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Promising emerging filmmakers discuss their first feature film.
Writer-director Eva Riley on Perfect 10's tumultuous journey from script to screen, and how she realised she wasn't making a sports or a crime movie but a story …
[Read more...] about Eva Riley on Perfect 10, her touching sibling story disguised as a sports film
Shannon Murphy on how she put Babyteeth together, from casting to blocking, and why Milla’s cancer treatment is largely left off-screen. Read our review of …
Sanja Zivkovic on the tricky business of depicting mental illness on screen, how she directed her two talented lead actresses, and crafting the aesthetics of …
[Read more...] about Sanja Zivkovic on Easy Land, immigration, and mental illness
Kitty Green discusses crafting the sound design of The Assistant by recording office sounds and using them to create tension and discomfort. In the first …
[Read more...] about The Assistant: Kitty Green on making an office sound sinister
Carlo Mirabella-Davis discusses Swallow, his prescient film about isolation and self-destruction. Read about more horror films about women in Beyond …
[Read more...] about Carlo Mirabella-Davis on Swallow: Her ‘breakdown becomes a breakthrough’
Co-directors and co-writers Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (who also stars) and Kathleen Hepburn discuss telling Indigenous stories and telling a story in real time. …
