“Sam Midwood [Zach] gives his most powerful performances with Holly Wilder, who plays Cassie. Their conversations are gripping. Wilder giving a desperation to Cassie and there is a slight bitterness to her at the way her career has played out, but her need to dance shines through. In “The Music and the Mirror” she is incredibly heartfelt, and her solo dance at the end is captivating to watch, as she dominates the stage in various styles.”

“Holly is a master storyteller who is capable of capturing the most beautiful and most challenging aspects of human nature by setting the body into motion.”

“My favorite film of the festival, ‘Undertow’, is produced by siblings Holly and Duncan Wilder. It’s an expertly crafted example of how the simplest concepts can be the strongest… No other film in the festival integrated the dance and film mediums so strongly.”

“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree was delivered with off-the-wall exuberance by Holly Wilder.”

“Combining the abstract beauty of nature with the specific beauty of dance, The Weight is, above all, a cinematic wonder.”

“The dance is visceral – so much so that I felt I could nearly smell the earth.”

“The supporting cast is brilliant, especially including the corps of ballet dancers whose work is an impressive feature in the show. I daresay en-pointe ballet is an extra skill that most musical-comedy performers do not possess, but which is performed here with a wonderful proficiency.”

“Wilder’s raw narrative movement vocabulary hits close to the heart.”

“The film is immersed so deeply in the textures of sprawling fields and ponds that you can almost smell the wildflowers. And the dance effortlessly folds in and out of the story leaving you wondering if the reeds waltzing in the wind were part of the choreography.”