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  Interview with Eliott Chabanis, director of Carrière de Pissy How did you find out about the quarry in Pissy? A great deal of luck. Carrière de Pissy is a student film that I made through the Ciné Nomad School: an international exchange project among several film schools (in Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Poland and France). The idea of the project was to make a […]

  Interview with Alice Seabright, director of End-O The issue of endometriosis is finally getting some media attention. Is the medical world still behind? Hopefully the medical world is catching up. There are certainly good people doing good work, but it can’t hurt to remind them of the issue! What motivated you to treat it from a light-hearted, comical angle? I find humour to […]

  Interview with Fabio Liberti and Carl Olsson, codirectors of Don’t, Kiss .mov Why were you interested in picturing homosexual desire and do you have further projects on this theme? Our idea was not to picture homosexual desire, but to treat homosexuality as a matter of fact: homosexuality is represented, but it is not the theme of the movie as the movie could happen […]

  Interview with Paul Howard Allen, director of Mega Sexy Robot Dinosaur How much do you enjoy artistic experiments? Cinema audiences these days are incredibly smart and cinema literate so it’s really fun to be mischievous and play with people’s expectations. This is the beauty of short film, it allows you to explore your weirdest ideas without having to satisfy a commercial agenda. Why […]

  Interview with Clémentine Carrié, director of Poussière [Dust] Can you explain your choice of title? This short film tells the story of a breakup, and more specifically the story of mourning for a romantic relationship. The title Dust evokes both the act itself of tearing up – the fact of “biting the dust” and “turning to dust” – and what is left afterwards […]

  Interview with Valerie Barnhart, director of Girl in the Hallway How did this retelling come about? I’m a big poetry fan, and I came across Jamie DeWolf’s live spoken word performance on YouTube. I just knew this had to be a movie – problem was I didn’t know how to make a movie or animate for that matter. So I reached out to […]

  Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of El infierno y tal [Hell and Such] Why did you want to picture a rural environment? I come from a small village in La Mancha so setting my stories in rural environments is natural for me. Although I’ve been living in a city for the last fifteen years, I spent my childhood and adolescence in a rural environment […]

  Interview with Sam Azulys, director of My Little China Girl Can you tell us about how you chose the title of your film? The title isn’t meant literally. It comes from the David Bowie song “China Girl”. My film, just like the song, plays with racial stereotypes in order to deconstruct them. When the other is different from us, we often image it […]

   Interview with Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, director of L’âge tendre [The Tender Age] Your film is about a young girl’s effort to break free of the exclusive bond she has with her mother. What made you want to film such a story? Diane’s character is the product of a memorable encounter. It was this encounter, more than her story, that spurred me to make a […]

  Interview with Curtis Essel, director of Sodom & Gomorrah Can you tell us more about the project to build the training centres? How are you involved? Filmmaking for me is not only to tell inclusive and diverse stories. It’s paramount that with every film I produce, there is a social impact initiative to follow it. In March 2018, I made my debut short film […]