Author Archive

  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. […]

  Interview with Marc Reisbig, director of Working with Animals    That’s a very original idea and very apt when it comes to the short format. Can you tell us a bit more about it? The idea came about when I was invited to go to Galapagos and I decided I wanted to make a film while I was there. I have always loved […]

  Interview with Or Sinai, director of Anna    The last image we have of Anna is her getting dressed and going to work. Would you say she has gone on a journey in the last 24 hours? What are the repercussions on her? Of cours Anna had a very important journey in the last 24 hours. During this 24 hours she suddenly feel she is breathing, […]

  Interview with Claudia Muñiz, director of Con Sana Alegria    Firstly, could you tell us a bit more about your choice of title? The title responds to a fragment of the Cuban Happy Birthday song “que lo pases con sana alegría”. It is meant to be ironic since it means that you will have a day full of joy and health. This is […]

Today, we had an interview with Chris Sheperd about her film Johnno’s Dead (L3).

  Interview with Jenni Kivistö, director of Äiti (Mum)    This is a very moving, intimate portrait. Can you tell us why you chose to film this moment between mother and daughter? It is a very personal film, as the mother is my own mother and I’m the daughter of the film. My mother was diagnosed to have frontotemporal dementia in 2009. The moment this […]

  Interview with Jackson Kroopf, director of BobbyAnna    What motivated you to tell Bobby and Anna’s story? I worked at a youth center in East Oakland for three years called Youth UpRising. While working there, I was working with a young woman who had been kicked out of a homeless shelter the night before because she was pregnant, which was against the shelter’s […]

  Interview with Jannis Lenz, director of Wannabe    Firstly, could you tell us about the actual Coco Channel on YouTube? What was the strategy you had in mind? How long are you planning to have it open? For me, it is very important to find the right format that relates best to the idea I want to explore. Because YouTube has played an […]

  Interview with Yujian Li, director of Pain in Silence     Firstly, could you tell us about your choice of title? I have had several titles before, such as Cat, Punishment, He Wei… But Pain in Silence expresses the theme and aesthetics of this film more explicitly.  Can you tell us about the tone of the film? There are some hints of the horror/mystery […]