open to spoken word, but if you mix dialogue with music, please make the dialogue very clear/easily audible.
Thank you for making something for one of these newly or long-loved sources.
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Date: Oct. 25th, 2021 03:58 am (UTC)