Author Archive

  An interview with Jack King, director of Prints  What did you like in the use of prints or footprints as a plot device and a title? I think I began just liking the imagery, but the more I thought about it the more it seemed to fit thematically, on a few levels, and so it became part of its fabric. Being from the […]

  An interview with Yingqing Gong, director of Three days  What is the significance of the test? Every student in China will face their first “big” test in their whole life when they are in third grade in junior high school. That’s when the nine-year compulsory education ends, and the student has to pass the test if they wish to continue stduying in senior […]

  An interview with Tomás Pernich, director of Capacocha Can you explain the choice of title? What does it specifically refer to in this film? Capacocha is an Incan word (from the Inca Empire, in South America) which means Sacrifice. Not so often they use to sacrifice human beings, most of them children, in order to have a good season. It was sort of […]

  An interview with Nicole Midori Woodford, director of Permanent Resident Could you tell us a little bit more about the Little Guilin quarry? How did you find out about it? I grew up in a HDB flat very close to it and have lived there since I was 11 years old which makes that more than 20 years ago when I started walking past […]

  An interview with Matthys Boshoff, director of Vlees van my vlees The film is certainly very moving. What motivated you to explore that particular relationship between the couple? The film is inspired by my parents’s story. When I was four years old my mom broke her neck in a car accident and became quadriplegic. It’s a subject matter that people have been bugging […]

  An interview with Juan Pablo Caballero, director of La Virgen negra Who is the Virgen Negra? Some years ago during a Mountaneering trip to this place, I entered the church of Guicán, one of the towns surrounding the Sierra Nevada. I saw a big painting hanging above the altar. There was the image of a brunette virgin covered in a white tunic and […]

  An interview with Joan Vives Lozano, director of El Escarabajo Al Final De La Calle What gave you the idea of the beetle? When I was a teenager, I read the book Como agua para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, a novel englobed inside a genre of narrative fiction called “magical realism”. Magical realism is about portraying a realistic view of the world while […]

  An interview with James Casey, director of El afilador It’s a very tender, sweet story glimpse into someone’s life. Where did the idea come from? Is it based on someone you know? The idea came while I was working on another project in Mexico about all the sounds of the city. Each city has a unique sonic fingerprint, and Mexico’s is more chaotic […]

  An interview with Humberto Busto, director of Julkita What genre would you say Julkita belongs to? The film was shown at Screamfest. Would it be fair to call it a horror film? It has been really interesting how festivals of different kind have reacted to Julkita. Since its release at Guadalajara International Film Festival on march, Julkita has been in more than 20 […]

  An interview with Håvard Fandrem, director of Aldriland Can you tell us more about the circumstances in which you made the film, as I’m aware it’s your thesis project? Yes, it was my project for the last semester at a film school called Westerdals in Oslo, Norway. For my thesis project, I wanted to move away from my comfort zone, and work with […]