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  An interview with Ben Steiner, director of Clanker Man What gave you the idea for the “clanker man”? The original idea came from Eli Silverman (co-writer and star) who had been kept awake one night by bangs and shouts from somewhere nearby and started to wonder if the people were making the noise for any other purpose than to annoy him. This experience […]

  An interview with Daphne Do, director of Wibble Wobble Can you tell us about the scriptwriting process and how the team got together? If it’s okay, I’m going to combine the answers to this question and the casting question in one! The two cast members, Alex Chilton and Edward Chalmers, and I are all close friends, and Wibble Wobble was a bit of […]

  An interview with Baer Xiao, director of Derrière le nuage (Behind the Cloud)  Just like Xinquan, we end up being interested in the thief’s life and family! Did you envision a sequel? That’s a good question. The ending is open. And since the connection between the Algerian woman and Xinquan comes up at the end of the film, we don’t know what the two say […]

  An interview with Peter Edlund, director of Mixtape marauders  Can you tell us about your specific choice of songs?  Only four of the final songs were originally in the script but some of my favorite music in the film came from being turned down multiple times and really digging for alternate choices. This forced us to pin down the function and tone of […]

  An interview with Manue Fleytoux, director of Lâchez les chiens (Release the Hounds)  What do the dogs represent here? You’re free to interpret. For me, the dogs are the thin-skinned animal nature of the character Anouck, on the one hand, and on the other, at the end of the film you could say that the hounds have been released. Our characters run together […]

  An interview with Pola Beck, director of Kleptomami  Where did the inspiration for the character come from? Was what she was going through something you were able to relate to or had experienced? A few months after my son’s birth, I realized that I was not as cool and relaxed as I had always thought I would be as a young mother. To everyone […]

  An interview with Lorris Coulon, director of Des hommes à la mer (Men at Sea)  What was it like filming at sea? On the trawler/set, we were lucky enough to have a great crew that welcomed and helped us. They not only agreed to the specific conditions necessary for filming, but also helped with staging by showing the actors how to move and […]

  An interview with Petar Krumov, director of Sram (Shame)  Sram translates as shame. Where does the shame come from in this film? What does it imply? It is a simple story about a boy who is ashamed of his mother because she works as a janitor in his school. Shame is a unique phenomenon because it strikes us with the force of an instinct, […]

  Interview with Eimi Imanishi, director of Battalion to my Beat    Is Mariam based on someone you’ve met? Yes, Mariam is a combination of two Saharawi women I met and am very fond of. One of them is Mariam (my character’s namesake), my husband’s sister who lives in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, and the other is Murjer, a woman I met […]

  Interview with Nick Jordan, director of Thought Broadcasting    So where did the idea of focusing on broadcasting come from? I’ve been wanting to make a film related to psychiatry and mental health for some time. For many years I’ve been involved in producing mental health training videos for a University and hospital teaching unit, so I’ve been somewhat immersed in the subject. […]