First time filmmaker Claire Oakley discusses the dream that inspired her stylised, genre bending coming-of-age film, Make Up. Claire Oakley’s debut …
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Establishing Shots
Promising emerging filmmakers discuss their first feature film.
In Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi uses Angolan dance to explore family bonds
Ekwa Msangi discusses her debut feature, Farewell Amor, a triptych about an family of Angolan immigrants who reunite in New York City. In Ekwa Msangi’s …
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Quinn Armstrong on his bizarre police training parody, Survival Skills
Quinn Armstrong's Survival Skills parodies '80s VHS police training videos to explore the police's relationship to domestic violence. Somehow, it completely …
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LFF Interview: 180° Rule reveals the secrets and lies of a patriarchal society
Farnoosh Samadi on her provocative new film, 180° Rule, which confronts the horrific consequences of robbing women of their agency. Read more coverage of the …
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Merawi Gerima’s Residue is an ‘archive of a community’ facing gentrification
Merawi Gerima's directorial debut Residue, which ARRAY Now released on Netflix last Friday, is an impassioned ode to a rapidly gentrifying Washington …
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Eva Riley on Perfect 10, her touching sibling story disguised as a sports 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 …
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