In this interview, Marina Rice Bader gives us a behind-the-scenes view of the filmmaking world with a focus on the lesbian niche market.  Since recording our interview, the trailer for 'Anatomy of a Love Seen' has reached over 850,000 views and the film has become a worldwide success.

Marina is the mastermind and director behind the project, and completed it on a tight deadline - 5 days to be exact.  Learn how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWqQregDD_A

Press play to listen or read the transcript of our conversation, below.

 Interview:

Paul: Welcome to Gay Ambitions where we bring out the best in business. I’m here on the phone with Marina Bader who’s making her directorial debut with Anatomy of A Love Seen, a lesbian themed featured film. It was announced as an official selection of Outfest 2014 and is debuting worldwide. Her publicist reached out to me with the idea to cover this project and emphasize the unusual decision to bypass the traditional Hollywood distribution channels, making the movie immediately available to fans. The YouTube trailer is going viral on Youtube and this sounds like a really cool project. Marina, thank you for being here with me.

Marina: Oh my goodness Paul, it’s my pleasure.

P: The film is debuting in Los Angeles, are you excited?

M: I am excited. We are having our debut in Los Angeles, my hometown which makes me beyond excited and thrilled. I love Outfest!

P: Nice. So, I actually never been but I will have to check that out some year.

M: Oh! Come to Los Angeles. You will have a great time here, see films. Go to some events. It’s huge.

P: I was there the other month, but I’m sure I could come back on a better time when there is more things going on.

M: Yeah, there’s a lot to come. There are lots of events. Lots of people coming in together. Lots of people celebrating the LGBT World and the Arts which is what Outfest is all about.

P: Totally. So I’ve given listeners a little bit overview of what you do and I’m wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about your film, your business, Soul Kiss Films, and your background and what led you up to this point.

M: I would love to. So, I developed Soul Kiss films in 2009 to launch my first film which is, everything I do is for the Lesbian niche audience which of course ripples out to women, that’s who I make my movies for. Films made by women, for women, telling our stories and the beautiful layer of course is that the relationship on these films are between women. Love is love, and it just doesn’t matter. And speaking about the business part of this, when you make indie films, you have to have a niche audience. If you don’t have a niche, you going to flounder in all the tiny little films out there that cannot afford to make these days. Finding this niche was beautiful in all ways and I’m grateful to my audience. They were very supportive, I called them my sisters, my soul sisters. They’re wonderful. And so after, I made Elena Undone which can something that you probably shouldn’t do but I think it will be interesting for people to know this, I used my own money to make Elena Undone and it was a huge risk. And I knew it was a risk when I went in but at the age of 53, I wanted to change career direction, I had been a professional photographer for almost 20 years. Movies were always be my love, always from where I am right now, you know. I don’t want to fight my way and take two years trying to raise money to do this but pretty much we’ve never have a bank account and I’m telling you don’t do it if you don’t have to. And definitely, don’t put your house or don’t do the mortgage thing or the credit card thing. But it was an investment that paid off. I had faith in myself and eventually I made that money back.