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Interviews with female directors / Index of Interviews

Here you will find all of our interviews with film directors, actors, cinematographers, and more.

An still from the short film Exam, next to the film's director Sonia K. Hadad. The image bears the text: Interview.

Orla Smith / August 24, 2020

Exam is the year’s most horrifically tense short

Iranian writer-director Sonia K. Hadad discusses crafting her nail-biting short film Exam, starring captivating up-and-comer Sadaf Asghari.

An image of Kris Rey superimposed over a still from her film, I Used to Go Here, featuring Gillian Jacobs. The image has the text, Interview, over it.

Alex Heeney / August 8, 2020

Kris Rey on her comedy of mid-30s malaise, I Used to Go Here

Writer-director Kris Rey on her new comedy, I Used to Go Here, about a writer who returns to her alma mater for a few days of self-discovery.

An image of Andrea Dorfman, superimposed over a still from her film, Spinster. The image has the text, "Interview," over it.

Orla Smith / August 8, 2020

Andrea Dorfman on Spinster, an ‘anti rom-com’ for the ages

Spinster director Andrea Dorfman’s heartwarming comedy maintains that heroine Gaby (Chelsea Peretti) doesn’t need romantic love to be happy.

An image of writer-director Eva Riley, in front of a still from her film, Perfect 10. In the still, brother and sister pair Leigh and Joe ride on a motorbike together, laughing and smiling. The image is labelled "Interview."

Orla Smith / August 5, 2020

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.

White Lie, Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis

B. P. Flanagan / July 25, 2020

White Lie directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis plunge the viewer into moral turmoil

Directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis discuss collaborating, using in-depth research to make fiction, and why they keep writing films about women.

Orion Lee, Orion Lee First Cow

Alex Heeney / July 25, 2020

‘I don’t believe opposites attract’: Orion Lee on playing one half of First Cow‘s sweet friendship – an ebook preview

Actor Orion Lee discusses his affinities with his First Cow character King-Lu, and how we prepared to play the itinerant entrepreneur.

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